Fitness Confidential With Vinnie Tortorich

: Episode 1983 - On this Sunday School episode, the lovely Gina Grad joins Vinnie to talk Vinnie's book Fitness Confidential, keeping cancer away, electrolytes, proper protein, and more. https://vinnietortorich.com/2021/proper-protein-episode-1983 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods KEEPING CANCER AWAY Vinnie's book, Fitness Confidential, documents his journey with cancer. He started eating low carb to keep the cancer away. Other cancer survivors have sworn by keto diets to stay in remission and stay healthy. Bryan Bishop is one of these folks. https://vinnietortorich.com/2019/08/keto-cancer-bryan-bishop-episode-1386/ ELECTROLYTES Electrolytes keep your body in good shape when you're running or doing other aerobic activity. It's like a lubricant to keep your run smooth, in a way. Andy (Gina's husband) used a lot of Vinnie's Ultra Salt when he ran the LA marathon. Without training much, he ran it in around 4.5 hours! PROPER PROTEIN You need certain amino acids that you ge

: Episode 1982 - On this 'Best Of,' we feature next week's 1-on-1 guest, Dr. Tro Kalayjian, DO. He joins Vinnie to talk being overweight and losing weight as a medical professional, setting an example for your patients, fasting and exercise, and more! Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2021/11/best-of-setting-an-example-dr-tro-kalayjian-episode-1982 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club Villa Cappelli SETTING AN EXAMPLE Tro is a doctor. He has been on the show before here Hunger and Satiety with Dr. Tro Kalayjian – Episode 997 https://vinnietortorich.com/2018/02/hunger-satiety-dr-tro-kalayjian-episode-997/ Tro used to have to tell people to lose weight. He, however, was 350 lbs himself at around 5'11". Now he is around 195 lbs. He's also now a runner, and he does some fasting. He finished 5th recently in a 5k! His wife really encouraged him to lose weight via low carb. She said that he was going to die and leave her with their kids. Tro has specialties in obesity, diabetes, nutrition. He

: Episode 1981 - On this special Black Friday show, Anna Vocino and Vinnie Tortorich talk holiday foods, getting back on track, the munchies, and more. Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2021/11/black-friday-and-holiday-foods-episode-1981 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods Villa Cappelli These products make the BEST gifts for the holidays. BLACK FRIDAY This is the beginning of every company trying to make it for the year. Take advantage of sweet deals -- or spend time with your family at home and order online. Serena does the Christmas shopping during this time. Vinnie frets and overspends; Serena knows what to do! HOLIDAY FOODS We understand many of you will eat something carby or sweet over the holidays. That's okay, but get right back on the wagon. Don't tell yourself, "well, I'll just wait until after the Christmas party." If you have leftovers, eat them quickly or send your guests home with these foods. We're never more brilliant than when we're justifying bad behavio

: Episode 1980 - On this Wednesday show, Andy Schreiber and Vinnie Tortorich talk hormones and food, good restaurants, Thanksgiving, and more. https://vinnietortorich.com/2021/11/hormones-and-food-episode-1980/ PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods HORMONES AND FOOD Hormones control our reaction to eating certain foods. When we eat carbs, our hormones tell us to eat more. For those who have problems eating far too much, cutting carbs really can help stop this urge. Ghrelin keeps you eating when it gets some sugar. Leptin doesn't work as it should. When you're fat adapted and eating healthy meats and the like, you fill up much more quickly! You can eat more chips than you can steak. Hormones make it near-impossible (or at least, unpleasant and unsustainable) to eat less when you're eating the wrong things. THANKSGIVING Vinnie tries to stay close to every other day on this holiday. If this isn't for you, that's okay. Thanksgiving might be a decent time for some life into liv

: Episode 1979 - On this Monday show, Anna Vocino and Vinnie Tortorich talk remembering Kevin Biggs, taking control of Thanksgiving, delicious chicken thighs, and more. Marie also makes a guest appearance to discuss the Tortorich's recent trip! Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2021/11/taking-control-of-thanksgiving-episode-1979 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods Villa Cappelli REMEMBERING KEVIN BIGGS Sadly, Kevin Biggs passed away last week. He was in Mexico celebrating his 51st birthday. Vinnie does not know the details. Kevin was a staple in the NSNG® Facebook group. He had also been on the Saturday show a few times and had done some consults with Vinnie. He will be very missed. TAKING CONTROL OF THANKSGIVING If you want to enjoy a slice of pie or some candied yams, do that. But just have the slice then get right back to it. If you want to stay on the straight and narrow, you can still enjoy Thanksgiving! Vinnie recommends this for folks who are still morbidly obese or

