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Weight loss has gotten a bad rap in recent years, and with all of the fad diets that have negative side effects and the endless cycle of yo-yo dieting that a great deal of seem to be stuck in, it’s not hard to see why. Somehow, you have to break this cycle if you want to lose weight and keep it off. You have to understand that if you look at a diet as a temporary event, you will get temporary results. Instead, if you want to lose weight and keep it off, you have to find a new way to eat each and each day of your life going forward. A raw feed diet provides you with an easy and utterly delicious way to lose weight and keep it off.
Give Your Body What It Needs
You will find out by reviewing the raw feed diet that this diet is based on supplying your body what it needs without filling it with yummy treats that it has no use for. Sure, pizza, burgers, and chocolate cake taste great, but your body doesn’t need them and it in truth cannot use a lot of the contents in these foods. Your body doesn’t need a huge portion of the proteins, carbs, fats, and so forth that are most likely included in your current diet. And, your intake of these items is a big portion of what is causing your weight issue. More than that, it may likewise cause you to feel fatigued, have high cholesterol, and so much more, too!
Learning What Your Body Needs
You will soon discover that this diet actually isn’t a diet in the sense of the word you are employed to. It doesn’t provide a temporary solution, but rather it educates you on how your body works with the foods you take in and provides you with info when it comes to what it in truth needs to run on ‘all cylinders’. Then, it takes your education a step further, and shows you how to eat delicious meals and snacks. Going forward, this diet will provide you with the optimal nutrients for weight-loss, and weight-loss maintenance, once your idealisti body weight is achieved…as well as bettered health.
Learning How to Cook Again
You will find that those who have reviewed the raw feed diet for the most part love the recipe ideas in the two books. They find the recipes to be delicious and tasty. With galore diets, you feel deprived of energy and of tasty foods, and this inevitably leads to cheating on your diet. Clearly, you need to find healthful choices that you may receive pleasure from for the long term if you want to receive pleasure from long-term results. With how tasty the recipes included in these two books, you will genuinely have a delicious way to receive pleasure from long-term results with this diet.
Life Hard Food Easy Emotional
Spangle reveals her five-step plan on how to cope with sensations of frustration, boredom, or loneliness, and offers a distinctive step-by-step program to stop your emotions from irruptive with your eating habits.
From Publishers WeeklyThe established special importance and significance on diet and exercise fails to address the underlying psychological causes of overeating, argues this engaging self-help book. Instead of eating to satisfy physical hunger, we indulge in “emotional eating” to make up for low self-esteem, to distract ourselves from unpleasing moods (anger and feeling of annoyance at being hindered or criticized make us crave crunchy, chewy foods, while loneliness and depression demand creamy ease foods) or to act out and defuse suppressed feelings. Spangle, a registered nurse and weight-loss counselor, recommends a number of techniques, including writing projects, hugging exercises and positive-thinking mantras to aid overeaters unearth and deal with their food-related emotions, and gives practical counsel on sticking to weight-loss regimens. She writes insightfully of the ways humans interact with regard to emotions with food, and includes first-person confessionals from her clients; by turns poignant (“eating helps me stop thinking with regards to how much I hate my life” says one lost soul) and lascivious (“I pull out a stack of curved golden morsels” writes a woman on a Pringles binge, who finds the munching sounds “soothing, like water lapping softly on the beach”), these attest to food’s psychic power. But her tips are now and then ludicrous (“Pound on your pillow until your arms are too tired to lift feed to your mouth”) and her five-step-plan to combat cravings (which, with a good deal of practice, you may “flash through” in “less than a minute”) may seem highly inadequate to deal with the aroused traumas she feels are at the root of obesity.
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ReviewLinda Spangle beautifully and gently illumines the source–not just the symptoms–behind aroused eating. This book is destined to — Ann Louise Gittleman
From the Inside Flap· Recognize your craving,
· Identify your emotion,
· And solve the real problem. We all give in to “emotional eating” sometimes. Food is an easy solution to dealing with—or avoiding—uncomfortable emotions. But when you’re attempting to lose or maintain weight, aroused eating may sabotage everything you’ve worked so hard for. Linda Spangle, founder and conductor of the highly successful WINNERS for Life wellness and weight-loss clinic, offers hope to those who want to take control over their eating habits and lose weight for good. Life Is Hard, Food Is Easy will completely change the way you think in regards to food, giving you a powerful system for conquering your aroused eating habits and achieving lasting weight-loss success. With Spangle’s approach, you may succeed on any diet. Without it, most diets are doomed to fail. Using specific guidelines, each step in Spangle’s 5-step plan involved answering a question affiliated to the connection amongst feed and emotions. STEP 1: What’s going on? What’s making you want to eat? Learn the connection amongst non-hungry eating and specific categories of emotions, which Spangle terms “Heart Hunger” versus “Head Hunger.” STEP 2: What do I feel? What are the emotions behind the situation? There’s more to your emotions than mad, glad, and sad. Break out of an “emotional box” using the distinguishable “I feel…because…” exercise. You’ll learn how to pinpoint your sentiment precisely and get to the root of what’s making you eat. STEP 3: What do I need? What’s missing in your life right now? Trace your favored foods back to your childhood and connect them to the emotions you felt when you ate these foods. Discover how much these same aroused needs often drive your eating patterns in your adult life, and learn how to address those needs in ways that don’t implicate food. STEP 4: What’s in my way? What barriers might stop you from taking action? Identify issues that keep you from using your weight-management skills. Learn how to spot the “crazymakers” in your life and how to sidestep dieting sabotage from loved ones. STEP 5: What will I do? What’s your “action plan” that doesn’t implicate food? Here are effective, easy guidelines for handling tough situations when eating is expected and encouraged—celebrations, holidays, social get-togethers, even business meals. This is not a book when it comes to compulsive eating or all-night binges. It’s for “normal” people who raid that refrigerator after a tough day and, in ten minutes, undo an entire week’s worth of careful eating. But rather than proposing you eat low-fat foods on a midnight snack run, Life Is Hard, Food Is Easy helps you figure out why you were standing in front of the refrigerator in the original place. Drawing on her own personal struggle with aroused eating, Spangle combines thoughtful advice, personal stories, real-life situations, written exercises, and practical tips and tricks you may use each day. By taking car of your needs and coping with your uncomfortable emotions, you may free yourself from the trap of using feed as an easy solution.
