#67 - Move Fit: I FAST DAILY FOR 16 OR MORE HOURS.

Happy July 7th. This is Jorge Cruise and welcome to the Jorge Cruise Show. This is the second show that we are going live on YouTube and I'm thrilled you're here if you're watching on my YouTube channel. If not, welcome to Apple Podcasts. That's where most of you listen to the show on. We're also on Spotify. But this show, the Jorge Cruise Show, is really about giving you some peak performance. And for me, I've made it my life's journey for 25 years now as a trainer, nutritionist, and life strategist to help people achieve peak performance. And that simply means for me and for my clients being able to reduce your waist circumference, because your waist circumference is your lifeline. Uh, there's a really cool saying that says your waistline is your lifeline, and I believe that more than anyone else. I hope, because it's been my passion. And if you're here to reduce belly fat, welcome, because I will give you the shortcuts on this show every day, Monday through Friday, that will give you that ability to not waste time in a gym, not waste time on a diet, and really incorporate a lifestyle that I've gathered writing 30 different books, over 30 books over my career. My most recent one is on intermittent fasting, and today's show is about that. We're going to be talking about why 16 hours of fasting or more is really probably the most important nutritional distinction I've discovered in my entire career. So we're talking about that today, and we're going to talk about how to cheat the fast as well so you don't feel hungry. So, uh, that is on today's show. That is our agenda. And, um, if you're one of my clients online, you're probably on day 2 of our 19-day challenge. And if you're interested in joining, that will be opening up later this month. But I encourage you to follow along with us with the show. 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When you have too much belly fat, you're more likely to suffer from aches and pains, low energy, memory loss, and poor sleep, which prevents you from performing your best at work, spending true quality time with your loved ones, and simply enjoying life. The good news is that you can cure belly fat and immediately start to work better, reduce pain, improve memory, and sleep better using simple shortcuts I've gathered. Hi, my name is Jorge Cruise, and I'm known as the 8-Minute Life Strategist to the world's busiest celebrities. I've been a fitness, nutrition, and high-performance living strategist for over 25 years, and you may have seen my work with Oprah Winfrey, Khloe Kardashian, President Clinton, Tyra Banks, Dr. Oz, Tony Robbins, or even Steve Harvey. My passion to find the best science-backed fitness shortcuts has allowed me to write over 30 books and become a multiple New York Times bestselling author with over 9 million books in print. And I know I can help you too. Welcome to the Jorge Cruise Show. All right, so it's the first Tuesday of July. Welcome to 2020. Today we're talking about fasting, intermittent fasting. And if you were to ask me, out of my 25-year career as a trainer, nutritionist, life strategist, what is one of the most pivotal distinctions I've learned? Uh, obviously interval training is number one, probably, but number two, it's intermittent fasting. And I'll tell you why. For me, at 49, and my life kind of reset 10 years ago at 39, I went through a lot of stress and my body started to belly fat. And I'm the guy who created The Belly Fat Cure 10 years ago. It was a huge series. We had 5 of these books out there, millions of copies sold, and it was all about lowering sugar. And I didn't know about intermittent fasting, so most of my clients had 3 square meals a day with snacks and everything. When I discovered intermittent fasting from my nutrition mentor Mark Sisson, and then my editor Carol Brooks over at First For Women and Woman's World also brought got in this insight to me because I write for their magazines, my, my, my eyes, my head, everything like lit up. I was like, you're kidding me. It's like I almost discovered that the world was round because for me, for years, and especially growing up in a Latin family, because I grew up, my mother was from South America, Colombia, my grandmother helped raise me. I mean, the very first thing you had to do upon rising was eat. You had to eat because, oh my gosh, you had been fasting or sleeping, you know, for 7 or 8 hours. And now you don't want to be weak. And so you immediately had— I would have toast, waffles, Pop-Tarts. Oh my God, healthy Pop-Tarts, you know, with whole wheat flour, but you know, whatever. And so for me, eating was everything. And also growing up in a Latin family, food was love. So I mean, it's like the more food you ate, the more love you had. How many of you guys can relate to me, right? Um, and so I just thought food was everything. Now I made better choices throughout my life, and I also worked out more and did other things to counterbalance the belly but at age 39, things changed. And so that was 10 years ago for me. So now, after I've been doing intermittent fasting now for almost 5 years now, and it's because of Mark Sisson, I can tell you my life is so different. Not only do I have a flat stomach, not only do I feel great, do I have more energy, but I know that my body is going through this thing called autophagy every single day. And autophagy is why I do this and why I'm going to suggest it to you as a health strategy, not a weight loss strategy, because this is really about maximizing your health. And I'll tell you, autophagy is a big fancy word that simply means housekeeping. Like, if you're at a fancy hotel and you say, please make up my room— and I've been to some of these fancy hotels in New York and all that— they will, they'll come right up and clean it, and it looks like a new house by the time they're done with it, right? I mean, everything is clean, it's perfect. Well, that's what autophagy is. And imagine being able to do that every single day, where you have a new body, you're given like a brand new body every day. But this only happens if you do fasting for a minimum of 16 hours. 