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Now That's Just Stupid : Weight, What? - Book Tour and Giveaway

2/13/2019

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

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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.


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​Obesity

o·be·si·ty| /ōˈbēsədē/ noun

  1. a condition characterized by the excessive accumulation and storage of fat in the body
  2. a chronic, relapsing, multifactorial, neurobehavioral disease

    My definitions:
    ​a sole sentence that enforces one to cater to societal beliefs that you are lazy with no willpower or motivation to achieve their level of attractiveness or health standards
  3. a public visual aid of every heartbreak, pain and broken piece of life that you were given or forced to consume
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You are not your weight. Just the sound of the word fat brings an internal embarrassment of shame that pulls anger or humiliation to the surface instantaneously. Every time we hear that word, we often lash out at anything in our pathway or bury the enormous burden of self-loathing with more food. Either way, the cycle continues to the point that our familiar realization is a variety of honest assessments such as I don’t know what’s wrong. I can’t stop. No matter how many diets I have done, it’s inevitable that I will put it all the weight back on and then some.
My response is always: Are you done now? You see, I’ve been in your shoes too many times, and I will not let you stay defeated unless you choose to remain overweight. It is a choice, not a destiny. Weight, WHAT? is going to unfold all your baggage and solve it this time. You will experience every emotion imaginable before you reach your goal weight. It will be hard. You will want to run or worse yet, quit again. But if you stay, you will know who and what caused your obesity, {and it wasn’t food}, and the practical steps to break the addiction, of using food, to cope with a life you were not born to live. This is called “doing the work” and I, for one, know you are worth it!




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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.


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How did you come up with name of this book?
“Weight, WHAT?” is a journey of what true food addiction, obesity and morbid obesity really consists of and the experiences that these individuals exist. It’s also a weapon toward thin people to educate them to understand that weight loss eating and healthy eating are two different things. There is no such thing as a good or bad food only the actions of what individuals do with the food.
Overweight individuals use food to cope with life issues that there are seemingly impossible to solve or even endure. This is no different than the reasons other use drugs, alcohol, deviant behavior or other vices to cope with issues within their lives. The conflict comes as this drug, food, must also be used to survive unlike other vices and the addict has to face a consistent decision many times throughout the day to stay in the nutritional boundary and not the emotional boundary.
Therefore the name is a complex message of specifying physical weight issues and not a moment in time [wait] and then a sarcastic punch of all the inconsistent and mixed messages of what causes overeating and how to actually solve the addiction.


What is unique about the book that isn’t found in other weight loss strategies?
First, the journey is written from a once morbidly obese individual who has since lived as a recovery food addict for the last several decades. Living, breathing and walking in the shoes of a physically or mentally overweight individual is not understood in its entirety by a thin minded person. The complex process of losing weight physical is one aspect but losing it emotionally and mentally is an ongoing management lifestyle.
Secondly, the book reveals food groups that are tied to specific emotions and behaviors when used a coping mechanism. These food groups are very clear on what emotional has been activated and how to solve it. You can’t fix, manage or heal from something you can’t identify or articulate. Food will aid you in clearly identifying what is wrong and tie it back to how the addiction got started. It will further give you the step by step process of how to heal and you do all this without changing your food to crazy concoctions or eliminating specific food groups.
Lastly, the process is written from the perspective of the overweight person and it doesn’t soft sell a theory of ‘learn to love yourself and you will lose weight’. That’s neither realistic nor does that take place with one or two steps. Obese individuals have their own language, behaviors and mannerisms to get what we want or need at any cost. There is a form of manipulation and guilt that needs addressed as well as social and interpersonal skills that either need developed or fine tuned as well as self assessment to identify what is missing in one’s life and what are you using food to acquire. Lots of dynamics that go into permananet weight management however, food and weight loss are the easiest parts.

