Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Grand Master Rorion Gracie Reveals His Secrets To A...

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- Gracie jiu-jitsu, the Gracie Diet and today, it's amazing, I have Rorion Gracie here, his father, who is actually right here is the man who created Brazilian jiu-jitsu,.
And his son here, Rorion, brought Brazilian jiu-jitsu to the United States, was a cocreator of the UFC in 1993, which is now everywhere you go, you've got mixed martial arts, and it really comes back to his family, so he was nice enough to come by the house and I wanted to just share with you some very important things, not just about diet,.
But about philosophy on life, overcoming stress, worry, how to discipline yourself, how to create a daily routine, you know, really how.
To transform your life, so thank you for coming. - My pleasure, thank you very much. - He's a ninth degree red belt, this belt right here is the highest belt.
You can get, his father is a tenth degree, only the founders of jiu-jitsu, the brothers here, and so there's only a few people that have the red belt ninth degree. - That's correct..
- Yeah..
- A handful of people around the world. - And your sons, Rener, he's a black belt. - Yes, yes..
- To become a red belt ... - You have to be at least 50, so they have a ways to go..
- Yeah, 'cause the coral belt comes in between. - That is correct, yeah. The black belt goes up to six degrees, and then seventh and.
Eighth are coral belts, and then ninth is red. - Is red..
- Oh, okay, yeah, they've been doing jiu-jitsu, there's a cool picture here, he had his gi on before he was even old enough to remember, you probably don't remember that picture. (men laugh).
Awesome, I got the jiu-jitsu flag here, Brazilian flag, the US one on the highest there, so this is where I do Brazilian jiu-jitsu, I am a blue belt, so I have a long way to go, but ... - But you're advancing, you got a red belt in other subjects, I figure. - No, not a red belt, not a red belt, maybe a brown, in some other areas..
The Gracie Diet, I'm here with the founder of the UFC, mixed martial arts, Rorion Gracie, his father is also the founder of Brazilian jiu-jitsu, a lot of you have seen on my social media and Snapchat that I do Brazilian jiu-jitsu and he was nice enough to come here and talk, and we're gonna talk.
About all kinds of stuff that's important, you know, how to discipline the mind, one of the most common questions I get is how to overcome procrastination, discipline yourself, build a daily routine that's productive and then we're gonna also talk about the Gracie Diet, which is very, you know, the Gracie family is in the Guinness book of World Records for the most professional athletes in one family. There's I think something like 50 to 70 professional athletes and so this diet not only is, you know, for health but as part of a whole lifestyle and so thank you for coming. - My pleasure, thank you very much for the opportunity. - Very honored that you're here. Maybe we could start, for somebody watching, the story of how Brazilian jiu-jitsu came about, how your father started it, how you, this is a picture, actually, of you, right here,.
When he was very ....
- A baby..
- One years old or two years old with a gi on, practicing jiu-jitsu, for those of you who don't know much about if you watch any UFC fighting now, any MMA fighting, they call it mixed martial arts 'cause they do.
A combination of boxing and striking, but the foundation of mixed martial arts is really Brazilian jiu-jitsu, because your family came to America, when was it, 94, you started the UFC? - 93, actually..
- 93, and nobody could beat the Gracie family. Everybody was doing karate, they were doing boxing, they were wrestling, I remember watching the first UFC one, two, three, and you know, one skinny Gracie family member came and just nobody could, how many did he win?.
- He won three UFCs..
- He won the first three against people, that was when there was no weight classes. - That's right, no weight classes, no time limits. - No time limits, people were elbowing, it was vicious, and he was about, he's your, how's he related to you? - Royce is my little brother. - That's your brother. - Yes..
- Okay, so Royce came in and he's probably 170 pounds. - Something like that, yeah, 75 or something like that. - He was the lightest guy in the event for sure. - That was a very good example of what proper technique can do, so he went in there and put on a nice show and ultimately changed the world. - Yeah, it's changed the world. Now there's your family, your sons have schools, I mean, there's schools around the world. I train, I was just down in San Diego. I just trained, I found a Gracie jiu-jitsu academy, trained there, almost every country in the world has something, I was in Norway, they're doing Gracie jiu-jitsu. - It's all over the place. - So what's the story for someone who doesn't know? Take us back over 100 years ago. - (Laughs) Thank you.
Again for the opportunity. It's great to be here. - No, thank you..
- A former jiu-jitsu.
Instructor came to Brazil about 100 years ago, early 1900s, as an aide to the Japanese immigration colony..
- Was he from Japan?.
- He was from Japan..
- Okay, and my grandfather, Gastao, was a very influential man in Brazil at the time, so he helped the Japanese gentleman get settled in northern Brazil, and to show his gratitude, the Japanese instructor offered to teach jiu-jitsu to my then 13-year-old Uncle Carlos. Who was the oldest of eight kids, five of 'em were boys. Uncle Carlos was kind of a wild kid, but as soon as he started learning jiu-jitsu,.
He found himself in that and fell in love with the art, trained under the Japanese instructors for a few years and when the family moved from northern Brazil to Rio, he then started teaching jiu-jitsu with his friend, and his brothers, my dad, Helio, was physically a very frail child..
- He was a small one in the family, right? - He was younger than the other ones, also he was 11 years younger than my uncle Carlos, but still had a very frail health, he would run up a flight of stairs and have fainting spells. - Wow..
- Nobody knew exactly why, so the doctors at the time recommended he be kept away from any kind of physical activity. - So my dad used to watch his brothers practice jiu-jitsu. Nothing else to do, no television, just kind of spend the day watching his.
Brothers, until one day when he was 16 years old, a student came for a class and my uncles are not around to teach the class, so my father offered to teach the man a lesson, and the guy agreed, okay, kid, let's play, my father stepped on the mat and taught the man a lesson. - Huh..
- When Uncle Carlos.
Showed up very apologetic, I'm sorry, I'm late to the class, the student said, listen, I had a class with your little brother, Helio, and I liked it, in fact, I want to be his student from now on. My dad was promoted to be a teacher by his student. - What the old man soon realized is that the techniques he had memorized require certain amount of physical ability and strength and speed which he did not have. - Okay..
- So through trial and error, he started modifying the traditional Japanese techniques that the brothers were practicing and giving more emphasis to natural body movements, simpler, shorter moves, better timing, better leverage and so forth and that modifications is what gave birth to what's known today as Gracie jiu-jitsu or Brazilian jiu-jitsu, so my dad did not invent jiu-jitsu, he just made it easier for the little guy, like he liked to explain himself as. In order to test these changes in a martial art, you can't just theorize about that, so he started issuing challenges to everybody in Brazil and becoming very.
Successful in the matches against different styles of martial arts. - So he would just.
Fight, he would put a ... I heard he would put.
Something in the newspaper, anybody come fight me or something like that. - Uncle Carlos started with that, you know,.