20 hours is where it really hits the sweet spot. And I take it because I'm Jorge, a little further. I go 22 hours and give myself 2 hours to eat. I was doing 4 hours, I was doing 8 hours, but I keep shrinking it down because I keep reading about people like Jack Dorsey who runs Twitter, and a lot of big CEOs, and a lot of celebrities, Hugh Jackman. I mean, I had Brooke Burke doing this. She wrote the introduction to my Cruise Control Diet book, and Brooke Burke was the host of Dancing with the Stars for years, and it's this gorgeous 40 49, 48-year-old woman who is one of my best friends in the world in Malibu, and she's doing this. I got her on this, so I can tell you it changes everything. So let's do the affirmation. I'm going to read it to you 3 times, and then we're going to do it together, and then I'll tell you how to cheat the fast and how to make this happen. All right, guys, so here's what it says: I fast daily for 16 or more hours. Yes, your mouths are dropping. You're like, what? Or more. Hear the words. Visualize yourself doing this. Get your mind to embrace this right now, guys. Listen to the words. I fast daily for 16 or more hours. One more time. Visualize. I fast. So see yourself fasting with a smile on, right? I fast daily for 16 or more hours. It's that simple. Now let's do this together. Hopefully in front— if you're in front of a mirror, take the YouTube channel, the podcast, the Apple Podcasts, wherever you're at, into the bathroom and let's do this together. Stand in front of the mirror, look at yourself in the eyes, and say the following. So I'll do it with you. Let's do it together. Here it is: I fast daily for 16 or more hours. One more time: I fast daily for 16 or more hours. One last time, say it, feel it. Stand tall, chest out, take a deep breath in. All right, here we go. Stand tall and feel this. Embrace this thought because it's going to be part of your life starting today. I fast daily for 16 or more hours. Now you're thinking, holy moly, what the heck? What the heck did I get myself signed into? Well, you're on the show with me, and that's— this is it, guys. This is why you're here. You're here to, to get a flat belly. And I'll tell you, fasting daily— this isn't the thing you do on Thursdays. No, no, you do it Monday through Sunday. I do it every single day. It is a lifestyle. You brush your teeth every day. You drink water. I'm gonna have a sip of water right now. You drink water every day. Where's my water? There it is. 32 ounces of water. And you do this. Now, how do you cheat the fast? As I take a sip of water, step number 1 from yesterday's show— watch yesterday's show, that was show number 66, episode 66— rise, have your water, guys. You know, this is my spring water. Drink water upon rising, add half a teaspoon of pink salt. Step 1 done. You already knew that from yesterday. What do you do next? You're like, oh my gosh, that gets me going for the first hour or two. I feel a little fuller. Now, you know, the pink salt hydrates your body, super hydrates your body, and that's 90% of the battle is you are fighting false hunger because you're dehydrated. So that takes, takes the edge off immediately. Then what I would do is what I prescribed in my Cruise Control diet book, what Brooke Burke does in Malibu, and I would have a tea or a coffee, a morning hot beverage. I've been wavering between caffeine and not caffeine because I like to sleep better at night. And we did a show not that long ago with Dr. Andrew Weil, and he suggested lowering the caffeine down and replaced my coffee with matcha. So I've been doing matcha tea. So whether it's a matcha tea, whether it's regular coffee, Starbucks, or whatever, add up to 2 tablespoons of healthy fat, whether that's butter or heavy cream. Easy biohack that's going to turn off hunger. Now, fat will not break your fat. All right? So fat is a good thing. We want fat. Healthy fats are great. Now I'm gonna say right now, you want to avoid all vegetable oils, all vegetable oils for the rest of your life because they are inflammatory. Things like corn oil, soybean oil, canola oil— these oils are horrible for your body. And hopefully margarine is not something you're putting in your coffee. You want real butter. Yeah, real butter, heavy cream is what I would use. You can use You can use MCT oil, just a dab of it, because it's very powerful. It can give you the runs if you use too much of it. You can use coconut oil, which is what MCT oil is made out of, but coconut oil is less edgy on your stomach. But no more than 2 tablespoons. That's enough to turn off hunger for 2 to 3 hours. And you can use a frother, make it foaming delicious. That's step 2 after the water, right? Step 3 is something I call a flat belly meal, and I use chia seeds. Seeds for