Fat/Weight Loss…Confronting the Monster in the Subconscious
- Jake James Vanek
- 4 days ago
- 3 min read
Fat/Weight Loss...an act, speaking from experience, strikes fear in the Mind/Body with a daunting task that seems impossible for a mere mortal to complete. However! Speaking from my experience once again...it is absolutely possible!

Oh lord. The above picture was taken during my senior year of college back in 2012-2013. I wrote many times about my weight loss journey. How I was an obese child, got fit during high school, then gained it all back while in college (plus more).
I graduated college in 2013 and then I made the decision to remember everything I learned from my teenage years, implement them, and then confront that which influenced my present-day Thought-Emotion-Action Loops aka my Subconscious.
The Act of Losing Fat/Weight is easy. It is a formula. It is an equation. 1+1=2. But the Difficulty of Fat/Weight Loss is the Mind and the Emotions all layered with our Subconscious.
I think we can all agree that Food is comforting. We can all go through our list of comfort foods. We can all pretty much recognize the foods that are "unhealthy" and "bad". I put those in quotes because...I love to eat some "unhealthy/bad" foods on occassion! Processed Foods. Sugar. All that jazz.
We know this. The Logic Mind is almost...completely twisted and formed into a menace to society and must be cast away out of the tribe. This is because it is those Deep Wounds...those Layered Wounds over Years of cancerous growth...those Illusions of the Mind created which have us reliving the pain of yesteryear...those Emotions that plug us into an alternate reality.
My childhood weight gain and college-age weight gain were different, but similar. Childhood...being bullied, self-loathing, the traps of snack foods and lack of nutrition/exercise education, and the loss of my mother all contributed to obesity developing and taking concrete form. College-age was...alcohol and cannabis, not accepting my gay-ness, feeling depressed without any direction in life, abandonment feeling from life and "God", and still all the unprocessed Subconscious Networking from my childhood and also unprocessed grief.
Childhood into Teenage years were what they were. I could go in many different directions to describe that time and my present-day emotion-mental patterns would color how I view that time. Same for my College years. They were what they were.
I used to create videos on my now-dead-YouTube-channel about weight loss and the Fear of it all since you have to Confront the Monster. You need to Battle the Monster. You need to...Confront yourself. To accept accountability for your present-day physicality and then be curious enough to learn why you continue the negative habits even when you are very well aware of the harm it is doing to your body.
You know...I can only say that you can change. That you can Battle the Monster. Asking for help was crucial for me when I was 15. I asked for help and Higher Mind led me to an exercise physiologist which changed my life. Then...well, college was just a mess. I still have nightmares about that time. But! I graduated and acknowledge what was and that I could change the circumstances.
I'm not here to tell you the magic formula. Fat/Weight Loss is easy since Calories In vs Calories Out. You could try many different diet fads and exercise trends, but you'll gain all the weight back when you're triggered by something which unleashes your unhealed wounds within your Subconscious and then one day off of your diet/routine leads to a week then leads to a month and even a year. I personally enjoy a plant-based lifestyle and I only have positives, but I'm going to eliminate my own bias.
Battling the Monster...Why are you doing what you're doing? Why are you harming yourself with your negative habits and negative choices? What is lying within the Shadows and is secretly controlling your life from your Subconscious?
When you're ready to confront the Monster then you'll make lasting, positive change. You will not desire nor crave the same foods or even the same choices which you previously did when the Monster was controlling your life.
Everyone can do this Mind/Body Transformation. It is not reserved for the special few. However, it takes a lot of Courage, Strength, Initiative, and Desire to dive into your Subconscious, Know Thyself, and realize that you have the power to Create a new life.