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Where were you born and first three books
I was born and raised in Anderson, IN before moving to Indianapolis in my early twenties. Indy has since become home with my four rescue dogs and 13 year old son. I had no intention of every being a writer or author depending on what label is presented is given to me. I simply write. No attention to proper adjectives or prepesitions or sentence structure, just write. I learned as a pre-tween to write my feelings instead of expressing them as that has always gotten me into trouble. Now, my words between pages seem to do the same thing at times. My internal push is addressing horrific pain and turning it into a purpose. Pulling the lesson from the ashes and then passing on the knowledge to those who have yet to learn. In my childhood years, people and families were seemingly trained not to speak about the un-speakables such as family secrets, dysfunctions and issues that would tarnish the family name. My need to break generational curses couldn’t follow those guidelines. Family pain and rejection caused me to move from everyone I knew and all I had known to the only city I knew how to drive to at my age. I made it a home that no one could take from me. The years of poor choices, unsightly places and situations and experiences I should have never survived became my norm for several decades. Then my world shattered. I broke. And, my friend from years past – pen and paper- arrived and I started my journey.
MY first book: “Living Life from Pain to Purpose” is 64 short stories [5 pages each] of many of life challenges followed by a recap of questions that need to be answered at the end of each one. I documented the journey of healing and six months later had my first book on Amazon.
Second book: “Love Letters to God” shares a journey of letters that I wrote to God about the man I believed He brought to me and then took away. The shattered pieces, the lessons learned and the healing of the heart followed. This three-hundred page book took four weeks from the time I picked up the pen and it was on Amazon.
Finally my current and as far as I believe, my last book: “Weight, WHAT?” My catalyst and greatest pain becomes the focus of my life’s work and purpose. The horrendous life of morbid obesity internally and externally is synthesized along with a realistic way to address food and solve life issues. Obese individuals do not have a problem with food – clearly we don’t. We have “problems” and we go to food to: cope, bury, hide, numb, escape and to hold ourselves together when the issues underneath become unbearable.
My first book allowed me to heal my childhood issues; my second allowed me to heal my heart and my third allows my purpose to grow, shine and be lived out for the rest of my life.


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44 Comments
James Robert
2/13/2019 03:27:14 am

Thank you for sharing your book with us. I always look forward to finding out about another great read.

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Debra Taylor link
2/13/2019 06:03:09 pm

You are so very welcome! I love to share the journey of change, hope and real answers to real issues.

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Janet W.
2/13/2019 07:08:52 am

Sounds like a really interesting read!!

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Debra Taylor link
2/13/2019 06:06:54 pm

Thank you so much. It's a journey of those dealing with obesity and giving them real tools to solve their issues.

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June S.
2/13/2019 07:12:57 am

This would be a good book for my daughter to read. Good luck on your tour.

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Debra Taylor link
2/13/2019 06:08:51 pm

With a gentle nudge you might want to encourage her to to book or online course or our free online group on facebook

https://www.facebook.com/groups/weightwhatonline/

It's so much more than just food!

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Wendy Jensen
2/13/2019 11:07:42 am

Oh my goodness, what a book cover!

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Debra Taylor link
2/13/2019 06:10:49 pm

I hope thats an "oh my goodness" in a good way. The concept it to reveal to people that it's not the 'food' they put in their mouths that are causing the issues; it's the issues inside ourselves that are causing us to go to food.

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Bea LaRocca
2/13/2019 11:28:07 am

I love your definition of obesity! As an overweight woman, this book is a definite must read for me.

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Debra Taylor link
2/13/2019 06:13:42 pm

It's a deep book with real answers. I spent my entire life to date dealing with this issue and guiding surgical and non-surgical patients who use food as a vice to cope with life. There are big issues under the weight that need to fixed, forgotten [let go of] of felt [managing] but there are so many layers that you have to navigate through before you can get there. This book shows you how using food as a guide to 'show' you what is emotional stirred up and your options to solve that issue. It's a realistic journey using regular every day foods to lose the weight and specific emotional tools to heal. Keep me posted on your journey and join our online facebook group with those going down the same journey: https://www.facebook.com/groups/weightwhatonline/

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Calvin
2/13/2019 11:46:50 am

Self help genre is quite rare.. interesting

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Author Debra Taylor link
2/15/2019 02:37:05 pm

It's certainly a different read but often has interwoven stories nonetheless.