: Episode 1978 - On this Sunday School episode, Gina Grad and Vinnie Tortorich talk family spats, Hollywood, no quick fixes, and more. https://vinnietortorich.com/2021/11/no-quick-fixes-episode-1978 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods QUICK FIXES There is no 'quick fix' to diet or weight loss. Really, it's slow and steady. This is a lifestyle change, not a diet and not magic. The good thing is, it isn't BS and Vinnie isn't trying to sell you anything. FAT DOC 2 IS AVAILABLE ON iTUNES and AMAZON Please also share it with family and friends! Buy it and watch it now on iTunes to get it to the top of the charts. We need it to get big for people to see it. Here's the Amazon link (BLUERAY, DVD, PRIME) (MAY NOT BE AVAILABLE YET ACROSS THE POND). And the iTunes Link. And the Google play link. https://amzn.to/3rxHuB9 [the_ad id="17480"] PLEASE DON'T FORGET TO REVIEW the film AFTER YOU WATCH! FAT DOC 1 IS ALSO OUT Go watch it now! We need people to buy and review for it to stay at

: Episode 1977 - On this Saturday show, Damian Welch Abernathy joins Vinnie to discuss going from soft and succulent to lean and mean, beating disease with diet, incorporating exercise, and more. https://vinnietortorich.com/2021/11/beating-disease-with-diet-episode-1977 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods Villa Cappelli DAMIAN'S STORY He has a broadcaster's voice. Damian spent only a brief time on the radio. Check out his podcast: Phoneboy Speaks. https://phoneboy.com/ps Over the last few years, he's really established his podcasting set-up. He also does webinars pretty consistently. Starting at age 10, he began to put on weight. He was a skinny kid, then the guidelines changed and he became heavy. In 2004, he probably weighed 285 lbs and found the Atkins story. He got down to 215 but wanted to get down to 180. He had a second child then fell off the wagon and gained a lot of the weight back. BEATING DISEASE WITH DIET Eventually, in 2014, Damian was diagnosed with hypert

: Episode 1976 - On this Friday show, Anna Vocino goes one-on-one with Vinnie, and the two talk Howie Mandel, aerobic activity, overcoming carbohydrate addiction, the danger of diet mentality, crunch, and more. Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2021/11/overcoming-carbohydrate-addiction-episode-1976 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods Villa Cappelli OVERCOMING CARBOHYDRATE ADDICTION Don does a lot of climbing with Vinnie. When they did Mont Blanc, Don was the heavy guy. He could still climb as well as the rest. But, the guides look at him and thought he was obese. When he's with Vinnie, he eats clean. However, as soon as Vinnie's nephews pulled out the Swedish Fish, Don was all in. He has a sugar and carb addiction. Don would do 70 hours of aerobics a month, but remained morbidly obese. About two years ago, he tried to fight this addiction. He abstained completely from sugar and grains. Now, Don looks fabulous -- slim and trim and he looks as athletic and fit as he is. The

: Episode 1975 - On this Wednesday show, Andy Schreiber joins Vinnie and the two talk not-so-free coffee, our Vitamin D delay, and more. Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2021/11/our-vitamin-d-natchez-trace-episode-1975 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods NATCHEZ TRACE Vinnie's family traversed many miles as a family when Vinnie and his brothers were kids. The four sons and Vinnie's parents just drove the Natchez Trace. Only the Tortorich parents & kids were invited -- no grandkids or the like. Vinnie had a run-in with a hostile and rude hotelier who essentially accused him of stealing coffee a server gave him for free. He tweeted about it. Follow Vinnie on Twitter! https://twitter.com/VinnieTortorich?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor OUR VITAMIN D We don't white label products. Rather, we hand-craft our formulas. They're ours and ours alone. This means we also have to find someone to make them, and then we buy them in the 10s of thousands of units

: Episode 1974 - On this Monday episode, Anna Vocino and Vinnie Tortorich talk zucchini mac 'n' cheese and other Thanksgiving recipes, nutmeg, targeted Instagram ads, ketone levels, and more. Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2021/11/zucchini-mac-n-cheese-more-episode-1974 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods Villa Cappelli ZUCCHINI MAC 'N' CHEESE Head over to Youtube to watch Anna cook this dish on this show! This zucchini mac is great for Thanksgiving. Be prepared to buy a LOT of cheese. Pre-heat the oven to 350. You'll need to purchase spiralized zucchini or spiralize it yourself. Anna says buy a spiralizer. It's $35 and you'll save money because pre-spiralized veggies are stupidly overpriced. And, you'll make a bechamel for the creamy, cheesey base. Throw some pancetta in there. She walks through this recipe, step by step. Anna uses mozzarella, two types of cheddar, and gruyere. She loves mixing cheese - you can pick your favorites and throw them in, too. Arrowroot can

