#92 - Join my FREE 19-Day Zero Hunger Challenge

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 night. It's Jorge Cruise and welcome to the Jorge Cruise Show. I'm Jorge. So, so happy you're here right now. Today's really special show. I'm a little off the schedule. I'm turning this show into a challenge, actually. I'm going to be starting a 19-day, what I call, zero hunger challenge. It's going to be for free. We already have 100 people that have signed up for this. If you've not heard about it, I haven't talked about it really on the podcast. To spend more on social media, but it's something I'm doing for free. I'm opening it up to 100 more people, so you'll be hearing about that on the show today. And it's really designed to give you radical control, very much like the podcast but in a more structured way, but give you radical control over your, your cravings, you know, things like sugar, carbs, salty snack foods, and emotional eating. And I feel like those are the things that over the culmination of my 20 years as an author and 25 years as a trainer have been the things that have been the obstacles to any one of my celebrity clients losing weight, any one of the readers of my books losing weight, etc. It just goes on and on. And this kind of ability to have this control that's so strong over these things is totally doable, and it's easy, it's simple. It allows you to kind of turn literally hunger off with the switch. I'll teach you how to do that. You'll learn the 3 parts to the program. There's only 3 keys to it all. It's involves nutrition, involves exercise, and involves mindfulness. So you'll learn that whole program, and I'll give you all the information. That's half the show. But before I even do that, I want to share with you what I have been experiencing all day today, which is kind of a little bit of a profound sadness for us as a world, really, because I've been watching the news, reading the papers. You know, I read the New York Times every day. I read the local paper here in San Diego as well. And there is this surge of COVID-19 that's happening everywhere. And I was going to wait to do this till after the holidays and do it more in January, but you know, I thought we need the gift of health right now more than ever before. Because just in San Diego right now, starting on Sunday, we're going to be back at a critical level where every, uh, business has to be outdoors again because it's surpassed the threshold, you know. And I was reading about what's happening in New York City and how that is out of control. And literally throughout the country, COVID COVID-19 is out of control, and it literally is something that may happen to someone you know, someone like yourself even, and how do you get through it so you have the best experience? So, the first part of the show, I'm gonna share with you something I've kept kind of private for now. I've mentioned it once on social media, but my personal battle with COVID-19 and how I got through it, not knowing I even had it. So, I'll share with you my experience of what it was like from a firsthand perspective, because I have tested in the last month, I tested positive for the antibodies, and didn't even know I had COVID-19. I thought it was an asthma issue I had. I thought it was laryngitis. I blamed it on a lot of things. I stopped teaching though, my class, for almost 2 weeks because I was so ill. And I'll share with you this with the intention of giving you some motivation, because I think sometimes a lemon, right, can be turned into lemonade. And if you can do that by the end of the show here and combine it with the challenge I want to give you, and I'll give you the website and all that so you can sign up and be one of 100 people, you're going to have, I think, not just the motivation and the method to empower your health and to really get radical control over this hunger you may have, because it's stressful. When it's a stressful time in our lives, that's usually when we have the least amount of control when it comes to these kind of foods, because over my 20 years in weight loss and in health and as an author, I've never met people who have trouble conquering the night with their issues with hard-boiled eggs or steak or any kind of protein or fats. It's always carbohydrates. And so it's not your fault really that if you have this lack of control over those things— sugar, carbs, salty snack foods, you know, and you eat emotionally even— it's all interconnected. So today's show is going to give you the tools to overcome that, hopefully some motivation with my personal story, and hopefully something that will start on November 30th for you. So, if you're selected, you'll get an email from me. You'll find out all the details of how we do it. It's going to be on a Zoom livestream daily for 19 days. You're going to love it. So, I'm super excited for that. And we're starting again the last Monday of this month, which is right after Thanksgiving. So, it's right in time for, I think, the best time of the year, which is the holidays, end of the year, and also starting the new year strong. And it's something that's a lifestyle that you can continue to do., again and again. And my hope for you is that in that 19 days you lose up to 19 pounds, because that's what I think you'll have happen, especially for someone who has, say, 30 or more pounds to lose. Because for me, my COVID story is intense, and I'll tell you all about it in a minute. But let's first give some thanks to our sponsors, uh, because the show would not be possible with the following 3, uh, sponsors. First, thank you to Primal Kitchen for always having our back here. Primal Kitchen was started by my nutrition mentor Mark Sisson, who's 67 years young, uh, phenomenal shape, uh, great six-pack ladies and gentlemen, something to aspire to at 67. He just turned 67, and he started this company a couple