Anchors of Excess Weight

About the deck

A deck about what holds a person in excess weight when they seem to know everything and do everything.

The deck holds 128 metaphorical associative cards that gather psychological and behavioral anchors: habits as well as limiting beliefs.

An anchor is what keeps weight in place regardless of diet and exercise. A person can know everything about nutrition and still return to the same number for years, because the weight is doing some job for them that they do not suspect.

The cards show the reasons excess weight appears, the reasons it does not go away, and the reasons that hold a person in this state.

The deck can be used as a diagnostic, clarifying, deepening and supporting tool in counseling, coaching and psychological transformation games, and it is the core deck of the transformation game “Steps to Slimness”.

With the “Anchors of Excess Weight” deck you can

• see the real reasons excess weight appeared
• understand why the weight stays even with good nutrition and exercise
• see exactly how a person sabotages their own weight loss
• find the hidden payoff of the weight, the job it is doing
• tell a psychological anchor from a behavioral habit, because they are released differently
• understand what has to go before the self-sabotage stops
• see which anchors came from the family and never belonged to the person at all
• notice where food stands in for rest, protection, closeness or the right to say no
• understand what to work on first and what is still too early to touch
• release anchors layer by layer, until a person is free of every restriction

Questions to ask the deck

Work starts from these questions. Choose one, the one that speaks to you more strongly than the rest, and work with it, because only one anchor comes off well in a single session.

1. What is this anchor and how does it relate to me?
2. How long has it been in my life?
3. How exactly does it keep me from losing weight?
4. How do I hold on to this anchor, and why?
5. What do I gain by keeping it?
6. Is it more of a burden, or is it protecting me from something more serious?
7. If it is protecting me, what could replace that protection?
8. What will I do instead of dragging this anchor around?
9. Which anchor appeared before all the others?
10. What in my life will change once the weight is gone?
11. Whose anchor is this really, mine or the family’s?
12. Which first three actions will lock in my new behavior?

The whole series

“Steps to Slimness” is 4 decks that work as a single system: the anchors that hold the weight, the steps toward the goal, the deep beliefs and the affirmations for a new life.

See the whole series →