Vinnie Tortorich

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Charles Tortorich, Crohn’s Disease and NSNG

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 577 – Charles “Frankie” Tortorich, Vinnie’s brother is an NSNG success story. He and Vinnie reminisce about their Glory Days in HS sports, Charles’ Crohn’s disease and NSNG, and how Charles started listening to what Vinnie says about nutrition.

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CHARLES TORTORICH & FOOTBALL

  • Vinnie’s younger brother
  • Was a good athlete, but not a college D1 athlete like Vinnie
  • Used to work really hard with Vinnie
  • Football in the south is the talk of the town
    • Vinnie was a town celebrity
  • All sports are a huge deal
  • Mark, the youngest brother, was the best at playing all-around football
    • Unfortunately, he did not follow through with that path
  • Vinnie had to beef up in highschool to put on muscle for football because he is only 5’11-6′
    • Neither of the Tortorich parents were athletic; just super academic
  • In highschool, life revolved around football
    • The whole family would attend!

CROHN’S DISEASE AND NSNG

  • Charles figured out he had Crohn’s disease when he was a teenager
    • They didn’t know much about the disease other than the fact that he would sit on the toilet and bleed a lot
    • Spent about 2 months total in the hospital as a teenager
      • He couldn’t eat or drink
  • Charles now follows NSNG, although he didn’t use to listen to Vinnie because he is his brother
    • His coworkers came around and made him listen
  • Charles was overweight with borderline high blood pressure and realized he had to make a lifestyle change
    • He didn’t want to take medicine for something he could change/avoid
  • He initially was baby-stepping for NSNG
    • Ex: for breakfast, he wouldn’t eat grits (polenta, straight grains with some butter)
  • Charles has found he feels much better, has better blood pressure, and his Crohn’s does not flare up as much
    • He doesn’t even follow it to the T but has still lost lots of weight
    • Overall, he cut down a lot and lost ~26 lbs

 

Vinnie’s Energy Shake

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 574 – Anna Vocino joins Vinnie Tortorich to discuss Vinnie’s Energy Shake, a go-to meal that Vinnie whips up in his nutribullet for healthy, tasty, long lasting energy. The two also talk about ‘healthy’ energy bars.

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VINNIE’S ENERGY SHAKE

  • Vinnie’s ‘fat’ shake is now in Anna’s cookbook
  • Here’s a quick thing Vinnie whips up:
  • Lots of coconut oil
  • Kale
  • Chia seeds
    • Vinnie lets chia seeds sit in the water so that they get gooey and ‘slurpy’.
  • Fresh ginger root
  • Half of a 3 inch jalapeno
  • Water to help it blend
  • Berries are optional (only a few)
    • Anna likes it with blueberries

VINNIE’S AEROBICS & MARATHONS

  • Vinnie loves to run!
  • Now that his shoulder is way better, he can do much more aerobic work
  • Ran with Serena, a total of 2 hours
  • Check out: “Barkley Marathons” on Netflix
    • Only 14-15 finishers in this Marathon
      • It is crazy! Like a prison-escape
      • Runners who can run Badwater don’t even attempt this

AMAZON WINNER OF THE WEEK

  • Dave Dolak won this week!
  • He bought through the Amazon link on the website
  • He is a super fan
  • Getting ready for an ultra-kayak race (100 miles)
  • Bought a urine-bag and sunglasses for his race
  • He will win some NSNG Carb

‘HEALTHY’ ENERGY BARS

  • The only bar that Vinnie really endorses is EPIC Bars
  • Kind Bars are basically deconstructed Snickers bars
    • 19-23 grams of sugar in a Kind Bar
    • 3/5 top ingredients are sugar
  • Not awful in an emergency situation, but try to avoid if possible
  • “Diet” products are also awful for you because they are straight chemicals which compensates for the lack of calories (maybe even makes it worse)
    • Your body still registers this as sugar

Weight, Relationships, and Body Image

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 572 – Marni Kinrys & Kristen Carney from the Ask Women podcast join Vinnie to discuss weight, relationships, and body image.

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KRISTEN AND MARNI

  • They have a show on Playboy Radio called “Ask Women”
    • Vinnie was on their show recently
  • Their show is largely about men becoming good with the ladies
    • Help men attract women with HONEST advice
      • A lot of Vinnie’s callers also ask for help with the ladies
  • Their podcast fills a niche, making it successful
  • Check out Marni’s website here

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WEIGHT, RELATIONSHIPS, AND BODY IMAGE

  • A lot of men who are overweight lose weight and think they will be a ladies magnet
    • However, physical is not NEARLY as important to women as men
      • Men need to work on their personalities and who they are as a person instead of obsessing over body image
  • Many people lose the weight, then ask “now what”
    • They want to go back to their old diet but that will put the weight right back on
  • In high school, Kristen struggled with her ‘image’ as she had a crossed eye and thick glasses
    • She was bullied and had a negative body imagine from the start
      • She changed schools at 17
      • Vinnie relates to this because he was really picked on (he was deaf/speech challenged when he was little and it carried all the way through high school)
  • Marni felt awkward and shy, although she was more outgoing than she gave herself credit for, but she did have to deal with lots of bullying
  • The bullying that the two endured still affects them to an extent although now the two have great self worth
  • Many beautiful women are insecure because they were bullied and brought down when they were younger
  • Both tried to be healthy by eating less and then binge-eating, which actually hurt their weight
    • Going to the gym made them ‘bulk up’ which caused them to obsess because they wanted to be lean

 

Yoga with Mark Dellacave

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 566 – Vinnie Tortorich and co-host Anna Vocino  discuss the bio-mechanical benefits of yoga with Mark Dellacave of YogaPilots.com. Vinnie also talks about his formerly-vegan friend Todd and reminisces about his own culinary indulgences on his most recent trip to Louisiana.  All this and more on this Monday edition of the Celebrity Fitness Trainer podcast.

