It
is hardly surprising that many people who want to lose weight feel like they
are on some kind of merry-go-round. They
try diet after diet because most of these plans fail to address one simple,
basic factor – hunger. It is all very
well to say that if you only eat 1,000 calories per day that you will lose
weight, but how many people are going to be able to tolerate living like that
for very long? On top of that, many
people who are overweight are used to eating almost constantly, so any
interruption in what has become a normal activity will cause hunger cravings,
even if there is no actual reason to feel hungry.
Appetite
suppressants are designed to work by tricking your brain into believing that
you are full, so that you simply will not want to eat. When we eat, our bloodstream carries glucose
to all parts of our body, and it is the presence of a lot of glucose that tells
the brain that we are satiated and do not need to eat anything more for a
while. Of course, when the glucose has
been distributed to cells, tissues, and organs, the level in the blood will
drop. When glucose levels fall, a signal
is sent to the brain that activates what you might call the ‘appetite center’,
and this shouts out “Feed me!”
There
are several bodily chemicals that have a direct bearing on whether we feel
hungry or not, and these are serotonin and catecholamine. Both of these have a direct bearing on hunger
and appetite, and when levels of serotonin are low, cravings and hunger set
in. If the level of serotonin is
increased, it acts on neurotransmitters to tell the brain that there is no need
to eat again.
A
number of appetite suppressants are available either as prescription medication
or as over-the-counter supplements.
Prescription appetite suppressants are usually only meant for short term
use, and some of them carry potentially serious side effects, including the
possibility of addiction.
Appetite suppressants that you can purchase without a prescription will
usually be based on natural substances such as hoodia gordonii, green tea, or raspberry
ketones. Many of these products are
combined with caffeine or acai berry extract to assist in burning fat while
suppressing the appetite.
Part
of the way that appetite suppressants might be able to assist with your weight
loss will be that you will be retraining yourself not to eat as much. Breaking the habit of constantly putting food
into your mouth can be hard if you feel hungry, but if you feel full or not
hungry at all, this behavior has a good chance of being corrected.

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