Limiting Beliefs of Excess Weight

About the deck

A deck about the inner voice that explains, every single time, why today is not the day to start.

The deck holds 128 metaphorical associative cards that gather the most common and the deepest limiting beliefs about excess weight.

The cards carry hidden payoffs, fears, disbelief, attitudes and patterns of behavior and thinking, that is, everything that blocks a normal, healthy way of living mentally, physically and instinctively.

There is an observation that fat has a “mind” of its own: the moment we try to fight it, a voice sounds inside that puts out every impulse toward slimness and a healthy way of living. Because of that voice a person breaks down, overeats, avoids movement and stays exactly where they were.

In work with this deck the task is first to hear how that voice speaks, so that at the very least you do not argue with it, and at best you give it the calm answer of slimness.

The deck can be used as a diagnostic, clarifying, deepening, transformational and supporting tool in counseling, coaching and psychological transformation games.

With the “Limiting Beliefs of Excess Weight” deck you can

• see the main beliefs and the resistance that keep you from losing weight
• understand what is blocked and on which level: in thought, in feeling, in the body
• learn your own hidden payoffs, the ones that keep a person at the same weight
• understand what really happens in the mind and in the body during an attempt to lose weight
• hear the inner voice word for word instead of as a vague sensation
• understand who planted these beliefs and what a person lives with without suspecting the harm
• meet your deepest fears and complexes about the body
• see your psychological defenses around food and appearance
• make out the standing behavior scripts that have been repeating for years
• give the inner voice a calm adult answer instead of fighting it

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 belief is worked through well in a single session.

1. Which beliefs keep me from losing weight?
2. Which deep beliefs have long kept me from living a healthy life?
3. What am I unaware of that is sabotaging my weight loss?
4. Which fears sit inside me around losing weight?
5. Which hidden payoffs do I get from doing nothing?
6. Which beliefs that are not mine are slowing me down?
7. What do I really lose if I become slim?
8. What is my weight protecting me from?
9. Which belief appeared before all the others?
10. What do I forbid myself while I live in this body?
11. In what voice does my inner sabotage speak to me?
12. What do I need to believe for the road to become possible?

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 →