#97 - The three pillars to ZERO Hunger

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. Happy Monday, it's Jorge Cruise and welcome to the Jorge Jorge Cruise Show. Uh, today is November 30th. It is the last day of November. Who is ready for the start of the end of the year tomorrow, December 1st? Uh, super excited to be here right now. It is Monday, like I said, and if you are, uh, a part of the show here and have been listening for a while, then you know tonight is our first official meeting for the Zero Hunger Plan. Uh, and if you haven't heard of this challenge, you can still join today. You just have to go to zerohungerplan.com. And basically what this plan does is very much a more structured version of this podcast, but it's really designed to give you radical control over sugar, carbs, and salty snack foods. And I can tell you, so many of my clients, whether they're celebrities, readers of my books, or online clients, uh, feel like it's their fault that they just have a lack of willpower. And I'll tell you, it's not your fault, because honestly, when we are under stress, which more than ever before that's happening with COVID-19 and just with the, the events of the world, uh, we crave serotonin and dopamine because that makes us feel good. And, uh, out of all the macronutrients, and there are only 3— carbs, proteins, and fats— uh, the only one that raises serotonin levels where there's a difference is carbohydrates, sugar, carbs, all that. And so if you're craving that, please know you're not alone. The whole world is craving sugar and carbs right now. And I think, uh, I've heard enough from clients online where everyone has gained the COVID-19 15 pounds of being home. And I'll tell you, if you're ready to get radical control over your health, then you need to join me tonight at 5 PM Pacific time. It's going to be on a Zoom link, and I'll send you the email. We're going to do another email blast for anyone who signed up last minute, which is today, Monday. And on today's show, we're going to talk about the 3 pillars. Really, what are the 3 keys to the plants you understand before So please know you can still sign up. Please share it with your loved ones. Just go to zerohungerplan.com, fill out a simple questionnaire, then I'll email you back the Zoom link. I'll email you a client form and you'll be ready to rock and roll for tonight. You haven't missed anything. We had a pre-meeting last night and I wanna thank everyone who attended that last night. It was so much fun at 5 o'clock on Sunday. Um, and I would special thanks to my, uh, coordinator and client superstar Sandy, who's lost 93 pounds. She gave her story last night and it was extraordinary. So welcome guys, it's Monday. I'm so happy it is. Hopefully you had a great weekend. I know it was a busy, long weekend for a lot of people out there. And on today's show, like I said, let's talk about the 3 keys really to zero hunger because everything we've been taught about how to control hunger, in my opinion, is wrong. For the last 40 years, we've all been told to eat more fiber, right? High volume, low calorie food. Or worse of all, just take a fiber pill or take fiber supplements and just drink fiber, whether it's Fiber One, Metamucil, all these things to keep us full longer. And I'll tell you, none of that works. And if you eat carbs, which are usually high in fiber, that only holds you up for maybe 15 to 20 minutes, and then you can have another bowl of pasta, another pizza. You literally never feel full. So we're gonna talk about that all on today's show, because that's pillar one. I call it eat Pillar 2 is Move Fit and the new science behind how to use exercise, specifically HIIT training, to bolster serotonin so you don't eat emotionally. And then we're also going to talk about Think Fit. That's the third pillar, which is really about how to get yourself to be mindful and how to get yourself to say, hey, you know what? I want this thing called health. And as much as there are candy canes on the tree right now, or popcorn with caramel all over the house, I don't need that, you know? And it's very much like knowing like when you're crossing the street, you don't want to be hit by a car. You don't run in front of these cars when it's not safe. And you can have that kind of radical control over sugar and carbs with the mindfulness component of our plan as well. So believe me, it's very comprehensive. So that's today's show, guys. Welcome Monday. I love Mondays. Now before we get started with the show, I want to give a shout out to our sponsors. A very special thank you to Primal Kitchen for giving all of us, all listeners of the show, a free mayonnaise made from chipotle lemon in the sense of its flavor, but primarily an avocado-based product. And what avocado oil does, and avocados in general, they're anti-inflammatory. And because they're a healthy fat, they also turn off hunger. And that's one of the biohacks of the plan. The core biohack of the plan's a little different. It's more sodium. We're gonna talk about that in a second. But healthy fats are critical when you break your fast. I put a dollop of this lemon chipotle lemon mayonnaise on my steaks almost every single day. I love mayonnaise, especially when it's made from avocado, because it's anti-inflammatory. And I'll tell you, if you have mayo at home, or even salad dressings made with canola oil, soybean oil, check your labels, throw them out. Not so much for weight gain— yes, they can cause that— but Unfortunately, they're inflammatory. Soybean oil, corn oil, all these oils, canola in particular is a horrible, horrible oil in your body. It's cheap, it's in everything, and you gotta throw it out if you wanna value your health and improve your health. And that is why I love Primal Kitchen because they've created the best condiments out there, salad dressings, mayonnaise, and so many other products that will extend your life and turn off hunger. Now to get your free mayo, this is the website you gotta go to. Go to primalkitchen.com/westernmedicine. Jorgecruise. My name spelled is J-O-R-G-E-C-R-U-I-S-E dot com. All right, without the dot com.

