New York Times best-selling author Dr. Susan Peirce Thompson, brain and cognitive scientist and founder of Bright Line Eating, teaches you the three identity shifts that will finally keep the weight off for good.
Conventional weight-loss programs, GLP-1s, gastric bypass, and fad diets aren't the magic bullets everyone hoped for. More often than not, people lose some weight, return to old eating patterns, and then promptly regain what they lost. With 85% of people getting off their GLP-1 medications within two years, a more lasting mindset is needed. Why is losing weight—and keeping it off—so difficult?
Dr. Susan Peirce Thompson has the answer: three science-backed identity shifts that will promote lasting change at the deepest level and rewire your relationship with food, dieting, and yourself.
The 3 Simple Shifts that Turn Temporary Weight Loss into Lasting Freedom
1. GET DEVOTED
You are Someone Who Eats This Way. No more bargaining or food chatter. Design your Maintenance plan and embrace it to become Devoted.
2. GET RESOURCED
You are Someone Who Doesn't "Use" Food.
No more eating your feelings. Explore your emotional triggers and develop life-changing skills to become Resourced.
3. GET LIBERATED
You are Someone Who has Moved On. No more tinkering with the last few pounds. Find peace, joy, and fulfillment in your new life and become Liberated.
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BONUS
Guided Meditation: Being Devoted, Resourced, and Liberated
In this short, gently guided meditation, Susan invites listeners to feel into the three identity shifts that make long-term Maintenance possible: being Devoted to a supportive food plan, Resourced with tools beyond food, and Liberated from the ongoing food and weight struggle. Through calming breathwork and vivid reflection, participants experience what it’s like when food decisions are settled, stress is met with care instead of eating, and mental space opens up for life beyond weight management. This meditation offers an embodied sense of calm, confidence, and freedom—an identity listeners can return to again and again.
BONUS
Video: The Origin of Devoted, Resourced, and Liberated
In this behind-the-scenes video, Susan shares the long, human evolution of the Devoted–Resourced–Liberated framework and how it emerged from decades of experience, teaching, and listening to the Bright Line Eating community. She explains why sustained Maintenance requires identity shifts—not just strategies—and traces how these three concepts were shaped, named, and refined over time. Along the way, Susan explores why devotion depends on having a strong enough plan, how becoming resourced unfolds gradually, and why true liberation from the food and weight struggle is often the most challenging—and most transformative—shift of all.
BONUS
Printable Love Note from Susan
This printable, bookplate-sized love note from Susan is a warm, personal welcome to the path of Maintenance. Written in her signature voice, it reframes food as a teacher rather than an enemy and reminds readers that liberation from the food and weight struggle begins now—not someday in the future. Readers can print and paste it inside their copy of Maintain as a lasting reminder that Maintenance is a rich, lifelong journey, and that becoming Devoted, Resourced, and Liberated is an act of courage, self-trust, and deep care.
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Join Susan for Exclusive Events
Publication Day!
04/21/26
It's time to let go of diet mentality and achieve long-term weight stability and freedom around food. Because Maintenance isn't magic—it's a mindset.
Author Interview: Ocean Robbins, Food Revolution Network
04/21/26 - 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. (ET)
Join Susan and her dear friend Ocean live on Instagram for a friendly chat.
Online Launch Party
04/21/26 - 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. (ET)
Join Susan for some fun and excitement—live on Zoom—as we celebrate publication day! This event will be simultaneously streamed on social media. To participate in the chat and Q&A, register to join us in the Zoom room.
Book Study I: Devoted
04/22/26 - 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. (ET)
Join Susan for an online book study session focusing on the first pillar of MAINTAIN—becoming Devoted.
Book Study II: Resourced
04/26/26 - 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. (ET)
Join Susan for an online book study session focusing on the second pillar of MAINTAIN—becoming Resourced.
Book Study III: Liberated
04/29/26 - 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. (ET)
Join Susan for an online book study session focusing on the third pillar of MAINTAIN—becoming Liberated.
Susan has partnered with WorthyBooks, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, to share her extraordinary guide to break the dieting cycle, Maintain, to nonprofits, libraries, and underserved communities across the country.
About the Author
Susan Peirce Thompson, Ph.D. is The New York Times bestselling author of Bright Line Eating, The Official Bright Line Eating Cookbook, Rezoom, and On This Bright Day. She is a faculty member in brain and cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester, a keynote speaker, and serves on the board of the Food Addiction Institute. In 2014, she founded Bright Line Eating, a worldwide movement dedicated to helping people achieve Maintenance.
Over 115,000 people from more than 100 countries have taken her courses. She lives in Rochester, NY, with her husband and three kiddos, and you can find her online at
BrightLineEating.com or
SusanPeirceThompson.com.
Maintenance isn’t about perfection.
It’s about stability, freedom, and living fully.
Bright Line Eating Is Changing Lives.
Our community is full of real people achieving their Bright Transformations. What is a Bright Transformation? It's the world of possibilities that opens up when you are finally free.
