Better than gastric bypass!
Scientist’s powerful diet ends cravings so you can LOSE 100 LBS or more!
A University of Rochester scientist says she’s come up with a way to get our brains to stop telling us to overeat. Folks who’ve tried it say it makes losing huge very easy!
If you haven’t heard buzz about a new weightloss program called Bright Line Eating, you will soon. Because it’s already helped hundreds of thousands of folks lose a massive amount of fat—and many devotees insist it works better than weight-loss surgery. Tammy Palmer is one of them. While preparing for gastric bypass, “I met patients who were about to have their second surgery after gaining all their weight back,” recalls the Washington retiree, 59. Luckily, she found Bright Line. “The idea is that Bright Line helps stop your brain from driving you to overeat. I figured if it worked, I wouldn’t need one surgery, let alone two.” She shed 124 pounds in 11 months—which is more than her doctors said she’d likely lose after gastric bypass. “On other plans, I was always white-knuckling it. Now I feel free. It’s amazing!” So what exactly is Bright Line Eating? Created by University of Rochester scientist Susan Peirce Thompson, PH.D., the approach uses crystal- clear diet rules—which Thompson calls “bright lines”—to neutralize brain signals that prompt us to cheat and overeat. Thompson based these rules on both cutting- edge science and her own experience, and says they’re so effective they allow “anyone, anywhere to lose all their excess weight and keep it off.” The expert herself went from a size 16 to a size four in 24 weeks and has maintained it for 13 years. The average Bright Liner loses 19 pounds in eight weeks, and many lose more—up to 65 pounds in 60 days! Here, she’s sharing how-tos so you can try it for yourself . . .
Your quick-start guide ● The get-slim rules
One of the main reasons diets fail? According to Thompson, they require us to make too many decisions—a factor proven to cause our brains to fatigue and our self- control to disintegrate. She’s found that relying on four strict rules means far fewer decisions, less stress and far greater odds of forming lasting get- slim habits. So what are her rules? 1. Skip all foods with sugar or any sweetener as one of the first three ingredients .2. Skip all foods with flour as one of the first three ingredients .3. Eat three meals with no snacks in between. 4. Stick to predetermined, measured portions of healthy foods at each sitting (specifics in meal plan, right).
Bright Liners tell us it takes a few weeks to fully master the rules and get into a groove. After that, “you really stop struggling and the weight just comes off,” says 38-pounds-slimmer California mom Beth Kerrick, 57. For example, says Beth, by giving up snacking altogether, passing on the wrong things between meals becomes a no-brainer. And there are other factors at play that help make it a cinch . . .
● The surprise cravings killer
There’s a mountain of evidence that sugar, artificial sweeteners and flour overstimulate and damage the brain’s pleasure center, causing us to seek more and more of these foods as we get less and less pleasure from them. “They’re truly physiologically addictive,” says Thompson. “Research suggests sugar is likely more addictive than heroin.” Good news: Avoiding large quantities of sweeteners and flour lets damage in our brains heal, and “we experience significant and even total relief from cravings and constant thoughts of food.”
● Bonus hunger control
Scientists have long known that overweight people don’t respond properly to a stop- eating hormone called leptin. Recently, breakthrough University of California research determined why. High levels of insulin—typically caused by years of eating too much sugar and flour—block leptin. Thompson says nixing sweeteners and flour naturally lowers insulin and helps eliminate this problem. It’s yet another way Bright Line reduces the effort required to get lean, so you can move swiftly to your happy weight.
● Real-world wow
There was a time when Tara Bogdon was so hopeless, she was convinced that gastric bypass would fail her. “I ate my way up to 400 pounds, and I never once thought I would feel peace around food,” admits the Washington mom, 42. Then she heard a webcast about Bright Line. Tara, who had never lost more than 30 pounds on any other diet, shed an incredible 191 pounds in 18 months. “Now I want to spread the word, to let anyone who struggles with overeating know that there really is something that works!”