Like my previous two conversations with Vinnie Tortorich – the man who became famous years ago for helping chubby celebrities become less chubby and then went on to piss off everyone in the food industry by telling the truth about the vast quantities of sugar and grain we insist on chewing and swallowing on a daily basis – this one contains some vaguely inappropriate content. The impact of processed food on bowel movements, for instance – while hysterical – occupies a bit more real estate than perhaps necessary. So, I’ll share that video another time, and draw your attention instead to The Rowbies, a weight-loss support group who met through my podcast, and embraced a No Sugar No Grain approach to losing weight. According to Vinnie, The Rowbies have now lost a million pounds.
That’s one M I L L I ON pounds.
“How is that possible,” you ask? “Surely, this Vinnie character is exaggerating.”
I don’t think so. First of all, I know Vinnie pretty well, and he never sugar coats anything. Literally or figuratively. Second, I lost forty pounds with this approach a few years ago and kept it off. I know that it works. And third, my conversations with Vinnie have been listened to and downloaded millions of times. If a hundred thousand of those listeners lost just ten pounds each, that’s a million pounds right there. And I know for a fact that people who eliminate sugar and grain from their diet, lose a lot more than ten pounds.
Is this the best path for everyone? Probably not. No path is the best path for everyone. But a new path is clearly needed. The “food pyramid” we all grew up with doesn’t work. In fact, it was a deliberate fraud based on no science or fact whatsoever. And today, our grocery stores are filled with highly processed foods that are marketed in ways that are downright deceptive. Dozens of unpronounceable synonyms for sugar can now be found on countless packages crammed with so called “healthy” foods. In the last two hundred years, Americans have gone from consuming one pound of sugar every year, to over 250 pounds, and the results are both tragic and self-evident. According to the CDC, 74% of Americans are overweight today, and 43% are obese. That’s a national catastrophe, and I want to congratulate the Rowebies for fighting back and losing a million pounds.
In honor of this accomplishment, Vinnie is offering my audience one month of free VIP access at vinnietortorich.com/rowe, and if you’ve struggled with weight loss, I encourage you to pick his brain. This is the place where Vinnie has regular chats with the Rowebies, answers questions, and offers all sorts of useful tips about how to navigate the minefield that your local grocery store has become. If you want to learn how to lose weight by cutting back on sugar and grain, give this episode a listen, and then, see what the Rowebies are up to.
Or in this case, down to…
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