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Rita Wray
2/13/2019 12:05:01 pm

Sounds like a good book.

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Author Debra Taylor link
2/15/2019 02:37:39 pm

Thank you. I'm a bit partial too it. :)

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Kelly D
2/13/2019 01:25:56 pm

I like the cover, especially the use of color.

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Author Debra Taylor link
2/15/2019 02:38:44 pm

Thank you. All my books have the same concept of red/white and a partial face with lips to represent words and speaking [life]. I tend to ensure my conferences and book signings follow suit.

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wendy hutton
2/13/2019 01:51:59 pm

interesting cover, good luck with the book

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Author Debra Taylor link
2/15/2019 02:39:21 pm

Thank you very much. It's doing exceptionally well for just being released.

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heather
2/13/2019 03:09:05 pm

Great cover makes me want to read it even more.

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Author Debra Taylor link
2/15/2019 02:40:16 pm

I appreciate that Heather. I have many conversations about the meaning of the cover, the lips and various perceptions.

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Debbie P
2/13/2019 03:11:47 pm

This book sounds like a really great read. And I know the subject matter well. This is now at the top of my TBR list.

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Debra Taylor link
2/17/2019 03:33:08 pm

Wonderful! I would interested to hear your journey!

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Barbara Montag
2/13/2019 03:56:22 pm

This will be an intense book - a great read.
And I like the cover.
thank you

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Debra Taylor
2/17/2019 03:33:32 pm

Thank you so much! It is very intense but life changing!

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Victoria
2/13/2019 08:54:43 pm

Sounds like a very interesting book, thanks for sharing :)

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Dale Wilken
2/13/2019 09:08:22 pm

Sounds really great.

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Author Debra Taylor
2/17/2019 03:34:46 pm

Thank you!

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Mary Cloud
2/13/2019 10:15:53 pm

No questions - I like the cover

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Kelly Nicholson
2/14/2019 10:28:34 am

What do you think of the book or the cover?

i think i get the plot of the book,but im not sure

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Debra Taylor
2/17/2019 03:34:28 pm

Not really a 'plot' but a journey of uncovering the issues under weight and treating it as an addiction.

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Elaine G
2/14/2019 01:46:48 pm

Sounds interesting. Enjoyed reading the post.

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Mya Jo Murphy
2/15/2019 01:17:18 pm

Self help books are the best!! I would love to read this!!

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SHERRY
2/15/2019 08:08:10 pm

I love the cover and the book sounds very good.

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Kathy Cozzarelli
2/18/2019 10:48:48 am

It sounds interesting.

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Starla
2/18/2019 06:01:55 pm

I really like the cover and find it very interesting. It definitely leaves me to want to read it to check out the story line!

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Marcy Meyer
2/19/2019 05:25:46 pm

Great cover! Sounds like a good read. Enjoyed the guest post.

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Jennifer Stapp
2/22/2019 04:03:06 pm

That's an amazing cover, I love it!! Thanks for featuring another great read! I have been finding so many new authors to read here.

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Allison Swain
2/24/2019 10:51:11 pm

I love the cover a lot! This sounds like an interesting book!

Thanks for the giveaway :)

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Paula
3/2/2019 03:13:38 pm

The cover art seems appropriate for the book. Good job.

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Mood Reader
3/4/2019 03:00:44 pm

Wow! This sounds great. I am definitely getting a copy! :)

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Daniel M
3/7/2019 11:34:16 pm

like the cover

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Rhonda Leigh Nichols
3/8/2019 09:32:22 am

This looks wonderful!

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Lavender P.
3/10/2019 11:38:45 am

I really need to read this book. Been carrying around too much baggage.

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Jerry Marquardt
3/13/2019 11:15:56 pm

I would like to give thanks for all your really great writings, including Now That's Just Stupid : Weight, What?, and wishing the best in keeping up the good work in the future.

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