In this solo episode of the Zero Hunger Guide podcast, host Jorge Cruise (the Zero Hunger Guy) shares his personal journey with weight loss, introduces his Zero Hunger Water method for suppressing physical hunger, and explains his "think fit" approach to handling emotional eating rooted in childhood trauma. He recommends episode 123 featuring Megan Murphy, author of The Fully Charged Life, highlighting her science‑backed strategies for overcoming trauma and emotional eating. Cruise recounts a recent emergency where a friend required appendicitis surgery, describing how the stress triggered his own coping patterns. He demonstrates a simple posture‑and‑breathing exercise (hands on the buttocks, chest lifted, shoulders back) as a physiological tool to reduce anxiety and prevent unhealthy coping (eating, drinking, smoking). The episode concludes with calls to action: subscribe to his new Zero Hunger Guy YouTube channel, follow the show on Apple, Spotify, and Google, and contact him via email.
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Good morning, it is April 28th. I'm Jorge Cruise and welcome to the Zero Hunger Guide podcast. I'm the Zero Hunger Guy, uh, and that obviously is a desire really for me, a 20-year kind of adventure. You probably know my name from all the books I've written. Some of them have been New York Times bestsellers. I've written over 30, 12 hit number 1, and I can tell you as someone who himself struggled with weight I finally, as I've gotten older, and now I'm 50, I've learned that many times the reason we overeat is not because we're hungry, although that is part of it. So you guys know the Zero Hunger Water method and the recipe, and a lot of you been asking, Jorge, how do I get the recipe? Well, we'll be emailing it out this weekend. It has not sent out yet. If you guys are part of zerohungerwater.com and you go to that website, you can get the recipe for free. Was also in Woman's Health World Magazine, and it's out this week in First Woman Magazine. It was also covered on thedoctorstv.com just last month as well. So we're really fortunate that the national media has been interested in how to turn off that physical hunger. That's really step 1. Step 2 is what I call think fit, and that is understanding that a lot of us that like to eat, and if it's not just physical hunger, may have struggled with some sort of trauma when we were younger. And for me, I had a very abusive childhood with my main caregiver, my grandmother, and it wasn't done out of hate in any way at all, but it was just the way she raised me, and it was very hurtful to me, and it caused me to delay in my life and delay in a lot of things that made me happy. But I learned to deal with it through food. Food was comfort. As I've gotten older, I've discovered that there are things we can do, I call them think fit strategies, to turn off that hunger, that emotional hunger, so we don't feel like victims and we feel like victors. And so on today's podcast, I want to recommend episode 123 with Meagan Murphy. She's the author of this incredible book called "The Fully Charged Life." And she, like me, had a very traumatic childhood, teenage years, and her methods are all backed by science. But imagine, you know, being a teenager and around 16 and your best friend commits suicide. You know, it's pretty dramatic, it's pretty shocking. And not only does she commit suicide, but she and you are struggling with an eating disorder. So she shares her story, and really the catalyst was her friend, I think, passing, uh, to understand how she could think fit again. Because she really, uh, she talks about it in the podcast, was a negative person up until that point, and then things changed. And now Megan, and not only is she gorgeous, but she's also the longtime magazine editor for Woman's Day magazine. This is Megan here, and she's gorgeous, and she's literally a lightning bolt. So I'm going to recommend the interview I did with her about this book. Even Joan Lunden, which I remember from Good Morning America, says this book is critical, you know, that this Fully Charged Eyes is a welcoming guide to trying times. So if you've had some trying times, do this, guys. Give you an example from my life, just from last night. I have a really good friend, a workout training friend that we work out every day at the gym together. And he gives me a call last night and needs a ride to the emergency room because he thinks he has appendicitis. And I'm someone who at age, I was a teenager, 14, had that. And I had a trigger in my mind. I was like, "Oh, yikes, I'm coming." So I came to help him and he was right. By 4 o'clock this morning, he had an emergency surgery and he's doing much better. He's out of recovery. I'm gonna go to the hospital, check in on him this morning. But boy, I mean, what do you do when you have a night where a friend, a family member, or someone says, "I need to go to the emergency room," and it knocks your schedule off? I mean, do you go crazy or do you figure out how to get through it? Do you come home and drink a bottle of wine? That is something in the olden days I may have done, Better yet, have a bag of M&M's saying, "Oh, what a day." I got home literally from dropping him off, and he was scheduled for surgery at 1:00 AM last night, so I look a little tired maybe, but I got a little bit of sleep, and he's doing great. He's out of the emergency room, so I'm happy for him, and I'm gonna go see him, but what do you do when you have stress? Do you overeat? Do you overdrink? What do you do? So what I'm gonna suggest is listen to episode 123, if you're having some trying times right now, guys, uh, talk to Megan. She's going to show you what I think is critical. It's what I did last night. I used my body to change how I was feeling because I was anxious and I was stressed for him because he's a great guy and I didn't want him to die. I almost died when I was 14 for— from a ruptured appendix, and that's what he ended up having. So it can be very scary at times when you're in the ER, right? So Megan will show us how simple things by Putting your hands behind your back on your butt cheeks pushes your chest out, right? You pop your chest out, hold that, and you just simply hold that. Roll your shoulders back. And she talks about this and hold for 30 seconds. You're gonna breathe better. You're gonna get out of this hunched kind of physiology that stops our diaphragm from functioning, and it opens our diaphragm. And we can open our diaphragm. Again, try it with me right now, guys. Hands on your butt cheeks. Lift your chest up and breathe, 30 seconds. The science has shown that you can't feel crappy. The anxiety disappears and you don't need to smoke, you don't need to drink alcohol, and you don't need to eat sugar, you know, because those are all just coping mechanisms. So Megan is going to teach us incredible coping mechanisms for trying times. So episode 123, guys, check it out. All right, let me know what you think of this if you listen to it. Again, it was just out a few weeks ago. And I'm thrilled you're here. If you haven't subscribed to my new Zero Hunger Guy YouTube channel, please do so. The link is in bio. We're trying to get to 100 people so we can title the channel Zero Hunger Guy by Friday. So please share it with your best friends, your loved ones, and say subscribe to Jorge's new YouTube channel called the Zero Hunger Guy. And obviously subscribe to the show on Apple. That's my favorite, but YouTube, oh, I'm sorry. Apple, Spotify, and Google. We're everywhere. Subscribe to The Zero Hunger Guy. We'll be back next week with real full shows. It's Tuesday, Thursdays, and Sundays, 3 shows a week. And these are just really ways that I can reach you out directly to talk about the show. I don't consider these actual podcasts. Obviously, they're messages for me, but I'm thrilled that you guys are here. Email me if you have any questions at jorge@zerohungerguy.com. That's J-O-R-G-E @zero with a Z, just like it's spelled, ja, zerohungerguy.com. I look forward to hearing from you guys. Peace and purpose. Have a great Wednesday.
