#10 - 19 Day Weight Loss Challenge

Hi, I'm Jorge Cruise, number one New York Times bestselling author and celebrity trainer, and I want to welcome you to the all-new Jorge Cruise Podcast. Every week I'll bring you the shortcuts to work better, reduce pain, improve memory, garden more, and even sleep better. It's not just about intermittent fasting or getting a flat belly. My mission is to give you simple ways that will empower you to live as you choose. Welcome to the Jorge Cruise Podcast.

Hey everyone, it is December 2nd. It's Jorge Cruise, your coach. Happy Monday, first Monday in December. I love a first Monday of any month. This one more so because it's the holidays, guys. Hopefully, let me take a minute though as well to just hopefully check in and make sure you had a great Thanksgiving.

I hope you did.

If you're listening to my voice, I'm sending you my best for the holidays because it is here. It is December 2nd. It is a Monday. It is a little cold and rainy. I'm in California. I'll be back in New York tomorrow, but I'll tell you what a week it was. I got a chance to see my family. I got to see my sons. I've been in New York off and on, uh, for many months now. And I'll tell you, got a lot of great things, uh, in New York, um, that are underway. And I'm filming with the Real Housewives of New York City, which I think you all know. So super excited for that. But it was great to see family, and hopefully you got a chance to do that. And thank you guys for all the beautiful comments on the pictures with my sons Parker and Owen on Instagram and Facebook.

Love all that.

So super excited. So let's get to the heart of it, guys. Today's podcast is really, for me, a call to action. I have two incredible announcements I want to share with you. I have no guests today because I wanted to kind of focus in on the announcements, and we'll have a— we'll have my— we'll have a couple guests next Monday, but What I want to share with you today is the theme of today's topic, which is really overcoming depression, anxiety at work, and hopefully being able to overcome it without drugs or medication. Because I will tell you, I have so many celebrities I work in Hollywood and in New York that have used medications long-term that have had really odd and strange and difficult side effects. And I'll tell you, if you have anxiety, any kind of depression, or any kind of stress, It gets amplified during the holidays right now. So please know that you're not alone. Please know that even me, your coach Jorge Cruise, gets stressed out. My clients, from celebrities, I don't care who the name is, we'll drop every name out there. Everyone is human and everyone feels stress and anxiety. The key to it, guys, in my opinion, is movement more than anything. And I want to encourage you this month to not give up on movement. I know it's cold. I know, hey, I'm heading to New York tomorrow. It's going to be snowing there. Feels horrible to exercise and move in the snow, but we got to do it. Our ancestors did. We have to. That doesn't mean you got to go break some, you know, some, uh, some records and do a 10-mile walk tomorrow in the snow, but it does mean you got to be conscious about movement. You got to stand up every hour. You got to be able to walk and take the stairs. Don't take the elevator. You got to park a little further out when you go shopping at Target or Walmart or wherever you're going. You gotta bring movement into your life. And with that, my first announcement, jot this down. Starting on Wednesday of this week, so today's Monday, so in 2 days on December the 4th, I'm gonna be starting a 5:00 AM yoga, 8-minute-in-the-morning practice for all my Facebook followers. So if you're on Facebook, join me, guys. If you're on Instagram, you gotta go to Facebook, sorry. Facebook.com/JorgeCruise, that's Facebook.com/JorgeCruise. It'll be there live. And it'll be starting on Wednesday during the week, Monday through Friday. It's an 8-minute flow. I'll do it with you. It's not designed to burn fat. Let me tell you what this class is about. This 8-minute yoga practice that I'm gonna be teaching with you guys is really about removing adhesions, knots, stress, tightness, and gets your day going. It's about putting you in the best place to do what yoga was meant to be, and it's not stretching. Yoga is really the practice of quieting down your mind and body. That's what we're going to be doing in the morning starting this Wednesday, and it's all free. Come to Facebook, guys. Come to my Facebook wall. Try the class. It is free. We're going to be doing it every Monday through Friday starting this Wednesday. Tomorrow I can't because I'm traveling, so— but we're going to start this Wednesday, and you are invited. Bring 2 or 3 friends. They can be remote. They could be in India. They could be in Europe. They could be in Australia. They could be wherever. Doesn't matter. San Diego, New York City. Join me, guys, because this flow, 8 minutes, is going to really give you a base that will calm down any kind of tension or stress or kind of pain you may have in your body. It's also going to quiet your mind. And more importantly, guys, it's going to give you the ability to allow your true self to radiate in the morning, which, you know, my, my greatest teacher in life— I've had so many great mentors and teachers— was Oprah Winfrey. Back in 1998, she had me on her show. And since then, she has recommended to millions of people a book called The Seat of the Soul. And the seat of the soul is when you have an opportunity to allow what your purpose is in life to be in alignment with your gifts. The gifts being who you are as a person. And you won't be able to discover your gifts if your mind is crazy and if your body's in pain, because those distractions don't allow our inner voice, our inner self, to resonate. And that's what yoga has done for me for the last 15 years. I've been going through a 200-hour training to become a true yoga instructor. I'm almost done. I'll be done, uh, this month. So I'm super excited about that in New York City. But I can tell you, I've been practicing yoga for 15+ years, and it is the only thing that has brought me peace and calm, has put my body in a place where I feel good when I'm done. And more importantly, it has allowed me to become more of who I am. You know, the true self. And when your true self can be radiating and be coming out where you're happy and you feel proud to be you, shall we say, it changes the game. Your life becomes effortless. You don't need a million dollars, you don't need $50,000, you don't need $100,000.

