#88 - Your Beliefs Inform Your Outcome

Hi, my name is Jorge Cruise, and I'm the number one New York Times bestselling author and leading fitness, nutrition, and peak performance trainer to the world's busiest celebrities. You may have seen my work with Oprah Winfrey, Khloe Kardashian, Tyra Banks, Kelly Clarkson, or even Dr. Oz. My career started because in my early 20s, I was out of control and addicted to sweets, carbs and salty snacks, and experts told me to simply count calories to get control. They were wrong. My passion to get control of my hunger led me to find simple ways backed by science that would turn off physical hunger as well as my emotional eating instantly. And I know I can help you too. Welcome to the Jorge Cruise Show. Well, happy Thursday. It's October the 29th. How are you? Welcome to the show. I'm Jorge Cruise, and, uh, today we're continuing our incredible series called Ask Big. And, uh, if you're someone who has a desire, whether it's a health-based, uh, desire, whether it's to lower your appetite, whether it's to work out more, drink more water, it could be something small, it could be something big. This series of 12 laws really is designed to give you, I think, the mindfulness and that mental edge that can allow you to overcome sabotage. Because I have discovered in my 20-plus years of working with celebrities and writing books that the only thing that really ever stops us, for the most part, I would say 90% of the time, is us. And it comes down to our beliefs. And so on today's show, we're going to talk about how your beliefs inform your outcome. Because I think it's so important to know that whatever you believe is in your head true, and it impacts what you do on the outside, your outcome, what happens in the outside world. And if you believe that you are someone who is out of control, is addicted to sugar, carbs, and salty snack foods, so the way I was when I was a kid, and you believe that in your heart and you just know it and it's like your identity, it's who you are, then you're never I hate to say it, but I'm gonna be honest with you, you're never gonna overcome it. You never will. The only way you can overcome old programming, let's call it that, is by working on the new programming. And you gotta believe that you can overcome, say, emotional eating or overeating sugar and carbs or an addiction to some other naughty food, shall we say, or drugs, or it could be all sorts of stuff. You know, you could do almost anything to access where it hurts you. And if you believe that that's who you are, someone who's an addict, you know, the way I used to believe I was. I really did believe when I— starting at 9 years old and up until probably college time where I really overcame my weight. But for me, sugar and carbs were my drug, you know. And they say that sugar and carbs can be more addictive than certain drugs, hard drugs like heroin and all that out there. So believe me, if you think you're an addict of any kind of hardcore drug like sugar, you are, um, You're not wrong, but if you believe that in your heart of hearts that you can't change, then you're stuck. And so my goal for you is to not leave you stuck. And on today's show, we're going to talk about how these beliefs we have not just impact our outcome but inform our outcome. And by informing our outcome by our beliefs, we really are able to direct it almost like a compass to the exact location we want. And so I'll teach you a simple process of really changing beliefs on today's show that I think you're going to love. We'll have an affirmation too. And I think by the end of today's show, you're going to have a system that you'll be able to utilize to overcome any disempowering belief and turning it into an empowering belief that informs really the direction you want to go in your life, your outcome. So if that makes sense, let's do that in just a minute. I first need to give a shout out to our sponsors. We are brought to you by Primal Kitchen. Primal Kitchen is probably my favorite place on earth to get salad dressing and mayonnaise and the condiments that I use every day. And for me, plant-based nutrition is important because the only kind of oil I use really these days is avocado oil, and it's a fruit though. Make sure it's not a seed oil or vegetable kind of oil because a lot of the seed oils like canola, safflower, corn oil are incredibly inflammatory to your joints, your body. They age you, they break you down. They can cause heart disease, cancer. 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So check out shopdrtesse.com and tell her that Jorge sent you. All right guys, with that said, let's get started. I'm excited for today's show because really this idea that our beliefs inform our outcome is everything. And I believe if you have an outcome, so let's establish that. What is your outcome? Let me assume it's to control your hunger. You just want to have control over that appetite. So at night you can conquer the night, in the morning you can conquer the morning. You have control. You say, hey, I'm going to eat at 3 or 4, maybe it's an early dinner, maybe it's at 7, and you have your— I don't know, maybe it's a plant-based, maybe it's a meat-based, maybe it's a combination diet. You have your good foods, your healthy fats to turn off hunger. Boom, and you're done. Maybe if it's a Friday night, a glass of wine, a little dessert, but you know, that's fine on occasion. You can have our cheat days, right? And then imagine just not feeling the desire to overeat. And I'll tell you, you can do that. You can have this kind of control with the kind of plan that Zero Hunger is all about. Um, if you haven't checked out my zerohungerlive.com website, check it out because we go into it there. It's an actual program, 3 parts. But I'll tell you, the parts that allow you to control your hunger really start with your mindset. And that's part of the plan. That is one of the 3 pillars of overcoming, uh, appetite and overcoming hunger. It's understanding that it's not just what you put in your mouth and not just exercise. Eyes, but it's also what's in your mind. So your beliefs are the main thing that are in your head, and beliefs impact or inform our outcome. So how do we change those? Because if your outcome is to have zero hunger and feel satisfied, but you believe you're