Vinnie Tortorich

Fitness Confidential Podcast

Calorie Restriction and Fitbits

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 585 – Listener Mary scolds Vinnie about his Fitbit rant and asks about the high-carb low-fat calorie restriction diet her oncologist recommended.

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MARY HANDLER

  • Long time listener
  • Had a nice chest, but unfortunately was diagnosed with breast cancer and had her breasts removed
    • Is doing well now!
  • Mexican, her family has been her for many generations

FITBIT RANT

  • Mary LOVES her Fitbit and thinks Vinnie was a bit out of hand with his rant
  • Vinnie agrees that if a fitbit motivates you, as long as you aren’t a slave to it, it can be a GREAT tool!
    • Vinnie just doesn’t think it is healthy to become a slave to it
    • Otherwise, go for it!

CALORIE RESTRICTION

  • She is NSNG and does quite well on it
  • In 2010, her oncologist’s office had a diet plan that restricted calories
  • Only 1200 calories a day
    • Really not healthy or long-term sustainable

 

 

 

Eating a Nutrient-Dense Diet

by Vinnie Tortorich

Episode 584 ; Dr. Colin Champ joins Vinnie on this Friday show to discuss paleo and the benefits of eating a nutrient-dense diet.

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DR. COLIN CHAMP

  • Check out his website here
    • He is the “Caveman Doctor”
  • There is a reason we evolved eating the way we did
  • Will sometimes eat dairy and drink wine
  • A real doctor!!!
  • Has lots of degrees

PALEO AND NUTRIENT-DENSE DIET

  • Clearly, this diet does not work for vegans and vegetarians
  • Dr. Champ believes that this is the healthiest diet, and therefore he supports it whole-heartedly
  • High protein, high fat, no processed food
  • Dairy isn’t technically paleo but it still works for some people

Healthy Weight Loss

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 583 – Andy Schreiber joins Vinnie to discuss healthy weight loss, kind bars, and PVC Vitamins!

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LISTENER MATTHEW & HEALTHY WEIGHT LOSS

  • Says he only eats one meal a day
    • Says he eats whatever he wants in that meal
    • Has taken him 3 years to lose 50 lbs
  • This is not a HEALTHY way to lose weight, and is so hard to maintain
  • Long-haul trucker — hard to lose weight
    • It is great to lose a lot of weight, but it is not great to do it calorie in/calorie out
      • He likely has fatty-liver or metabolic syndrome
  • Matthew, get in touch with us!

KIND BAR

  • Point blank, they are full of grain and sugar
  • It is junk food
  • Ingredients: “non GMO” glucose, pea crisp, other unhealthy stuff are some of the top ingredients

VITAMIN E IN PVC

  • There is NO synthetic Vitamin E in our vitamins
  • Derived from edible vegetable oils
  • We made the best and healthiest decisions
  • Magnesium can help with good sleep

Hunger Control with Dr. Cate Shanahan – Episode 582

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 582 – Dr. Cate Shanahan (http://drcate.com/) joins Vinnie and Anna to talk about nutrition, fat loss and hunger control. She also explains the truth about good fats and bad fats. Dr. Cate is a board certified Family Physician and is a nutritional consultant for the LA Lakers. Anna and Vinnie also answer questions from Twitter (@VinnieTortorich and @AnnaVocino) about stevia, ketchup and more.

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PEANUT BUTTER AND QUINOA

  • Fuck Quinoa
  • Peanut butter is not the best butter
    • Cashew and Almond are better
    • Peanut is a little higher in carbs
    • Nut butters are carby, but they’re good in moderation!