: Episode 1973 - On this Sunday School episode, Gina Grad and Vinnie Tortorich talk their radio shows, fast food on demand, working hard, and more. https://vinnietortorich.com/2021/11/fast-food-on-demand-episode-1973 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods RADIO SHOWS Vinnie and Gina have both had shows on the radio. They counted Vinnie out from the get-go, but he proved them wrong and found success. Gina's still on the radio! She's a huge voice. Vinnie had a cousin, a chef, with a cooking radio show called Cooking with Ambrosia. FAST FOOD Fast food didn't used to be as bad. Fries were made with meat tallow -- now it's seed oils. Yuck! They also throw tons of chemicals in these foods. Door Dash and companies like that help streamline fast food. Kids don't even know how food ordering works; money never exchanges hands, it's way too easy. It's good to have to work for something -- to cook it, to clean up after yourself. This is true in eating and in other areas of life, like V

Episode-1972 Courtney Suderman joins Vinnie on this Saturday Show and they discuss her recent consult call, her NSNG success and weight creep. She felt like she'd fallen off the wagon and needed some help getting back on the wagon and a little inspiration to boot! https://vinnietortorich.com/2021/11/weight-creep/ PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods Villa Cappelli WEIGHT CREEP added fruits (apples) added processed almond creamer and other processed foods Courtney felt guilty for what she called being lazy coming back after covid and just felt she needed some encouragement. After she reached out for a coaching phone call she feels energized and encouraged. FAT DOC 2 IS AVAILABLE ON iTUNES and AMAZON Please also share it with family and friends! Buy it and watch it now on iTunes to get it to the top of the charts. We need it to get big for people to see it. Here's the Amazon link (BLUERAY, DVD, PRIME) (MAY NOT BE AVAILABLE YET ACROSS THE POND). And the iTunes Link. And the

: Episode 1971 - On this Friday show, pediatrician and bariatric surgeon Dr. Robert Cywes joins Vinnie to discuss preventing surgery with diet, obesity as a substance abuse problem, mental health crises, and more. Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2021/11/preventing-surgery-mental-health-crises-dr-robert-cywes-episode-1971 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods Villa Cappelli PREVENTING SURGERY Dr. Cywes is a surgeon. He does many bariatric surgeries -- gastric bypass surgeries. However, he only does surgeries when they're necessary. Surgery is not an alternative to a lifestyle change. We can PREVENT surgeries through lifestyle changes, like healthy, low-carb eating. Dr. Cywes does see a good number of children getting gastric bypass-like surgeries. Surgeries *can* be a necessary step for changing one's life. But really, we're seeing kids begin insulin resistance at age 5. THIS is what we need to change. MENTAL HEALTH CRISES Eating carbohydrates and consuming nicotine are use

: Episode 1970 - On this Wednesday show, Andy and Vinnie talk Olympic teams, classic movies, the Natchez Trace, keeping coffee hot, and more. Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2021/11/keeping-coffee-hot-episode-1970 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods OLYMPIC TEAMS If you like sports movies, check out Eddie the Eagle. Cool Runnings is another great -- it's about the Jamaican bobsledding team. Their bobsled's name was Tallulah, the name of Vinnie's step-daughter! These are true stories about fantastic and improbable Olympic athletes. KEEPING COFFEE HOT Vinnie will do the Natchez Trace adventure with his family. He and his siblings and parents used to travel the country together. Now, Vinnie will travel south for this. He will struggle going to Starbucks for coffee -- their coffee is mediocre and they throw sugar in everything. If you want to keep your coffee hot, invest in a thermos. You can likely find a thermos that will keep your coffee hot for two days. FAT DOC 2 IS AVA

: Episode 1969 - On this Monday show, Anna Vocino and Vinnie Tortorich talk affordable vitamins, heart health, coffee consumption, addiction, and more. Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2021/11/affordable-vitamins-heart-health-more-episode-1969 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods Villa Cappelli AFFORDABLE VITAMINS Vitamins won't categorically prevent you from getting sick. But they can help your immune response. Check out purevitaminclub.com for this! We make the highest quality products at an affordable price. This winter, add some Vitamin D, Zinc, and other vitamins to your daily routine. HEART HEALTH Vinnie's brother, Mark, is severely over weight. In addition, he smokes. This was a guy who was uber healthy and athletic as a highschooler. He has not, however, been a healthy eater. Recently, he had terrible heart problems and now has a stent in his heart. He had one blockage at 99%. Vinnie now has a dilemma: how much proselytizing does Vinnie do? Mark had previously lost

