Friday, March 1, 2019

*Book Tour & Giveaway* Now That's Just Stupid--Weight What? by Debra Taylor-GUEST POST


Now That's Just Stupid: Weight, What?
By Debra Taylor
Genre: Self-Help

The F-Word: A three letter word that carries the greatest impact to the deepest void inside the soul...Fat there I said it.Just the word alone makes every hurt, pain, failure or haunting memory rise to the surface and food is the only thing that will quiet the storm.You don’t have a problem with food! You have problems, issues, behaviors and you go to food. There is a big difference!WEIGHT, What? is the third release in the Now That’s Just Stupid, Inc. book series. It’s a journey through real weight loss using regular, every day foods only this time you will solve the issues and keep the food. No one should tell you what to eat, what not to eat or how much to eat. YOU know how to do that! What you don’t know is how to solve the reasons why you overeat. Healthy foods and exercise didn’t make you fat and they won’t make you thin UNTIL you face the emotional issues underneath the weight. This book will show you how to use your food to guide you toward your C.O.R.E. issues and take the steps to solve them.



Author, Debra Taylor has battled obesity since childhood topping out at almost 400 pounds before learning to manage her adiction to food. She now holds a Masters of Science with an emphasis in Applied Behavioral Analysis and a Ph.D. In Psychology, with an emphasis in addiction. Her specialty is working with clients who struggle with behavioral or emotional eating before, during and after their weight loss. She has traveled nationally and internationally as a motivational speaker and was Director over several hospital surgical and non-surgical weight loss programs. While working with tousands of obese individuals she designed the meaning behind food groups that explain and solve emotional eating while teaching people to lose weight eating regular every day foods.




GUEST POST
Advice to upcoming authors
I clearly have a respect for authors who can take an idea, create concepts and characters and bring it to live on pages. That is not my calling. My calling is to take broken pieces of the soul give them a purpose, a reason, a need and put them back together again. I have never thought of myself as an author but rather a recorder of pain and connector of broken pieces. When I was able to articulate who I was in the writing field, the pages flowed naturally. For young and upcoming writings and people that ask me to ‘help them write a book’ I share this:
  • Start. Don’t try for perfection, don’t think too hard, just put the pen to paper or fingers on the computer keyboard and start.
  • Begin where it ‘feels right’. It may be the end of your story or content in between or just your chapter titles but start where you are and flow from there.
  • Know your ending first. Where do you want to lead your audience? What do you want them to know when they shut the cover? What is your lesson learned?
  • Don’t imitate another writer especially one you admire. It will show. You have to be authentic. You have your own style, your own voice, your own story – tell it your way.
  • Don’t sit longer than thirty minutes staring at the paper or computer. There is a time and a place for writing and you can’t force it. You can waste three hours on one chapter or take a break, a day or week off and finish three sections when you return. Internal clocks and pressure do not serve you.
  • Be true to your words. There is one thing to take constructive criticism if you seek it, but you have to stand behind your writing with confidence and pride or you didn’t do it right.
  • Know your “why”. Why are you writing it? Why does it matter? Why do you need to share it?
  • Lastly, pause or take a time out but never quit. Your words matter and they will be here long after you are gone.
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