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can't spell my name today— J-O-R-G-E-C-R-U-I-S-E, no dot com. And the website to get the mayo again is primalkitchen.com/jorgecruise. Hope that makes sense. Sorry about that. All right, we're also brought to you by Elemental Labs. I love Elemental Labs. They're a new discovery for me during COVID-19 this last 2020. These Elemental Lab products are vital in my opinion because they're rich in sodium, which turns off hunger. These are an electrolyte drink. They're called, uh, uh, Element, these little packets. And they were designed by New York Times bestselling author Robb Wolf, who is extraordinary. I'm gonna be interviewing him on the podcast very soon. And Robb and I collaborated and I said, Robb, I have all these folks that are learning about sodium and how we need more more sodium in our diet to turn off false hunger, what could we do? And so he's giving us all one of their boxes for free. It's a $45 value when you order one of his value bundles. 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But best of all, it turns off hunger. Each little packet, 2 to 3 hours. And so I'll have in an average day, 4 to 5. My, my limit has been 6, but I have no problems with it. Everyone's a little different. Some people need a little less, some people need a little more, depending on your size as well and your appetite, but I tend to have an appetite, but it literally is the off switch to hunger and it's wonderful. So check them out. Thank you to Robb Wolf on that. And we're also brought to you by Dr. Tess. She's America's favorite dermatologist, Stanford trained. We met over 10 years ago on the set at CBS for The Talk with Sharon Osbourne, and she's this great, gorgeous woman, as I said, Stanford trained, and her obsession is beauty. And so she has created these little tablets of collagen that I take 3 every day. And these collagen tablets literally take away the need to do bone broth or create collagen shakes or powders. Not that those are bad, but if you want a quick and easy way to get gorgeous skin, hair, joints, nails, all that, you need bone marrow in your life. And this is the most elegant way to do it. 3 tiny little tablets. No one will even know you're doing it. I do it after my meal usually, um, every night, and they're delicious. She's giving us 50% off what she calls her Lively Healthy Skin Collagen product. It also has antioxidants. And again, 50% off for all our listeners. Simply go to her website, shopdrtesse.com. That's S-H-O-P-D-R-T-E-S-S dot com. And the coupon code at checkout is Dr. Tess, all one word, D-R-T-E-S-S. So thank you, Dr. Tess, for that, for keeping us looking good. So, uh, my 3 favorite products, guys. You're gonna love it. So let's get started, guys. Tonight, the meeting, 5 o'clock Pacific time. Please, if you are interested in learning about this, go to zerohungerplan.com and fill out the initial survey. We'll be sending out another email, and then you'll be ready to rock and roll because you have the Zoom link, you'll have the password into the private room. We had an incredible group of people last night, and tonight we'll have the whole group there, so it'll be wonderful. And the number one thing everyone wanted to lose— I don't know if you can see this, whether you're on YouTube or not, but it's this. Check this out, this ugly thing. This is 5 pounds of belly fat that normally be around your waist. And what I can promise you on this plan is you'll lose up to 19 pounds. This is just 5 pounds, but up to 19 pounds. So imagine 3 of these and a little more in 19 days. And belly fat, uh, which is interesting that everyone was so interested in losing, is the most dangerous fat of all. You can have fat on your thighs, your chin, your arms, but when it's around the waist, that high waist circumference puts us at risk for heart disease, cancer, type 2 diabetes, and it's not attractive, and it puts us at higher risk for an underlying health condition with COVID-19. So That's what this plan is all about. It's about learning how to turn off your hunger, how to get radical control over sugar, carbs, and salty snack foods so you can truly fast 24 hours, have one meal a day, a high protein, high fat diet. And so right now what I would like to do is tell you the three pillars briefly so you get an idea of how this plan works, but it's very comprehensive. Now, the first pillar is called Eat Fit, and what that simply means is that what you eat is everything. Right? That your nutrition is more important than your fitness and sense of exercise and sense of weight loss and sense of health management and the sense of medications. That food, let food be thy medicine is my mantra, guys. And you know, fitness begins in the kitchen in my opinion because of what you eat. It's critical. I've been saying that for 20 years. And so the way the plan works is that rather than bulking up on fiber and high volume foods that are usually plant-based. What we're gonna do is move to a whole different paradigm of using sodium, 1,000 milligrams of sodium about every 2 to 3 hours, which is about 1/4 of a teaspoon of a fine salt. I love Redmond's Real Salt, which is from a 6-mine-deep mine in Utah, uncontaminated by plastics. A lot of salts are contaminated. You want to try to get an ancient source of salt. I like the Redmond's because they're the best. You can check them out online. Just Google Redmond's Real Salt. You need 1/4 teaspoon for 32 ounces of water. Write this