If you're gonna have a broken arm or a broken rib, call me, Carlos at such and such an address..
- You know that's gonna get men, men are macho, they're gonna show up and be, like, who is this guy? - But ultimately my dad started challenging everybody and defeating everybody and became the first sports icon in Brazil's history..
- Now back in the 30s, Pele the soccer player wasn't even born, so there was nobody else in terms of sports that the Brazilian youth.
Had to root for, and like I said, the old man became this iconic figure that's beyond anything else. - And he's, for people who know the belt system, you see him and his.
Brother and the brothers are the only red belt tenth degree. - Yes, that's many years later. - That's the highest. - The highest..
- And you're a ninth degree. - I'm a ninth degree, yes. - Red belt, which is the highest you can get because ... - Because I'm not the founder. - Yes, anyway, so my dad started challenging everybody, becoming this huge guy in Brazil, very popular, the family became very, you know, defeating everybody, stuff like that, very successful, and then fought the.
Longest fight in history, one round of three hours and 40 minutes. - Wow, who was that against? - Volda Massentena$, a former student of his at the academy..
- Was he Japanese ... - No, not Japanese, a Brazilian guy, 25 years old, my dad was 43 years old at the time and the fight was just crazy long, anyways, so ... - Wait, who won?.
- Ultimately, the guy won the fight. - But it took three hours. - Three hours and 40 minutes, and my father basically lost through exhaustion, eventually, he eventually was just so tired he couldn't take it anymore, but anyways ... - There was a very impressive fight and both of them and stuff like that, so my dad becoming this huge guy in Brazil, for me was growing up as if I was living with Superman..
- Right..
- You know, everybody knew the old man like a movie star, wherever he goes, he's very popular, that kind of stuff, and it was great to be born up in a family like this and just everybody knows, it's a very convenient stuff. When I was 16 years old, I decided to come to the United States, so I saved money for a year, teaching my private class, which I started teaching very young and in the Gracie family you don't have much of a choice of how early you start doing jiu-jitsu, you're pretty conceived for this. (laughs) - You have a grandson that's how old? - I have 10 grandchildren. - 10 grandchildren, and they start when they're ... - He just started..
- One year, six months. - There's a diaper, and then there's a kimono to hide the diaper, you know, anyways, so I start saving money by teaching classes, stuff like that and then at 17 I came to the United States to spend a month's vacation, I found that right before I came that if I was a member of the YMCA, I would have a one dollar discount, which for me at the.
Time was a lot of money, so I was saving my money and stuff like that,.
I stayed at the YMCA in Hollywood. - Oh really..
- So you mean to sleep? - To sleep..
- Oh wow..
- At the time ....
- Not to go to the gym. - No, no, no, to sleep, they were like a hostel at the time, people.
Would come in and sleep, so I joined the YMCA in Brazil a month before I came so I could get the ID and become a member, so I came here and stayed at the YMCA and for security reasons, I didn't wanna leave.
My cash and my return ticket in my room, so I gave to the receptionist to put in the safe.
Of the company, which she did. A week later, when I went to get some more cash, I found out that the.
Receptionist had stolen my cash and my ticket, so I called the manager and he said I'm very sorry, I'm gonna give you a couple of bucks to buy a sandwich, but I'm not buying you a new ticket, call the airline company, which I did. They told me that it's gonna take 'em six months to make sure nobody used my ticket so they could give me a new one..
- So I did not want to leave my father, you know, worried about it, so I called my dad in Brazil, say, Dad, guess what, I love America, I'm gonna be here for at least another six months. (interviewer laughs).
- So fate, fate..
- I didn't tell the old man that, fate indeed, yes, I didn't tell the old man that I had no money, no ticket, didn't speak English, didn't know anybody, he would have a heart attack, so I learned very early on in my life ....
- How old were you?.
- 17..
- You weren't even 18, and you were in a new country. - That's right..
- No money..
- No money, no nothing, yeah. I learned very early on in my life that all bad things.
Happen for a good reason. No matter what ....
- 100%, no doubt..
- You think all ....
- No doubt, I'm a living example of that. - But do you think you have to recognize that and turn it into good, because sometimes people, something bad happens and they get so depressed they never learn from it. - That's right, that's the trick. If they can turn things around and say, wait, what's the good in it for me, it changes immediately. Always, look at all.
Different, how do I say, crossroads in your life where something very very bad happened, ultimately it's for the good, it will create some new opportunity, that's what I see has happened to me many times. - Anyways, but just the question of looking at things, a person can see a glass half-full, half-empty, depends on the way you see the things. For me, worked out well to understand and accept that mindset, okay, so I find myself eventually looking for work and find myself flipping hamburgers at a place called White Castle. Doing the burgers..
- Yeah, yeah..
- And then my trip that was gonna be a month-long trip stretched out to be a year long trip, that's 1970. Find myself for a few days really struggling, no money, panhandling on street corners, asking for spare change so I could eat, sleeping on newspaper on the sidewalk, all that is part of growing up. And ultimately after one year, bought the ticket, went back to Brazil,.
Everything worked out fine, but all I could think about is America, I got hooked, I loved the idea of, you know, land of opportunity, being able to support myself at 17, 18 years old for a year, and it was fascinating, you know. Saw Jimi Hendrix in.
Concert a couple of times. And so anyways, a great experience, made some good friends, and then I spent two years after returning to Brazil, I spent two years saving money so I could come back to the states, which I did in 72, visit some friends for a few months, and then went back to Brazil, went to law school in Brazil, graduated law school, I'm an attorney, I never practiced law, but I have a law degree, and then after finishing law school in '78, I decided it was time to come back to United States and share the jiu-jitsu that my family had perfected with the rest of the.
World, it was my dream. So I came back, I first stayed with this friend of mine whose mother was an actress, so I would stay, you know, she would go to work in the studios and I would be home alone. - But I can't be doing nothing, I had to do something, so I'm washing the windows, I'm cleaning the bathrooms, I'm cooking dinner, cutting the grass, anything to show appreciation for her letting me stay at her place and before you know it, I start looking for work, and she said, what do you want to do, I said, anything, do you wanna clean other people's homes, I said, of course, so I start calling her friends, she starts calling her friends, saying hey,.
My friend Rorion is a great cleaner, send him over here, over here, so I'm cleaning everybody's house, right, a whole bunch of ladies, everybody in the business, and eventually I land on the house of a woman whose husband was the assistant director of a TV show, Starsky and Hutch..
- And 35 years ago, she says, hey, you're not a bad-looking guy, how come you're not in the movie business, I said, that's right, how come I'm not in the movie business, so she said take some pictures and my husband will take you to our casting office and you'll start doing extra work, and I said done..
- So I got my broom and I started doing extra work, Fantasy Island, Hill Street Blues, Heart to Heart, Rockford Files, Quincy, you know, Love Boat..
