The Apple Cider Vinegar Diet

As much as I want to lose weight, I try as much as possible to stay away from diet pills, chemicals, and medication. I also avoid fad diets which require me to starve myself, or remove important nutrients from my meals. But when I heard about the apple cider vinegar diet, it sounded different to me. Apple cider vinegar is all-natural, and contains no chemicals or pharmaceutical substances. And the diet doesnt require you to drastically change what you eat. All you have to do is take in 2 -3 tablespoons of pure apple cider vinegar before each meal. Then eat nutritious meals in reasonable portions, and dont forget to exercise. It sounded too easy to be true. So I had to try it.

On the first day of my apple cider vinegar diet, I hit my first roadblock. Apple cider vinegar tastes horrible! Before breakfast, I managed to choke back one tablespoon, but I could not bring myself to get the second one down. This was going to be a problem. I consulted some internet message boards, and discovered that different people do the apple cider vinegar diet differently. Some only take one tablespoon of vinegar. Some mix the apple cider vinegar with apple juice or water. Some add honey. Honey seemed like a bad idea (too many unnecessary added calories; Im on a diet here, right?). But the water seemed workable. I mixed the remaining two tablespoons of apple cider vinegar with sparkling water. It didnt taste great, but I got it all down.

By day three of my experiment, things were going well. I had gotten into a groove with my vinegar diet. I had already grown accustomed to taking a glass of sparkling water mixed with three tablespoons of vinegar before each meal. I was even getting used to the unpleasant taste, which I hardly noticed anymore. Was I losing weight? Not that I could tell, at least not yet.

By the end of the week I started to notice a real difference. I was leaving food on my plate, something Id rarely ever done before. And the scale showed the difference; I had lost four pounds on this vinegar diet!

So, is the apple cider vinegar diet the answer to all our dieting prayers? Unfortunately, the answer is not so simple. When something seems too easy to be true, it probably is. Nobody would be overweight if all they had to do was stomach a few tablespoons of apple cider vinegar before each meal. So I do not believe the claims that the vinegar speeds up a persons metabolism or increases your fat burning.

No, nothing is ever quite that easy in life. But the truth of the apple cider vinegar diet is that it did dull my appetite and caused me to eat a bit less. However, Im pretty sure that drinking a glass of carbonated water before each meal is responsible for that effect. The vinegar, I think, just added unnecessary amounts of acid to my system. Its a good thing I dont get heartburn.