Vinnie Tortorich

Fitness Confidential Podcast

What Really Causes Obesity with Dr. Jason Fung

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 560 – Dr. Jason Fung (www.intensivedietarymanagement.com) again joins host Vinnie Tortorich, back by popular demand! The two discuss leptin, cholesterol and heart disease, and cortisol and insulin in relation to obesity on this Friday edition of the Celebrity Fitness Trainer podcast.

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HEART DISEASE & CHOLESTEROL

  • Listener Todd
    • Had serum cholesterol go up, but triglycerides go way down from high fat diet
      • If you eat cholesterol it DOES NOT make your cholesterol go up
      • Eating fat DOES NOT turn into increase in cholesterol
      • If you eat a high fat diet, both bad AND good cholesterol goes up, but triglycerides go down, so it ends up being neutral
  • Cholesterol does not equal heart disease

DR. JASON FUNG & THE OBESITY CODE

  • Dr. Jason Fung’s new book
  • It is about what really makes people fat
  • How did we all decide at the same time that we would all eat more?
    • We DIDN’T, therefore CALORIES are NOT what is causing obesity!!!
  • We are programmed NOT to eat too many calories (Leptin)
  • If calories were the issue, then restricting calories would not make you feel bad and would allow you to shed the weight
    • That is not true
  • You have to figure out what is adjusting your own personal ‘thermostat’, and bring it down
    • Cortisol levels skyrocketing (due to stress, sleep deprivation, etc) can help obesity along
      • If stress and sleep deprivation is what is causing it, you have to change your lifestyle because diet won’t work if that is the case
  • Obesity is not a caloric imbalance, it is a hormonal imbalance
    • Both with insulin and with cortisol (two big factors)
    • Beer belly type fat is usually cortisol, where overall fatness is usually insulin
      • HUGE role with metabolizing glucose
  • Obesity is a multifactorial disease
  • Lypodystrophy
    • Super rare condition that causes dystrophy (breakdown) of adipose tissue

LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS

  • When you address proximate cause, it does nothing, must treat the ACTUAL cause
  • When you reduce your calories, you have to burn more than you lose to burn fat, you can’t just address the proximate cause which is reducing the calories 

Life Into Living Without a Cheat Day

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 557 – Life Into Living and Cheat Days. Calie Durant joins Vinnie Tortorich to discuss staying with NSNG, “life into living”, and how one’s weight can change over the years on the Saturday listener edition of the Celebrity Fitness Trainer podcast.

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CALIE AND LIFE INTO LIVING

  • She is nearly 40, 5’6″, around 140 lbs
    • This is the heaviest she has been in her life
    • Until 5 or 6 years ago, she could eat whatever she wanted without worrying
  • Used to eat bagels, sandwiches, pasta, white flour, chocolate
  • Now that she is on NSNG, she has eggs and spinach for breakfast, salad for lunch, dinner is some type of veg & protein
  • She thinks it is hard to stick to this diet so strictly
    • Life happens and it makes it hard!
    • Vinnie doesn’t want this to be super extreme
      • That being said, allowing “cheat days” is not the way to go
        • You can put LIL occasionally, but not have a whole day of doing whatever you want
  • Try to have 21 or so stricter days, to get your body on this lifestyle so that when you do put LIL, your body can handle it better
    • The first 3 weeks are hard and you have to want it
    • It really does get easier, though
    • Cut out her normal wine or beer for a spirit instead for 21 days — that will make a difference
  • Her cravings for chocolate started to disappear!
  • You can’t keep going back and forth on NSNG — must impede the progress in the negative direction
    • You can’t get “a little bit pregnant”, same type of deal!

Building Chest Muscle & Quitting Sugar

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 554 – Vinnie Tortorich and Anna Vocino discuss building chest muscle, quitting sugar and putting life into living on this Monday edition of the Celebrity Fitness Trainer podcast.

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SUPER BOWL SUNDAY

  • Anna watched, half time show was disappointing, so was 3rd quarter, so she went to the gym instead of watching the 4th quarter
  • Vinnie watched at a neighbor’s for the first quarter
    • Neighbors’ kids ride motorbikes and play football, reminds Vinnie
  • Then Vinnie went to Hancock park to his friend’s house who is in bad shape
    • Watched the rest of the game in his in-home theater
      • Like being at the game!
    • Some of these in-home theaters have movie snacks and everything
    • Hard to watch the game when his friend is sick

AMAZON WINNER

  • Winner this week is Rebecca Palson
    • USB Desktop Charger with Intelligent Technology
    • Nylon Waterproof portable accessories organizer cosmetics purse
  • Rebecca is a TRUE super fan, has phone-called
    • Has lost well over 100 lbs
    • Came to LA
    • Go Rebecca!
    • Schoolteacher
    • Friends with the Lorey’s!
    • Saturday podcast with her will be coming up in the future

BUILDING CHEST MUSCLE

  • Do not do EVERY exercise in one day
  • How to choose how to build your chest:
    • If you’re not trying to become a bodybuilder, at the very most pick 3 exercises per workout that focus on Chest
    • Ex: bench press, incline, decline, dips, dumbbell press, flat fly, incline fly, decline fly, pushups
  • Hit it and quit it — your body can only handle so much
  • Start with major exercise, then do two minor exercises
  • Also, make sure you are warmed up with a light weight exercise first (this does not count as 1 of your 3 exercises)
  • How much weight (8-9 sets of press)
    • Reps: 12-15 is good, you want to be hurting at rep 12 (weight wise) and wondering if you can get to 15
    • If you are doing 8 reps, you want to be ‘struggling’ at rep 6
  • Free weights make sure someone is spotting you
  • Don’t overwork triceps either (tricep extensions)
  • More is not necessarily better

QUITTING SUGAR

  • If you aren’t going to quit grain, your liver doesn’t know that you quit sugar
  • It might help quitting just sugar, but not ever really effective until you quit both

PUTTING LIFE INTO LIVING

  • You can enjoy sugar or grain every once in awhile, just don’t go crazy and don’t make it a habit, then it is a slippery slope
  • Vinnie has done 2 years of NLIL and hasn’t found ways around it
    • He never told himself lies and ate agave or fake sugars or anything like that
    • If you want to do NLIL, don’t lie to yourself — your liver won’t believe you!