- From Brazil to Hollywood. - Right to Hollywood, so now I'm doing extra work in the movies, having fun with that, and at the same time I left the lady's house, rented a house with some friends of mine, put some mats in my garage, and every person I met invited for a free class. - So I'm working in movies as an extra five days a week and teaching class Saturdays and Sundays. - As my schedule got busy and I started working more and more here, I started cutting down the hours working in the movies and teaching more classes. - So first class is on the house, I happen to be an amazing teacher, people are gonna fall in love with the class for sure, and then if you like.
It, you bring a friend, you get you another free class. If you bring 10 friends, I get you 10 free classes, and that's how the word was spreading around. It was not uncommon, I started teaching class in my garage in 1979, early '80s, that somebody would say, hold on, my former kung-fu instructor or karate, Tae Kwon Do or wrestling or boxing or judo, does not believe in jiu-jitsu, he thinks that I'm wasting my time training with you, he wants to challenge, he wants to challenge you to a fight, would you accept that, I said, of course, bring him in, so the guy would bring their martial arts instructor to challenge me to a no-holds barred fight in my garage in Third Street, Hermosa Beach. - Hmm..
- And of course, I'll tell my students, on Tuesday night, at eight o'clock, some kung-fu guy is showing up..
- So you have everybody watch. - Everybody come in and watch. - Some of those are on Youtube, maybe, is it your brother, Rickson, is Rickson your brother? - Yeah, Rickson's my brother, yes. - 'Cause I've seen some challenges. - There's some challenges from the old days..
- The kung-fu guy always loses. (laughs) - Kung-Fu is like other martial arts, they're all good, they're just limited.
On their possibilities. You know, it's not my fault. - [Host] They're not.
Completely rounded out. - That's right, it's not my fault, somebody had to be number one, I just happened to be it. So the bottom line is this, so these guys from different styles of martial arts kept coming to the.
House and challenging me over and over and over, hundreds of times, in a 10-year span..
- Wow, really, that many times? - Yes, hundreds of times, I'm bringing someone tonight, great, bring him..
- Did you win every time? - It's not me, it's what I know. - The sport, not the sport, the skill. - As we say in Brazil, in a blind man's land, he who has one eye is king. - [Host] Right..
- You know what I mean? Because the striking martial arts, karate, kung-fu, boxing, Tae Kwon Do, they rely on punching, right, and it's okay that you can punch someone if the guy's bigger,.
Heavier, and stronger, you can knock him out, great, but if you are fighting someone who's bigger heavier and stronger than you and you rely on the punch, even if you punch him in the face and break his nose, that doesn't mean he's gonna stop. - He cannot get a hold of you, throw you on the ground, then if you don't know how to deal with the grappling aspect of it, you're very limited. - And the realism that my father had adapted and implemented on the jiu-jitsu techniques that we do is to deal with a person who's bigger, heavier, and stronger and wants to crush you on the ground also. - [Host] 'Cause that's usually the most dangerous situation. - Of course..
- You get attacked by somebody, for women, too. - Of course, that's the realistic situation,.
You don't want to fight a little five year old kid, it's the kid's father that will have you worried about, you know, the guy is big strong and wants to beat you up, so you have to know how to defend yourself from that. It's not even a question of beating them up.
But knowing enough that you won't get hurt..
- That's the science. - Of jiu-jitsu especially, anyways, so the guys would come and challenge me and we had a bunch of challenge mats and stuff like that, and like I said, after 10 years it dawned on me that I could not be in a garage challenging one person at a time to show the world about it, that's not the way to go, you gotta, you know, and then we rented a little school in Torrance, you know. - [Host] The school that's still there? - No..
- [Host] In Torrance. - It was in Torrance also, yes. And people say, gosh, how come you stayed in Torrance, you know, and I said I have so many cop friends that were coming to have class with me on the garage, you know, and I said, you know, these guys are my friends, sometimes my left foot I go faster than I should at a stop sign, and they say, hold on, go slow, see you in class tonight, and I say, I'm not getting out of this town, so that's why I kind of stay around the neighborhood, anyway, so after hundreds of challenges and things like that, it dawned on me that I could be doing this with one-on-one in a garage or even.
A small school in.
Torrance, that's the videos you were talking about, the ones we have of the academy in Torrance, the first one, some challenge matches, and some of the Gracie in Action DVDs that we have, so what happens after those, it dawned on me, I can't do this, so I came up with the concept of creating the UFC, where you can showcase to the world different styles of martial arts fighting against one another in a three-fight elimination round,.
Eight fighters, they fight each other, the losers get out, they keep fighting each other until we have one guy defeating everybody that night. - And that was when there was no weight classes. - No weight classes, no time limits. - How many years was that? - That was the first five UFCs. - First five UFCs..
- Yes, that's when I was involved in UFC, those days, and because for me it was very important to allow different styles of.
Martial arts to do anything and everything they wanted, you couldn't have rules, you know, the idea of the octagon, for example, I've seen, I've been in enough fights that you can't see if the guys are getting beat up, he wants to run away between the ropes in a boxing ring, but the idea of the cage is so the guy can't run away, in fact, movie director John Milius who was a student of mine at the time, invited me to be a creative director and John and I came up with the concept for the octagon, you know, we thought of a moat of alligators, shark tank around, so if the guy want to run away, he would get chewed up by sharks and stuff,.
But ultimately we settled for the octagon, it turned out to be a great idea, still happening today. - They still call it the octagon. - Yes, yes, so it worked out great. So with that said of course, I think I mentioned to you I was ....
- How old were you, so this was in 1994 when you started UFC? - '93..
- '93, sorry..
- The first one, yeah, I was 47, 48, something like that. So eventually the thing of course exploded,.
It caught on big time, it was a very successful experience, you know, and it just turned out to be a great showcase opportunity for jiu-jitsu, and the message and the dream I had of making people realize the importance of knowing jiu-jitsu was done, I mean, after the first event, the US Army calls me up and said, Mr. Gracie, we saw the little guy beat the big guy, we need to learn this, and asked me to create the program for them, which I did, that for the last 25 years has been the official hand-to-hand combat program for the US Army..
- Really, that you created. - Yes, the FBI, the.
Secret Service, the DEA, Border Patrol, every major federal law enforcement agency in the country and a.
Whole bunch of PDs ... - [Host] Secret Service, I mean, and Special Forces. - Everybody, yeah, all of the trained jiu-jitsu, the whole thing's official, it's all over the place, which is great..
- Nice group of friends to have, you know? (laughs) - Great group to have behind you. - That's right, so once this stuff exploded.
And kind of the dream is fulfilled, I'm like this, you know, now what, so a few years ago, as you know, the boys came up, Ryron and Rener, came up with the idea of Gracie University, which now has ... - [Host] It's an online school. - It's an online school that you can learn jiu-jitsu online, it has reached, you know, ridiculous amount of people, the United Nations has 193 nations affiliated to it, Gracie University has 196 countries. - More than the United Nations. - We're welcome in more countries than the United Nations which is an amazing idea, brilliant idea, was a very dedicated pushing that button to make it happen and so forth, but for me, it's, like, jiu-jitsu is on the fast track, now what? - [Host] Yeah..
