Life is Hard, Food is Easy The 5-Step Plan To Overcome Emotional Eating and Lose Weight on Any Diet by Linda Spangle, R.N., M.A. Lifeline Press ; ISBN: 0-89526-145-6 Hardcover - 294 pages (January 2003) $19.95 Does a conversation with your mother drive you to consume a gallon of ice cream? Have you ever eaten a whole bag of chips and wondered “How did that happen?” In Life Is Hard, Food Is Easy, Linda Spangle, R.N., M.A., explains why emotional eating dooms all your dieting efforts. Over the past 15 years, Linda Spangle has helped thousands of clients learn to cope with their emotions, thereby allowing them to lose weight successfully and keep it off — permanently. In Life Is Hard, Food Is Easy, Spangle shares her fool-proof method for beating emotional eating — the method that accounts for her clients’ 90% success rate! Spangle reveals how you can cope with your feelings of frustration, boredom, or loneliness, and offers her proven step-by-step program to stop your emotions from interfering with your eating habits. These 5 simple steps teach you how to identify the emotional void the food is attempting to fulfill and empower you to break your self-destructive behavior. According to Spangle, your weight-loss success rate increases dramatically only when your emotional coping skills become stronger and incorporated into your daily life. So before you devour another bag of M&M’s, learn Spangle’s 5 mental exercises and free yourself from the emotional cravings that sabotage your weight-loss efforts. Click here to order from Amazon: