: Episode 536 – Vinnie Tortorich and co-host Anna Vocino talk about avoiding NSNG derailment, advertising, Christopher Columbus, and speak with long-time listener Jess Perreca on this Monday edition of the Celebrity Fitness Trainer podcast.

“Avoiding NSNG Derailment”

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INDIA

• Christopher Columbus started calling First Nations (Native Americans) Indians because he thought he had arrived in India in the 1400s
  • Serena didn’t believe Vinnie when he told her this because Vinnie is good at coming up with stories quickly
• Also, while Vinnie was in India, he told a fake story about barely making it out of Vietnam
  • Jimi Hendrix was actually a paratrooper

JESS PERRECA

• Has been overweight since the age of 6 — he is now 36
• He has been on several times, has been supporting Vinnie and the show forever!
  • He was doing weight watchers when he joined
  • He is a favorite around here
    • Check out his old podcasts
• Right now, Jess is about the heaviest he’s ever been
  • Well over 500 lbs
• He has tried everything to lose weight but is derailed
  • He wants to make life the reason he SHOULD lose weight, but instead uses life as an excuse to eat what he wants
  • The greatest he ever felt, however, was when he started NSNG
    • lost 75lbs in one month
      • went about 6 mos and lost a bunch of weight
        • He didn’t know how to handle keeping the weight off/handling his success
  • Once work got more stressful, he didn’t keep up packing his meals, etc.
    • Instead he ordered food, went to restaurants, etc.
      • Once he got laid off, it made it even harder to get back on track

AVAOIDING NSNG DERAILMENT

• It is easy to get derailed when you are dealing with life
• Can be grief, can be a few holiday meals, can be lots of work that gets you off of NSNG and makes it hard to get back on
• If you do go off course, just get back on the next meal you’re able to!
• It is hard to approach the emotional side of it
  • NSNG can make you feel better, too
  • It’s okay to go off for awhile to deal with your feelings, but eventually your body will want to go back to NSNG
    • Try to get back on as soon as possible — once you dive back in, you CAN succeed!

: Episode 535 – Vinnie Tortorich brings on listener Anne to discuss fruit and NSNG on this Saturday listeners’  questions edition of the Celebrity Fitness Trainer podcast.

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LISTENER ANNE

• Found Vinnie’s podcast from the Adam and Drew show (her husband heard Vinnie and relayed his message to Anne, as she used to be addicted to sugar)
  • Vinnie will be back on Dr. Drew’s show soon and on Adam’s big show!
• Has read books such as Fat Chance by Lustig
• Anne wants to get lean and cut (she is already thin and beautiful)
  • Marathon runner!

Fruit and NSNG

• Because Anne had a sugar addiction, she wants to be careful about eating too much fruit
  • In the morning, Anne will have mixed berries with chia seeds, coconut and some almond milk and eat that with egg/vegetable dish
  • For lunch Anne will have some meat and salad without fruit
  • At night, Anne will have some apple and grapes with almond butter, etc.
• Anne hasn’t broken the cycle but she is close
  • Her body is still using fruit to bridge the sugar gap
    • She needs to break the fruit cycle then she can go back to fruit later on once the “hanger” after dinner stops 
      • Sugar causes our body to release grelin which makes our feelings of hunger come back
  • Eventually, once Anne’s body becomes more fat adapted (this is not the same as in ketosis), fruit can be re-introduced without the same effects
• Harder to become fat adapted while eating fruit
  • Becoming fat adapted can take anywhere from 15-60 days
    • You won’t be hangry anymore
      • No pain and no pangs
• Better to stay away from the more tropical fruits
  • Berries are the best!! Lowest Glycemic Index

LACTOSE AND NSNG

• Everyone is different
• You have to test it, and if you plateau and/or gain weight while drinking milk nd eating lots of yogurt, try cutting it out and seeing what works
• You have to tweak your body to buy into ketone bodies
• Once your body figures everything out, you can re-introduce, etc.

: Episode 534 – Simon Donato, ultra athlete and entrepreneur, joins Vinnie Tortorich on this Friday edition of the Celebrity Fitness Trainer podcast where the two discuss health and fitness including pandemics and adventuring.

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SIMON DONATO

• Vinnie had heard of him from the ultra world
• The two met at the Princeton
• He created the show Boundless
• He has a PhD  in geology
• World renowned explorer
• Works for Exxon as well

SIMON’S WORK

• Has done exercise physiology trials before
• Has looked at the heart over a course of the week and where someone spends most of their time
• He went looking for pilot Steve Fossett
  • Steve pursued endurance feats including aviation (first solo balloon trip around the world)
    • Simon looked a different way to find Steve
      • Closest search team and probably would have ended up 5 or so miles from his resting place, but time ran out
        • Figured out through routine, as most athletes follow a routine
• Currently looking at spread and proliferation of colds
  • Looking for next big pandemic because that will affect us more than anything
    • Shouldn’t be this way because of the food we have

: 533 – Vinnie Tortorich and Andy Schreiber, and guest Matt Morris host this Wednesday show IN India from back in November! They discuss different culture, the Living-Roots Eco Challenge, and speeches than Vinnie gave.

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WHAT HAPPENED IN INDIA

• First day they had a press conference
• Next day was the hike
  • This hike was incredibly intense, harder than really steep American mountains
  • Hundreds of people hiking across crazy terrain, over these root bridges
  • Vinnie had to get sugar in him to undo the bonk
    • Dehydration is harder to undo than the bonk
    • Andy had a cramp when he took in the sugar, and the cramp spread to both of his legs in every muscle
      • Villagers helped massage Andy as he became more and more afraid which calmed him down
      • People started getting water down to Andy which eventually helped him enough so that he and Vinnie did not have to stay the night in the canyon
  • INCREDIBLY magical, beautiful place and the villagers were lovely
• Were brought to India by the great Terun Bajaj
  • Attended his twin brother’s wedding
• Background noise in this podcast is composed of horns that constantly blow in India
•  At 5:30am, Andy was woken up by amplified chanting
  • It is a very religious/spiritual place
• Completely different culturally
  • Ex: incense burning
• Day after this podcast was recorded, they went to New Delhi for Vinnie to go give more speeches
  • Matt (and Vinnie) made 3min video of excerpts from Vinnie’s other speeches in India to show in New Delhi
    • Sort of “best of”

MATT “MACHINE-GUN” MORRIS 

• Not the drummer for Steve Perry when he was with Journey
• Australian, good friends with Terun and is in India
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