Click here to return to book details FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Email: publicity@regnery.com Phone: 202-216-0600 Forget Low Fat vs. Low Carbs The diets out there are missing the real problem - gaining weight is not always about what you eat, it’s about the emotions that are driving you to overeat. Sometimes we eat for reasons other than hunger. LINDA SPANGLE, RN, MA, had lost and regained the same twenty pounds over and over. No matter what diet she tried, she could not manage her weight. Unbeknownst to her at the time, Spangle was eating to cope with grief. After eight years of painful surgeries and several miscarriages, she finally had to abandon her dream of having a baby. Whenever the familiar sadness knocked at her door, she would eat to chase it away. One Mother’s Day, Spangle decided to let the emotions in. When they arrived, she sat at her kitchen table and cried for every single experience she missed by not having those babies. After that day, to Spangle’s surprise, her weight began to drop. How she lost that weight and is teaching others to do it as well is the subject of Spangle’s new book, Life Is Hard, Food Is Easy: The 5-Step Plan to Overcome Emotional Eating and Lose Weight on Any Diet (Lifeline Press, January 2003). It is based on the successful weight management program Spangle developed at her Denver clinic, WINNERS for Life, Inc., which specializes in the psychological reasons behind why we eat. Spangle’s program has helped hundreds of clients lose weight and keep it off, and serves as a referral source for more than 350 physicians. Spangle presents her five tried-and-true steps to conquering emotional eating, and shows how to integrate them into your favorite diet plan. The book is chock-full of workbook style exercises, tips, tricks, and techniques to modify habits, identify eating triggers, change attitudes, and build lasting success. This is a diet approach like no other. Rather than advocating a specific diet or exercise regimen, Spangle shows how to recognize and identify emotional needs before you use food to fix them. Once you learn to eat only when you are physically hungry, and come to separate food and eating from how you cope with life, Spangle says you will not have problems shedding pounds on any diet. A popular speaker in the Denver area, LINDA SPANGLE has taught classes and seminars on topics including emotional and psychological aspects of weight loss, nutrition and exercise skills, stress management, and motivation. Her clients have included IBM, Johnson and Johnson, Merrill Lynch and Amoco Oil, as well as numerous civic and not-for-profit groups. Click here to order from Amazon: Click here to return to book details