Building Muscle & Weight Training

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 553 – Trey Beauchamp, active Facebook group member and a huge supporter of the show, joins Vinnie Tortorich to talk about building muscle and weight training this Saturday on the Celebrity Fitness Trainer podcast.

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TREY BEAUCHAMP

  • Pronounced “Beachem”
  • Works on the road
  • Brother of the infamous Lonnie
  • Dating and getting serious with a girl from the Facebook group ;)
    • Katie Miskell!!!

BUILDING MUSCLE: DOES NSNG ELIMINATE THE NEED TO BULK AND CUT?

  • The idea that you have to “bulk and cut” is just bro science
    • Regardless, to unhealthily “bulk”, you need to carbo load, and to cut, you drop carbs unhealthily
      • Body Builders did this to look good for one day
        • Listen to the show
  • You need protein and fats to build muscles
    • So much better to gain muscle NSNG — healthier with better muscles
  • Working for big muscles and strength are really one in the same
  • Guys who train with carbs are “fit fat”
    • They have huge muscles but practically look pregnant

Breaking Bad Eating Habits

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 550 – Vinnie Tortorich and Anna Vocino discuss Steve Vai, breaking bad eating habits, and Vinnie’s brief weight issue on this Monday edition of the Celebrity Fitness Trainer podcast.

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STEVE VAI

  • Vinnie’s crush
  • Great body and the best guitarist
  • “Bad Horsie” which plays at the beginning of this show is by Steve Vai

VINNIE’S HARDWARE STORE TRIP 

  • Vinnie was prepping his bike
  • Got a new lithium battery, went to local hardware store
  • Also needed spray paint, but couldn’t grab it off of the shelf
    • It was locked up!
    • Has to be locked up by law 
      • Must be 18+ to get Krylon
      • You can make something a law, but you can’t stop them from doing it
        • Same thing with guns — even if you lock up guns, evil people will get them, and shoot them
        • Same thing with SUGAR AND GRAINS!

PAM’S LETTER

  • The name Pam is dying out, do you think it is because of Pam spray?
  • Pam has gained weight on NSNG but her boyfriend, who is hardly doing it, has lost weight
  • Pam used to be a body builder — this can be bad for a person’s body
    • Many eat and live quite unhealthily
    • Lots of carbing up
    • She has gone away from these ideas, but some of the things still stuck
      • She was still trying to eat all the time and get carbs, even NSNG
      • At the end of the day she was eating 6 times a day
      • IM fasting is good!!!!

BREAKING BAD EATING HABITS AND NOT LYING TO YOURSELF

  • You can make mayo at home!
  • Easy to snack on what your kids don’t finish on their plate
  • Must be honest where hidden sugar and grains may be
  • Have to give NSNG a full 60 days with NLIL
  • Vinaigrette is touchy because lots of sugar
  • Men tend to get quicker results than men
  • Look at other positives that you get from NSNG if weight loss isn’t happening right away, and let that be enough while your body resets
    • Clearer skin, less asthma, less foggy, better sleep, etc
    • If after 6mos of strict NSNG, look at your hormones and everything

 

Dealing with Dairy (& Vinnie’s Emotions)

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 549 – Vinnie Tortorich and Anna Vocino discuss Vinnie’s past plus NSNG and diary. Different NSNG foods can still affect your weight loss goals negatively. This is the Friday edition of the Celebrity Fitness Trainer podcast.

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VINNIE’S SINGLE TEAR

  • Vinnie shed a tear thinking about the vegans
  • He just loves cheese and meat!!!!
    • Good snacks/light meals
  • Vinnie has a soft heart…
  • Vinnie went to a vegan’s house for Thanksgiving
    • Weird having bean curd shaped as meat

NOTE: Sorry folks, we’re still looking for a copy of Vinnie’s modeling photo of him naked on the beach covered only with a shell. Send us a copy if you have it!

VINNIE’S “ARREST”

  • Vinnie’s car was towed with a gun in it in NoHo
  • He was not allowed to have a concealed weapon without a permit, and got taken in for it
  • He was pretty new to California
  • He was handcuffed on the ground with a boot on his head
    • Cops went through his gym bag and everything
  • Was not given time, although multiple attorneys told him he would
  • Vinnie got the mafia involved and the whole thing went away

NSNG AND DAIRY

  • Some people feel better not eating dairy
  • You can take a blood test to see how much dairy affects you
  • Can cause inflammation, just like gluten
  • Dairy does have sugar in it, especially milk
  • Anna has autoimmune issues, and dairy really affects her negatively
  • A lot of women who have been plateauing have issues with dairy as well
  • If you plateau, consider trying to not eat dairy

HUMMUS

  • Chickpeas
  • Tahini
  • Garlic
  • Lemon
  • Olive Oil
  • That is ALL that should be in your hummus
  • Watch how much hummus you eat, it is a condiment

DIET SODAS

  • Bad because of what they do to your liver
  • Affect you just as much as normal soda

EVERYONE CHECK OUT VINNIE ON THE ADAM COROLLA SHOW THIS WEEKEND!