- And one day, about five years ago, I had this epiphany, it's the health. - [Host] The health part. - The health part..
- Because one thing.
People should understand is that is jiu-jitsu, people who practice it, it's not just fighting, it's a whole way of thinking about life, a discipline ... - Yeah, jiu-jitsu does impact your level of confidence, and when you're confident, it changes a lot of the aspects, or the prospects that you have in life, I mean, the whole thing changes, one thing is you walk around insecure, the other one is a businessman, if you are confident.
On your possibilities, you deal with that meeting in a way that is very different. - So the confidence aspect of jiu-jitsu is really impactful in one's life, so there's that side to it, and of course the exercise and the fitness and all that good stuff, but the diet is beyond that. - Yeah, and so you wrote this book, how long ago did you write this? - Four and a half, five years ago. - Five years ago, the Gracie Diet, and I've read this before and you brought me another copy. - And the key thing, and one of the things for people, there are so many diets out there, the unique thing, one of the unique things about this diet is it's big on food combinations. - Because a lot of diets say, don't eat bread, you know, if you're ketogenic, don't eat fruit or eat lots of fruit and yours is much more about you can eat it.
But not together..
- The concept of the.
Idea of the Gracie Diet, developed by my uncle Carlos, by the way, as soon as my dad and his brothers are getting involved in the early days in competing, fighting, pretty much running the academy, Uncle Carlos was the first one to learn jiu-jitsu in the Gracie family, took a step back, became the manager for the brothers and started studying how to keep everybody healthy. They are not big strong guys, they couldn't afford to have a headache before a fight or a toothache or a stomachache, you know what I'm saying, or heartburn, if you're gonna fight, it's gonna impact your performance, he.
Realized very early on the close correlation between good health and good performance, if you have to do a speech tomorrow and you have one grain of rice on your shoe, it's gonna mess up your speech, because that little grain of rice becomes a distraction. - Let alone an ulcer or a heartburn or a headache, so you can't just wonder if that's gonna happen or not. People are so accustomed to feel good one day.
And bad on the other, good one day, they don't know the.
Ingredients of their food, therefore, if your body's alkaline, you feel great the whole time, there's no headaches, there's no stomachaches, nothing, every works.
Perfect, by some drives, people are just guided by the pleasure of what they're eating, and pleasure becomes.
The determining factor why they eat this or that 'cause they like to eat, now remember, food is a very cultural thing. Great Grandma taught.
Grandma, Grandma taught Mom, Mom taught us, and we're gonna teach our kids.
What we like to eat, bottom line is not everything you like is good for you. - Yeah, especially with modern food, they put so many things and trick your tastebuds. - Yes, 100%, absolutely right, so people like to smoke, but doesn't mean it's good for them. The people who like to use drugs, it's not good for them, so the fact that you like it doesn't mean it's okay, so the concept of the Gracie Diet is to learn to like what's good for you, fortunately, I was born in a family where my Uncle Carlos, who was not a doctor, spends 65 years studying food combining, he literally using the family as guinea pigs, we had a very big house in a place called Terrazop, which is an hour from downtown Rio, 21 bedroom and 18 bathrooms. - We counted one time, 37 children, all relatives staying there for summer vacation. - It's crazy stuff,.
But the bottom line ... - That must have been fun, actually. - It was a lot of fun indeed, crazy times, yes, wonderful times, so all the meals are prepared according to the Gracie diet, so the kids would just eat what we had, this is it, this is lunch, right here, they have no choice, so there's no, I don't want to eat this there's no such thing, that's like a little army, you know, a very spartan lifestyle, training jiu-jitsu,.
Eating right, that was a very unique environment. - [Host] And you saw.
People's health change as they started doing that, this diet. - We just grew up like this. - You grew up..
- There was no choice. This is it..
- How about the other kids that were just visiting for the summer for the first time, did they notice a difference? - Those 37 kids were all relatives, they're all family..
- Okay, so they were all ... - But if every time we had people out, they would just fall into the groove and eat like we ate. There was no choice of taking junk, no Coca-Cola in the fridge ever. You know, there's no.
Sodas and stuff like that, it didn't exist, and.
Everybody just ate right and learned to eat right, and that was the bottom line, so when I wrote this book, my idea was to share with people, because when I was teaching class out of my garage, a lot of people came and said, Rorion, tell me about what you're eating now, what kind of meal is that, you're preparing this and that, and I kept giving them some tips, but it was never enough, so I decided to write the book, explain to everybody how to fall into it and then literally impact their lives in a positive way. - Let me read some of the, there's a lot to this, go out and buy this book, they can get it on Amazon? - Amazon, yes..
- So the Gracie Diet in a nutshell here. For juicing apples, melons, pineapples, carrots,.
Use a juicer, oh, this is, sorry, this is the juicing, it's big on juicing, fasting, you fast once a month. - Well, I fast once a month. - Food combinations is the main thing. Actually, here's my breakfast that I was gonna eat.
And then I ate a little bit, but I felt guilty, so we had bread was okay. - Bread and butter and the kale, the eggs and the kale was great..
- Kale was great, but I had this and you said I shouldn't have this at the same time. - [Rorion] That is correct. - What's the reason?.
- The reason is this, because these are the citrus fruits, you know, the strawberries and the blueberries.
Are acidic foods, acidic foods should not be mixed with anything else..
- So you eat that alone. - Strawberries, you have a bucket of just strawberries, make a meal out of that, same thing with the blueberries and blackberries, all acidic fruits ... - Can you have blueberries and strawberries together? - No, no, only one kind of acidic fruit per meal, that's it. - Nothing else..
- Because what happens then if you eat them at the same time? - It brings acidity to the system, yes, that's what you wanna avoid. - But how come if you just have one it doesn't bring as much acidity? - Because it's not mixed - Oh, okay..
- We all need gasoline. - We all need fire..
- Don't put 'em together. - But it's important to have gasoline, it's important to have fire, so divide 'em,.
So different fruits is great, have a variety of fruits and vegetables and stuff is great,.
The trick is how to combine them right. This should not be called a diet. Should make a point of saying that, clarifying this, because it's not limiting, right, look at the list. - Yeah, you can eat almost anything. - Anything..
- So no pork is one thing not to have. - The only thing we don't eat is pork. - Pork..
- Some things you eat a little bit less, like you said, like,.
Dairy, have some cheese but not a lot of milk and things like that. - That's right, you don't need milk, the less milk you drink the better, but if you like to drink milk, it's okay. - You're not forbidden from eating it. - Drink your milk, it's just, I don't drink milk, I don't need milk, you know, the idea of, you know, a good-looking lady in a bathing suit or a strong-looking guy in a bathing suit, a little milk mustache, they wanna sell milk. - That's a commercial, yeah. - Of course, it's not something that you need. - And this is kind of a quick overview of the groups of food, right? - So you have, we'll take some closeups of this, we have ....
