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Life Is Hard, Food Is Easy: The 5-Step Plan to Overcome Emotional Eating and Lose Weight on Any Diet

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Author: Linda Spangle
Publisher: LifeLine Press
Category: Book

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

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Media: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 1.2

ISBN: 0895261456
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.25019
EAN: 9780895261458

Publication Date: April 25, 2004
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This book reveals how you can cope with your feelings of frustration, boredom, or loneliness, and offers a unique step-by-step program to stop your emotions from interfering with your eating habits.

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life is hard, food is easy April 26, 2009
M. Jeffrey
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

The book was excellent on how to eliminate emotional eating. It is one of the best books I have rread. The step by step plan to stop your emotional eating was easy to understand and is working well for me.

5 out of 5 stars

Life is hard - Food is easy February 2, 2009
Rachel Couling
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

A very informative book wiht well thought out ideas and concepts. Reading this has given me a greater understanding of eating for reasons other than to fuel the body. I think this book is a great tool and is easy to read and follow.

5 out of 5 stars

How did she know? December 1, 2008
BettyLou Koffel (Portland, OR USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Losing weight while hard, is nothing compared to keeping it off. I've been at my healthy weight for three years, yet my relationship with food is not exactly what I desire. I picked this book up last week (after Thanksgiving) as an experiment to help me deal with a "high risk" situation I was facing. It worked!

Many authors talk about emotional eating triggers and offer suggestions for alternate activities. Spangle describes triggers not only by their emotions and adds their associated food preferences. She differentiates HEAD HUNGER from HEART HUNGER primarily so that you can tailor your "instead" activities to the specific need you are feeling. One can do this by spending time thinking about one's emotions OR one can take a shortcut by looking at the foods you are desiring. She really has me nailed here.
BRIEFLY:
Head Hunger = anger, frustration, resentment = specific desire for chewy or crunchy foods = instead activity of exercise/movement
Heart Hunger = "empty" emotions of sadness, loneliness, boredom = desire for something but often not sure what or soft, creamy foods = instead activity of soothing oneself (bath, sleep, candles & relaxation)

5 out of 5 stars

Life Is Hard, Food is Easy August 4, 2008
Scamman Figure Training (Las Vegas Nevada)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. I am a personal trainer and have purchased half a dozen of these for my clients to help them identify their reasons for why they eat when they are not hungry. The book has steps toward identifying emotional eating and then reducing and eliminating destructive patterns. I'd recommend the book.

5 out of 5 stars

This book is a treasure, not only for weight loss but life in general July 29, 2008
Melissa James
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

My twin sister gave me a copy of the book "Life is Hard Food is Easy" a couple of years ago. This summer I finally had the chance to read it and I wish I had done so years ago. While I don't currently have a problem with emotional eating, I can tell that I did in the past. I am currently on a weight loss regimen and succeeding little by little. I know that the suggestions in this book will help me not only with the continued weight loss, but also with other areas of life.

One of the pieces of advice that stuck with me the most is to think of overweight/obesity as a condition that must be managed throughout life. This book has many practical suggestions that will help you succeed in managing your condition. I am grateful to Linda Spangle for sharing her story and for having the courage to give us a different view of the weight loss puzzle.

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