You will absolutely lose weight when you are more healthy. Please do not make that a priority now. Your body is struggling and it needs all the nutrition it wants. Eat plenty of good food.

The ACV sounds like it might be causing a detox reaction.

When you feel a little better in a couple of weeks, maybe you can pick one of the anti-tick ideas we have collected and implement it. Like getting someone to mow. Just one step at a time. You will make the situation better. Are your neighbors saying this is a particularly bad year for ticks? I’m having a “fly” year. If I open my front door, they are lurking there, and half a dozen try to fly in. Bizarre.