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the jurogan experience another thing that's really unusual about you is your diet yes you're famous you're famous for eating pasta and homemade pizza and only eating once a day every night i eat like this so how this started was um i've been cutting away and dieting my whole life right right and you almost developed an eating disorder from always dieting and cutting weight for so many years of your life right it just naturally happens so i would binge eat i would starve you know what i mean like it was very unhealthy the way i would live how much weight were you cutting uh just at a young age cutting weight you know i would always be cutting like five pounds 10 pounds nothing crazy but i've done crazy cuts also so you just die from those also but um all that time just messes up your brain where you never feel like you're satisfied and you never full you know so that part of your brain that says oh you're full stop eating i stopped having from cutting weight so much right so what i started doing was intermittent fasting so i would just not eat during the day because honestly i don't like eating before training i feel bloated when i eat so i would just eat at night but i started just eating the foods i love um i'm italian so i grew up just eating pizza and pasta so i make pizza and pasta every night i have a pizza oven in my house and i roll out the dough make everything and then for dessert i'll eat a pint of acai and my weight would be lighter doing this diet than eating like no carbs and all these things so my mind i was like wait i could eat all the foods i love if i eat once a day at night you know so it was a no-brainer for me and my weight is lighter and i feel better because i'm fasting so i started doing it wow so there's no issue with performance at all that i mean given your blood sugars and everything like that when you're training for extraordinary amounts of time during the day and not eating so how i see it is i have to earn the food at night so training all day is like me working for the food at night
you know right like how people used to hunt and gather for food so that's my mentality and my best performance in world ge worlds was in december i had my best performance ever and it was on that diet and i made 125 easy and so when you do like day of competition same thing you won't eat all day day of competition i'll change my diet and i'll eat a piece of bread and like a little honey just you need some food in your stomach to deal with the nerves and adrenaline that changes for me at least yeah um so bread and honey huh bread honey rice cakes just very mild and some sugar but nothing's too heavy and when you are getting where's your protein coming from what i ate a lot of cheese cheese is that basically all your protein basically um i eat a lot of mozzarella um a lot of parmesan a lot of pecorino romano do you put any animal products in your pizza chicken or meat or anything like that no meat no meat at all no i love seafood and meat but um when i'm training for competition i feel cleaner when i'm not eating meat interesting and your body doesn't feel like do you feel like the protein that you're getting from cheese is enough i feel the best when i'm doing this like i feel like most energy like cleaner i don't understand how but it works that's such a crazy diet for you to just eat pasta and pizza and only eat at night and then train all day mo i would most people if you tell that to they'd go what are you talking about like if you brought that to a performance coach oh they would be so ridiculous what are you doing have you talked to anybody about that or they try to talk you out of it yeah a lot of people said oh that's so catabolic right because you're breaking down your body doing it but for me it's sustainability and i could sustain eating and training and keeping a routine doing this and i love my food so um i don't think i would be able to compete how i do if i ate normal have you tried different ways of eating like different different diets and different kinds of combinations of food before yeah i've done every diet before honestly no carbs high protein a lot of
meat you know but none of them are sustainable for me this i don't have to change how i eat when i train right i could just eat like this and i love what i'm eating i go to bed with a full stomach you know that's i'm happy i'm always smiling when i'm eating like this most people look at you like i've seen pictures of you without your shirt on you're so ripped most people don't believe that that's possible if you're just eating peach pizza and pasta yeah well i train all day every second you know so if you're fasting for 20 24 hours and you just train every second like your body just burns all the fat on it right so you're basically eating for like one hour i guess yeah and i watch a movie and i cook and just eat wow and that's just your daily routine every day you know and i enjoy cooking pizza so after training i'll get like i'll start making the dough and so that's my routine every day and how many pizzas do you eat tonight one big pizza like like that fits on the in the pizza oven you know and about half a pound to a pound of pasta and a pint of acai i i once calculated it it was like 7 000 calories 7 000 calories and do you know how many grams of protein are involved in that i eat so much cheese that it was actually a really high amount of protein interesting i've never heard of anybody getting cheese as their primary protein source yeah but you need to be an elite athlete sustainability yeah it's keeping me able to train and enjoy my training and keeping me sane well i'm already insane but it's keeping me more sane how did did you read about this and decided to give it a chance or was it something that you you'd seen other friends do so i just i hated eating what happened was i started doing this because i was doing a lot of seminars and i would be traveling all day and i would never be able to eat when i was traveling then i'd eat a big meal at night and then when i started feeling was a lot of clarity when i started fasting
so i stopped eating breakfast and i started feeling better training not eating before training i'll just drink caffeine so i drink caffeine during the day and i feel like that gives me the energy and i eat so much at night that in the morning i'm still full from the night before and i'm just working off the food and then by the time i'm hungry again it's nighttime and i'm ready to eat wow and so who taught you how to make pizza um my grandma taught me how to make pizza uh she passed away um like four months ago but um she taught me how to make pizza and when you do it are you making the dough do you have like a starter like how does that work so i could make the dough but with um all the things but it takes too long i don't have patience so i just get pizza dough from like whole foods or like trader joe's and i'll start with that though but then i'm really particular with the cheeses and like i go to like three different supermarkets for like cheese basil all the different ingredients so it comes out really good damn making me hungry yeah me too i love pizza and there's something about like a good pizza that you make yourself in one of those ovens that you have it's so satisfying yeah well it's so satisfying to even to watch you know yeah and you slice it up and the melted cheese and you pick up the first slice oh my god much more time before you get to eat um probably tonight again like it's where it's like 3 22 right now like depends on the day probably after this i'll eat like seven o'clock six o'clock so have you trained at all today not at all um no because my appendix so oh so i'm just doing a lot of cardio right now and i'm training a little bit but just very safe when can you go back to full rolling well the doctor told me like hard full rolling like middle of august beginning of august so i could start then but uh right now just lighter training just keeping your body drilling still studying but i just maintaining right and so this um one of the things i saw a video of your whole pizza setup like it seems like there's a company that you use and they they send you certain pizza