- Vegetables, right here, vegetables - Group A, so Group A you can combine all of these things with ....
- One of Group B..
- With one of Group B, which is here. - Or it can be grouped with itself. - Of course, all group combines with each other. - So for example, in Group A you have ... - Vegetables and greens. - Green beans, kale, mushrooms, so you can have, like, a salad with one meat or seafood, like chicken. - Two or three or four. - Two or three, or you can also have fat and oily foods like avocado..
- Almonds, avocado, cashews, all that. - Melted cheese, and you can combine it with one starch. - With rice, not rice and beans, or with pasta. - So you could have rice, but not, you wouldn't have this with bread and rice..
- Correct, only one of each. - Now Group C..
- Those are the sweet fruits and cheeses, yes. - So these can combine with a starch. - [Rorion] As long as you don't have fat or the starch. - Which one's fat, there? - [Rorion] Butter, yeah, oil or butter, yeah..
- So you could have,.
Just say, lentil soup? - If it's not with heavy fat. - No fat..
- No oil, no butter, no nothing. - Then you could have an apple. - Right, you can have watermelon juice, you can have dates, you can have papaya, and you can have some crackers. - D is also acidic fruits, right? - D are the acidic fruit group, right. - What was C?.
- C is the sweet fruits. - Oh, sweet fruits, so you separate sweet ... - From acidic..
- What about this, green tea, what do you think? - It's okay, tea is neutral. - Tea is neutral, goes with everything. - Everything you want, yes. - Just like water..
- So you can have water with A, B, C, there's E, there's A, B, C, D, E. - So then D is your ... - F is right here, the milk. - So D things, acidic fruits do not combine with each other, so this, like for example, mango, you should just eat a mango..
- Only a mango..
Not a mango, a whole bunch of mangos. I ate 15 mangos in a meal. - Really..
- Yes, but that's only mango. - Grapefruit, same thing. - Same thing..
- Just have some grapefruits. - Group E is interesting, is just bananas? - No, this is the raw bananas combined with these foods, do not combine with these foods. - So you're big on bananas, people should eat bananas. - Yeah, is great food. - You know, it's interesting, when I track my diet.
In my fitness pal, almost all, and I eat pretty healthy, potassium, you don't get enough, bananas give you that potassium, so does coconut water. - Most people, if you track your diet, you don't get, potassium's one of the major things you need, so you can have raw bananas - With this group..
- With cheese, apples, but not with honey. - Yes, or bread..
- And you're not big on sugar in general, like ... - I eat so much sweet stuff already from the fruits that you don't need to put the sugar, you know? - So get the dessert from some fruits. - Not dessert, there's no dessert. - Okay, 'cause there's no dessert, 'cause you wouldn't eat a meal and then have this. Just have it as a meal. - That's right, have it as a meal. - Now the other thing that you talk about in the book is that every, you should only eat, actually, let me do.
This, so group F is milk, what you can have with milk. - [Host] So don't have milk with fruit. - Avocado and fruits and stuff like that, that is correct. - What about milk, so you can have milk with ... - You can have milk.
And cereal if you want, though we know a lot of them are junk ... - This is homemade granola, bread should be made.
From whole flour, and should not be consumed, oh, you should wait ... - 24 hours before, usually when you buy bread somewhere it has been there for 24 hours. - So that's good, avoid sweets, canned food, pepper, clover, cinnamon, pickles, and don't eat pork. - Correct..
- Now the other big.
Thing is you should eat every four and a half hours. - Well, you should space your meals at least four and a half hours. Not that you have to eat - But you have to have a space in between meals - Without snacks in between. - No snacks, only water. - And then fasting, you were telling me about Nobel prize winning ... - This year, 2016..
- 2016, won a Nobel prize along this, what your father knew and uncle knew 100 years ago. - Well, we've been saying that for a long time, the idea of autophagy, so the Japanese scientist explained that when you fast, you literally help your body by not consuming, to clean house, it has to eat ... - So it eats old cells - Yes, it's a great cleansing process for you, it helps you. - [Host] So do you do that? - Yes, once a month, I do fast. - Just 24 hours..
- 24 hours..
Don't eat or drink anything. - [Host] But just water, you're allowed ....
- I don't drink water. - Yeah, just take a day you're gonna rest and just chill. - Huh, but for someone new maybe they could just have ... - Yeah, drink water in the beginning, but it's not that bad. - You can do without water, that's pretty impressive. - Just rest on a day that you don't have to go to work, anything like that, just kind of chill a little bit, get a book and relax. - Now for somebody watching, you were telling me.
How sometimes it's too overwhelming to go from the modern diet to switch to this so you created a system with the belt-ranking systems where you do it in levels til you're a black belt. - That is correct..
- Each one about two weeks. - So you start out with white belt. - Which is just drink water first in the morning, it's also big on.
Sanitation, wash your hands before a meal..
- It's important..
You have to wash your hands before you eat, it doesn't hurt, the amount of contamination and bacteria that you're gonna avoid by just simply washing your hands is ....
- It's staggering, so you should do that, no reason why not. - I actually read, there's an interesting book I read years ago on, they just did an experiment with the average person, and they said, not only when you wash your hands but put soap under the nail 'cause it's thes nail that carry most of the, so and then okay, so then get in the habit of writing down what you eat. - On the first week, only, you don't have to do it every week, so wash your hands ... - What's the idea, why do you think, what's the benefit,.
Just people start to see how much crazy things they eat? - That's right, if you write everything down that you eat during the week, it helps you keep you accountable. - It's like the person who has no idea how much money they're spending, if they write down every penny they spend at the end of the month, they're gonna see wow, I wasted so much money on this and this and that. - And the same thing with food, if you start writing down what you eat, you're gonna realize that I'm eating more than I need and whatever. - You can use, if you like to use apps, there's a great free app called my fitness pal that you can enter your food, that counts, too, right, just keeping track? - Of course, keeping track of it, 100%. - So then after a week or two you go to blue belt, which you continue to do everything you did in the white belt, washing your hands, drink water, except you don't need to write down. - You don't have to write it down. - Then you start eliminating desserts, sweet or fruits after a cooked meal. - Yeah, after cooked meal, not that you shouldn't eat fruit. - So you can have fruits, but just as dessert..
- As dessert..
- As their own four and a half hour later meal. - Exactly..
- And then you can drink water, carbonated water, coconut water, veggie juice, iced tea, but no lemon or sugar Then after that you do that for a few weeks, then you go to purple belt, which is the third belt, you do everything that you were doing before and now you start to do the combinations. - You implement the combinations. - But now you've already been a month of changing your habits, so it's not so hard..
