Quoted by TIME | November 20, 2017

Now is the season to think about what makes you most thankful, but research supports making it a year-round habit. Many studies have found there are benefits of gratitude — both mental and physical — and all it takes to enjoy them is a little bit of introspection ...

Featured by The New York Post | May 9, 2017

Katy Weber was 14 when she tried dieting for the first time, swilling a SlimFast to combat her new curves. “My body was changing, and I was uncomfortable,” says Weber, now 42 and a professional health coach. After that, she says, “I spent ...

Published by Consumer Health Digest

With dreaded swimsuit season just around the corner, people everywhere are turning their attention to those excess pounds that somehow piled on over the winter months, and making a commitment to get rid of them in time ...

Interviewed by Gary Taubes | April 19, 2017

As far as sugar and flour are concerned, once you grind it up I don’t care what it’s made out of. You’ve turned it into a drug. Dr. Susan Peirce Thompson is a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester ...

Published by The Good Men Project | April 16, 2017

Between bunnies, baskets, egg hunts and chocolate galore, Easter is one of kids’ all-time favorite holidays. But, for parents, what starts as fun, family holiday can quickly descend into coping with the crazy, raucous sugar highs and inevitable ...

Featured by Fox News | April 06, 2017

I honestly can’t remember a time when I wasn’t consumed by thoughts of food. My childhood memories of places and events are all linked to what was served, what I could get away with, and I struggled with my weight throughout my teenage years into early adulthood. It wasn’t until my 20s after I got sober ...

Featured by True Wellth

Many of our readers write-in to say that they enjoy success in so many areas of their life, but struggle to eat well and maintain their ideal weight. They find themselves in unhealthy patterns of extreme dieting and subsequent binging ...

Published by FitXBrit

What you probably don’t know is that you are fighting off food triggers all day long. We no longer live in a culture where we only eat at meal times and only at the family table. You may eat breakfast in your car, lunch at your desk, snacks at the movies, game ...

Interviewed by Ronna of The Town Dish | March 29, 2017

We’ve all been there: The mere sight of your local coffeeshop makes you crave a caramel latte. Ditto that chocolate-glazed treat when driving by the donut shop at the end of the work day. These and dozens of other sights, sounds and smells in the world around us are our food triggers ...

Published by Brea Getting Fit | July 23, 2020

We have all done it. “Negotiated” with ourselves to give us what we want in the moment, a cookie, a frappucino, a nacho, something that conflicts with our larger goal of losing weight and keeping it off ...

Interviewed by Colleen of Shibley Smiles | March 25

Having grown up with my mother in the weight loss industry when I was in my teens I’ve seen the fads, the books, the exercises, just about anything you can imagine. I always wonder WHY? is losing weight so hard. Someone once told me that eating unhealthy is often an addiction ...

Interviewed by Michelle White Hart

Eating off the Standard American Diet causes changes in the brain that block weight loss. Specifically, maintaining an elevated insulin level blocks the brain from recognizing the critical hormone leptin ...

Published by Inspired Impact

I've been reading an amazing book the past few weeks called, Bright Line Eating, and its a revolutionary way of looking ay why some people are able to stay thin, happy and free and others are on the constant rollercoaster of dieting, self sabotage and bingeing ...

Interviewed by Erica A of EricaFINDS | March 20, 2017

I believe in science. When I was offered the opportunity to check out Dr. Susan Peirce Thompson’s new book Bright Line Eating: The Science of Living Happy, Thin and Free, I was intrigued ...

Published by thirdAGE

We’ve all been there: The mere sight of the Starbucks logo makes us crave a caramel latte. Ditto craving a chocolate-glazed treat when driving by Dunkin Donuts.They cue us to eat, whether we’re hungry or not. And they are one of our waistline’s biggest enemies ...

Interviewed by Dominique Astorino of POPSUGAR | February 13, 2017

Susan Peirce Thompson went through more in her first 26 years of life than most people will ever experience in their entire lifetime: hard drugs, food addiction, self-loathing, prostitution, dropping out of high school, and homelessness ...

