FITNESS CONFIDENTIAL by Vinnie Tortorich, Dean Lorey Read Free Book Online

butter—you’re probably thinking to yourself, what about cholesterol? Won’t mine go through the roof? We’ve certainly been brainwashed to think so. It wasn’t that long ago that people even knew what a cholesterol level was. And then, suddenly, we all became armchair experts, waxing poetic about good HDL and bad LDL. And how did we become such experts? The drug companies who make the statins gave us this info in sixty-second commercials.
    But let’s look at the facts from people who aren’t trying to sell us something.
    According to a new study conducted by The National Institutes of Health and published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, people following low-carb diets reduced their LDL (or bad cholesterol) in greater amounts than low-fat dieters. In fact, Dr. Gary Foster, PhD of Temple University’s center for Obesity Research and Education, said that the notion that the low carb approach to weight loss was bad for the heart is “largely unfounded.”
    Here’s what you have to understand—I don’t have a dog in this race. I’m not trying to sell you something. Look at the cover of this book. Is it called The Vinnie Diet ? No. I’m just a guy who’s been helping people get fit for well into my third decade and I can tell you from experience that this works. And I’m not the only one saying this. There are scores of doctors and PhDs backing me up. One of my mottos is:
    Quick to study, slow to change .
    I don’t follow fads, I follow results. Vidal Sassoon had an ad campaign back in the eighties, “If you don’t look good, we don’t look good.” I have a different saying in my business. If you don’t look good, I go broke. And, although I’ve never been broke, it doesn’t look like fun. So it’s in my best interest to keep my clients lean, mean and, most of all, healthy. Because another one of my mottos is:
    Clients can’t write me checks when they’re dead .
    I tell you all this because it works. I’ve seen it in action over and over, with celebrity clients, kids, executives, socialites, housewives, everyone. Doesn’t matter who they are, every body works the same way and yours will, too.
    Still not convinced? Try it for a few weeks. What do you have to lose except weight? If I’m wrong, which I’m not, you can always go back to your rice cakes and tofurkey and inedible Ezekiel bread. As for me, I’ll be at Ruth’s Chris with a New York strip and a side of creamed spinach.
    After I teach my clients this new way of eating, they often decide to game the system. They see that they’re losing pounds and inches quicker than they ever have in their lives and they get to thinking they can do it even faster if they remove a few more calories by only eating lean protein and cutting out the fats.
    Egg whites only … skinny lattes … non-fat yogurt … boiled chicken …
    This is a recipe for disaster, because when you cut the fat out of your diet, you also cut out the very thing that keeps you sated and gives you energy.
    You don’t need to game the system.
    We’ve been conditioned to think that diets are supposed to make us suffer, but you don’t need to suffer. As a matter of fact, if you’re suffering, you’re doing something wrong.
    Look, it’s really this simple: if you’re always hungry you won’t lose weight long term. Forget counting calories, forget watching your portion size, forget trying to eat low fat. Just do these two simple things.
    STAY AWAY FROM SUGAR
    and
    STAY AWAY FROM GRAINS
    Will this change of lifestyle be completely painless? Mostly, with one exception. A couple days after you begin, you might feel a little lethargic. Don’t let this discourage you. It’s just your body naturally transitioning from the sugar spike roller coaster it’s been on for years to the healthy way it was meant to function. Within a day or so, that fatigue will go away and you’ll find yourself with more energy than you’ve had since childhood. And how will this amazing thing