: Episode 1968 - On this Sunday School, Gina Grad (or Harris) joins Vinnie Tortorich, and the two discuss the WhiskeyX and drinking, the Carolla Show, meat jewelry, and more. https://vinnietortorich.com/2021/11/meat-jewelry-alcohol-consumption-episode-1968 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods MEAT JEWELRY Vinnie views veggies as jewelry for your meat. The meat is the main show, but you can throw some veggies to dress it up. Veggies are great, but there are plenty of people who just eat carnivore. Personally, Vinnie loves veggies and enjoys them often! DRINKING Adam Carolla got drunk a few weeks ago. He and Gina were at the WhiskeyX convention, so it's caught on tape. Check out the Carolla show! Adam doesn't often get drunk, but this was an exception. Vinnie has never been a real drinker. He didn't drink in college or anything like that. When he was a teen, he tried the whole drinking thing and didn't like it. And he is careful about when he chooses to drink. FAT DOC 2 IS

: Episode 1967 - On this Saturday show, Dr. Patricia Gordon joins Vinnie to discuss their relationship, her role in saving Vinnie's life, her charitable work curing cervical cancer, CNN hero of the year, and more. Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2021/11/patty-gordon-hero-of-the-year-episode-1967 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods SAVING VINNIE'S LIFE Aside from Andy, Dr. Gordon (or Patty, as Vinnie calls her), is Vinnie's oldest friend in LA. Andy and Patty met through cycling, and then Vinnie and Patty met. Thanks to Dr. Gordon, Vinnie is alive today. She figured out that Vinnie had a blood problem -- that blood problem was leukemia. She noticed that he had very concerning symptoms, and thankfully right before it was too late. Then, Dr. Gordon made a specialty appointment for Vinnie. Had he not had it, he likely would not have caught it in time. For awhile, Vinnie thought he was dying. Patty helped him keep hope, and the two became good friends. HERO OF THE YEAR Dr. Go

: Episode 1966 - On this Friday episode, Bethany McKenzie joins Vinnie once again on the podcast, and the two talk her son's diabetes diagnosis, managing type 1 diabetes, Bethany's documentary: The Diabetes Solution, empowering other parents, and more. Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2021/11/the-diabetes-solution-bethany-mckenzie-episode-1966 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods Villa Cappelli TYPE 1 DIABETES DIAGNOSIS Bethany has been on the podcast before. She and her family were featured in the first Fat Doc. Her son has Type 1 diabetes. The family discovered this when she came back from a trip, and her son's weight had dropped from 46 to 40 lbs. Immediately, she rushed him to the hospital and he was diagnosed. In that moment, they realized they would have to change the way they eat. The dietitian was prescribing them all kinds of sugary foods. She was told the kid needed 60g of carbs a meal, and she wanted to do anything she could to help him, so she did it. She feels

: Episode 1965 - On this Wednesday show, Andy Schreiber joins Vinnie Tortorich to talk Halloween and trick-or-treating, Bulletproof coffee, brand integrity, and more. Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2021/11/brand-integrity-episode-1965 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods TRICK-OR-TREATING This year, Vinnie did give out candy to the neighborhood kids. It looked a little bit different this year -- most people left the candy outside for COVID-19 reasons. Certain neighborhoods are bustling for trick-or-treating. Others, like Vinnie's, are a bit quieter. BRAND INTEGRITY Bulletproof used to be a novel coffee brand. It was small-owned. Now, they sell a parade of crap. Gummies filled with sweeteners, and more. Vinnie feels they have always sold lies. The companies running companies like these morph, and they become corporate shills like everyone else. Buy whole foods. Avoid 'keto' products, and the like. Not many companies have integrity anymore -- but to us, it is everything. I

: Episode 1964 - On this Monday show, Anna Vocino and Vinnie Tortorich play some good '60s tunes and talk good beef sources, ketone levels, BS diet plans, and more. Https://www.vinnietortorich.com/2021/11/good-beef-sources-more-episode-1964 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Pure Coffee Club NSNG® Foods Villa Cappelli '60S TUNES Vinnie and Anna both really like music from the '60s. But Vinnie prefers the '70s. They played a lot of good tunes on this show, like some Buffalo Springfield. If you're reading these notes on YouTube, check out this show on another platform so you can hear the good tunes. GOOD BEEF SOURCES As you know, Belcampo is no longer a sponsor. Vinnie always had great service from them -- he loved Hopefully, they come back under a new name. Vinnie suggests you go look in your community and find a farm form which you can buy beef directly. Or, find a freestanding butcher. Some grocery stores even have high quality meat departments. This is probably the most affordable option, unless