Take 5htp For Weight Loss, & Raise Your Serotonin Levels

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Decrease Body Fat Using an Addiction Quiz

Do you want to lose weight, feel less anxious, and decrease your negative thinking? Then this information could be for you. You may not realize that you could feel so much better than you do now. Imagine being motivated enough to wake up happy and ready for whatever your day may hold. What would that be like for you? What favorite something would you do if you had more energy? And did you realize that negative worries or negative thoughts can drain your energy almost instantly? So how can you feel more positive and have fewer cravings so that you can attain weight loss while decreasing your body fat?

This could be the answer to your problem. Lets explore this answer and its many parts. In Europe, 5-HTP has been used for decades as an accepted treatment for weight loss, sleep problems, and depression. The research on 5-HTP and serotonin is expanding at an exciting rate that clinically shows it to be safe and a natural way to boost brain serotonin.

Low serotonin levels can cause people to experience apathy and cravings for large amounts of foods high in carbohydrates. There are two kinds of carbohydrates. One is simple carbohydrates like sugars and the foods high in carbs are candy, white flour products, pastries, and most processed cereals. The second kind is called complex carbohydrates such as whole grains, pasta, and starchy vegetables such as potatoes. Those people that have cravings will eat any form of carbs. But they prefer the simple sugars.
In extreme cases the carb cravings can become an addiction. This can lead to vicious eating cycling from low serotonin levels to overwhelming cravings, to bingeing, to the levels quickly falling and the cycle begins again.
See if you have an addiction to carbs.

Carbohydrate Addiction Quiz

Answer yes or no to the following
1._____I am overweight
2._____I crave bread, pasta, candy, cereal, and other rich carb foods.
3._____If I dont eat every two or three hours throughout the day, I feel irritable, tired, shaky, or develop a headache.
4._____I get tired and/or hungry by mid-afternoon.
5._____I begin eating starches, snack foods, or candy, I have a hard time stopping.
6._____My body fat is primarily distributed around my abdomen and upper body.
7._____I have one of the following health problems: high cholesterol, or high triglycerides, diabetes, high blood pressure, or hypoglycemia.
8._____I eat more when I am stressed or depressed or when I am traveling.
9._____I seem to gain more weight or have difficulty losing weight in the winter time.
10._____Even after I eat a good breakfast I get hungry before lunch.

Score
Number of yes answers Type of Carb. Addiction
8-10 Severe
5-7 Strong
2-4 Mild
0-1 None

Recommendations are if you are serious about losing weight, taking 5-HTP alone is not enough. For your success you have to commit to profound lifestyle changes. Yet 5-HTP can help.

Lets look at this study taken from the book 5-HTP by Michael T. Murray, N.D. An Italian study involved nineteen overweight women, with the typical woman being 54 and 170 to 235 pounds. The ideal weight for a 54 woman is 110 to 145 pounds. The researchers gave them approx. 200 mg three times a day or with meals. (This was a placebo-controlled crossover study.)
The results showed that the women who took the 5-HTP ate 1,100 fewer calories a day. They did nothing else to change their diets. These women would burn off one and pounds a week, six pounds a month and a huge 73 pounds in a year. Thats success.

So 5HTP could be your easy answer to a carb addiction that you may be aware of now that you have taken the carb addiction quiz. 5HTP can help you feel more positive, have fewer cravings, while dropping your body fat so that you can attain and maintain the weight loss you desire?


About the Author:
Kathleen Fuller, Ph.D.s work as a leading eating disorder expert, Licensed Counselor, and National Certified Hypnotherapist, has helped countless individuals find happiness that has eluded them.
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