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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