Bright Line Eating experiences....to release pounds

A review of bright line: https://abbylangernutrition.com/diet-review-brightline-eating-a-shame-filled-marketing-monster/


" The Bright Lines are like lines in the sand you should never cross. They are:

Sugar: Eliminate from your diet completely

Flour: Eliminate from your diet completely. Not just white flour, either: all flour, even if it’s rice or almond or whatever. 

Portions: Everything you eat must be weighed, measured, and logged

Meals: No snacking between meals"


Other than the weighing/logging/ measuring - rests like fad nonsense to me.

Certainly isn't for me, I'm not into eliminating sugar or flour ( or any other random food) and I often have a snack between meals and I'm sure not paying anyone to peddle such silliness for me.

Yeah, BLE is very extreme. Not my idea of a lifelong plan.

When I was in weight loss mode I did cut way back on grains and added sugar because they were just extra calories I couldn't afford. BLE is one of those Rules Based Plans that can quickly turn obsessive and cause the shame cycle to kick in. "Oh no, I ate the Bad Food. I'm bad. Must try harder to eat perfectly."

Not for me.

Same with overeaters anonymous. The strict adherence to abstinence is not good for my mental health.

I lost 80 pounds by just counting calories and cutting back on low-nutrition foods. Not stopping them completely, just cutting back in a reasonable non-judgemental moderate way.

2020Franky wrote: »

Bright Line Eating feels doable to me so far. Their online support groups are pretty terrific. The goal is to release 50 pounds for health issues that have cropped up. This extra weight is not benefiting my knees or internal organs whatsoever. The more simple a routine is the better it works in my world. This plan is exactly that whereas Fast Metabolism is spectacular...however for me, it has too many choices for my brain. Not looking for choices just paths that work and remain simple without much "energy of thought" on my part.

In threads about BLE the plan always gets a lot of criticism. Please don't take it personally. There are many paths up the mountain. You may be someone for whom BLE is quite suitable. If so, please do give us an update in a year.

I read the beginning part of the book and while I don't quibble with the science, do disagree with her conclusions, and for a variety of reasons decided it was not for me.

Franky, I have to suggest you toughen up a little. A lot of people on here, including myself, are science based, and the theories you came in here with are what many people think of as pretty much non scientific. Truly supportive would have been to try to get you to abandon the fad diets and accept the CICO approach and not enable you to start out on a road that probably will not be very pleasant for you. No one called Haylie Pomroy a crackpot which probably took some restraint. So, relax a bit and don't expect people to jump at the chance to wish you well on a path they think is a mistake.

2020Franky wrote: »

so......You do you and I will do ME....thought this was a safe and supportive place?????????...did not ask anyone to jump down my throat for attempting and choosing this path in efforts to get to a healthy weight...did not ask for opinions on if the BLE was a good or bad plan......I did think (wrongly it seems) some would be supportive of any efforts to improve health levels...Wow people...just WOW

Not sure what you are so upset about.

If you post a thread about a diet plan then you are inviting opinions about it - which people, including me, gave in a polite and non personal way.
Nobody jumped down your throat at all.

I like BLE. I have lost 80 pounds. I'm a teacher, so after 2020 and teaching online for a year, I gained 40 pounds (240lbs). I was pretty upset because I had maintained an 80 pound weight loss (from 280 pounds down to 200/190ish) for over 5 years thanks to OA. I like that the author of BL had a similar journey to mine. I had my own bright lines, that I call "red light" foods before I started the eating plan. I don't have a normal relationship with food like my husband does. He can eat a piece of cake and be fine. I will think about that cake, shave off a sliver at a time, negotiate with myself... ugh, no thanks. It's the freedom of the obsession that I appreciate. (BTW -I was 326 lbs at my highest and have been big my entire life.)

I have been doing BLE for over a year now. I don't consider it a diet; for me it is food program that I follow. I made one modification to it before I started; I added fruit to my last meal. I committed to do it for one year or until I met my goal. I did meet my goal of 165 pounds around 10 months, but I decided that I would continue and and see how I feel at 150. I am not losing weight super fast. I am in perimenopause and also have a hypothyroid. So, slow is OK. I'm 47 y.o. I am currently 158. I have never been 158. I wasn't 158 in middle school. So for me this is a miracle. I am 5'5", so I would like to see how "normal weight" feels like on me. BLE is a good food program for people that would benefit from the bright lines, it is not a "diet" in my opinion, but you will lose weight.