Susan Peirce Thompson, (born Ana Fleischman; June 29, 1974) is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Rochester and an American business entrepreneur and author. She is the founder and CEO of Bright Line Eating Solutions, a weight loss and weight sustainability company. Thompson is president of the board of directors of the Institute for Sustainable Weight Loss and the author of the best selling book Bright Line Eating The Science of Living Happy, Thin, and Free, Hay House publisher, March 2017, foreword by John Robbins, The book's Norwegian version, published by Irina Lee under the title Spis Dig Fri went to the Norwegian Best Sellers List before release.
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Biography
Early life
Thompson was born in Petaluma, California on June 29, 1974 to Joseph Carl Fleischman and Mary Peirce (Mariah Perkins).
Education
Thompson went to college at the University of California, Berkeley graduating in 1997 with an undergraduate degree: Bachelor of Arts in Cognitive Science.
She attended graduate school in Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Rochester receiving a Master's degree in 2001 and a Ph.D. in 2003 in Brain and Cognitive Sciences.
From 2003 to 2005, Thompson did post-doctoral research with a teaching fellowship at the University of New South Wales School of Psychology, in Sydney, Australia.
Career
After completing a summer as a Research Fellow at the University of Rochester, Department of Brain and Cognitive Science in 2005, Thompson was an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY from August 2005 to August 2007.
In September 2007, Thompson became an Associate Professor of Psychology at Monroe Community College, Department of Psychology, where her academic research interests branched into the psychology of eating and positive psychology, and where she also developed courses in those two subjects. She started teaching the Psychology of Eating and Body Image in 2008 and Positive Psychology in 2009, was tenured in 2013 and continued at Monroe until June, 2016.
In the spring of 2016, Thompson became an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Science at the University of Rochester.
In the fall of 2014, Thompson founded Bright Line Eating Solutions, LLC, an 8-week online weight loss program based on psychology and neuroscience with four core principles, called Bright Lines, of eating no sugar, no flour, only at meals, and only bounded quantities. Thompson has been the CEO since 2014.
In 2015, Thompson became the President of the Board of the Institute for Sustainable Weight Loss.
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Bright Line Eating
Thompson launched Bright Line Eating in 2014. The program represents a synthesis of Thompson's personal experience in multiple Twelve-step programs for food addiction and her research as a brain and cognitive scientist. The name of the program derives from the legal concept of Bright-line rules, "a clearly defined rule or standard, composed of objective factors, which leaves little or no room for varying interpretation. The purpose of a bright-line rule is to produce predictable and consistent results in its application." The program defines four such rules:
- no sugar
- no flour
- meals (designated times for eating, with abstinence from eating at all other times)
- quantities (the bounding of the quantity of food taken, using some measurement device (e.g., a digital scale to weigh food, or, more simply, a plate to contain the meal)
and provides a set of tools, plus social support media, to guide the participant through both the weight-loss phase and during the "maintenance" phase that follows.
In addition to providing the neuroscientific basis for effective weight loss, Thompson addresses various common concerns including childhood sugar addiction; making lifestyle changes in order to sustain weight loss; exercise ; and holidays.
Writing
- Bright Line Eating The Science of Living Happy, Thin, and Free, (2017). Within a week of the release of this first book of hers, Thompson's book was on the New York Times Best Sellers List.
Bibliography
- Thompson, S. P. & Newport, E. L. (2007). Statistical Learning of Syntax: The Role of Transitional Probability. Language Learning and Development,3(1), 1-42.Hayes, B. K. & Thompson, S. P. (2007).
- Causal Relations and Feature Similarity in Children's Inductive Reasoning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 136, 3, 470-484.
See also
- John Robbins
- Mark Hyman
- Marshall Goldsmith
References
External links
- Susan's Story personal account.
- Television interview, by Allison Warren on WROC-TV, December 27, 2016
- Radio Interview, by "Let's Get Healthy!" on KJCE 1370 AM/People's RX, October 29, 2016
- Radio interview, by Esme Murphy for WCCO-AM in Minneapolis, October 22, 2016
- Portrait of an Entrepreneur: Susan Peirce Thompson, Democrat & Chronicle
- The Truth About Governor Christie's Weight, The Huffington Post
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