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How You Can Successfully Lose Weight with the Keto Diet

The keto diet has gained popularity in recent years as a way to lose weight and improve health. As with any diet, it can be challenging to stick with long term and many people find it difficult to achieve their goals because of the restrictive nature of the keto diet. If you are considering trying this diet or are already doing so, it may be helpful to know what changes you can make to maximize your chances of success with the keto diet and how to maintain it in the long term.

Why Ketogenic Diets Work?

Ketogenic diets work by inducing a state of ketosis, which is a metabolic process that occurs when your body isn’t getting enough carbohydrates from food. When your body enters ketosis, it burns fat for energy instead of carbohydrates. In fact, studies show that those who adhere to ketogenic diets lose about four times more weight than those who follow low-fat diets.

What Are Macros, and Why They Matter?

Macros, short for macronutrients, are nutrients that your body needs to function properly. For example, carbohydrates are a macronutrient, because our bodies need them to provide energy. There are three main types of macro: carbohydrates, proteins and fats.

Setting Up Your Keto Diet

The keto diet is a very low-carb, moderate protein, and high-fat diet that causes your body to burn fat rather than carbs as its primary energy source. The aim of the keto diet is to force your body into ketosis, a state where you are able to burn fat for energy efficiently. Ketosis has been shown in studies to cause weight loss around two times more than other diets.

Staying on Track While Losing Weight

One of the most common mistakes people make while trying to lose weight is not sticking to their diet or exercise routine. This is one of the reasons why many people have difficulty losing weight. In order to avoid making this mistake, it is important that you set specific goals for yourself and create a plan for following them.

Common Misconceptions of Keto Diets

Keto diets have been gaining a lot of attention in recent years because they have been proven to be more effective in weight loss than other types of diets. However, there are still some misconceptions about keto diets that need to be addressed.

They are too hard to follow: This is definitely one of the most common misconceptions about keto diets, but this couldn’t be any further from the truth.
What Supplements Should I Take When Starting A Ketogenic Diet

The ketogenic diet is a low-carb, high-fat diet that forces your body to burn fats rather than carbohydrates for energy. This process produces ketones, which are substances that help in the production of energy. This can lead to many weight loss benefits such as better blood sugar control, reduced hunger and increased levels of energy. To make sure you are getting all of these benefits it is important to take supplements.

Macros, short for macronutrients, are nutrients that your body needs to function properly. For example, carbohydrates are a macronutrient, because our bodies need them to provide energy. There are three main types of macro: carbohydrates, proteins and fats.

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Mobile And Manufactured Home Loans And Financing For Seniors

I am a Professional Housing Consultant (P.H.C.) certified by the Manufactured Housing Association and have spent many years in the manufactured home industry as a sales representative /sales manager for retail sales centers. Because of my vast experience, I would like to share some financing tips with seniors like myself. Let me begin by going back about ten or fifteen years ago. The
manufactured home industry was booming. There were many finance companies available all of which were competing for your business. They would finance almost anyone at a high interest rate and with little or no down payment. The retailers would take almost anything and show it as a down payment and highly inflate the value. As a result this category of customer would have no investment in their home. To make matters even worse the communities were offering free lot rent for one year or more.Most of us in the industry knew what was going to happen. However, no one knew when
it would happen. It eventually came to pass in the ’90′s…….a large majority of these owners simply walked away and let their homes be repossessed by the finance companiesAs a net result of all these repossessions most of the finance companies either went bankrupt or stopped lending to any mobile or manufactured home owner. Many retailers also went out of business. I happened to work for the largest manufactured home retailer and manufacturer in the world at that time. They also had to file bankruptcy and ended up going out of business.Now let’s talk about the good part of the industry, seniors like you and me!Many of us secured our home investment by either paying cash or putting down a substantial down payment with the result being that most of us are enjoying our investment and our
lifestyles today.However, those unexpected bills or rising costs keep coming in. There are a number of seniors that have had to leave their comfortable homes and go live with their children.
Many have had to give up the activities they like to do. Some have lost a spouse and some income.Let me explain how I handled my situation as unexpected bills came in.FirstI located a finance company that wanted my business.This information is available at my websites listed at the bottom of this article.SecondI borrowed fifty thousand dollars on my home with payments amortized over thirty years with interest only payments for the first seven years.ThirdI paid off all my bills which amounted to about eight thousand dollars.FourthI opened an interest bearing savings account, depositing five thousand dollars. This cash would be readily available for any emergency that arose.FifthI put thirty-seven thousand into a high yield certificate of deposit.Now, for more good news………The finance companies, by law, cannot age discriminate just because you are a senior.I will be one hundred two years old when my mortgage ends.My out pocket expense is
no higher now than it was before I refinanced.You may go to any of my websites while still on line to see if financing or refinancing is right for you. This will direct you to the companies I recommend. There also is an excellent insurance contact on the site. I received three quotes from them and put my car and home owners insurance with the same company and therefore saved a substantial amount of dollars on the home insurance.These websites contain all the information you will need to make a wise decision.Free Finance or Refinance
QuoteFree loan or insurance Quote [http://www.homeowners-choice.com]