Published by Healthy Living Magazine | Jan 22, 2017

If, like hundreds of thousands of Americans, your New Year’s weight loss plan is to hit the gym, you’ll most likely be feeling defeated before the first thaw. Why? Because studies show that most people trying to lose weight try–and fail–three to four times a year. And one of the main reasons is that pushing yourself to exercise actually depletes willpower, which leaves you vulnerable to overeating ...

Quoted by Madamenoire | January 5, 2017

It’s that time of year again. Once you finish downing the champagne and take off your New Year’s freakum dress, you look in the mirror and realize that if possible, this year, you want to drop a few pounds ...

Published by Chicago Woman | June 22, 2017

Chicago Woman is the only magazine and media brand that speaks directly to professional women who live, work and play in Chicago. We tell the stories that empower women, while inspiring them to live their best lives ...

Published by Livestrong.com | November 30, 2017

Between Monday and Friday, scurrying to get supper on the table seems like Mission Impossible. But there's a simple solution that may even crown you a weeknight hero: Meal planning. Taking the time on the weekend to choose healthy and satisfying recipes, check what's already in ...

Interviewed by Jennifer Fallon of LifeZette | December 14, 2016

The moment is here: You’re at a Christmas gathering with extended family, you stayed up late the night before watching a holiday classic, and your judgment is a little woozy from the spirits you’ve been sipping. To top it all off, there are 10 different kinds of pie sitting on the counter in front of you — blackberry crumble, spiced cranberry, French silk, lemon custard. The list goes on. Before you know it, you’ve sampled all of them, despite your resolution to do better this year ...

Interviewed by SmartLifeBites | November 17, 2016

Maybe you’ve tried to cut back on calories around Thanksgiving only to experience the what-the-heck effect when round two on dessert is offered. (That pretty much means you’re human, by the way.) Or perhaps you made that healthy side dish for your family but ended up heaping a few extra servings of mom’s incredible stuffing recipe onto your plate ...

Published by Oxygen Magazine | November 16, 2016

Willpower depletion is a very real phenomenon. Many modern diets rely at least in part on the dieter’s willpower over an extended period, and that is just a losing game. Willpower is not a component of character, it’s simply a cognitive function. Research shows we have as little as 15 minutes of willpower at our disposal at any given time before it runs dry. That’s kind of shocking and scary ...

Quoted by Jill Waldbeiser of Women’s Health Magazine | November 15, 2016

The biggest mistake people make when they’re trying to lose weight is getting their day off on the wrong foot," says Susan Peirce Thompson, Ph.D., president of the Institute for Sustainable Weight Loss. Those first waking moments lay the foundation for the choices you will make the rest of the day—and every day after—so it’s vital to establish good habits that you can fall back on when you ...

Published by Chicago Woman | Jun 26, 2017

Chicago Woman is the only magazine and media brand that speaks directly to professional women who live, work and play in Chicago. We tell the stories that empower women, while inspiring them to live their best lives ...

Quoted by Chelsea Peng of Marie Claire Online | November 4, 2016

While button fly more impenetrable than Helm's Deep can help you make smart choices this holiday season(opens in new tab)—namely, turning down Banoffee Pie Slice #3—mere rivets are no fail-safe against the temptation of glucose. Nor can they change the fact that you are, right now, the lightest you will be all year, according to this rude study published recently ...

Covered by Stephen Dewhurst of The Democrat & Chronicle | Nov 4, 2016

I recently met Susan Peirce Thompson, a Rochester resident and UR Ph.D. grad, who quit her day job to found her own company about two years ago. That's a step many of us might daydream about, but almost none of us has the courage and conviction to pursue. So I was fascinated by her story, and by the reasons that she chose to take this step ...

Interviewed by Daily Mom | June 27, 2017

Halloween is one of the best holidays of the year. What’s not to love: fun costumes, perfect weather, friends, family, late bedtimes, and candy. All that candy can be overwhelming. You want to enjoy the holiday, have fun and be carefree, but you are also dreading the aftermath – the “My child is up entirely too late, and now they want to eat all this candy ...

