Weight Loss Survey

Just a real quickie (as they say, Missus!) ... We've set up a survey about weight loss which has had pitifully few hits: if you've followed the linke so far, could you spend another three minutes (which is the maximum it'll take you) to complete it for us? It could help you by making you think, and it could help others when we use the results! Thanks http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1134663/A-look-at-weight-problems-inside-out

Imitation is the sincerest form of frustration

Flattery? I'd rather have fortunes in the bank! Ok so this all boils down to the difference in marketing clout between a big name 'celeb' and somewhat smallfry writers such as myself and my co-authors. A little while back - in fact just before logging into Blogger - I had a Facebook message asking if I was watching Loose Women because Paul McKenna was on the programme talking about his hypnovirtualmindgastric bandthinummyjig book. Clearly I wasn't - we have no wifi and I got the FB message so I was up here on't Toshiba. But although I could possibly have got off my backside and watched, I decided it was too depressing an experience. After all what would I have been watching? A very plug-orientated slot publicising the latest book from Mr McKenna about a subject brought to the market place by OUR book not in the Hay House, 2013, edition just launched, but YEARS ago!! We wrote our initial book, Shirrans' Solution - The Gastric mind Band, in 2009/10 and self-published in August 2010. So when I say we're the first and original, we have dates (and Martin and Marion have the case studies) to back it up. After a flurry of interest on both sides of the pond following Martin's sterling efforts with publicity, we continued to sell above and beyond most other books from the AuthorHouse stable.(the least said about that experience the better) And when we were looking to publish a second title, we were lucky enough to interest mainstream publisher Hay House who took on both books. No complaints there! But it's really quite dispiriting to send email after email after email, Press Release after Press Release, to Pin to within an inch of my life, Tweet and Tweet again, FB until my contacts must be thoroughly and completely fed up with my output, and alongside that try to keep my blogs vaguely contemporary....with seriously limited success; while at the same time watching the news spread from a number of months back that Paul McK's book would be out (surprise surprise) within days of ours and knowing in my gut that the one getting the column inches would be his. Sun, Loose Women, you name it he'll be there.... I suppose I could stop there with a cocked-eyebrow and a 'rant over'. But (a)My rant will continue! and (b) We're told by our publishers that there's a good chance our book will piggyback off his (some irony there, methinks) ... that people interested in a subject will buy more than one title..... and not forgetting that Martin and Marion developed the method and have not far short of 10,000 hours of one-on-one clinical experience with overweight people keen to learn from the GMB method; and that people with a modicum of brain will recognise that. So. I'll hoist my chin from the floor, beat my depression around the chops with a damp teatowel, KEEP CALM and CARRY ON REGARDLESS