Vinnie Tortorich

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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

Detoxing and Cleansing Scams & Dietary Ketosis

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 562 – Our friends at Audible bring you this Monday edition of the Celebrity Fitness Trainer podcast with Vinnie Totorich and Anna Vocino.  The two discuss selling books, Starbucks, ketosis, and some articles on fitness.

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LYNETTE CAROLLA 

  • Vinnie was on Lynette’s show
  • Went on as Lynette Carolla with Lynette’s co-host until Lynette arrived
  • A whole episode about Vinnie and Serena not being married
    • (They also discuss children’s health etc.)

BOOK SALES

  • What really sells book now is online marketing
  • Publicists are really a scam
    • Dean and Vinnie hired and fired 4+ publicists
    • Vinnie gets on the phone and gets his books sold
  • Anna is selling a GREAT (cook)book!!! Go check it out and buy it

VINNIE’S CAR

  • He is selling his FJ Cruiser
    • GREAT condition!
    • He has never even actually sat on the seats himself! Had seat covers
  • Over 100k miles
  • It has one of the highest resale values of any car because it was a short run and a FANTASTIC car!!!
    • Fair market value
      • Around just over $20,000
  • If you are interested, let Vinnie know!
    • He will drive it TO you if you live in the contiguous US and pay for the gas
      • He will train you and stay with you and help you with foods if you buy the car

STARBUCKS

  • Wanted a coffee, had a $100 bill on him
    • Ordered a $2 drip and whipped out the hundred
    • They would not take it
    • Almost wasted a cup of coffee because of it, but ended up getting it, but the lady was condescending

OLIVE OIL

  • The olive oil scandal is a little out of hand
  • You know what IS real Italian olive oil?

DETOXING

  • Some people heavy metals in their system
  • Very rare, detoxing rarely works
  • Often a scam-type situation
  • Gwyneth Paltrow is a fan of the “detox”
  • Juice fasts are ridiculous and do not work

KETOSIS

  • Body is making extra ketones so that your body metabolizes better
  • There is a recent Wednesday show that talks about this specifically

 

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

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 

Becoming a Trainer & Ru El’s Podcast

by Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 558 – Vinnie Tortorich and co-host Anna Vocino host this Monday edition of the Celebrity Fitness Trainer podcast. The two discuss Jillian Michaels, Vinnie’s new “Fit or Bullshit” segment on the Carolla show, and guest Ru El’s podcast!

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POLITICAL (CORRECTNESS)

  • Anna ASKED an MC at a comedy show to call her a “derogatory” Italian name and the MC refused
  • Vinnie was talking to a black girl named Keisha about all the different names containing “Keisha” including “Nakeisha and Lakeisha”
    • The two were getting along quite well, and then another black girl in the class asked Vinnie to repeat the convo so she could record it and chop it up and show Vinnie in a bad light
      • Even though he was not being racist and was literally just talking about black culture with a black student
  • Does not think Bernie would be a good president — he is too socialist and would take the money out of our pockets

JILLIAN MICHAELS

  • Jillian Michaels was saying that you can eat grains as long as you watch your caloric intake (UGH!)
  • Admitted on the Carolla show that she: dropped out of CSUN after 1 semester, became a fitness trainer online because she had a good body from karate
    • Vinnie’s lawyer went online to see how long it would take to become a lawyer — took about 30 mins
  • She tried to get Villa Cappelli as a sponsor after we had them as a sponsor, they refused because they would have lost Vinnie and they believe in REAL health and fitness
  • She got onto the Carolla show a week after Vinnie was on

BEING A TRAINER

  • Lots of people got these cheap, not very legitimate training degrees because they thought become a trainer would be easy and make you rich
    • Certainly not the case
  • Basically costs $600 to become a trainer
    • Vinnie actually has a college degree in this, unlike most other trainers (especially gym trainers)
  • Vinnie now has a segment on Adam’s big show “Fit or Bullshit”

RU EL AND HIS PODCAST

  • When he was a kid, would drink Fanta Grape Soda
    • Vinnie drank Dr. Pepper and Anna Coca Cola
      • Never really in the house for Vinnie
  • From Guam (of Filipino heritage)
    • Not Vinnie’s “Guam”
  • Has his own podcast: “Ru El’s Running podcast”
    • Talks about how NSNG has helped his body tremendously
      • Level of excitement that comes with this lifestyle positively affecting everything so much
    • Has somewhat of a technical background so he could figure out podcasting pretty easily

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!