Quoted by Jennifer Fallon of HealthZette | October 27, 2016

Your kids have been waiting all year for October 31. They’ve probably been arguing with friends about the most awesome costume involving the latest superhero or Disney movie character — and they have their plastic orange pumpkin ready to collect their sugar-rush stash. For many kids, Halloween is the best night of the year ...

Quoted by Jennifer Fallon of HealthZette | October 13, 2016

Between costumes, trick-or-treating and those great mounds of candy, Halloween is a dream for kids. But especially with new research out showing that the sugar industry manipulated research and duped us all into sugar addiction, it can be a nightmare for parents concerned about food choices and health ...

Quoted by Grace Baldwin of Texas Forest Country Living | October 10, 2016

Thanking God before a meal is a staple for many Americans. Thanksgiving is a holiday in which many practices giving thanks before meals, and it is a holiday during which many find themselves overeating. The stigma ...

Quoted by Joanne Richard of The Toronto Sun | Oct 07, 2016

Giving thanks this weekend? Well come Tuesday you won’t be so thankful for that turkey dinner overload – and drinking from the gravy bowl! There’s still time to get your act together before gobbling up tomorrow’s 4,000 calorie fat fest – establish an attitude of gratitude and dodge the second and third helpings ...

Published by My City Life | October 6, 2016

As millions upon millions of Canadians look ahead to Thanksgiving with trepidations about overeating, I’d like to focus on one of the most fundamental staples of the Thanksgiving meal that will help prevent overeating not just on Turkey Day, but year round: the act of giving thanks. The part where family and friends join hands, or bow heads, and take some time to reflect on what they’ ...

Quoted by The Silo | October 6, 2022

In fact, says Susan — who is President of the Institute for Sustainable Weight Loss author of the forthcoming book, Bright Line Eating: The Science of Living Happy, Thin and Free (Hay House, March 2017) — when incorporated into the scaffolding of your life, giving thanks before EVERY meal has immeasurable health and weight control benefits, for the following reasons ...

Quoted by NamasteNewsline.com | September 29, 2016

As millions upon millions of Americans look ahead to Thanksgiving with trepidation about overeating, Susan Peirce Thompson, Ph.D., a brain and cognitive scientist specializing in the psychology of eating, offers this timeless wisdom: Thanksgiving, with its underlying message of gratitude, can help, not hinder, willpower around food ...

Quoted by DarpanMagazine.com | Sep 29, 2016

As millions upon millions of people look ahead to Thanksgiving with trepidation about overeating, Susan Peirce Thompson, Ph.D., a brain and cognitive scientist specializing in the psychology of eating, offers this timeless wisdom: Thanksgiving, with its underlying message of gratitude, can help ...

Quoted by Hillary Eaton of Livestrong.com | July 27, 2017

Sugar rushes are the feeling you get when you consume a lot of sugar, which gives you a large amount of short-term energy as your body burns through the simple carbohydrates that sugar is made up of. While a sugar rush feels good for a short amount of time, your body ...

Quoted by Nick Tate of NewsMax | September 23, 2016

New revelations that the sugar industry has funded research since the 1960s casting doubt on sugar's role in heart disease — and claiming fat was the biggest risk factor — suggest Big Sugar has been as hazardous to public health as Big Tobacco. So say a growing number of health experts, citing new scientific ...

Published by The Guardian Liberty Voice | September 22, 2016

Last week, the Journal of the American Medical Association published papers revealing that, in 1965, the sugar industry paid three scientists from Harvard to draw attention away from the connection between sugar and heart disease and focus instead on fat. In their findings, they relegated sugar to a problem for the dentist, not the cardiologist. ...

Published by The Huffington Post | Sep 28, 2015

On September 22, news broke that governor and U.S. presidential candidate Chris Christie had given General Michael Cunniff, the leader of New Jersey's 9,000+ national guardsmen, a weighty ultimatum. The general had 90 days to slim down ...

Interviewed by Dan LeFave | November 8, 2015

If you want to improve the quality of your life if you want to set and achieve meaningful goals, then Dan is the man to show you how to do it. Pay close attention to give him the time but listen carefully as he starts to explain how you can change the direction of your life and I understand this, the change will be permanent ...