Episode 288: Susan Peirce Thompson, PhD — Six-Year Outcomes, GLP-1s & the Identity Shifts Behind Lasting Recovery
About this episode
Dr. Susan Peirce Thompson discusses her research on food addiction recovery and the psychology behind long-term weight management.
📢 A quick announcement from the Food Junkies team: For the first time, we're moving to a new release schedule — new episodes every other week, still featuring one Recovery Story each month. We'll share more about this decision in our next Clinician's Corner. Whether you've been with us from the beginning or just found us, thank you. This is also the perfect time to dive into our archive of hundreds of conversations with experts, clinicians, researchers, and people with lived experience. Our next episode launches on July 17th. About Today's Guest Dr. Susan Peirce Thompson is a cognitive psychologist with expertise in the psychology of eating and the founder and CEO of Bright Line Eating, a global program for abstinence-based recovery from ultra-processed food addiction and long-term weight management. She is an adjunct associate professor in Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Rochester and the author of Bright Line Eating, ReZoom, On This Bright Day, The Official Bright Line Eating Cookbook, and her newest book, Maintain. In 2025, Susan published a study in Frontiers in Psychiatry reporting six-year outcomes from the Bright Line Eating program that suggest an…
People in this episode
Host: Clarissa Kennedy
Guest: Susan Peirce Thompson
Topics covered
- food addiction
- psychology of eating
- weight management
- recovery stories
- long-term outcomes
- identity shifts
Keywords
- food addiction
- recovery
- psychology
- weight loss
- Bright Line Eating
- GLP-1
- identity shifts
- long-term outcomes
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Bright Line Eating, University of Rochester, Frontiers in Psychiatry
Books & works: Bright Line Eating, ReZoom, On This Bright Day, The Official Bright Line Eating Cookbook, Maintain
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