Vinnie Tortorich

Fitness Confidential Podcast

Sugar and Diabetes – Episode 1584

by Vinnie Tortorich

Episode 1584 – On this Monday show, Vinnie and Anna talk coffee and whiskeys, vegan Steve Vai, sugar and diabetes, hate mail, Vinnie sings a lot, and more!

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SUGAR AND DIABETES

  • At a vegan convention, a prominent speaker said that someone lived on white sugar and had their diabetes improved.
    • This is ridiculous and shameful.
  • The ideas have been debunked again and again.
  • This sort of guidance is killing people.
    • Fat Doc focuses a bit on amputations from diabetes, and this is why things escalate to that point.
  • Type 2 CAN be reversed, but not by eating a ton of crap and processed food and sugar.

FAT DOC IS OUT

Weight Fluctuation, Running, & More! – Episode 1582

by Vinnie Tortorich

Episode 1582 – Stuart Blocher joins Vinnie for a second Saturday appearance, and the two talk phone consults, not worrying about weight fluctuation, working from home and inflammation, becoming a runner, and more!

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WEIGHT FLUCTUATION

  • Stuart has been on the show before. Check it out here:
  • He’s met Vinnie a couple of times: in LA and at the Seattle Meat-Up.
  • Originally, before this way of eating in 2016, he was north of 270 lbs at 5’11”.
    • Now, he’s in his mid-180s, and 42 years old.
  • He’s lost almost 100 lbs!
    • He fluctuates a few pounds but doesn’t worry about it.
      • This could be water weight and sometimes eating a bit more food than other times.
      • He also travels a lot which can affect his sleep schedule.
        • Vinnie finds this fairly common among folks who travel so much.
      • He also doesn’t see a big change in how clothes fit during this time.
  • Everyone can fluctuate 3-5 lbs on any given day.
    • This is why Vinnie says throw the scale away.
  • Stuart has benefitted from the phone consults.
    • Vinnie can help you fine-tune your way of eating to benefit you most.
  • Stuart is a contractor and has stayed active throughout his life.
    • He’s always been quite strong, but wasn’t really in shape before this.
    • Now he’s running and found success in being in Zone 2.
  • He thinks he holds on to a bit more weight when he’s getting out and about less and eating more veggies as opposed to meat.

FAT DOC IS OUT

Planning Life into Living & More – Episode 1579

by Vinnie Tortorich

Episode 1579 – Anna Vocino and Vinnie Tortorich talk Paul Cappelli, kayaks, planning life into living, COVID-19, hunger pangs, and more on this Monday show.

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PLANNING LIFE INTO LIVING

  • Don’t try to eat around things when you’re doing life into living.
  • Eat real, quality ice cream, for example.
  • Plan your life into living so you don’t fall off of the wagon for too long.
    • Make sure you know it’s just one treat, or one day, then move right along.
      • Don’t make excuses to get right back to eating right.
  • Not planning ahead is how you end up feeling particularly horrible the next day physically.
    • This happened to Anna recently–she ended up eating crap as a result and feeling bad.

TWITTER QUESTIONS

  • Someone asked about how to avoid eating too much.
  • When you first start eating this way, Vinnie encourages people to overeat fat if you’re feeling hungry.
    • Make some bacon, have a spoonful of coconut oil (but your stomach might not be thrilled).
  • If you are doing this right, after some time you should not feel hungry after you’ve had an appropriate amount of food.
  • Hunger pangs are a sign that there’s still some sugar or grains in your diet.

FAT DOC IS OUT

Better Energy Levels with Low Carb Diets – Episode 1577

by Vinnie Tortorich

Episode 1577 -Big John joins Vinnie for this Saturday show, and the two talk Singapore, chewing gum, better energy levels with low carb diets, phasing out carbs in carb-heavy cultures, and more!

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BIG JOHN

  • John hails from Singapore!
    • This is somewhere Vinnie would love to visit.
  • Vinnie was on his show recently, Big John Big Life.
  • He is a Brand Strategist and podcaster himself.
  • We hope to see Big John on the show again after he’s phased out more carbs!

BETTER ENERGY LEVELS

  • John has started on his weight loss journey.
    • It can be very difficult to cut out carbs in Asia––much of the diet is rice based.
    • Pretty quickly, though, Big John noticed the uptick in energy.
  • He is 36 years old, and started at 340 lbs and 5’10”.
    • He started about 10 months ago, and is down to around 270 lbs.
  • Big John runs Vinnie through his meals each day and Vinnie gives him some advice on how to cut out grains over a bit of time entirely.

FAT DOC IS OUT

Feeling Full with NSNG® & Working Out – Episode 1574

by Vinnie Tortorich

Episode 1574 – Vinnie and co-host Anna Vocino talk one hit wonders, Shania Twain, feeling full with NSNG®, lowering inflammation and healing well, working out during COVID-19 and more on this Monday show!

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FEELING FULL WITH NSNG®

  • You can never eat with impunity.
  • However, with NSNG®, you will fill sated and not overeat.
  • Once you’re fat adapted, you will not feel those hunger pangs.
  • Just eat when you’re hungry and stop when you’re full––most of the time, when you’re eating the right things, you won’t overeat.

FAT DOC IS OUT

KETCON HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL 2021 AS A RESULT OF THE COVID PANDEMIC.

NSNG® with Family – Episode 1572

by Vinnie Tortorich

Episode 1572 – Listener Bob Zimmer joins Vinnie on this Saturday show, and the two talk his weight loss journey, NSNG® with family, the benefits of magnesium and B12, working out without soreness, running in Zone 2, smart life into living and more!

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BOB’S STORY

  • Bob has done a consult with Vinnie.
  • He was about 206 lbs, had acid reflux and trouble sleeping, as well as bad allergies.
    • He does a lot of international travel, and listened to Adam Carolla & this podcast on planes and the like.
  • At first, Bob dropped about 20 lbs without trying too terribly hard to be perfect.
    • In March 2018, he hit a plateau.
      • This was when he did a consult.
  • Bob will post many of his NSNG® recipes on Facebook.
  • He finds the Facebook Group quite helpful.
  • He’s into Zone 2 running.
    • When he didn’t stay in Zone 2, it was too difficult on him and his joints.
    • Now, he can run more and regularly.
  • When he went to Italy, he indulged and stayed in dietary ketosis.
    • He ordered meatballs for dessert, for example.
    • He had wine, but didn’t go crazy!
  • He also feels that working with your hands is important.
    • Bob’s a big car guy –– if you can’t fix it, you shouldn’t drive it.
      • He taught his son all of these things.

NSNG® WITH FAMILY

  • For Bob, he feels he found so much success because his family was on board.
  • He and his wife were raised in Chicago, so they love food.
    • It was an adjustment, but doing it together was easier.
  • Additionally, as Italians, they had to change the way they prepared food.
    • They also cut the wine and dropped a lot of food fast.
      • Unfortunately, there’s a lot of sugar in wine.
  • Quickly, Bob was down to around 179 lbs!
  • They all find it easier this way.
  • The cooking is also much easier when everyone is all for eating the same thing.

FAT DOC IS OUT

KETCON HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL 2021 AS A RESULT OF THE COVID PANDEMIC.