dough yes what companies are um it's called kavita for olive oil they send it from italy um it's an olive oil from italy and i also have a pasta that i use and they send it from italy too so it's just way better quality what's the difference i feel like the pasta from italy seems like it's less gluten it seems cleaner like when you eat it you don't feel as bloated um i it's just different you know um the olive oil um apparently they don't change the ph levels in it so in america all the olive oils have to be like a certain ph like this is just so natural they have to be in america i think yeah because what i've noticed about american food it's more processed and every time i travel out of america i get lighter naturally just not eating the processed american food it is wild when you go to italy um because my family and i used to go to italy basically every year before covid and uh everyone's thin yeah like italians in america are so fat and that's how i eat my pizza in pasta it's almost like someone from italy you know not like american italian food right so i think that's why i'm so skinny eating like that does this company sell pizza dough as well no they don't i'm getting my pizza dough usually from like whole foods so what are they using for the dough though do you know just regular pizza dough like i don't care like i think i whole foods makes it healthier right because it's whole foods is that real no i don't think so no but um just to say that but um yeah it's just regular pizza dough i use and so um you have basically been doing it this way for how long i've been doing it this way since 29 20 20 the last three years wow three years of just pizza and pasta and just strangling everybody i feel like i'm better eating like this i'm happier happier makes you better in life right maybe i wonder you know i mean i used to be miserable dieting all the time yeah the dieting i think is terrible and i think that there's some real benefit to intermittent fasting and there's definitely some real benefit to giving your body some time to digest whatever
food that you have i think there's a lot of people that are like packing food on top of food yeah you know there's like this constant cycle through their system where their digestive system is always processing things yeah what's important is what works right yeah no one knows their body better than a professional athlete so i'm sure your understanding of what works and doesn't work for for your body is pretty finely tuned yeah you're so in tune with our bodies i think it's also like a great example of how much people vary in their nutritional needs you know like there's some people that don't feel good unless they're eating a lot of meat and then there's some people who don't feel good unless they're not eating meat and they're just eating like the way it sounds like your body is like very carb-centric yeah so what's interesting about myself when i was a kid my parents couldn't get me to eat anything except pasta pasta with butter olive oil there's a lot of kids like that some kids they were like they were like trying to give me a toy they're like if you eat this steak will give you this toy but my whole life all i ate was like pasta and pizza so what's interesting is me eating the food that i ate since i was a little kid my body absorbs it the best and i feel the best eating it so is it because i ate that for so many years as a kid that my body just knows how to deal with it kind of makes sense yeah it's interesting it's like how alcoholics can process alcohol better yeah they're homeostasis yes so when you go to a restaurant do you or just order pasta always pasta pizza that's it that's a crazy diet man i don't think there's anybody that i've ever heard of that's like a legitimate professional athlete at the highest level that eats like that do you know of anybody else i really don't i don't but it works for me it does work for you but it's kind of crazy that you have the courage to try this out and to do it because a lot of like elite athletes they will essentially mimic the patterns that other elite athletes in terms of like diet recovery you know oh that guy won a gold
medal in wrestling and this is what he does so i'll do that yeah totally um and i've tried all the diets like i've been on every diet but it's not sustainable for me like um where i could keep training like i am you know like i feel like i would want to quit jiu jitsu if i had to eat like like those diets because i've did it too many years what have you done you've done like keto keto i've done i've done like like five meals a day like protein small amount of carbs or where you're deficient in just fat you're deficient in carbs you're deficient in protein you know i've done all of them have you done them under a nutritionist supervision yes yeah and this was like while you're trying to cut weight yeah and i feel like a big thing is because of the eating stuff i've had since i was a kid i have a hard time with portions because of that so because i don't have to have portions with this diet i'm able to do it yeah i saw a video of you at a restaurant with a giant bowl of pasta and a jug of olive oil you're just pouring the olive oil all over the pasta but i guess you need that those fats from that olive oil too right yeah and um it's funny because i once got kicked out of a pasta restaurant and all you could eat pasta restaurant for eating too many pasta bowls come on so i go in kicked you out they told me i'm done they like so i go in uh this place was in uh san jose i go in it says unlimited possible so the first thing i say to the person at the front desk what's the record they're like what do you mean like how many pasta bowls has someone ever had and they're like five so now i'm on both six and the manager comes over to me like angry and he's like you're done no more i'm like but it's unlimited possible he said your max has been you're expired wow what a stupid thing to do but then that restaurant like a month later went out of business so i might have ate them out of business i'm sure you didn't but their attitude probably ate them out of business yeah that's a shitty attitude like if you say unlimited that means unlimited exactly and you don't make someone feel bad for adhering to the boundaries that you set up
especially i'm not this big fat guy i'm this small skinny guy i know that's probably what's really crazy right you're walking in there 135 pounds eating six giant bowls of pasta what a dumbass restaurant