Oh, yes! Definitely a die-off reaction!

 Do you know how to tell? Well, you see, I was feeling all uber headachy and oh so tired. Then, I ate a very purposeful piece of chocolate, deep and dark with some peanut butter for added loveliness, and, a wee short time later, I feel oodles less headachy.
  Yes, really, that is how you tell. If I had the flu or a bad cold, then eating the chocolate would not have helped. The reason it did alleviate the symptoms is that the same bacterium that is being killed by the acv happens to thrive on sugar, among other things. So, by ingesting the sugar, I lessened their dying off, therefore lessened the die-off reaction.
  It is not a good thing, in the respect that the quick they die, the quicker I shall be rid of them; but, it is valuable knowledge to have, in case one is in the midst of a die-off reaction and one is suddenly called to work, court, the hospital due to a familial accident or some other thing that cannot be put off and which one needs to be highly functional for.
  Right now, it is also simply valuable knowledge, since it leads to the other valuable knowledge that it is doing me some good, this apple cider vinegar, and of that I am glad.
  I felt it was, as my sense of smell has cleared up quite a bit and when I can smell things better then I know that my allergies are affecting me less. This is all to the good, for the obvious reasons that allergies make one feel all huffety; but, also, as I mentioned near the beginning of this book, persons who are overweight tend to enjoy food less and aroma has a great deal to do with the enjoyment of food.
  Right now, I am not enjoying the odors of me, as I do not have a working hot water heater and I have not bathed properly yesterday or today; nor, am I enjoying the smell of the garbage can, in the kitchen, which needs to be taken out. I am, however, enjoying the fact that I can smell that things need improving around here.
  First you smell it, then you know where it has all gone wrong, then you fix it. Yes? Yes.
  I took my stew and added some canned alleged spaghetti sauce to it, and a can of some ravioli soup by Monsieur Wolfgang Puck, as well as first sauteing some chopped onions, yellow squash and mushrooms in a little olive oil and garlic powder and basil to which the stew, etc. was added. Oh, and some spaghetti noodles were thrown in, for good measure.
  It's not wonderful, but, it is okay and instead of wasting a bowl of stew, I made two large bowls of a pasta dish. Had one for lunch, I guess you'd call it, and the other one is back in the refrigerator for later tonight or tomorrow.