Apple Cider Vinegar Fruit Fly Trap

If you are lazy like me(and my family) is about the deep cleaning of the kitchen/house, then you probably have dealt with fruit flies at one point or another. One of the times we had some, i looked up ways to get rid of them because using the fly strips just take so long. One of the ways i found was using apple cider vinegar.

In a bottle you aren't using, put just a little bit of dish soap in it then add some of the ACV. I don't think there's really any measurements needed, i've just put whatever amounts in and seems to be fine. Just don't fill it too much, the main picture in about half full but doesn't need to be that high up, you can put less in. Once that is in, tape a little paper funnel into it. From what i've read, fruit flies don't realize that an entrance can be an exit, so they shouldn't really just fly right back out.

I didn't get a picture to show how well that first one worked but we kept getting more from the bananas we kept getting so i had to make another one. here's a picture to show some of the ones we caught.

might need to click the picture to see it better.

I don't think there's a real quick way to get rid of them, but once you stop them from making more, i find that the ACV trap works really well if you are patient enough to play the waiting game.

If you don't have a bottle, other ways i've seen it done is putting the same mixture into a glass or bowl and using a rubber band to keep some plastic wrap around the top and just poke some holes into the plastic. I've never tried it that way, but people seem to say it works.

ACV Update

I tried the ACV (apple cider vinegar) drink testing. I did it for about a week with maybe just alittle less amount of the ACV that i planned to do.

First off, the taste. It was hard to drink at first, i tried it in just water first, then tried it as sort of like a tea. Those were okay, just a force chugging it to get through it. I then remembered reading that that a lot of people had it in apple juice. so i got some of that and made it a lot easier to drink.

I think i did notice that the drink helped with my allergies some and i didn't get heartburn the days i drank it.
Didn't really see much change in the acne or weight. I did only try it for a week, so maybe longer would of helped. But as for the weight, people were saying that they lost like 10 pounds after starting to drink it, they never say what else they changed. So leaves you wondering is it only from the ACV or did they actually start exercising and eating better? They never say. Well i kept my laziness and eating the same during my test week and i lost nothing. So i am left to believe that ACV only helps you if you eat better and exercise....though really, you can lose weight without the ACV if you do those.

I'm not going to completely put ACV off from the weight lose factor, but until i like do a test week of eating better and exercising without drinking it and then with to see if there's a difference.

I might still drink it sometimes to use up what i bought for the testing, but don't think i'll drink it a bunch every day like my test week was suppose to be.

I'm a bit bored of this topic because my findings aren't as exciting as i hoped lol. But i was wondering...

What is your experience with drinking ACV? what pros and cons do you find from drinking it?

My apple cider vinegar experiment: The befores

Don't remember exactly how i came across the benefits of apple cider vinegar,  but i like what i am seeing about it. Here's just one page i was looking at for things it says it does: http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-5875/15-Reasons-to-Use-Apple-Cider-Vinegar-Every-Day.html

I took a few pictures so that i can have some before pictures for this testing and also just because i want to lose weight anyways and i've gained weight since my last "before" pictures....haven't been good on the weight loss. at the end of this will be the pictures for my befores

What i was thinking i'd do is that i'll go by each benefit that it says it will help and write how i am on them to see if after a week there's any differences after just one week. I've seen people say that since they started that after a week they lost around 10 pounds or something. Well none of them have said how much of their life style they have changed, whether they started to eat better or exercise or just went as normal. Which my normal is pretty lazy.

There are uses that it can be used for that i'm not going to do, such as for your hair, i might try the toner at some point, but not this week. What i will be doing will be 2 teaspoons of it in a glass of water before each meal. I think some do more at once but i'm expecting the taste to be strong and until i experiment with how to make it, i think multiple times a day with smaller amounts might be easier. I am kind of expecting myself to just push myself through it to really try this without giving up.

I will try to remember to write a daily post about how the drinking it is going.

Here's my currents:

Weight:
current- 185 pounds.
What i hope for- If this really does help with weight loss, really anything lost would be amazing, if it does help, maybe it will get my butt going to keep up with losing weight.

Energy:
Current- Not a lot of energy. I think it's partly from weight too but i also haven't been sleeping well
What i hope for- It says that it helps with energy boosts, so i'm hoping that it actually does and makes it easier for me to get up in the morning. To help test this, i'm going to start waking up earlier than normal so that i'll be tired when i drink the first glass each morning.

Allergies:
Current: i have seasonal allergies that become a pain in spring and summer. I will get hit randomly with feeling extremely drowsy and runny nose and just not feeling up for anything.
What i hope for- i don't really know what to hope for on this. i think just as long as i don't get allergy hits as much or not at all besides the occasional sneezes then i will love that.

Poor memory/sugar craving:
Current- well i'm not sure on if this will really help it, but the page i linked above says that ACV helps clear out yeast from your body and that a build up of it can lead to poor memory and sugar craving, few other things but those two stood out for me. I have crap memory and forget little things all the time. And i'm always looking to snack on things which really is probably just searching for sugar.
What i hope for- well really any improvements would be great. not sure if i'll really be able to judge memory on just testing it for a week, but will see.

Number 2:
Current- This one is about the bathroom. since having my daughter, been having problems with going. The doctor said just more fiber would help, which it did seem to help but i don't eat enough all the time to help all the time. I will get bad cramps before needing to find a bathroom fast. it's not all the time, but i feel like dying when it happens.
What i hope for- if it really helps make you regular, then that will be amazing.

Acne:
current- I've been getting a bunch of stress pimples and ones just because of not always getting a chance to wash my face when i need to. Also got a bunch on my arms and back and chest. drinking ACV is suppose to help with getting rid of them, if i did the toner version too says it should help with scars.
What i hope for- just to get back to a fairly clear skin like i had a few months ago, i think it was a few months ago lol.


I think that's all on the befores, if i forgot anything i will write later...it's getting late and i'm tired lol.

Before i forget, here's my pictures and with my measurements, don't really expect any measurements to change in a week, but doing it also for just my knowledge. And if there's actual benefits i see from drinking this, then i will be drinking longer than just a week.

Might need to click the pictures if you really want to see the numbers. and sorry if you can't see them even after clicking lol. Just ask if really curious.

 these side shots are for weight loss but also to show the acne/scars i've gotten from stress pimples

 i look so bleh in these. i did the first one just to see once i get to my goal weight if i can even make a double chin like that lol. the other one is just be normal....i look so tired and droopy.


Those pictures just put me in a state of "i can't believe i let myself get here". Not going to go into my whole weight story, maybe if i reach my goal weight i will.

Anyways, i should be off to bed if i want to get up earlier than normal to start this little experiment :)