Bright Line Eating Removes fat....Today's post:  Thursday, 9-13-2018

The book that includes the information below and the science behind several key parts of it is:

“Bright Line Eating: The Science of Living Happy, Thin & Free

                                                         by Susan Peirce Thompson PHD.”

1.  THE most important and little known fact is that, despite its imperfections, the Bright Line Eating method has the best track record for fat loss and weight loss ever recorded.

It’s more complicated than I’d like but far less so than Weight Watchers and dramatically more successful.

The typical successful Weight Watcher member loses 9 pounds in a year and regains it the following year.

The typical Bright Line Eater loses 9 pounds and sometimes more the first month and continues to lose until they reach their goal weight and sometimes more than that.  Then they keep it off.

2.  So, the question for people who want to lose fat they keep off is not, should they use Bright Line Eating because the results show they can succeed if they do.

Instead, the two key questions are:

How to make Bright Line eating a bit easier to follow and customize to fit each man & woman  who follows it.

&

How to repair the things Bright Line Eating as it now does or seems to do that are less good for your health in it without losing its effectiveness.

3.  So what is Bright Line Eating?

The founder of the method and the author of the book took her phrase from the law.  If you can answer a key question that shows for sure if something is legal or not by a law, the answer to that key question draws a Bright Line between them.

There are four.

The fourth one is the key others lack, the hard one to set up, and the one that must be customized and put on auto-pilot.

1.  Never eat sugar.   Never, repeat never, eat sugar. 

(She is knowledgeable enough to know that includes everything:  sugar, dried fruit, high fructose corn syrup, fructose, fruit juice, concentrated fruit juice, agave syrup, and all artificial sweeteners and sugar alcohols.)

As readers here know, that includes all soft drinks both regular and diet.

It’s critical she found by personal experience for at least 85% of the people because any at all re-starts their addiction.  The other reason is that even for the 15% who can take sugar or not, every ounce of it is fattening!

2.  Never eat flour.  Never, repeat never, eat flour.

Refined grain flour boosts blood sugar MORE than sugar does.  So anyone who is a sugar addict is a flour addict!  Worse, some of the 15% or so who aren’t sugar addicts have a comparable addiction to flour and the breads and other things made from flour.

The added health benefit as readers here know is that removing the extremely inflammatory gluten of hybrid wheat and the excessively inflammatory effect of its omega 6 oils helps prevent nearly every nasty chronic disease listed:   People who eat it are sicker and suffer more pain and have much higher doctor bills and live shorter lives.

NOT using these two bright lines causes virtually all the people who fail at dieting and never can keep off what they lose from that exact problem!

No matter what else you use from the Bright Line Eating system, be SURE to follow these two!

3.  Meals. Only eat at the time of day you eat a planned meal.  NEVER eat anything else.

The Bright Line Eating system also succeeds so well by enabling you to eat on autopilot.  This is a huge advantage!

If your willpower is low or severe events or sudden stresses or even extra good to do but challenging work deplete your will power as you likely know they do, the way you eat stays the same!

Because every opportunity to eat between meals requires a decision, if it isn’t an automatic no and life continues, every single time where you have to think about the decision is a threat to you losing fat and keeping it off.

The other thing of course is that so far, the semifoods and harmful drinks likely to be available between meals flunk the first two Bright Lines.

So, following this third Bright Line helps with following the first two Bright Lines.

4.  Quantities.

This fourth Bright Line is to ensure that your amount of each food you eat each day is exactly what you planned to eat or ate last time!

a) If the amount planned has enabled you to stay free of hunger until the next meal, even a bit less may not.   So never shorting yourself prevents hunger from derailing your fat loss.

b) If the amount you planned has enabled you to keep losing fat you keep off until you reach your goal weight, even a bit more may not.

c) If you aren’t losing fat or have stopped, because you know exactly what you’ve eaten, you may be able to resume your fat loss by eating a tiny bit less.  And, when you know the exact amounts you eat you can adjust the amounts to see if that helps.

The rest of the system as it is now is a mixed review. 

I.  It’s hard enough to set up for the meals you do eat and track -- and takes enough time to do each day that some people don’t start or keep using it.

My hope is that they will gradually work out how to make it easier to start and for busier people to do.  Maybe we will.

But more people will use the Bright Line system successfully to lose their fat once this is done.

II. Three other parts need an upgrade:

a) In your meals only eat real foods:  a carefully planned mix of protein foods and whole vegetables and whole fruit where each meal has 3 parts.  Great!

Despite knowing to NOT include grain oils due to the very inflammatory harm they cause, she includes servings of some kind of whole grains other than wheat.

Moderate servings of raw & unsalted tree nuts for those not allergic except for high lectin cashews and peanuts or lentils, the lowest lectin kind of bean, I think is better for health and less likely to hook people addicted to grains and breads than including grains several times a week.

b) She knows to suggest whole pieces of vegetables and whole fruits and says why.  But she doesn’t include the importance of eating this main part of what you eat EVERY day be only from organic sources!

c) Her system gets great weight loss results and requires no exercise!

But she includes nothing to avoid having some of that weight lost be healthy bone and muscle and other essential lean tissues.  She doesn’t even include what foods and supplements can help with this

She doesn’t know how to use exercise for its health benefits, which include keeping healthy bone and muscle, while people eat using the Bright Line System.

In fact, by actual test she reports the sedentary people she has worked with so far have lost less than people who exercise and the people who exercised more than average lost least.

Her work around is to suggest people begin to exercise after they lose all the weight to their goal weight.

a) & b) above and bone sparing supplements in c) can be fixed by knowing what to add or do instead.

But adapting her very sound system otherwise to work BETTER with exercise instead of worse, is critical in general and something I plan to work on in my own case.

Personal note:

I have been eating only low carb meals every other day and moderate carb meals every other day. 

But I have included dark chocolate – including some sugar -- in small amounts on my moderate carb days; I’ve included organic raisins in my breakfast in my moderate carb day breakfasts – a dried fruit.

I also went back to drinking some red wine at dinner 7 days a week that I had cut back to.

These changes have left my blood pressure at the normal to desirable range of about 119 over 74 and my fasting glucose to 68 to 73.

BUT since I made those changes & additions I’ve gained  several pounds of weight almost all of which is belly fat.

So I’ve begun to change that!

By Tuesday next week I’ll give away my store of dark chocolate and I’ll not eat any more of the organic raisins.

And, starting with no wine tonight, I’ll go back to only 3 days a week of drinking wine again.

I’m doing my monthly weigh and measure day after tomorrow.  So by the following month I will see if these changes remove fat.