You just need to breathe.

You need to be centered on yourself. And it really will teach you how to be mindful. Yoga is a practice, you know, where it calms down the mind and the body so your true self can radiate. And we'll do it all in 8 minutes.

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All right guys, let's get back to the show. So join me guys this December 4th. All right, so that's announcement number 1, 5 AM Pacific time, that is 8 AM Eastern time. For all my New Yorkers, I'll be in New York, so the sun will be out, but in California maybe just crack it, right? So that's announcement number 1. And announcement number 2 is today we started for all my paid members at jorgecruise.com a 19-day challenge. For weight loss, and we're going to be doing another one in about 19 days, and we're going to be doing one more in January. Um, and I'll tell you, all these 19-day weight loss challenges are designed to give you the quickest jump start to losing weight by allowing you eat in a kind of in a time-compressed window that goes beyond what I wrote in the Cruise Control Diet book, which came out in April, where it gives you an 8-hour window to eat and 16 hours to fast, what we're going to be doing is eating in a 2 to 3 hour window and having over 20 hours of fasting. Now you may be thinking, oh my God, you are crazy, Jorge Cruise. You're gonna— I only get one meal and I get 2 to 3 hours? Well, it's what I've been doing now, and I can tell you I haven't wasted away. Um, I feel great. I feel the best I've ever felt. And I'll tell you why fasting is so powerful for anti-aging, disease prevention. It goes beyond weight loss. It's because of this scientific term called autophagy. And autophagy just simply means that your body's doing housekeeping. And housekeeping is what keeps us young and vital. You need that. Now there are certain things you can do to cheat your fast, and when you join jorgecruise.com, I'm gonna tell you, for this 19-day challenge, if you join for the year, we're taking $40 off, so it's just a couple bucks, literally, a month. But more importantly, you're getting a guest pass for a whole year as well. So that's a $119 value for free. And rather than $119 for the year, it's under $80. So for $80, you give yourself and a loved one, a friend, a best friend, a family member, a spouse, you'll get a certificate, a free membership for a 12-month membership at our jorgecruise.com club that'll give you all the meal planning you need, the recipes, the shopping list, et cetera, that will give you the base truly to maximize your health. Because if there is a way to get to great health, in my opinion, it's through nutrition. You know, fitness begins in the kitchen. I've always said that exercise, though, is powerful, and I believe it's the way to transform your mood, your mind, and through yoga, it's everything. So that, that is free on me, though. And the first week is free of the fasting plan. If you want to do that, try it for a week. If you don't like it, cancel, you get your $80 back. But if you love it, you'll be set for the whole year. And best of all, so will one of your best friends or family all part of our promotion. Now, where do you sign up? Just go to JorgeCruise.com, click on the Join button. There's a little holly on there. You'll see a little holly. Put your first name and email in, and we will email you the link once we have the promo live. It'll probably be later in this week. Sign up, and you'll be ready to rock and roll. You can give this a certificate. You can print it out, make it look really cute, put it in an envelope, put it under the tree in a box, put it in a stocking, email it to a friend, but it has to be signed, and they have to register it so it's all legit, but it will give them free access to our membership membership and to the fasting plan that I teach that's based on intermittent