Anyway, I'm more prone, in this case, to try a folk remedy than products requiring slick advertising techniques. I have not bought into any loony weight-loss programs. It seems simple enough to stick with basic common sense. But an old wives' tale or two cannot hurt.
For this reason, I started taking apple cider vinegar as a supplement. I don't think it has really had a measurable effect on my weight loss, but I'm doing more than the vinegar. In actuality, I think the vinegar may be helping to keep my blood pressure down. (Of course being thirty five pounds lighter may have something to do with it too.)I bought a gallon jug of apple cider vinegar at Walmart. Then, I read on the Internet that rather than the filtered variety, it's a good idea to take from a bottle that has "mother". I even went so far as to buy a tiny bottle which supposedly had mother of vinegar at the local health food store. I figured I could mix it into the bottle. Unfortunately, there wasn't a noticeable mother, so it just made the vinegar slightly cloudy.
Then, a different bottle of regular, cooking vinegar in the other cupboard developed a slimy, gooey blob. Ah ha, mother by accident! I oozed it into my regular, supplemental vinegar bottle. The container is actually a Sri Lankan arrack liquor bottle which Jay's sister had decorated. The mother sits inside churning any remaining sugars into vinegar. Sometimes, if there's a little wine left over, I pour that in as well to give it something else to work on.
I put about 3 shot glasses from this bottle into my daily, 2-liters if iced green-tea in the refrigerator. I drink that much of the combination liquid daily. I'm not sure of its effectiveness but I'm sure it beats drinking diet Coke or some other manufactured sugar water.