- Not so hard at all, that's the idea. - And you eliminate pork. - And you eliminate pork, the concept of combining foods is the most important, though, because I know a lot of people say.
Only eat organic foods, eating organic is an important step that you are becoming aware of what you're.
Eating, it's very smart, but if you don't combine the foods properly..
- Doesn't matter..
- The reaction is still gonna be acidic in your system, and that's gonna bring unwanted results. - Now the next, you go to brown belt, where you continue to do everything you've been learning but now you start spacing the meal. - At least four and a half hours. - And you only do this six days a week and you get one day cheat day. - That's right, six days a week. - Yeah, so you can take Saturdays for, I always do Saturday for my cheat day. - And the reason I recommend you do that is that if you spend six days of the week eating right, spacing your meals, combining your foods properly,.
And on the other day, the seventh day, you mess up, you feel so sick that you're gonna say wow, what the heck..
- You'll stop doing it. - You'll stop doing it, then automatically you evolve to the black belt and you start eating every day correctly..
- So then when you do a black belt, then you start doing.
This seven days a week and teaching others..
- Well, you'll feel so good you just ... - So this is about two, it's interesting, it takes for those of you in my 67 steps, it takes about two and a half months to change old habits, scientists have found. - Is that right?.
- Yeah, university or college, London, came up with a study, they used to say you can change habits in 30 days, you know, quit smoking, change your diet, but they said, you need about 67 days, and this is interesting, this black belt is right around 67 days..
- Interesting..
- So you kind of found out ... - You were ahead of the scientists. Now question for you, what are, let's say somebody watching this buys the book, starts implementing the diet, what type of results have you seen, weight loss, getting a six-pack, feeling better, disease going, what have you seen ... - All of the above..
- Any stories you can think of that are just stand out to you of people ....
- Yes, I have a student who's a gastroenterologist at Torrance Memorial and had a patient who was morbidly obese, she was doing an eight month program to have the stomach.
Reduction procedure done. She was diabetic, she had high blood pressure and high cholesterol. - He gave her the Gracie Diet book, six and a half months later, he was in his office and the woman came to thank him and give him a hug, which he did not know who the person was - Didn't recognize her. - Didn't recognize her, she lost 52 kilograms, over 100 pounds, she.
Was no longer diabetic, no longer high blood pressure, no longer high cholesterol, she canceled the.
Procedure, she didn't have the stomach reduction done. - Happy 53 year old woman, so I was very happy to see that and for me it's no.
Surprise, if you eat right, you will be fine, you know what people should not do is forget that eating should not be something that you live for that, eating is something to nourish your body to keep you going. - If you're driving a car on the freeway, and a little red light starts blinking on the panel, do you put a bandaid and keep driving, or you pull over to a mechanic and say what the heck is that? - Of course, so if you have a heartburn and you take a medicine or Zantac or whatever it is to stop the heartburn, don't think life is good. - This is a bandaid..
- You're just covering, you're just putting a bandaid over. For somebody who's watching, you know, what about combining, let's say somebody wants to start doing jiu-jitsu, do even professional athletes follow this type of diet? - They should..
- Yeah?.
- The ones that are not should be doing this. - But I'm saying, in jiu-jitsu, are there some people that practice this?.
- Yes, yes, 100%, of course. - 'Cause of your brothers. - Yeah, all of them do that, you know, all of the whole Gracie family's been doing this. - And Rickson Gracie. - Rickson is one of the, did he ever lose a fight? - I think he's like ... - Rickson's impossible to deal with, man, the guy is too much..
- Did you spar with him at all? (Rorion laughs).
Was he the hardest?.
- When he was young, you know, of course, I'll play with him but as we get older, you know, I'm the older brother, that kind of thing..
- Who was the hardest person you ever ... - It's always in the family. - Really?.
- Yeah, those guys are just, eventually, somebody's gonna catch your foot, you know?.
- Yeah, part of the tradition is there's always the change of the guard, as an old man, you see that, a little baby's born so be nice to him, 'cause one day ... - 'Cause one day he'll beat you. What about things like, I saw a documentary on jiu-jitsu and it had Rickson Gracie doing some yoga and breathing, do you think that type of thing has worked?.
- That's wonderful, yeah. - Very good stuff, Rickson's really good. - And stretching, all ... - And stretching, Uncle Carlos used to say that as long as you're flexible, you're young, you know, so make sure that you stretch and keep, you know, exercising, like I.
Said, is very important. But more important than all that is eating right. - 'Cause I don't care how much you exercise ... - 'Cause so many people go to the gym all the time ... - And eat junk..
- But they never, so, I'm gonna tell you an interesting story, I never told you this. My dad was one of the first professional bodybuilders in the world, and so when he was born, he had I think it was rheumatic fever, something with his heart, when he was one year old and so the doctors told my grandparents, this boy will probably live to 12 years old, he's probably gonna die, this is in, my dad was born in Harlem in New York, and they were poor, and they said, whatever you do, don't have him do hard exercise, it'll hurt him. Well, my dad just sat inside 'til he was about 12, 13, and then he found an.
Article on bodybuilding and he started to lift weights and his diet, my dad always had a great diet, my dad didn't have a sweet tooth at all, never ate sugar, and he went from this kid who was supposed to be dead at 12 or 13 to by the time, he became Mr. Canada, Mr. Puerto Rico, he had the world record bench press, so control, so many times in life we have things outside of our control. Who you're born to, where you're born, poverty, you know, abusive parents and things like that, and if you just focus on what you can control, a big one's diet..
- And I don't care if you're, you can diet, lifting weights, you can do if you're in prison. When you control everything within your control,.
I tell this for entrepreneurs in business, people say how can they make more money, I say, well, are you optimizing what you actually can, because some people go, if I could just get an investor to give me a million.
Dollars, I'd be able to grow my business, but I say, if I came to your office right now, is it optimized with what's around you, and we all, humans, we, I think, at least myself, there's a natural bad habit to look outside for the answer when you realize, it's simple stuff like diet. - Which everybody knows, but nobody does. - For somebody watching this that's worried about willpower, what are some things you've found,.
Because we live in a world, I go out, there's pizza, or you go to the movies, there's no good food, even if you wanna eat healthy, how do you build the discipline? Is it by fasting once a month, is it just long enough doing this, do you have tricks, do you bring your own food with you?.
- A lot of the times, my traveling a lot to do with what I'm going to eat when I get there. - [Host] Okay..
- So eating for me is a major aspect of any project that I do, what am I gonna eat? Worse come to worse, I'll just fast, I won't eat anything. - Oh really?.
- If it's bad stuff, I just don't eat. I don't have to go to a movie and eat, I have dinner, and then I go to a movie. Don't have to have food there, don't have to eat any popcorn and soda, you know what I'm saying, I mean, why should I have to eat, people are just.