an addict of sugar and carbs, it ain't going to work. So what I'm going to offer to you is a way to deconstruct a belief. So let's assume that you're like the way I was and that you think you're an addict of sugar or carbs or Or maybe it's salty snack foods. You pick your poison, right? So let's just assume it's sugar. Let's say, "I'm addicted to sugar. I love sugar." All right, well, let's just take that belief. I love sugar. Hey, we all do. I mean, it's not bad in the sense that it's hardwired for us to like things that raise serotonin and dopamine levels and make us feel good. And we're hardwired to avoid anything that makes us feel bad. And sugar does exactly that. It raises your serotonin. It raises your dopamine levels and it makes you feel good. So it's like sex. I mean, it just works. We're hardwired to like that kind of stuff. The only negative thing with sugar is that you will gain weight. Obviously insulin goes up, you break a fast, you start to accumulate excess sugar as soon as you have more than a couple grams into body fat and you get the big old belly fat. And we don't want that. You know, that, that is not the intention here. I know you are here to control your hunger so you can be healthy, you can be more empowered and and have a quality of life where you enjoy things. And, you know, when you're overweight 30 or 40 pounds, believe me, and especially with COVID-19, and you guys know I recently found out I had had COVID-19, and I do remember a stretch of time a couple weeks back where I had some trouble breathing, but I just thought it was my asthma. But I could only imagine if I was 40 pounds heavier and all that weight. I mean, it felt tough at night sometimes. I felt like an elephant was sitting on my chest. I was like, oh, I hate my asthma. But it wasn't asthma, it was COVID. And honestly, if you have that weight on your body, it just makes it that much harder. You know, if I gave you a 30-pound dumbbell to hold and sleep with every night, you would have trouble breathing too, let alone having COVID on top of that. So we got to lose this weight for all the right reasons, right? From that to diabetes to blood pressure, we want to stabilize our health. So if that's the goal and the belief is you're a sugar addict, you're kind of screwed. I hate to be honest. So we got to deconstruct that and build a new belief. So here's how we do it in 1 minute. You basically say, all right, if I'm a sugar addict, or I am, I love sugar, we'll just say that, I love sugar. You imagine that as a tabletop with 4 legs, and you have to wipe each one of the 4 legs down so the table collapses. And the way you do it is by breaking that belief down with 4 empowering examples of how you didn't have sugar. Now there's got to be 4 examples in your life where someone said, here, have another piece of candy, and you're like, I'm good. So imagine that time when you said, I'm good, and maybe it was on Halloween, it's coming up soon, right? Or Christmas party, and you just ate too much. Or like Thanksgiving, you're like, uh, I'm good. You know, piece of apple pie full of sugar, you had a slice, the second one you're like, I'm good. So think of that, the apple pie is the second example, the candy at Halloween, you said, I'm good at that. When's another time you said, you know what, maybe you had a scare with diabetes and the doctor said you got to cut down the sugar and you said, "All right, you know what? I'm just using Stevia. No more sugar." And you switched it. So there's a third example. And then maybe, you know, on occasion you'll have water without anything in it. And so that's a great example that you drink water without sugar in it. You know, it doesn't have to be that. So those are your four empowering beliefs. Does that make sense? So now let's switch it. Are you guys ready? Here's what we do. If you love being healthy, if your belief is, "I'm empowered." You know, what's the opposite of I love sugar? I love my health, right? And give yourself 4 examples right now where you know that's true. That's your homework assignment right now. And basically what I want you to do is come up with 4 simple examples, such as if you believe that you are someone who loves their health, give an example to yourself right now. You've worked out. Did you walk? Did you move for at least 8 to 10 minutes? There's an example. Did you drink plenty of water, maybe with some electrolytes today? There's a second example. Did you maybe listen to today's podcast? Cha-ching! There's another great example. What else? Can you call a friend tonight to say, hey, let's do something together. Let's try Jorge Cruise's new 19-day challenge, which I'll tell you about in a second. But let's do something where we can be accountable. That's a good thing. So now you have this this positive belief you've built up that you love your health. And now just say the following affirmation with me. My beliefs inform my outcome. Simple, right guys? My beliefs inform my outcome. Say it twice more. Stand up tall. My beliefs inform my outcome. One last time. Say it with passion. My beliefs inform my outcome. It's that simple, guys. That is how we flip this thing and become controlled. All right, guys. So with that said, peace and purpose. Have a great rest of your Thursday. I'll be back tomorrow, Friday, before Halloween. And if you're interested in my 19-day challenge, please check out, uh, jorgecruiseshow.com. There'll be more information at the site. We're going to start in November, and I'm selecting 30 people for free to work with me for 19 days using the Zero Hunger Method, stuff we've been talking about. So have a great rest of your Thursday, guys. I'll see you tomorrow. Peace and purpose. Take good care. Hey, it's Jorge Cruise. If you have one more minute, I wanted to address something that I think is super important. 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If you're listening to our show outside of the US, sorry, no international texting yet, at least. And, but 80% of you in the US should be able to text me. I know if you have T-Mobile, you have to put on premium service or something like that, but this is free, and I'm gonna be giving away a lot of my time on this text line. 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 in 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. ¡Gracias!