#113 - Fight Fat with Fat

Hi, my name is Jorge Cruise, and I'm known as the number one weight loss strategist to the world's busiest celebrities. I'm also a multiple New York Times bestselling diet author with over 30 books and 12 million fans. You may have seen my work with Oprah Winfrey, Khloe Kardashian, Tyra Banks, Kelly Clarkson, or even Dr. Oz. My career started in my early 20s because I was a addicted to sugar, carbs, and salty snacks, and experts told me to simply count calories to get control.

They were wrong.

My passion to get radical control over hunger has led me to find a study-proven way that creates Zero Hunger and helps my clients drop 2 pounds each day, and I know I can help you too.

Welcome to the Zero Hunger Revolution. Happy Tuesday, everyone. It's February 23rd. I'm Jorge, and welcome to the Jorge Cruise Show. This is the number one podcast to help you get radical control over sugar, carbs, and salty snack foods. And if you're like me, someone who used to struggle with weight, I can tell you that's where it's all at. It's not about, uh, counting calories. It's understanding that sugar and carbs really cause weight gain, belly fat. And the solution is what I call the Zero Hunger Plan, which is a plan I created during COVID that really helps you get radical control over that by using a mineral program, a mineral water drink, uh, called Zero Hunger Water. And it was just featured in Woman's World magazine. So if you're a fan of that or have been using it, this podcast is home to that as well. So welcome. I'm thrilled you're here. Happy Tuesday. Uh, it's a beautiful day here in San Diego. And I'll tell you this, on today's show, we are gonna be talking about fats and how healthy fats in our diet are critical. They also are critical so you don't feel like you're suffering when you're trying to lose weight. Because one of the things a lot of my clients do is they create a zero hunger window that lasts 23 hours. And, uh, that means they don't eat for 23 hours. And the only way you can do that without suffering is using Zero Hunger Water. But we're also gonna talk about what you can do at night to turn off hunger in place of a meal if you choose to go and do an extended fast. And I have clients that do that. So for anyone who needs that extra biohack to turn off hunger, almost like a meal would, uh, today we're talking about how do you utilize healthy fats like butter, ghee, avocado oil, all these healthy fats that are anti-inflammatory. And we're also going to talk about which fats to completely avoid that cause inflammation in your body, cause your body to age, can cause all sorts of issues with COVID-19. So we're talking about all that today on today's show. Basically, we're going to fight fat with fat, the right fat, that is. All right. So I hope that sounds good, guys. Now we're brought to you by 3 incredible people. Uh, number 1, I want to give a special thank you to Tony Robbins. Anthony Robbins has been one of my closest, dearest friends for over for 30 years. I met him when I was 22 years young. I'm going to be 50 next month. And I'm spending my 50th birthday, March 6th, with Tony Robbins because he has, starting next Thursday on March 4th, a 4-day event called UPW. It stands for Unleash the Power Within. And if you can imagine a young Jorge Cruise, I was someone who was studying political science. I wanted to go to law school and I thought that was going to be my path. And for whatever reason, I went to this program with Tony Robbins. Uh, I attended it and it changed my thinking. Forever. It allowed me to really tap into the confidence that I was lacking in myself to go after what I really wanted, which was health, because I was overweight. And I wanted to do it with others and help other people. And I thought if I could help other people do what I wanted to do, which is feel good and be happy and feel fit, that I thought, well, that would be everything. And so UPW is that event. He's been doing it for 30+ years. It's this coming— this next coming Thursday on March 4th, 4 days all the way through March 7th. And he's giving us all a $3,300 discount for the program. Basically, you're getting it almost at cost. And he has a special URL that his team gave me that I want you to use because you'll get this incredible discount. You literally will discount $3,300. The event is, um, it's an investment, you know, but it's an investment with the complete money-back guarantee. So jot down the URL. It's upwvirtual.com. Upwvirtual.com/jorgecruise. That's upwvirtual.com/jorgecruise. If you go to that link, there are 3 options. The middle one is where you save $3,200. I checked it out. It is an incredible gift of, of opportunity, of empowerment. And again, it has a money-back guarantee. So check it out. Hang out with me and Tony this March 4th, this next Thursday for 4 days. It will change your thinking. It will change your life. It's awesome. It really is. We're also brought to you