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3 subconscious reasons dieting doesn't work

3 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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A short YouTube monologue by Jim Katsoulis outlining three subconscious reasons why dieting fails: (1) dieting is encoded as temporary by the subconscious with no maintenance plan; (2) dieting paradoxically focuses attention on the restricted foods (making them more salient); and (3) past diet failures create a subconscious association between dieting and failure, discouraging effort. The clip ends with a call-to-action to access a free hypnosis session and a video titled “three steps to master your weight.”

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Three mind blowing subconscious reasons dieting does not work. Number one, you think of it as a temporary thing. Your subconscious mind codes dieting as a temporary thing that you're going to do until you lose the weight and then you have no plan for how to maintain it. Number two is, ironically, it focuses you more on the food you're trying to eat less of. Let me prove it to you. If I tell you not to think about a banana, what are you thinking about? So every time you go on a diet, you're trying to not think about sugar, not think about sweets, but subconsciously you're focusing even more on those. And number three is that subconsciously you associate dieting with with failure. You have tried so many diets in your life that haven't worked or have worked and then not worked that you now associate dieting with failure. And your subconscious mind says, what's the point of even trying? So if you're tired of trying to diet to lose weight and are looking for a new way, click on the link in my bio, get the hypnosis session I give you, and watch the video I send you called three steps to master your weight. It's all free and it's going to help you to truly master your weight once and for all without ever having to diet.