I’ve already heard from many of you who purchased the new workbook and journal to go with the book Life is Hard, Food is Easy.
It sounds like all of you love it! This easy fill-in-the blank workbook helps you put some of your insights and great ideas into one place.
Each chapter in the workbook includes a summary of the key points from “Life is Hard” along with specific questions to answer or explore.
Here is an excerpt from Chapter Five, What Do I Feel?
Excerpt:Identifying your emotions
Think of a recent or past situation that prompted an emotional response. Then use this exercise to accurately label your feelings, both positive, happy ones as well as difficult or challenging ones.
Using the phrase, “I feel, because…,” begin by labeling a specific feeling, then add a few words or a sentence that describes why you have that emotion.
To help you identify exactly what you are feeling, refer to the list of emotions on pages 82-84 in the book Life is Hard, Food is Easy. Or you can click here to download and print the list.
Keep your list simple, using one or two words to identify each feeling and a short phrase to describe why you feel that way.
Feel free to identify just a couple of feelings or to fill an entire page with your list.
Take a moment now and write your list of “I feel, because…”
Whenever your emotions are making you want to eat, take a few minutes to do this exercise again before you head for the refrigerator.
In your efforts to stop your emotional eating patterns, you can use the exercise “I feel… because…” to dilute the intensity of your feelings and give yourself time to come up with a better solution.
When you can’t seem to figure out what you are feeling, ask this question: If I knew what I was feeling, what would it be?
Write down a few possible emotions, then create a new list of “I feel, because…”
Guilt is not an emotion
When you say you feel guilty about a behavior, you’re not describing a feeling. Instead, the word guilty serves as a cover-up for less acceptable emotions.
Think of a time when you said, “I feel guilty about…” Then ask this question:
If I wasn’t feeling guilty, what would I be feeling?
For example, if you “feel guilty” about eating cake that wasn’t on your plan, what other thing could you be feeling?
Maybe you feel disappointed because you couldn’t resist a temptation or frustrated because you fell off your plan. Perhaps you’re afraid you’ll never lose weight or that a family member will yell at you.
Saying you feel guilty about eating cake is usually easier than facing the truth. When you identify your real feelings, you might discover the insecurity and disappointment that promoted you to eat the cake.
You might not have recognized these feeling if you hadn’t looked beyond feeling guilty.
(End of excerpt)
You will love using this easy workbook and journal along with the book Life is Hard, Food is Easy.
Life is Hard, Food is Easy — Workbook and Journal
For Recording Lesson Assignments and Insights
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Price $10.95
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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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