years back. And Primal Kitchen was really designed to give you an alternative in condiments like salad dressing and even mayonnaise to what was out there, because what Mark experienced in his life was incredible inflammation from the dressings that were out there— salad dressings and mayonnaise. And these dressings are made with canola oil. So during my 19-day challenge, and hopefully as a lifestyle you want to throw out any canola oil you have in your kitchen. Also, two other oils you have to avoid: soybean and corn oil, because that's what most, uh, industrial kind of condiments are made from, whether it's dressings for salads or mayonnaise. And if you have any of that in your house, it's going to cause inflammation, it's going to make you overweight, it's going to slow you down. There's nothing good about it. So I would avoid all that and replace it with Primal Kitchen, because Primal Kitchen is made with avocado oil, which is anti-inflammatory. It's the exact opposite. And I put a dollop of the mayonnaise, the one they're giving away for free to all our listeners, free Chipotle lemon mayo, um, with a promo code Jorge Cruise. And all you have to do is go to www.primalkitchen.com/jorgecruise. That's J-O-R-G-E-C-R-U-I-S-E. All right, second, we're brought to you by Joovv. Now, Joovv is the premier company, I think, in this country that really gives us red light therapy. And red light therapy is the kind light therapy that cannot just improve your mood, because that's what I use it for, but it can improve your metabolism, it can improve your skin texture, it can help produce collagen as well, help tighten skin. I mean, the list goes on and on. So many people have so many different types of reactions to this incredible healing light. And what this red light therapy does too, for me, for someone who suffers from seasonal mood disorder, is makes this beautiful red light in a room appear kind of like a magical sunrise or sunset where you just feel good. And it's calm energy, but it is absolutely, um, addictive and positive. And it's good for you before bed, it's good for you in the morning upon rising. This red light therapy is amazing, and I want you all to experience it. They want you to experience it too. 100% money-back guarantee, and you get a free gift with the promo code Jorge, J-O-R-G-E, if you simply go to joovv.com. Basically, it's J-O-O-V-V, right? V-V, double V, jorgecruise.com/jorge. And finally, we're brought to you by Dr. Tess. Now, if you didn't hear the show 91, which was the last show we— I did with Dr. Tess, you've got to re-listen to this show. 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So with that said, we thanked our sponsors. Now I just want to get into this program. I want to share with you briefly my experience of COVID-19, which happened technically during the last 8 months because I never knew I had it, uh, until after I had a blood test. And then the blood test said I didn't have it at the time, the rapid. And then the antibody test said I tested positive for antibodies, which means I've had COVID-19. And I was a little bit in shock, but then I scratched my head, talked to my doctor, and he and I are in touch a lot already because he does all my blood tests on a regular monthly basis as I've been doing more of a meat-based diet, an animal-based diet, checking my cholesterol levels, etc. And all all that, liver levels and enzymes, everything to make sure I'm staying healthy. And so because I see him so often, I told him that I was experiencing what I thought was asthma, because I used to have asthma as a kid, and, and laryngitis. And so, you know, he said just rest, obviously, because you're worn out from overworking and over-talking. Shocking, right? And I put on hold my, my classes because I have a lot of great classes clients that I, I do regularly all throughout COVID, and I had to put that on hold for a while. It was supposed to be just for a week, then it was a second week, and it just got to the point where I just couldn't breathe. And I thought it was asthma, I thought it was laryngitis. And so looking back on the timeline, my doctor and I, we looked at this and he's like, Jorge, that was COVID. So for me, it makes total sense because now I understand why this difficulty in breathing— and that's being nice, I mean extreme difficulty in breathing— for me was so hard because every night I felt like I couldn't sleep because I literally felt like a baby elephant was sitting on my chest. It felt like 100, 200 pounds on my chest. And, you know, just to give you a reality check, I'm someone who is very healthy, very strong, very fit. I'm 6'1", I'm a tall man, I'm 200 pounds, lean muscle, barely any fat at all, maybe 8% fat, and I feel my best. I've never felt more physically strong and capable I do HIIT training every day, which is a mix of cardio with strength. So I'm strong and I have good cardiovascular health, and I haven't had an asthma attack since college. You know, it's been a while. So that was 30 years ago. So for me to have an asthma attack 30 years later out of the blue made no sense to me, but I thought that that had to be it, but it wasn't. It was COVID-19. And so what I want to share with you is the story of that, because it was so motivating for me to realize how important breath was. And I totally get why so many people now that get COVID-19 have to use respirators, because it really is a difficulty. I mean, it gives you extreme difficulty in breath. It makes you feel like you can't breathe at all. And, uh, but you can. But it was so hard. It took all the energy out of me to breathe. Because, you know, you can go days and days without water, you can go months and months without food, but how how many minutes can you go without breathing? So you have to breathe, and it gets to the point where you feel like you're going to give up. And if you give up, that's