fasting, all for free for a year. And you'll be there, you'll be there, the, the gifter. So it's truly the ultimate gift of health, we call it. And I'm excited that you can do that. And if you want the direct link to the, the promo, you can go to jorgecruise.com/giftofhealth. Again, that's jorgecruise.com/giftofhealth. And sign up for our promo because it will transform your health, and it's limited, it's incredibly limited to the first 500 people. So we're only doing 500 people. So join us, guys. It's gonna, it's gonna change your life. It's gonna change your health. It's gonna change what you do. And you're gonna meet some incredible like-minded people that believe that nutrition is the way to transform your health, and intermittent fasting being the principal modality, you know. And you'll learn how to do all the cheat meals, because you guys know with me, whether it's 16 or 20 hours of fasting, you get to cheat it with proper hydration. I'll teach you how to do that where the water you drink then gets absorbed through proper electrolytes. Well, I'll teach you how to make the cruise control coffee or teas which use healthy fats to turn off hunger. And now what we've, we've added to our plan is these cheat meals that taste like strawberry cheesecake or a double chocolate chip cookie or an Almond Joy. And you'll get all these recipes so you can mimic these flavors in a way that won't break a fast because you'll be using chia seeds as the base and they pass right through you. So I'll teach you how to cheat the fast beyond so you'll never feel hungry. You'll literally be eating and losing weight. And the best part of all is you can lose up to 2 pounds a day with this plan. Uh, at least a pound a day depending on how much weight you have to lose. If you got 5 pounds, it's going to come off probably in a week. It's not going to come off in 2 days, but the more weight you have, the more you'll lose. And we've had people lose up to 12 pounds in a week. So it's pretty powerful. Your body will do its magic. You'll be going to the bathroom, you'll be cleansing, detoxifying. It's powerful, but best of all, you're gonna feel your absolute best in 19 days. So sign up for our 19-day challenge, guys. It starts now. So you can do that right now. So just go to the site. And that's kind of today's conversation, guys, in today's podcast. And remember this, The topic that is probably the most important for this time of the year is overcoming the stress, the anxiety, the depression, whether it's at work, at home, whatever it is. And remember, the way to overcome this anxiety, this stress, these obstacles is through movement. It is the quickest way to improve you— how good you feel through movement. So if you're not feeling good, go for an 8-minute walk. Do something for at least 8 minutes. Do push-ups, do squats, do some simple modalities. Get those dumbbells out, do a little flow. Join me on December 4th for my yoga flow at 5 in the morning, guys, 8 AM, and you'll be able to watch it on demand as well if you want on my Facebook wall. And be a part of that. Make the commitment to the yoga. That is easy, it is gratis. You just show up on Facebook. Make the ultimate commitment and sign up for the Gift of Health at jorgecruise.com/giftofhealth, and you will transform your eating, your nutrition for the next 12 months, and you'll have my support and every single day on that plant. So I hope that makes good sense, and I hope you're having a great holiday, guys. A happy December to you. I'll be back next Monday with another announcement. I'll have a guest host with me, uh, and we'll pick it up then. All right, guys, have a beautiful, beautiful day. Peace and purpose from San Diego, and I'll talk to you next Monday. Take good care. God bless. Bye, everyone. Well, I really do hope you enjoyed the podcast today.

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