Acculturated, you get used to certain things and the trick is to reeducate yourself and learn the good habits because they are as difficult to break as the bad habits. - Right, so if you can get in a good habit ... - Get in the good habit, you're in good shape, and that's the trick. - What about, one thing that I've found, who you're around matters too. - So if you hang out with people that go to a Gracie jiu-jitsu school, it's gonna be easier because they might be following the same diet, I've always found it hard to 100% rely on willpower if my environment is messed up. - Yeah, the environment has a lot to do with that, but sometimes you're.
The one that influences and change the environment as well. Depends on how convincing and how much conviction you have in what you're doing, there have been many times in environments that I say, you know what, this is the way it should be, and before you know it, there's people following and learning and doing this. - I came here, started in a garage, nobody knew anything about jiu-jitsu, look at everybody does jiu-jitsu now, so I just was able to, you know, because of my convictions and my beliefs and the way I handled the thing literally changed the world. - Was there even, back in that time, was there even any.
Jiu-jitsu people in America? - No, there was some.
People doing jiu-jitsu, but the Japanese jiu-jitsu. - Not Brazilian jiu-jitsu. - Not Brazilian jiu-jitsu, yeah. In fact, that's why I started. - When did your other family start to come, other Gracies? - After the UFC, 20 years later. - Oh, so in the mid '90s. - Mid '90s, yeah..
- So you had already been here 20 years. - Huh, so you're a pioneer. - Kind of, yeah..
- That's good, well this has been awesome, so I want to just kind of close by saying, one thing that I've found in life, whoever experiments the most wins. So this might be something you haven't heard before, experiment with it, you can follow this simple thing, it's two and a half months, now if they buy the book, this has all these inside it. - All this information. - This information..
- So if you buy this book, it's not, how expensive is it? 20 dollars, and try it, just try it because so many people, there's something called the hexical personality score, you take a test, it tells you 25 things about yourself, okay, this is the newest scientific test, it came out in 2000, and one of the factors in your personality that predicts your success, it's called openness.
To new experience, so many people miss out on life 'cause anything like you said that they haven't heard growing up, they'll be like, I don't wanna try. - And one way you make a heck of a lot more money, if you look at everybody who made money, a lot of money, billionaires, they did something, they experimented with something when other people thought it was crazy, Bill Gates, you know, people doing computers, Elon Musk starting the car company Tesla, even some, Charlie Munger and Warren Buffet told him he shouldn't do it, but he saw something and was willing to experiment, so try something new, I mean, diet is at the end of the day, if you don't have health, I know a guy that's got a billion dollars, but he's so overweight he can't even get out of bed, all.
The money in the world, you wouldn't want that. - You wouldn't want that. - If you could have, if I could wire you one billion dollars now, but one condition, you'd be so fat and unhealthy that you couldn't get out of bed and you'd have to lay in a hospital bed the rest of your life, nobody would take that deal. - Nobody would take that deal. - Even for a billion dollars, 'cause you can't use the money if you can't move..
- I often tell my kids that I'd rather be on a crossroads, on a dirt road in China in the middle of nowhere, a pair of shorts, shirtless, in the rain at night, completely lost, with good health than being in a castle with all the money in the world at my disposal with bad health. With good health you.
Can take any situation, you can handle anything, there's no stopping you. - That's what it is, that's the trick. - One last thing I was gonna ask you, you said earlier that stuff with me, if somebody watching, yesterday I posted on my Snapchat, have you had something happen to you in life, something bad recently, and I do that about once a month, I post on my social media, and every time I'm surprised by the literal, I would say, it's hard to count, but 10 thousand or more people write me in one day with sad stories, I mean, I can't even look at 'em all, the last one I was looking at, you know, it's Mom died, sister has cancer, son's dying, all this things, and you were saying earlier that in your experience with jiu-jitsu, diet, and just your life, there's always ....
- All bad things happen for a good reason..
- Always something good. - There's always something good. - But how in the midst of that, when it's so hard and so painful, how do you have the faith to believe that? - I guess you said it all right there, having the faith to believe that, that's what it is. I believe, it's comforting to me to see it that way. - So you don't think it's random and it's just ... Many years ago I took a balloon trip, okay, you know. - [Host] You mean up? - Yeah, in a balloon, and I drove two and half hours to get to, like, Lake Perry or something like that, had to be there at six o'clock so you could see the sun rise at 6:30 on the balloon, so I drive two and a half hours, and I get there, and the balloon is filling up with helium and I hop in a little basket, which is like pretty much very small thing, there's a couple, me and a friend and the pilot, and they turn on the gas, and in three minutes you are at 3000 feet. - Very quiet up there, and as I'm looking at, I'm looking down from the balloon, very silent except the wind and stuff like that, I see the freeway is like a little line like this, with thousands of cars going towards downtown, and I looked like a little ant, you know, and I'm looking, gosh, little ants are the cars, I'm thinking wow, each one of those little cars is like the size of an ant, has a person in it which is smaller than that car. Each person has a head that's smaller than them, you can barely see it now at that point, and each head has a brain in it, and each of those people in those cars, thousands of people, has the worst worry, the biggest, aah, more stress than anybody else. Each one of them thinks they have the worst problems on their shoulders,.
Everybody thinks, oh my gosh, my life is this, every single one of them, and I'm looking over there, it took me two and a half hours to drive to that location, the lake that I drove around is nothing but a little puddle of water, the mountain I drove around is just a little pile of dirt and looking from over there, I said gosh, each one of those, a little tiny thing, so worried about everything, it made me realize.
That we don't have the right to worry about anything. We're too insignificant on a big scale in the scheme of things that we don't have to worry about, each person has oh, my gosh, I got a list, everybody has worries all the time, don't worry about a thing, just relax, let it cruise by, wait, do the right.
Thing, try not to cheat, deceive people and whatever, do what your heart tells you is the right thing to do and things will just fall in place 100%, I came back from the balloon trip a different person. Realizing that I could not worry about a thing in my life, never worry about a thing, my son, my youngest son, told me one thing, very interesting, a few months ago, that I kind of, he really captured my way of looking at things, he said, when God pushes you off a cliff, he's either gonna catch you on the way down.
Or give you wings and teach you how to fly. - Yeah, well, what.
Happens if you feel like it's your fault, like God didn't push you off, like you did something stupid? - Well, learn from that. - If you learn from every stupid thing, I try to learn from the stupid things so I don't do them again and again, but if you learn from every stupid things you made, you did a mistake, you learned the lesson and move on, that's what life is about, it's not a question of falling, as we know, it's a question of getting up and moving on again,.
That's what the whole thing is about, falling is.
Okay, are you gonna get up and keep going, or are you gonna quit on that fall? Ultimately, that's what it is, I mean, it's been a very interesting experience for me.
To believe that things happen for a reason,.