DIET SOFT DRINKS

  • Diet soft drinks with chemicals are treated by your body just like sugar
    • Artificial sugar is just as bad as real sugar
  • La Croix is okay
  • What is better is (soda) water with some lemon or lime, or even muddle berries or a splash of grapefruit juice

ANNA’S RECIPES

VINNIE’S FOOD 

  • An avocado with some olive oil
  • Veggie puree soup with chicken stock
  • Good to slow cook your own chicken to get your own broth… yummy!
  • Maybe a little bit of cheese, has a hard boiled egg now and again (on a plane)
    • Plane food generally quite bad

DR. CATE SHANAHAN

  • A real, quality doctor!
  • Here’s her website 
  • Helps those with metabolic syndrome to get their metabolism up and running better

HUNGER CONTROL

  • Cate believes low carb diets are very beneficial
  • Try to avoid empty calories, but don’t worry about calorie counting
  • Avoid rapid carb drop off if you have thyroid problems, etc.
  • Believes in IM fasting in moderation IF AND ONLY IF it works for you
    • It can allow you to miss lunch if you are eating the right stuff, but even for those in ketosis this does not necesarrily work
  • Eat your foods and veggies and proteins and fats in moderation and balance with each other
  • Check all your levels including electrolytes, etc. if you are trying to lose a lot of weight
  • People are hungry all the time because their metabolisms are damaged by bad diets
  • Pituitary inflammation can make you hungry

What to Do About a Sugar Hangover

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 581 – Listener Jennifer asks Vinnie what happened when she had a serious sugar hangover after putting a little life into living. She has been very successful with her transition to NSNG and wanted to know why she felt so poorly the day after a little cake and fried chicken…

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LISTENER JENNIFER

  • Lives in Boston, MA
  • Italian heritage (therefore she and Vinnie hit it off right away)
  • Has always been a relatively healthy eater, then before she started down NSNG she had a phase of eating LOTS of sugar
    • when she was drinking
      • She used to be a daily wine drinker (over 7 months ago)
  • Lifts 4 days a week (& spins)
  • Has been NSNG for a few months
    • Found it through Dr. Drew
  • Sometimes, Jennifer likes to put LIL
    • Cake & fried chicken at a b-day party
      • Felt really horrible the next day

WHAT TO DO ABOUT A SUGAR HANGOVER

  • Jennifer felt like she had the flu the day after eating sugar
  • Sugar is addicting and poisoning
    • You feel awful from the poison and you feel the withdrawal from the sugar, too
  • Try to make sure you don’t have a cheat day or even an entire cheat meal
  • Salt is helpful and good proteins
  • Don’t use sugar to get rid of your hangover — easy to get in that cycle

 

Barefoot Running

by Vinnie Tortorich

Episode 580 : Lee Saxby joins Vinnie in this 1 on 1 edition of the Celebrity Fitness trainer podcast to discuss the art of injury-free barefoot running, and how everyone is born to run.

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LEE SAXBY

BAREFOOT RUNNING

  • Jogging book from the 70s
    • Jogging is the same thing as race-walking
    • When you are barefoot, your brain KNOWS when to break into a run due to force
      • When you have rubber (heel) under your foot, your body doesn’t know when to run vs. jog, which can hurt you
  • Lee’s epiphany came in the year 2000, in Kenya
    • He saw lots of kids running barefoot and he saw how everyone had the same running technique
      • Biomechanically, running barefoot forced them to
        • Lower impact for them!
        • The best runners come out of East Africa, so there Lee saw a correlation
  • Lee saw that there was a definite difference in running depending on where they ran (endurance running)
    • Forefoot on hard ground
    • Heel-strike on grass
    • They didn’t realize what they were doing — instincts and biomechanics kicked in
  • Your foot is constantly trying to find the ground — it cannot do that if you have tennis shoes on
  • Lee will film people with shoes vs no shoes
    • The more padding in the shoe, the longer their feet stick to the ground
      • This is an issue and can cause extra strain

CORRECTING A BAD RUNNER

  • Many people never heel-strike which causes lots of pain to achilles and other tendons
  • Lee tries to educate people simply
    • Educating trainers to what good running looks like
      • To do this he has a certification program

BORN TO RUN

  • People looked at Chris McDougall’s book as a bible which wasn’t the best idea
  • Both do love the book, though
  • McDougall had plantar fasciitis in 2010 and Lee Saxby helped fix that by changing his running style
    • Those toe-shoes are not the cure-all, good running technique is
    • Both Vinnie and Lee owned these Vibrum’s before realizing they weren’t the right move
    • The 5 finger can hurt those with broad feet, cause knee injuries, etc
    • They were more of a fashion statement than a functional shoe
    • Vinnie had issues with them on long runs
    • Your running style has to be good for these to work
    • You’re better off going actually barefoot if you are able