the ultimate death right there, right, guys? So I don't want you to be in that situation. And I'm someone who's lean, right, and strong. So my challenge for you is to use this story of my struggle as a lemon, right, because it was a lemon, but turn it into lemonade. Because now I want to share with you my 19-day challenge, because you can use my 19-day Zero Hunger Challenge to turn off hunger. We're going to be starting it on November 30th, which is odd for me because I usually start these at the start of a month on a Monday, the first Monday in the month. This is the last Monday of November. We're starting it on November 30th because I want you guys to be done by December 18th. I think it's the date, so you have the holidays free from meetings because we meet daily. This is a live stream. It'll be at 10 AM Pacific time with me live on a Zoom meeting. You'll get all the information if you sign up and you're accepted into the program, you simply have to share with me a couple tidbits about yourself. There's a survey you have to fill out. You go to my website, I'll give you the URL at the end of the show. But basically, imagine 19 days of having your coach, Jorge Cruise, walk you through the 3-step process, which involves 3 things. Simple. It's nutritional, it's in the sense of what to do to turn off hunger from a nutritional standpoint. It's going to involve you getting minerals into your life, electrolytes into your life, to turn off hunger, put it at bay. And also I'm going to teach you the diet, the best two ways to do it, whether you're plant-based or animal-based or a combo, how to combine that so you can maximize your, your intake without overeating. And at the same time, just eat once a day because that is the autophagy that then does the housekeeping to get rid of the extra body weight, to get rid of the extra protein in your body that you don't need, and to really just create a clean new start for you in 19 days. But we need to eat every 24 hours, not twice a day, not 3 times a day, but you're going to eat once a day on this plan. And I'll teach you how to do that so you have zero hunger, truly, truly zero hunger. You're going to love this first part of the program. The second part is not nutrition, it's exercise-based, and it's a way to have a safety net when you feel like you want to eat at night. It's going to be a HIIT training method that you can do in 8 minutes that will teach you how to turn that off by bolstering serotonin and dopamine. Through high-intensity interval training. You're going to love that, super simple. And then the third element is mindfulness. It's super simple. It sounds complicated because it is involving your focus and turning things off in your mind, but I'm going to teach you some stoicism, some Stoic philosophy that comes from Greece that's thousands of years old that I've been using recently to really calm myself down during the most stressful times in my life. And this 2020 has been one of those years. And you'll learn a method to, to be mindful, to be in the moment, to be in the present and to turn off stress. And that will give you the ability to have this calm in your life where then you have zero hunger with the other two steps, and you're able to lose up to a pound a day. And over 19 days, guess what? Drum roll— 19 pounds. So if that sounds like something you want to do, is drop 19 pounds and possibly even more in 19 days, then I want you to have the website. You're just going to go to jorgecruiseshow.com. I would go to it as soon as the show is over. It's J-O-R-G-E-C-R-U-I-S-E, uh, show, S-H-O-W dot com. I'll spell for you one more time. It's Jorge, J-O-R-G-E, Cruise, C-R-U-I-S-E, show, S-H-O-W dot com. When you get to the home page, it's bright green. Scroll down, you'll see this thing for the free Zero Hunger Challenge. Sign up. It's 100 more people. We already have 100. It'll be a total of 200 people, and we start the last Monday of November. All right, guys, I want you to be a part of this. It is going to change your life forever. It's a lifestyle that is doable. It's a lifestyle that's affordable, and it's a lifestyle that will change your life not just with your waistline, but I I hope, truly, truly hope from my heart to yours, that it'll give you an edge over COVID-19. Because it's going to make your body healthier, stronger, more fortified, lighter, so you can breathe in case you get this horrible issue, you know, because I sure did. And I'm grateful that I was healthy and fit, because it was bad enough being healthy and fit, you know, and yet I didn't know I had it. I just thought it was bad asthma, but thank God, you know, It wasn't just bad asthma, it was something very different. So if that makes sense, guys, please share this with loved ones. Get this message, this podcast, to your loved ones, especially if they have weight to lose. And you know that being overweight is a huge, huge underlying health condition when it comes to COVID-19. And right now it is surging all over our country. So use this challenge to give yourself this gift, this gift gift that will change your life forever and may save your life. So I send you a lot of love, a lot of peace, a lot of purpose, and I look forward to seeing you in the challenge. Take good care. Hey, it's Jorge. 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 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. No, 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 424-228-9548. 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, but 80% of you in the US should be able to text text me. I know if you have T-Mobile, you have to put on premium service or something like that, uh, but this is free. And I'll be announcing my next 19-day challenge on there as well. So really utilize this, and, uh, 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 be 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.