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347 of 361 people found the following review helpful.
 Why didn’t someone tell me about this book 13 years ago?
By A reader
By accident, I happened to find this book as I was using Google to search for information that might help me overcome emotional eating. I have tried many, many diets in the past, but none of them worked, because I would always start bingeing, and then I would gain more weight than I ever had before. Right now, I am about 110 pounds over my ideal weight.
I bought the Dr. Phil book earlier — hoping that it would help me to figure out why I am so out-of-control on my eating. It was good in terms of presenting general information, but it didn’t really give me any concrete and specific tools for helping me break my vicious cycle of emotional eating. I found the Dr. Phil book useless in terms of giving practical steps about how to get out of the very deep, dark hole that I am in right now.
I bought this book about 1 week ago. It is by far, the hardest book that I have ever read, because the exercises (and stories of others who had traveled down the same path) in the book forced me to face loneliness, grief, depression, fear of rejection, hopelessness about my future, past pain from abuse, etc. It was hard to face that which I had run away from — and consistently avoided facing by stuffing myself with food.
Over this weekend, I put down the chocolate, and I faced the emotions associated with my depression head-on. I felt really, really bad for about two days as I cried about my life, but TODAY, the black cloud that has hung over me for most of my adult life has finally lifted.
The most amazing thing is that my food cravings are gone. I am no longer downing 6 chocolate turtles, one pint of Blue Bell Rocky Road, 1 pound of rice pudding, and 1 Red Baron Cheese pizza in ONE SINGLE MEAL. I was totally shocked to find that I did not have a SINGLE problem with ANY food cravings today, and I haven’t felt deprived in any way. The compulsion to self-medicate with food is totally gone.
But best of all, I have been paralyzed by depression during the last 8 years. There are things that have needed to be done, boxes of cluttered files that I have needed to throw out, and changes that I have needed to make in my life — other than losing weight.
Everything seemed so overwhelming that I never could seem to do these things. It was much easier to hide under the covers and sleep, watch TV, and eat the Blue Bell ice cream, than it was to face these impossible mountains of change. Or to come to terms with profound grief over something that happened 13 years ago.
Well, I am happy to report, that I finally started to tackle one of my biggest mountains this morning. I threw out boxes of files that were no longer needed, but that I couldn’t seem to throw out, because they were my only connection to a much happier past. I also began to start thinking that perhaps I could change my life after all. It does not have to be like this; I do have the power to change my thinking — and my life. I do have the ability to take baby steps to do what God is directing me to do — in order to become the person that He created me to be — not the half-dead shell of a person that I was only a few days ago.
In conclusion, this book is well-written, and well-worth the money spent. Besides the practical reflective exercises, Linda Spangle writes about her life, includes personal stories from some of her former clients, and she includes time-tested tools that have been shown to get many people over the emotional blocks that keep them from losing weight. It is written in such a way that the reader feels that Linda Spangle is talking to you over a cup of tea. It is well-worth the money spent, and I only wish that this book had been written 13 years ago!
79 of 80 people found the following review helpful.
Most useful info I’ve found in 20 years!
By Alison
I have gained more insight and USEFUL help from this book than from any other information I’ve read on emotional eating in 20 years. Spangle does a superb job of presenting the issue in a very cut & dry manner. I found more concise, helpful info in this book than in others (Geneen Roth, Dilia de la Altagracia, Jane Hirschmann, Christopher Fairburn, even Dr. Phil) combined. No frilly “feel-good language” here. The few, simple exercises of journaling have helped me so very much, and the five steps are something I use every time I go wandering into the kitchen pantry, fridge, buffet line at a party, etc. This book has helped me to achieve a weight loss I haven’t been able to reach otherwise (30 lbs) in the last 10 years. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in exploring why he/she eats when not hungry, and for anyone interested in losing weight. I think anyone with weight issues has some component of emotional eating, and this book will help you identify what those issues are, quickly, and how to deal with them.
75 of 78 people found the following review helpful.
 Good Tips for Any Dieter’s Success
By Bonnie Neely
Life is Hard, Food is Easy by Linda Spangle, RN,MA, is a new and highly successful approach to dieting…, or rather learning to eat in a new way for optimal health. Linda is the founder and director of the highly successful WINNERS For Life: Wellness and Weight Loss Clinic. She observed how difficult it is for people to keep off the weight they work so hard to lose. She identifies the emotional factors, different from hunger, that make people eat and helps us establish new patterns to monitor our feeding habits. Her five points explained in the book include: What’s going on? What do I feel? What do I need? What’s in my way? and What will I do? In learning to seek these answers readers will discover a new way to keep weight at the desired level, create new habits, and feel good about their bodies. A very good companion to any diet!
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