Fitness Confidential

: Episode 906 - Vinnie hosts Dr Ann Childers who talks about her health decline as a vegetarian and her eventual recovery after adding fat and meat back into her diet. PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Villa Cappelli Green Grocer Thrive Market DR ANN CHILDERS Psychiatric physician Check out her website here Lived in a vegetarian home at age 13 College, she continued to abstain from meat for financial reasons In Air Force, remained busy and not very social, ate things like powdered non-fat milk & cereal, etc. Thought raisin brain and cheerios were healthy Has since experimented on them and has seen how horribly sugary they are Taught in med school that fat = bad Never put her biochemistry education and nutrition education together Eventually, she realized how sick she had become from the vegetarian, low fat diet Super disorganized, foggy, hired organizer "Space cadet" She began to lose her teeth Began to loss bone INCLUDING her ribs She even flossed and brushed every day Now that she is low carb, her teeth remain much cleaner! Look at her smile now! Dentist catalogued what people ate when they had perfect teeth vs when their teeth were bad All depends on fat, nutrients, sugar content Complete turnaround once she changed her diet @AnnChildersMD http://lifebalancenw.com/

: Episode 905 - Vinnie talks with Andy about his love of Vince Lombardi and the hard-ass philosophy that Vinnie lives by which is both a benefit and a curse. PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR Pure Vitamin Club HARD-ASS Vinnie has always been a huge Vince Lombardi fan Practice doesn't make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect Make accountability even if it is not imposed otherwise Andy became a great piano player this way! Vinnie works hard, never takes a day off because of success How he got out of the bayou, how he played college football at his side, how he got to LA, and how he has started businesses and created a brand Now when Vinnie takes days off, it is usually for Serena For years and years he would go to bed past midnight and wake up at 4:30am In Vinnie's mind, there is no finish line Like NSNG - it is a permanent lifestyle change You can't do things right once in awhile, you have to do them right all the time Look for the live Kansas City show from the meet-up soon!

: Episode 904 - Vinnie & Anna talk about a listener's question about DEXA scans, Vinnie's doppelganger at the gym, crazed do-gooders, quick tempers, dogs in cars, fasting and more! PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Villa Cappelli Green Grocer Thrive Market ST. LOUIS MEETUP The Beauchamps set up a meet up Anna, Vinnie, and Andy surprised the group and attended the meet up Lonnie and Trey both were instrumental in the LA meet up a few years back VINNIE'S DOPPELGANGER Vinnie found his doppelganger in the gym People kept comparing the two Wear the hat the same way Vinnie couldn't stop looking at the guy It was freaky seeing himself in 3D! DEXA SCANS DEXA Scan is a special type of X-ray that measures bone density Anna had one in 2003 A listener sent her stats (maybe 20 lbs to lose, though scan said 40) but according to DEXA scan she was over 40% fat Only accurate way to measure body fat is hydrostatic weighing Otherwise, it won't be all that accurate This is very uncomfortable and is not used as much as it used to be All the calibers are sort of BS "Fat analysis", "body scan" etc Take measurements from different parts of the body Makes them wildly off FASTING Vinnie will be the first to say that fasting is not for everyone Can be good if you have really messed up metabolism to kick start it Others like Intermittent Fasting See below books for more info

: Episode 903 - Listener Aarn joins Vinnie today to discuss his weightloss journey, and how he has essentially lost the weight of half a man (an obese man) in return has gained his whole life back. PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR Pure Vitamin Club AARN FARMER Pronounced "Aaron" Started a blog and podcast to keep himself honest He was 400lbs and at one point his blood pressure was 200/160, 237/180 on his worst day About to stroke out and die He found Vinnie! Saw how his fat was affecting his health HALF A MAN Did research, at first just stopped eating sugar, then heard Vinnie's show Then began to stop eating grain and the weight loss began Juiced before he found Vinnie, lots weight, then gained it all back when he realized he was essentially starving himself Has lost a TON of weight on NSNG Started with 100 lbs, then continued on with more weight loss after stalling for awhile He didn't see the blood pressure drop with the first 100 lbs, so decided to lose another 100 lbs Aarn knew he had to go all in When he got down to 230, had to buy new clothes New belt, 18 inches shorter than old belt Goal: get below 200 Got there! Celebrate the small victories! Did a keto challenge too

: Episode 902 - Dr Robert Lustig, MD, MSL, author of Fat Chance and the speaker on the famous YouTube video Sugar: The Bitter Truth, joins Vinnie to talk about his new book The Hacking of The American Mind. Dr. Lustig talks about the difference between happiness and pleasure, how serotonin and dopamine affect us, and the plot by the food industry to get us all addicted to their food. PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Villa Cappelli Green Grocer Thrive Market DR ROBERT LUSTIG The guy Vinnie has been following forever Dr. Lustig is the BEST Has over 7 mil views on his above YouTube vid His new book, The Hacking of The American Mind came out September 12th! About what people have done to our brains The word "hack" used to mean prank Now it is - clever solutions to accomplish problems White Hack Black Hack is a negative thing Hacking computers has taken on a negative message Hacking humans = how substances, food, other people alter us Bad food alters our mind Further, we have confused pleasure and happiness which in turn allows us to GET hacked Pleasure vs Happiness Pleasure short term visceral achieved alone taking achieved with substances leads to addiction dopamine Happiness long term ethereal in groups giving cannot be achieved with substances never leads to addiction serotonin Happiness is more important and better to experience than pleasure! Dopamine addictive, serotonin is not Dopamine is what your brain releases when you try addictive drugs Serotonin when you feel a wave of joy from being with the people you love Act with your receptors differently

