Rejection and weight control go hand in hand. There are many levels and manifestations of social and personal rejection and they can all be a major reason for weight control problems.

Need for Rejection

How the phenomenon of rejection, especially the need for it, gets established at the subconscious level is too complicated and involved to go into here. (A statement like this is sometimes an indication that less is known about something than the writer cares to admit. In this case it is a little of both: there is a lot we just don't know about it, and what we do know is too much to go into here. After all, there has to be some reason why it takes all those years to get advanced degrees.)

Suffice it to say, some people's subconscious minds have a need for rejection and it has been discovered, or learned, by these subconscious minds that being overweight is a nicely effective way to get the needed rejection and have some fun, too (the eating).

Use ideomotor questioning to determine your own subconscious ideas about weight and health, and use inoculation suggestions to prevent other people's comments from robbing your weight loss program of its effectiveness.

Rejection as Excuse

Sometimes it is not a need for rejection itself that is the problem, but a need to explain social and personal rejection. Personality and character issues are usually involved when a person is regularly and systematically rejected. These, too, stem from subconscious dysfunctions, but they cause the rejection, not the overweight condition.

Being overweight is a way that the subconscious can explain away rejection. Otherwise, the conclusion might be that the person is just no good. But if overweight can be blamed for rejection, then it is as if the cause was something out of the control of the individual. (Keep in mind the logical limitation of the subconscious mind, which is that it functions only with deductive logic.)