What does the subconscious mind have to do with losing weight?
In a word, everything. Psychologically speaking, your subconscious mind stores all memories you’ve experienced with your 5 senses as a sequence of images in your mind. It stores the emotion of each memory within itself, and produces automatic physical and emotional reactions when either the memory arises, or an experience similar to a past one presents itself. In many cases with one that’s overweight, old memories of events experienced today will trigger these automatic reactions to compel one to eat when not hungry, and commit acts of self sabotage without knowing why. In a more physical sense, your subconscious mind controls many of your body’s automatic systems. Systems such as your cardiovascular, digestive, pulmonary, nervous, and immune systems to name a few. It controls your metabolism as well. When your subconscious mind is programmed against losing weight, it will automatically recruit the support of all systems in your body to act together to make weight gain, or the lack of