that, uh, usually 3 tablespoons of chia seeds, organic. I like the brand named Navitas. Shout out to Navitas. And I add 3 tablespoons of avocado oil, 8 ounces of unsweetened almond milk. Stir with a spoon. If you like sweetness, I use monk fruit these days. I love Julian Bakery's monk fruit. Sometimes I still use stevia from, uh, Sweet Leaf. You guys remember that brand? They have so many varieties and flavors. Those are my 2 plant-based sweeteners that I like that have no calories. Stevia and monk fruit. Add that to taste. Stir it. Do not blend this drink at all because it'll break the seed, and when the seed opens, then you'll absorb it. But if you leave it in its whole form, it creates this membrane around the chia seed, and then it literally passes through you from here to the other end. You know, it's 26 feet of digestion system that food goes through, and imagine having a broom just whisking away waste without it being absorbed into your body, and it will not break your fast. This flat belly meal made with chia seeds, 3 tablespoons, 3 tablespoons of avocado oil, and 8 ounces of unsweetened almond milk. You have that in the morning, add monk fruit or stevia to your taste, your brands, whatever, and you're set. And you could even have 2 of those. I usually, if I'm hungry, I usually don't do this anymore, but if I am hungry, I'll have one around 10 o'clock, 11 o'clock. And if I'm fasting later in the day, I usually have an early meal. I have one meal a day. It's called OMAD, one meal a day. It's an acronym. I usually have it at 3 o'clock. That's what time I usually eat my lunch, dinner, linner, lunch, whatever it's called, at that time. And I'm set. I mean, I'm truly, truly set. Now tomorrow we'll talk about what to eat when you break the fast. I like to break it with collagen. We're going to talk about healthy protein, healthy fats, and the carbs, the right carbs to eat on tomorrow's show. So join me for that. But that is how you cheat the fast. And then you can go 16 hours without eating macronutrients that will break your fast, like carbs and protein. Those are the things that break your fast. So this will get you to at least 11 or noon. And if you do 2 flat belly meals, if you need to, or drink more water or the hot beverage with the healthy fats, you could make it till, I do it till 3 o'clock. You really can. I have clients that do this and they're not hungry. And if you do that water with the salt, you're not gonna have low energy. You're gonna have high energy. You're gonna feel incredible. And so that's as simple as it gets and it's not complicated. So I want you to share today's message with 3 loved ones. That need to do some intermittent fasting, have been like, I want to do this. They've heard about it, they've heard about all the celebrities doing it, and they want to do it. Share this show with them on YouTube, copy and paste the link. Please subscribe to our YouTube channel because the show is now on YouTube. And obviously the Apple Podcast is my preferred podcast because it's where all of you guys are at. I am on Spotify, but you know, subscribe to it wherever you listen to it. And please share it with 3 friends today, and I I'll be back tomorrow. And if you want to join this challenge where you get the Belly Fat Cure for free online course, make sure to go to my website to fill out the survey and you'll get that on Friday. So have a great rest of your Tuesday. Peace and purpose. All right, I'll see you soon. Take care. Hey, it's Jorge Cruise. If you have one more minute, I wanted to address something that I think is super important, and that is if you need help with anything from the show, if you need help about losing belly fat, if you want help about intermittent fasting, if you want help about exercise, interval training, anything at all, I want you to join my Fit Family on text. It's a brand new service I've just launched, and if you really do need help, I want you to text me right now. It really is that simple. You'll be part of my texting family. I have a group of people that I work work with via text, and it's all for free. So I'd love you to join. All you have to do is text my Malibu number. It's a 424 area code number, so I'm gonna give it to you right now. Jot this down, or while you're listening, text me right now. I mean it. 424-228-9548, and you'll join my Fit Family. Let me give it to you one more time. It's area code 424. 224-228-9548. Now it's gonna work only in the US, so I have to say that if you're listening to our show outside of the US, sorry, no international texting yet at least. And, uh, but 80% of you in the US should be able to text me. I know if you have T-Mobile and you have to put on premium service or something like that, uh, but this is free and I'm going to be giving away a lot of my time on this texting service. A lot of free things like our Belly Fat Cure course will be announced on here. So if you've done my survey, this is how you'll get access to it. I'll be doing special livestream events only for people in my texting community. And I'll be announcing my next 19-day challenge on there as well. So really utilize this and, and you'll get first glances from our show as well. So it'll be a great chance for us to connect, and I may even call you and FaceTime you. So kind of a fun thing. Again, the number— text me, literally do it right now— area code 424-228-9548. And I look forward to having you join my Fit Family. Take good care and God bless. Peace and purpose.