That alone has opened so many experiences, opportunities I've had to see that, and when things all fail, everything is about to collapse, you just say hey, I did what I could, did the best I could, is it gonna happen or not, and if it's meant to be, it's gonna be, if not, I'll try again next time. When I was creating the academy a few years ago, I brought a guy to do the stucco outside the building, have you been to the academy in Torrance? - [Host] Yes, yeah, I've been, yeah. - So I had a big huge open door 'cause it was, before it became the.
Academy, it was a car parts storage location..
- So it had the big roll up doors, the metal doors, and it was cinder block all around, so it was a big cement square like this, and the guy came in to do this stucco on a Thursday, he said, I'll be here Saturday to cover the whole place, what are you gonna do for a door, I said I'm gonna put a glass door, which is what we have now, he said, if you're gonna put a glass door, you have to put a beam, a wood beam so that you can then screw the metal frame of the door and then put your glass in there. I had no idea we needed that, so I said I'm gonna find a beam, that's on a Thursday, on Friday, I call, call, call, nobody had the beam available because it's a three-day process, you have to order it, takes three days, the industrial size, it's 16 for four, not a little two-by-four that you by at Home Depot, so I had to call a lot of people, nobody had it, finally, someone said, hey I have one here, somebody ordered a month and a half ago, they never picked it.
Up, I said, it's mine, I'm on my way up, so I went there and picked up the beam. In order to secure the beam, you need a shoe, a metal shoe like this that you screw to the wall and then the beam sits on top of this, you know what I mean, two, however, if you put the cement frame, if you put the beam here, the shoe, both of them, there's no way you can put, I mean, if you put the shoes against the wall, you can't fit the beam in there, do you understand? - You need one shoe that you can screw this way, put the beam, and the other shoe have to be able to screw from the outside 'cause it's gonna come to hold it, do you follow me? - Yep..
- But this reverse one didn't come with the beam, I had two that came with the beams that are like this. - Okay, so you had two of the same. - Yeah, two of the same that wouldn't work..
- So my friend said, Rorion, we need to get this reverse one so we ran to Home Depot, and we get there and I ask the lady, do you have one this size, 16 by 4, she said no, we don't carry that, I said, where do you carry the beams, she said, we don't have this kind, go check out aisle eight, but that's, we don't have that, so I go to aisle eight, I start looking, and I find one beam like that..
- The big one..
- Only one, I brought to the front and she said, wow, you found one, I said yeah, found one, and she runs the bar code, the reader..
- Bar code, scanner..
- She said it's not from here. - Huh, somebody left it. - Somebody left it..
- Isn't that interesting? She said, I can't even charge you, you can take it for free, so I took it home, put it in there, the next morning, the guy was able to put in the whole stucco..
- The leftover one I had, I left it on the wall and I framed it and I said somebody must be training jiu-jitsu in heaven. (host laughs).
In other words, it was the last thing for me, a week before the grand opening, everything was already happening, if I didn't find that shoe, now go to any Home Depot in the country, you're not gonna find one. Isn't that interesting, that when everything for me was just like aah, the last thing I needed was a thing to support that stuff a week before the grand opening, they don't carry it, but somebody left one in there for me, I mean, for me, it's like, hey, keep doing the right thing. - All right, so me being here is a special blessing as well. - For me and you watching this video, you know, I say whenever you see something like this if you've watched this far, you know, things happen for a reason, so ... - Check it out, it'll change your life forever, there's nothing like this. - Leave a comment below if you've done the Gracie diet or questions you have. - Let me tell you something else. - I know it's a lot of people that watch your stuff. - This is how confident I am on the book. Get the book, try it for two weeks, follow the guidelines of the book for two weeks. If you don't feel better - I'll buy the book back from you. - Home Depot wouldn't, nobody does, I'll give the money.
Back, send the receipt, the book in good condition, I'll buy the book back. - Nobody gives you money back and return your book, only I do that, do it for two weeks 100% and I'll let you know. - I like that you have here, by the way, "If you're at the Cheesecake Factory, "what you should order." - So that's pretty practical, Cheesecake Factory,.
Some things you shouldn't, so you think the orange chicken is okay, deep-fried.
Chicken breast in a sweet, so deep fry is tolerable, here's the problem,.
Sweet and spicy..
- I'm gonna give you the tips on how to order the food. - Okay, what do you do on orange chicken? - It says, "Deep fried, served over white rice "and garnished with vegetables." - What does it say?.
- So you should pass on the wheat bread. - Oh..
- Since you ate rice, don't eat the bread. - That's good 'cause.
I've always been skipping orange chicken, I love orange chicken. (laughs) My weakness, that's awesome. Well, this is such a cool book, tips for losing weight, which you have manage carbs. - If you eat right, losing weight is just a natural consequence of that, you know, that's a trick, like the headache, why should people have headache, 'cause you're thinking too much? Come on, your head was made to think. - You know?.
- Take, this is interesting, take a 15 to 30 minute nap every day..
- I try to do it every single day. - That's important,.
Man, when I take a nap, it changes your life. - I know..
- That's something,.
Even a five-minute nap, if you can't, don't have the time. - And here you have some meal plans that can actually be followed, so, like, breakfast you have oatmeal, raisins, apple juice, lunch, you'll have looks like a salad here, olive oil ....
So this is just a vegetarian right here. - No, this is salad that should precede your entree, so this is a meal, where your lunch is this too. - Okay, so you think three meals a day. - That's all you need. - Now what if somebody's watching and they're a bodybuilder? So just eat more?.
- The question, you can eat as much as you want within reason of course, you don't wanna feel sick after you eat so much, the question is this. Do you wanna get big or do you wanna be healthy? - That's the plan..
- So some people you think are too big. - I don't think it, they have to decide for themselves. - It's not me telling them how they feel. - Sometimes the guy is huge, but he feels sick all the time. - Or they're not that athletic. - Whatever..
- Dinner, I like this, watermelon juice, cottage cheese, rye bread, raisins, dates. So is this ....
- A meal..
- Dinner..
- That's a meal..
- That's all ....
Another meal, another meal, each one of them, you can have as a meal. - So not necessarily, you don't have meat, it looks like, at night..
- At night, no, I usually have fruits for breakfast. - And I have a cooked meal during the day 'cause your metabolism is more active, it's easy to digest, and at night I usually have fruits or some veggie juice ... - Or some cottage cheese. - Something like that, yeah. - Avocado..
- You sleep better if you have a lighter meal at night instead of having cooked food. - Yeah, I love cottage cheese. - Yeah, just try this ... - Oh, this is week two. - Awesome..
- Do that for two weeks and - And sun, you're big on, get enough sun. - Come on, born in Brazil. - Brazil..
- Have to go to the beach if you're there. - Man, if you've never been to Brazil, has some of the prettiest women in the world..
Eggplant quiche, I'm getting hungry actually watching this, has it been four and a half hours yet? Well thank you so much. - Thank you very much. - This was awesome..
- I appreciate it..
- Thank you..
- All right..


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