by Julian Bakery. Julian Bakery is how I enjoy a Saturday night with friends when we want to eat donuts. Instead of eating donuts or cake or brownies, we use Julian Bakery. And on Saturday, what I do is I have dinner with my kids usually, and then my friends come over around 7 and we do a game night. We usually play board games. My friends traditionally bring donuts with real sugar on it and they're frosted. We have a place here in San Diego called Pacific Beach that makes this delicious donuts. They're almost like cake, but it has 300 to 400 grams of sugar per literally serving. So it's, it's not good. It causes belly fat. But imagine Imagine if you could have something as delicious, whether it's a cookie, a chocolate chip cookie, a brownie, or even a chocolate bar with no sugar, sweetened without artificial sweeteners with stevia or monk fruit, and it has MCT oil in it. So check this out. Julian Bakery's giving us all 10% off of anything we order from their website. We have a promo code that you have to use. So just go to julianbakery.com. Just type it into Google, julianbakery.com. The promo code is just Jorge Cruise. You'll get 10% off. You can order brownies, chocolate chip cookies. This is what I give out to people. It's what I'm gonna be using for my birthday. They're brownies. It's the best. It has no sugar, high fat, high protein. It's very keto friendly and it's very much Zero Hunger approved. So check it out. You're gonna love it. 10% off. Again, go to julianbakery.com. That's J-U-L-I-A-N-B-A-K-E-R-Y.com. And then the promo code, Jorge Cruise, all one word. Uh, and finally, we're brought to you by Elemental Labs. I love Elemental Labs. They are the people that make The official Zero Hunger water that's on the go. It comes in little packets that literally just tear and add to 32 ounces of water. I have them all over my office. When I go out to the gym or go out with friends to a restaurant, I'll take this, take my mask, and I'm ready to go. They ask, what do I want to drink? I just drink water, but I bring my packet with me on the go. And this one is, uh, if you can see it on YouTube, it's a citrus salt flavored one, which I really love, but I'm also a huge fan at night, especially after, um, I've closed my Zero Hunger window. And if I get hungry at night of chocolate, salted chocolate, It's delicious. You just add 32 ounces of water. You can sip on it. Usually I give you 20 minutes to drink it and it turns off hunger completely where you don't feel hungry at all. And Elemental Labs is giving us a free box of electrolytes. It's a $45 value for you for free by simply going to this URL. They created one for us called drinkelement.com/jorge, and you order a value bundle. Scroll to the bottom of that link. I'll spell it for you. It's drink, D-R-I-N-K, L-M-N-T.com/jorge. If you scroll to the bottom, there's a value bundle option. If you, you can custom figure, custom configure the options. So it could be all chocolate, all citrus, uh, citrus salt. It could be orange flavored, raspberry. You can mix and match them. Super easy, delicious. And you'll save a ton of money because you'll get one box for free. That's a $45 value exclusively to our listeners. All right guys. So check them out. They're awesome. So with that said, let's get to fighting fat with fat because it's time to start the show, guys. Because here's what I can tell you. When I wrote my first book 20 years ago, 8 Minutes in the Morning, I had a whole section on how to eat fat to get fit. And since then, a lot has changed. We now know which fats are bad. So jot these down. These are the fats that cause inflammation in your body. You want to remove them from your cabinets at home. You want to get them out of your diet. You want to avoid them even in snack foods, breads. It's in everything. It's in foods. It's everywhere. And that is canola oil, canola oil, soybean oil, and corn oil. Those 3 oils—corn, soybean, and canola oil—cause inflammation not just in your joints, in your skin, but also throughout your entire body. It causes glycation end products to occur. And that simply means your body is going to be breaking down at a faster accelerated pace. We don't need that. I sure don't want that at 50. I want to stay as young as possible, as vital as possible. And these inflammatory oils cause havoc in your body. So avoid them. And if you're a woman going through perimenopause or your menstrual cycle still going on, they cause all sorts of women's health issues. So get rid of this, ladies. You do not want to have any kind of vegetable oil like this. These are to be avoided. So what the heck do you replace it with? Well, if you want an oil that's the one of the most premium plant-based oils, it's an avocado oil. My favorite one is made by Primal Kitchen, avocado oil, and it's anti-inflammatory. There are dressings from Primal Kitchen that you can buy. Uh, we've talked about them. They've been a sponsor of the show. They have mayonnaise