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What We Have Here Is A Failure To Communicate

The results of this past election proved once again that the Democrats had a golden opportunity to capitalize on the failings of the Trump Presidency but, fell short of a nation wide mandate. A mandate to seize the gauntlet of the progressive movement that Senator Sanders through down a little over four years ago. The opportunities were there from the very beginning even before this pandemic struck. In their failing to educate the public of the consequences of continued Congressional gridlock, conservatism, and what National Economic Reform’s Ten Articles of Confederation would do led to the results that are playing out today.. More Congressional gridlock, more conservatism and more suffering of millions of Americans are the direct consequences of the Democrats failure to communicate and educate the public. Educate the public that a progressive agenda is necessary to pull the United States out of this Pandemic, and restore this nations health and vitality.

It was the DNC’s intent in this election to only focus on the Trump Administration. They failed to grasp the urgency of the times. They also failed to communicate with the public about the dire conditions millions have been and still are facing even before the Pandemic. The billions of dollars funneled into campaign coffers should have been used to educate the voting public that creating a unified coalition would bring sweeping reforms that are so desperately needed. The reality of what transpired in a year and a half of political campaigning those billions of dollars only created more animosity and division polarizing one extreme over another.

One can remember back in 1992 Ross Perot used his own funds to go on national TV to educate the public on the dire ramifications of not addressing our national debt. That same approach should have been used during this election cycle. By using the medium of television to communicate and educate the public is the most effective way in communicating and educating the public. Had the Biden campaign and the DNC used their resources in this way the results we ae seeing today would have not created the potential for more gridlock in our government. The opportunity was there to educate the public of safety protocols during the siege of this pandemic and how National Economic Reform’s Ten Articles of Confederation provides the necessary progressive reforms that will propel the United States out of the abyss of debt and restore our economy. Restoring our economy so that every American will have the means and the availability of financial and economic security.

The failure of the Democratic party since 2016 has been recruiting a Presidential Candidate who many felt was questionable and more conservative signals that the results of today has not met with the desired results the Democratic party wanted. Then again? By not fully communicating and not educating the public on the merits of a unified progressive platform has left the United States transfixed in our greatest divides since the Civil War. This writers support of Senator Bernie Sanders is well documented. Since 2015 he has laid the groundwork for progressive reforms. He also has the foundations on which these reforms can deliver the goods as they say. But, what did the DNC do, they purposely went out of their way to engineer a candidate who was more in tune with the status-quo of the DNC. They failed to communicate to the public in educating all of us on the ways our lives would be better served with a progressive agenda that was the benchmark of Senators Sanders Presidential campaign and his Our Revolution movement. And this is way there is still really no progress in creating a less toxic environment in Washington and around the country.