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The Badly Behaving Brain is Published!
I am thrilled to announce the publication of an academic review article I wrote with Dr. Andrew Kurt Thaw: “The Badly Behaving Brain: How Ultra-Processed Food Addiction Thwarts Sustained Weight Loss.” It’s a chapter...
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Food Addiction Amnesia
A few weeks ago, someone wrote to our customer support center. She wasn’t a member, and she’s not in the Boot Camp, but she found us and wrote in. Her email said: “How do I stop the amnesia that sets in when I’m off...
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Top-Down Processing
A Bright Liner named Katie recently sent me a message with a great question. She wanted to know if, when you make Bright Line-compliant foods that would normally have sugar and flour—but you’re making them...
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Thumb Sucking and Food Addiction
A few days ago, I was on an accountability call with our Bright Lifers community. One of the people participating shared that when she was a child she sucked her thumb. Later, she switched to eating addictively for...
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3 Lessons from the Super Bowl
I recently had the opportunity to take my 12-year-old, Maya, to the Super Bowl. I was born and raised in San Francisco, and we’re huge 49ers fans. I grew up in the golden era of Joe Montana, Jerry Rice, and Steve...
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The Sine Wave of Super Bright Living
I want to share a bit about my own story and recent events that illustrate what Bright Living looks like.
I’m really Bright right now but that hasn’t always been the case. I’ve been in food recovery for 28 years. That...
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You're Invited to Experience a Miracle in London
Register for International Food Addiction Consensus Conference: https://ble.life/4DURJTRegister for Ador@BLE: https://ble.life/PY9sf5Donate to the International Food Addiction Consensus project:...
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Ultra-Processed People
Once in a while a book comes along that I predict will revolutionize our community—and I’m excited to tell you about one such book. It’s called Ultra-Processed People by Dr. Chris van Tulleken. This book educated me...
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Adding and Subtracting Food in Maintenance
A Bright Lifer™ recently wrote in, and I want to address her question because it's on a very important subject—Maintenance. She says, “I've lost over 60 pounds with Bright Line Eating. Since I'm more sedentary during...
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Is Cheese Addictive?
Today’s vlog topic comes courtesy of Michael, who writes: I am shocked that you don’t mention dairy, especially cheese, when you talk about food addiction. Studies have shown that cheese is the most addictive food...
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Significant Impairment or Distress
This week, I want to weave together three topics for you.
First: I’m co-writing a book chapter on ultra-processed food addiction for an academic book on weight loss. I’m writing right now about the 11 DSM-5 criteria...
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Sexy Food
I want to address something from an email I received this week. It said: “I hear you use the phrase ‘Is my food too sexy?’ Please explain this term! I have a feeling it will be very helpful as I am new to the eating...
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