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VINNIE’S CULINARY INDULGENCES IN LOUISIANA

  • Went to the gym in his old neighborhood, Shapes, with his friend Sybil to work out
  • Very easy to stay on his diet… for awhile
  • Good crawfish where Vinnie was visiting so he got some NSNG crawfish
  • On day two, Vinnie ate lunch and dinner like a Louisianan
    • Vinnie had lots of seafood with some grains (fried catfish with french fries)
      • Vinnie had to sleep off that lunch
      • Dinner was hamburger steak and it made him feel pretty crummy too
        • Option of stuffed baked potato
      • Dessert had graham cracker/fudge/brownie crust with their cheesecake with marbled in dulce de leche
        • Once Vinnie started eating the dessert, he felt sick but could not help but shovel the rest of it in his mouth
          • Vinnie is soooo fat adapted, but this just proves how sugar and grains are addicting!!!
    • Vinnie is not the biggest fan of fasting, but he took about a day off of eating to feel better

VEGANISM

  • Vinnie knows Todd in Louisiana (co-worker of Vinnie’s brother) who was a vegan athlete
  • He became vegan to lose weight
  • Eventually, after a few years, gains weight and puffs up after races
  • Now that Todd and his wife are NSNG, they have never felt better!!!

RELEVES 

  • Great exercise for calves
  • Do not bounce, make this exercise a smooth motion
  • Once you get this down, you can add weight to the back

AMAZON WINNER OF THE WEEK

  • Stacy Panuski from Akron, Ohio
  • Buy through the Amazon banner and submit what you bought to help keep the train moving down the tracks
  • Bought a DVD of Jumanji

YOGA WITH MARK DELLACAVE

  • Looks like Ray Donovan
  • An avid Yogi
  • Yoga helped his running
  • Check out his website here
  • Lebron James, Kareem Abdul Jabbar and Russel Wilson all utilize yoga as a helpful tool

Fighting Food Addiction with NSNG

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 563 – Andrew Weaver joins Vinnie Tortorich on this Wednesday edition of the Celebrity Fitness Trainer podcast to discuss fighting food addiction with an NSNG lifestyle, and going overboard with intermittent fasting and dieting.

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ANDREW WEAVER

  • The OTHER Andrew
  • Makes crazy artistic thing with balloons
    • 2-60 balloon (2 inches around, 60 inches long)
    • Balloon talk — not called weenie balloons
  • Earlier listener to the show
    • Had some success with NSNG
  • Has since fallen off the wagon (and crashed it) and jumped on another
    • Before this he had his own podcast
  • Has dealt with weight issues and food addiction his whole life
    • NSNG made it easier but he tried to incorporate more IM Fasting which really hurt him
      • He never recovered
  • Before NSNG his blood sugar was 180 fasting (his rock bottom number was 299)
  • 8.4 –> 4.8
  • Check out his podcast here 
    • They talk health, fitness, sports
  • John’s website
  • Andrew’s website
  • Andrew’s balloon & magic page 

INTERMITTENT FASTING & SUGAR INPUT

  • NSNG was working well, but he wanted to go even farther
  • IM Fasting made him fall off the wagon — he didn’t NEED to do it but did and it ended up being too much
  • NSNG people tend to eat less, but don’t TRY to go a day without eating just for the sake of doing so
  • Vinnie does hardcore NSNG but still ends up eating a healthy 3-4 lbs of sugar per year
  • Most time on earth by humans has been spent not eating sugars and grains

Obesity – a Matter of Life or Death

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 561 – Listener Jess Perreca joins Vinnie Tortorich to discuss being morbidly obese and the life or death situation that is his weight on this Saturday edition of the Celebrity Fitness Trainer podcast.

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JESS – OBESITY AS A MATTER OF LIFE OR DEATH

  • Check out his website here
  • Always struggles with obesity
  • Has been listening to Vinnie since the start
  • Weighed 523lbs when the show first came out
    • Was fat from age 6
  • Does not want to be heavy
  • Jumped onto the NSNG train 1.5 years ago
    • Dropped 75lbs in the first month of doing NSNG, then got close to under 400
  • Unfortunately, has jumped back up to 560 lbs now that he is no longer NSNG
    • Food is his drug of choice
  • He is bothered that he cannot stick to the regiment
  • He realizes that it is a matter of life and death
  • All that matters, ultimately, is that he rises from his failures and ends up succeeding in the end
  • January he was 561, after 4 weeks he was 513.8

FOOD IN JESS’S LIFE

  • Now, snacks limited to nuts and pork rinds
  • Breakfast consists of egg and breakfast sausage
  • Lunch and dinner are a vegetable and meat/chicken
  • NSNG is great, because it allows Jess to eat, not count calories, and still lose weight!
    • Most sustainable ‘diet’ Jess has ever done
      • Works with a busy lifestyle, and is natural