: Episode 901 - Vinnie & Andy talk about an article indicating that toddler obesity is on the rise and that the culprit is possibly formulas, as well as poor prenatal diet by the mothers... PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR Pure Vitamin Club TODDLER OBESITY Vinnie and Andy read an article Discusses rising obesity in toddlers Obese toddlers begin showing signs of heart failure by age 1 Dr. Lustig has been yelling about this forever See video below He wrote a book about this!! Nearly all overweight babies bottle fed Most fed with formula One of most popular/healthiest ones Nonfat milk vegetable oil, palm whey protein concentrate lactose galactooligosaccharides polydextrose, more chemicals This is all plain BAD From non fat milk to artificial sugars A lot of other brands made of soybeans Even worse! Babies also come out of the womb very fat Prenatal care is not up to par Eat well while you are pregnant! You need a license to drive a car, you should likewise have training on how to live/eat while pregnant/before having a baby Must understand the responsibility you are taking on Parents need to educate themselves on the bad effects of sugar in child growth This issue is just getting worse, we have to stop! Sugar: The Bitter Truth YouTube Video

: Episode 900 - Vinnie explains to Anna how to do proper squats and the proper form for lunges. They also discuss kayaks, a very strange Twitter exchange with a religious person and much more... PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Villa Cappelli Green Grocer Thrive Market SQUATS Go down slowly, that's what it's all about Vinnie doesn't go heavy any more Keep your toes slightly pointed out Great for booty, quads, hamstrings, lower back You may not feel like you're doing anything without going heavy, but it WILL do something Vinnie will spend lots of time warming up Slowly add weight Lunges are another easy exercise that many people do incorrectly Vinnie runs Anna through the steps PRAY THE CELIAC AWAY Some IDIOT on Twitter said that you can pray celiac away Anna tries not to get involved with things like this, but this she couldn't ignore Apparently in the 80s, a prayer diet existed "Pray your fat away" This was weirdly popular Shows how desperate people are to get healthy! Anna does pray, but this has to deal with science, not with religious Anna was told, after responding on Twitter, she was 'unforgivable' All silliness Then he started jabbing Anna for acting, etc. KAYAKING Vinnie plans on kayaking Bayou Lafourche He will be practicing on Lake Castaic All thanks to a really good man, friend and fan, Dave Dolak

: Episode 899 - Vinnie & Andy offer some healthy and fast breakfast alternatives to the cereal that most kids eat on this vinnie's sunday school episode. They offer an easy way to wean your kids off sugary cereal and on something more healthy and NSNG. PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR Pure Vitamin Club FAST BREAKFAST Eggs really don't take much more time than cereal prep Also, you can hard boil eggs and peel them for the next morning Wean off your cereal if you eat it a lot Cheesy eggs are delicious! You can mix in avocado, beans, bacon, tomatoes into eggs Scrambled eggs are super easy Kids, have your parents teach you how to make eggs easily Salami is a good quick alternative to bacon! Sign up for Vinnie's free Intro to NSNG course HERE

: Episode 898 - (NOTE: This is a repeat of episode 875 which aired on August 12th.) Listener David shares his NSNG success story where he loses 47 lbs in 4 months (his wife lost 23!) and talks about how going NSNG is like paying off debt (a la Dave Ramsey). PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR Pure Vitamin Club LISTENER DAVID David is NSNG Found Vinnie and the Facebook group via a friend who was showing continual progress David topped out at 334 lbs, has so far lost over 40 lbs in 4 months! Realized he needed to do something He and his wife framed their NSNG lifestyle change around Lent It has been going very well and hasn't been difficult for David or his wife Unlike the Atkins diet, they do not have cravings with this way of eating PAYING OFF DEBT Just like debt, when you get to a certain point in gaining weight, you know you are in for the long haul You have to commit, piece by piece, to paying it off or losing it The last part can often be the hardest, but you gotta keep making payments and decreasing that load Just like money and spending, people can eat and eat crap past a healthy point until they are so far in that it is hard to get out David paid his debt off in several years, did very well! Now taking care of the weight and his health David also has been investing quite a bit! Invests in simple mutual funds

: Episode 896 - Vinnie & Andy Schreiber, President & CEO of Pure Vitamin Club, talk about the business of vitamins and how, no matter the great customer service a company provides, you can't please everybody! PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR Pure Vitamin Club GREAT CUSTOMER SERVICE Pure Vitamin Club is very proud of their customer service They make a great product, and it is affordable when people complain it is likely because they are looking for something to complain about Andy has fielded most calls If you reach out to PVC, they WILL get back to you in a timely manner and provide whatever you need to make sure you come back for more