Dr Berg said that if you drink two ounces of apple cider vinegar every day you're gonna
lose two to four pounds of fat off your body and i thought to myself i've got to try this
and you might be wondering why would violet want to try this
she's at goal weight well it's because this was the thumbnail that's visceral fat
i have a confession to make although i'm at goal and i've been at goal for three and a half years
i still have my insecurities i have still have parts of my body that i'm not comfortable with
one of them being my tummy i still have to think when i get dressed about what i'm going to wear
so i dress to suit my body type which is a smart thing to do and it means that nine times out of
ten when i get up get dressed and leave the house i feel absolutely fine and i love the way i look
but there's that one time in ten where i wanna wear something maybe a little more
form-fitting and then i'm uncomfortable first can i say how hard that is for me to acknowledge
we all have things about ourselves that we don't like but we don't talk about it
and yet here i am talking about it so when Dr Berg said that drinking apple cider vinegar
could help me address this pain point in my life i was more than happy to commit 12 weeks
of my life to eliminate visceral fat from my body here's even better part of the story apparently
apple cider vinegar tastes horrible so Dr Berg suggested that we mix apple cider vinegar one
ounce with eight ounces of water the juice from one freshly squeezed lemon either stevia drops or
his electrolyte powder that has stevia in it mix it together and then he figured you could
slug it down because apparently it would taste like lemonade but still i would need to slug it
down so just gave me this feeling it wasn't going to taste great even in this concoction well guess
what i didn't want to do the juice of one lemon because that's 3.2 grams of carbs and i only eat
10 grams of carbs ish per day so that's taking out a significant that's taking out 32 of the carbs
i can eat per day and if i felt like having some veg i wouldn't be able to eat my normal amount so
what i decided to do which is check it out and see what happens if i just put apple cider vinegar in
water and what i figured out is that if i put 12 ounces of water one ounce of apple cider vinegar
and a bunch of ice in a glass i was able to drink it no problem it tasted actually good to me which
i guess is one of the benefits of eating keto for the last four years my tastes have changed
so i was drinking a glass of apple cider vinegar water first thing in the morning and then a glass
of apple cider vinegar water before supper in the evening or with supper in the evening
about three weeks into drinking two glasses apple cider vinegar every day i started to notice
that my knees were sore not what i was looking for around the same time Dr Ekberg put out a
video talking about the difference between apple cider vinegar and kombucha for our health and you
know the the active ingredients in either one really great video you should watch it
in that video he mentioned that in kombucha there can still be significant amount of sugar
and there could be significant amounts of alcohol which got me thinking
is it possible that there's alcohol or sugar in the apple cider vinegar that i was drinking
so i purchased a refractometer but that he mentioned in the video
and i measured the apple cider vinegar that i was using and sure enough i saw that there was
a little bit of alcohol and a little bit of sugar readings being like being shown
i changed to the more popular brand of apple cider vinegar that most people use so the Bragg brand
in my refractometer i still saw a little bit of numbers but i decided to go forward
with the Bragg since it had much better number showing than the one that i was using previously
you might be wondering when i started to experience pain why didn't i just stop doing
the challenge and it was because first of all when i started to do keto i lived through withdrawal
so there was a part of me that just wondered is this just my body getting used to what i'm doing
and maybe that little bit of sugar that was there was enough to like mess with me
and maybe there's something else in the outside of your anger that i don't even
know that could be messing with me but i just thought is it possible that i just need to
let my body get used to it and then see what results i get so i pushed forward
by the six week mark i started to notice that my back was hurting me my shoulders were hurting me
and my elbow was starting to hurt me and again i'm questioning wow do i keep moving forward with this
this is not feeling great fast forward to today my back my shoulders my knees my elbow my neck
all my joints that used to hurt me before are hurting me and it's interesting because you're
seeing me move around right i'm really good at this i'm really good at looking like i'm okay when
i'm not okay i've done it for 20 something years and it didn't take me long to get back into the
swing of just like walking through the world like if everything was all right even though it wasn't
but do i feel great right now no i don't so the pain in my joints didn't subside did i lose any
weight no i'm actually stable i remain stable the entire 12 weeks what i did notice is that
i was urinating a lot every two-ish hours i was in the bathroom had to pee had to pee had to pee
which made it very difficult at night because i was getting up at least twice per night to go pee
what am i getting out of this so i i want to point out that for those of you who are meeting me for
the first time i've been keto for four years occasionally i have carnivore days which means
those are days where i don't eat any vegetation i did live carnivore for two months at one point
i eat the same four or five meals in rotation all the time and i did the same during this
12-week period my life has been stable with the exception of i've added this drink
i'm pretty confident in saying that the change that happened was because i added this drink now
i'm gonna know more about that in the coming weeks as i'm gonna stop drinking it because i didn't get
the results i wanted anyway and i will see how long it takes me to get back to my normal feeling
and i will see what happens with the pain that i'm living right now and i'll report
back to you guys on that but my takeaway from doing this challenge is that the initial
experiment that Dr Berg was reporting on was 175 Japanese participants who started off obese
by the end of 12 weeks after drinking apple cider vinegar i'm not exactly sure in that experiment
how the apple cider vinegar was delivered to them they lost somewhere between two and four
pounds of fat visceral subcutaneous their waist to hip ratio improved their triglycerides and
cholesterol improved just generally they were in better health after 12 weeks
and the takeaway that i have from this is i started this challenge at my goal weight
already eating a healthy diet if i'm Japanese and i'm obese there's a possibility i'm not
eating a healthy diet if you're obese adding the apple cider vinegar may have more impact and more
positive outcome for you because you are obese and you have a lot of weight to lose versus myself
i'm at goal versus myself i'm already eating healthy i feel like maybe i wasn't the right
candidate for this scenario to give me any kind of benefit physically it did give me a benefit
psychologically and emotionally what this helped me to see is that i still have insecurities
about my body it helped me to see that i want to solve this area of my body
it also helped me to see that maybe this isn't visceral fat that's a possibility maybe i just
don't maybe this is something else and so that takes me to this other idea of could it be
that i have tissue and things that need to be solved that are not visceral fat
a question mark that i will need to do more investigation on to figure out my goal is
to be honest with myself and to actually address the things that do cause me to feel yeah insecure
again hard to acknowledge when i figure it out i'm going to share that with you until
that video though you can watch this video here where i did figure out how to manage
the visceral fat that i had and it's going to help you to manage your visceral fat if you have any
click on the video and i'm going to meet you over there