What We Tell Ourselves - Episode 2731
Fitness Confidential with Vinnie Tortorich
Release Date: 12/03/2025
Fitness Confidential with Vinnie Tortorich
Episode 2739- Vinnie Tortorich and Anna Vocino discuss music and share a favorite holiday tradition, a humorous review of the "Twelve Days of Christmas." https://vinnietortorich.com/2025/12/a-favorite-holiday-tradition-episode-2739 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS YOU CAN WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE - A Favorite Holiday Tradition After a bit of discussion about certain music and Hallmark movies, Anna and Vinnie begin their traditional “12 Days of Christmas” review. (24:00) This time, they have AI to help analyze the lyrics. They review the song every holiday season, always...
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Episode 2738 - Vinnie Tortorich and Chris Shaffer welcome three callers to discuss success stories, dirty keto products, finding a new direction, and more. https://vinnietortorich.com/2025/12/finding-a-new-direction-episode-2738 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS YOU CAN WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE - Finding A New Direction Laura is the first call-in guest. (2:00) She discovered Vinnie through the Mike Rowe podcast. She’s lost 25 lbs on NSNG® and loves the lifestyle. Drew is the next caller. (22:00) He initially lost weight for his wedding by following a traditional CICO...
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Episode 2737 - Vinnie Tortorich and Chris Shaffer discuss how to define a burger and popular fitness trends for 2026, and more. https://vinnietortorich.com/2025/12/fitness-trends-for-2026-episode-2737 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS YOU CAN WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE - Fitness Trends for 2026 Try changing up your cardio, especially when you are stuck inside. (4:00) Chris’s past few months have been busy. (6:00) What defines a “burger”? (12:00) Vinnie admires longtime vegans like Paul McCartney and Alexandra Paul, who follow deeply held beliefs. He has issues with vegan...
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Episode 2736- Vinnie Tortorich and Anna Vocino discuss a healthy resolution while Anna cooks some low-carb stuffing and eggnog. https://vinnietortorich.com/2025/12/a-healthy-resolution-episode-2736 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS YOU CAN WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE - A Healthy Resolution Anna is cooking in this episode, so if you want to watch the Queen of the Kitchen do her magic, please go to YouTube. (2:30) Part of this episode is about resolutions; Vinnie’s resolution to build a train set is underway, and he's confident it will be done before the end of December...
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Episode 2735 - Vinnie Tortorich and Chris Shaffer welcome three callers to discuss ways to control the sugar addiction and stay focused through hard times. [libsyn_podcast id=39233425] PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS YOU CAN WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE - Control the Sugar Christa discovered Vinnie through Adam and Dr Drew. (5:30) She was doing great, but lately has been struggling, especially now that she is going through perimenopause. She shares some of her challenges, and he gives her some suggestions. He gives her advice regarding a cookie party and how to avoid it. Joey...
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Episode 2734 - Vinnie Tortorich and Chris Shaffer discuss having a solid approach to your goals and being dedicated to your lifestyle. https://vinnietortorich.com/2025/12/a-solid-approach-episode-2734 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS YOU CAN WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE - A Solid Approach Being a “cool dad.” (2:00) Vinnie had a call with listener Bryson. (7:00) It’s essential to have a goal, but you don’t stop living the lifestyle once you reach it—because it's a lifestyle! New Year’s is just around the corner. If you can stick to a goal for a million dollars, you...
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Episode 2733 - Vinnie Tortorich and Anna Vocino discuss changing things up and keeping up motivation and writing down your dreams because dreams are free! https://vinnietortorich.com/2025/12/dreams-are-free-episode-2733 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS YOU CAN WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE - Changing Things Up The podcast has a new sponsor, Jaspr. (2:00) Vinnie is very excited about the product—he’s been using it for the past 9 months and loves it. Jaspr Air Scrubbers has a discount code, VINNIE, that gets you $400 off through Black Friday. Jaspr offers a lifetime warranty. Go...
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Episode 2732 - Vinnie Tortorich and Chris Shaffer welcome two callers to discuss gaming the system and the benefits of correctly measuring body composition. https://vinnietortorich.com/2025/12/gaming-the-system-episode-2732 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS YOU CAN WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE - Gaming the System The first caller is Lee. (6:00) Lee has been off and on NSNG for several years and has been listening to the podcast since early on. He gives his backstory about NSNG®. (15:00) He uses several protocols in addition to NSNG®; however, Vinnie has some questions and...
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Episode 2731 - Vinnie Tortorich and Chris Shaffer discuss the evolution of beliefs, what we tell ourselves, junk food trends, and more. https://vinnietortorich.com/2025/12/what-we-tell-ourselves-episode-2731 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS YOU CAN WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE - What We Tell Ourselves Note: There is a discussion around Santa and beliefs—if you have little ones around while listening, we encourage listener discretion. The origin of the “Daisy Dukes” and the show Dukes of Hazard. (3:00) They discuss how information about topics like climate change has changed,...
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Episode 2730 - Vinnie Tortorich and Anna Vocino host guests for a call-in show to discuss steps into NSNG, the need to "flip the script," and more. https://vinnietortorich.com/2025/12/flip-the-script-episode-2730 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS YOU CAN WATCH ALL THE PODCAST EPISODES ON YOUTUBE - Flip the Script Vinnie just got back from Barbados, his first real vacation in a while. (3:00) He shares a story of how the locals were friendly and helpful. He didn’t, however, engage with a pina colada as planned. The first caller is Ty. He got to meet Anna at a fundraising comedy show,...
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What We Tell Ourselves
- Note: There is a discussion around Santa and beliefs—if you have little ones around while listening, we encourage listener discretion.
- The origin of the “Daisy Dukes” and the show Dukes of Hazard. (3:00)
- They discuss how information about topics like climate change has changed, and that we are always learning.
- Vinnie relates the belief in Santa to the belief in what is possible. (13:00)
- We tell ourselves things we want to be true, so we can get what we want. (16:30)
- Oral semiglutide's effects are supposed to be as effective as the injection, but there are still side effects. (21:00)
- "The Decaf study." They discuss decaf and caffeinated coffee and whether it is harmful enough.
- Taco Bell has its own soda flavor, Baja Blast. (28:00)
- They just launched their own pie based on the same flavor.
- People think they can get away with one thing if they believe they are compensating elsewhere, but that doesn’t always work that way.
- CICO, or taking a GLP-1, is an example of this; people will indulge, thinking that the running or the GLP-1 will take care of the fallout. (36:00)
- The FDA is lifting black box warnings from women’s estrodiol packaging. (51:00)
- This allows women options that they didn’t think were possible before to treat perimenopause and menopausal symptoms.
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- Serena has added some of her clothing suggestions and beauty product suggestions to Vinnie’s Amazon Recommended Products link.
- Don’t forget to check out Serena Scott Thomas on Days of Our Lives on the Peacock channel.
- “Dirty Keto” is available on Amazon!
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- Eat Happy Italian, Anna’s next cookbook, is available!
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- You can order it from Vinnie's Book Club. https://amzn.to/3ucIXm
- Anna’s recipes are in her cookbooks, website, and Substack — they will spice up your day! https://annavocino.substack.com/
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- Details are at Eat Happy Kitchen. https://eathappykitchen.com/
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