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Fitness Confidential

Tony's Weight-Loss Journey

Fitness Confidential

Vinnie Tortorich

Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.72.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2016

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

: Episode 696 - Tony Dicola, a great NSNG success, joins Vinnie Tortorich on this Saturday edition of the Fitness Confidential podcast to discuss his weight-loss journey, exercise, and more! PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Villa Cappelli Squatty Potty TONY DICOLA Found Vinnie on the Adam Carolla show He was 310, 5'9" at the time Has been strict NSNG since the beginning of 2016 Has lost over 100 lbs in a year, and now has set great goals for himself in the future! WEIGHT-LOSS JOURNEY In July 2016, he had lost over 100 lbs Tony now weighs 180 lbs His goal is 160 but he has lost over 120 lbs so far Tony does some basic exercise Crunches, push ups, squats, and runs a couple times a week, staying in Zone 2 He is now getting into hiking as well Tony proves that exercise is a poor way to lose weight, and while it can supplement weight loss, DIET is absolutely necessary Tony cannot believe how he could have changed so quickly It's all about cutting out the sugar and the grains!!! WHAT EXERCISE MATTERS? Stay the course on Zone 2 Sometimes you have to slow down to go faster Learning how to run properly after weight loss is also very important Tony is setting his sights on Mt. Rainier

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0:00.0

He's Hollywood's go-to guy for health and fitness.

0:12.2

It's Fitness Confidential with celebrity fitness trainer Vinny Tortorich.

0:16.8

Your good intentions have been stolen, and I'm here to help you get them back.

0:22.2

I am Vinnie Todorich and folks here we are again on the Saturday show.

0:26.5

This is the one where I do a little one-on-one action with just one listener of the podcast.

0:34.1

And it's kind of like a smaller version of what I do over at KBC on Sunday nights where

0:39.1

people get to call in live. This is, well, this is live to tape, I guess, because that's the

0:45.6

way we do it. The guy I have on today, let's just call him a big time NSNG success story because, well, at one time he was big

0:57.9

and boy, is he a success? And as a matter of fact, he was such a success that we got him

1:05.4

mentioned on the Adam Carolla show this past week. Well, by the time this comes out,

1:10.7

it would probably be a month. It was a month ago. So you guys would have to go back and find that episode. Anyway, I'd like to welcome to the show, Tony DeCola. How you doing, buddy? Hey, great. Yeah, thanks for having me on. This is great. So, Tony, you and I, I mean, let's go back with the history.

1:27.7

How did, I ask everyone this, how did you find me originally?

1:32.6

Yeah, so I'm kind of one of the Corolla folks.

1:35.3

Way back in September of 2015, I think.

1:38.5

You were on the Adam and Drew show.

1:40.4

And at the time, I had been kind of trying to lose weight.

1:43.6

So I was about like 3.10 or so pounds, you know, pretty big guy. And, I'd been kind of trying to lose weight. So I was about like 310 or so pounds, you know, pretty big guy.

1:47.3

And so I'd been doing things like...

1:48.8

How tall are you? Give us your height and your age. Five-nine. So, yeah. So, you know, pretty heavy for 3-10. Yeah. That's big. But yeah, so I've been trying things kind of unsuccessfully, you know, like trying to get more exercise, but I was still eating, you know, kind of junk stuff.

2:03.3

And so I heard been trying things kind of unsuccessfully, you know, like trying to get more exercise, but I was still eating, you know, kind of junk stuff. And so I heard you on that podcast. And what really blew me away was how you went right into the science of like all the hormones and things. And all the while you're going into that, Dr. Drew is just saying, yes, yes, you're right, you're right. That's how it works. And so I thought like, okay, wait, this guy kind of knows what he's talking about, so I should listen to that. And so, yeah, it took me a few months to kind of internalize it, but then I just really went full force kind of the start of this year, really strict, you know, sticking to the NSNG diet and getting kind of regular exercise. And so, yeah, that's how I first heard he was on the corolla podcast yeah yeah it's

2:35.8

interesting because you know my show at that time was pretty big you know the book had already

2:41.5

been a big hit for a couple of years and I you know I couldn't have gotten on a corolla show

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