all made with avocado oil. You can get this even at Costco. They have avocado oil now at Costco. It's pretty commercially available. Now for me, I do that, but I also get beef tallow, which is a beef fat that comes from the meat of the animal to make burgers with and to fry things. And I love that. I also love butter. Butter and me are best friends. I use Kerrygold butter, which is like a gold butter. I get it at Costco as well. I put it in my coffee in the morning with MCT oil, which comes from coconut oil. You've heard of MCT oil. My friend Dave Asprey from the Bulletproof, uh, coffee, uh, is a big advocate of that, and he uses it in his restaurants that he has in Santa Monica called the Bulletproof Cafe to make coffee. If you've ever had his products, you know MCT oil is a big deal. Usually the, the formula, whether it's a coffee or tea, is about a teaspoon of MCT oil and a pat or two of butter depending on what you like. The more fat in there, the more substantial it is and more like a meal replacement. Literally turns off hunger at a more heavy pace because it's got the fat in it. And the best news is it will not cause insulin to go up. And when insulin doesn't go up, your body thinks it mimics fasting. Otherwise there was a zero hunger window. So it's like cheating the fast without breaking it. And fat is the only macronutrient that will do that. Because carbs and protein break your fast. They cause insulin to go up. It's only fats that won't do that, guys. So please go after those sources. Uh, olive oil is also a great source. I don't use it that often. It's my new oil is really avocado oil, butter, uh, and coconut oil. You know, and MCT oil in my coffee. And the, another example at night, what to do when you do a longer extended fast. For example, I'm right now on, um, on a second day of a 72 or 3-day fast right now. And when I do that, I have at night a bouillon soup type of mixture with butter in it and MCT oil. And it's just powder. It's like garlic and salt and onions and all that. And I add that with butter and hot water and it becomes like a soup, but it's all fat. There are no carbs in it. There's no protein in it. And I have that. You can't do collagen at night. You can't do any kind of, um, broths if they have protein or carbs. Remember those break your fast. And this is during a window of fasting or zero hunger window. And truly because of this, you know, healthy fat, there's no reason you need to be suffering when you do a fast or when you do zero hunger window ever. So please say that out loud, that you're going to enjoy your zero hunger window, both with your minerals and your healthy fats. And I will tell you this, it really does extend your, your ability the good fats to do an extended fast. It makes it so easy. Where right now I'm on day 2 and I got one more day. Tomorrow night I'll have dinner. Tonight I'm not eating at all. I'll have my bouillon soup with the butter and the spices, but that's it. And I'm not hungry at all. And what it does is it allows your body to get into autophagy. And autophagy, we talked on Sunday with Dave Asprey, that it's really your body's ability to do housekeeping, keeps your body young and vital. And that's why I do it now at 50, because I don't have much more belly fat to lose. You guys know I have a pretty flat stomach. I shared with it on Instagram. If you didn't see it, go to my Instagram account, instagram.com/jorgecruise. It's also on Facebook, but a picture of me when I was really overweight, 20-some years ago, 25 years ago, just before I met Tony Robbins. And I can tell you, I was so miserable because I was a sugar addict. I really was. And it was my drug of choice. And it's not your fault that we're addicted to it because it's more powerful than even certain hard drugs like heroin, but it's something we can get over if we have these tools, both the Zero Hunger Water and especially healthy fats like butter, MCT oil, avocado or even beef tallow. You wanna make sure to go for that healthy fat in all the meat you eat as well. So I hope that helps guys. If you have any questions, please email me at jorge@jorgecruiseshow.com. And I'll be back on Thursday with another episode. And then Sunday, we've got an incredible guest, Dr. Jason Fung, joining the podcast, the author of The Obesity Code and truly the world's expert on intermittent fasting. So a lot of great shows this week, guys, and go check out that Tony Robbins seminar and join me on my 50th, guys. Sign up, his tickets are limited. Minute. Check it out. Go to the UPW link I told you about. I think it was, what is it? upwvirtual.com/jorgecruise. Check it out. It will change your life. It's the thing that changed my life. I hope it helps you. Hope it gives you that edge and it's money back guarantee. So enjoy guys. I'll talk to you soon and send me your questions on healthy fats. Peace and purpose. Take good care. All right.

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