down. 32 ounces of water upon rising with 1/4 teaspoon of a fine salt. And now if you're using a coarse salt, you'll need 1/2 teaspoon because it's bulkier, right? And it'll dissolve in the water, but it may be chunky. That's why I like a fine salt. And then what I will do is I'll have one of these 32 ounces of what I call zero hunger water with the 1,000 milligrams of the sea salt in there, uh, about every 2 to 3 hours throughout the day. I'll end up having probably 5 to 6 of those before I have my dinner. And tonight I'm having dinner around 5 and 6 when we do our live meeting. I'm going to be in the kitchen showing people how I cook my meal. It's super simple. So I'm going to be fasting for 24 hours, but This is the biohack to end all biohacks to turn off hunger. I used to be a big fan of coffee with butter in it or MCT oil or coconut oil, and you can still do that on the plant because that won't break your fast, but it's not effective in my opinion. It holds up hunger. It's not bad. It's a great little variety. I'd have a cup of coffee. I actually just had one this morning. It's fine to do with up to about a teaspoon, tablespoon max of a healthy fat, whether it's butter, heavy cream, half and half, MCT oil. Careful with the MCT oil because it can cause loose stool out there, I'm just saying. But I don't do that as much anymore. And if you think you need energy in the morning, I will tell you that electrolytes, the sodium, 1,000 milligrams of sodium in the morning, which is 1/4 of a teaspoon in 32 ounces of water, gives me the greatest energy. I mean, last night I did the whole meeting. We did our pre-challenge meeting last night, Sunday. Had had nothing to eat all day and I felt incredible. I think the biggest fear people had in the meeting was they thought they were going to just pass out by lunch or noon if they didn't eat something. Like, oh my gosh, I need carbs, I need a glass of orange juice to keep my energy going and so I don't pass out. Not true. What the science has shown is that electrolytes, specifically sodium and magnesium and potassium, are vital for that. And so that is really what Eat Fit is all about. Is learning how to use sodium, the right amounts throughout the day to turn off hunger. And then the pairing with that under the first pillar is knowing how to break a fast. And for me, it's usually a ribeye steak with salt on both sides, 5 to 6 minutes on each side, and I'm ready to eat in about 10 to 12 minutes. And I usually don't have anything else. It's— fills me up. I do have a little side of organ meat. Now we're gonna talk about that this evening because organ meat is by many experts the most important source of vitamins and minerals, much more so than tablets. And I love eating, whether it's beef liver or beef heart, I do that a lot. There, a lot of organ meat has all these essential macro vitamins that we need from all, all the vitamins and minerals. So that's what I do typically, but it could be chicken, it could be fish, it could be eggs. Uh, you can have butter and yes, you can have carbs. We're gonna talk about that tonight. You wanna make sure they're the low toxic carbs, my favorite of all, are zucchini. I love Cece's Veggies, if you guys have heard of them, because they make zucchini spiralized. But it's, again, that's high volume, not critical. About 20% of the diet may be that. I know some of you guys are plant-based, and I'll tell you, if you're plant-based, most likely you're overweight. I hate to say it because you're eating a high-fiber meal, which makes you hungry, and you're probably eating all day and night. When you eat one of these high-protein, high-fat meals like my ribeye steak— check out my Insta stories on that— You turn off hunger for all night and all, all morning. You don't, you don't have no hunger at all. And this is all based on my interviews with Dr. Shawn Baker, with Dr. Paul Saladino. You gotta check all these out on, on the podcast here because you're gonna love it. So that's really pillar 1, and that's 80 to 90% of the plan. It's that simple. But then we have 2 more pillars to balance it. And the 2 last pillars are really designed to help you control emotional eating. The, the second pillar is called Move Fit, and it's about using HIIT training, which we'll talk about next week. We're not going to even talk about it this first week on the challenge, but it's using HIIT training to elevate serotonin levels and burn a little extra belly fat so you feel good whether it's in the morning, whether it's at night. This is a very important thing to do. It's the new exercise science really that has really shown us that we can extend life with this HIIT training, increase energy, and burn bolster our feel-good drug called serotonin, our natural ability to feel good. It's some, you know, some people say it's better than Prozac. HIIT training. So that is pillar 2, and this is stuff you can do at home, whether— I love kettlebell swings, I love burpees, I love walking. You don't need any gyms at all, and it's optional. Obviously, this is only to help you overcome emotional eating, in my opinion, and more so at night. But for some people, just so you feel good in the morning, so you can do it twice a day, 3 times a day. I have clients that do it all throughout the day. Movement is power, and HIIT training is very important. Again, it stands for high-intensity interval training, and we'll be talking about that on the plan. So that's pillar 2. And then pillar 3 is called ThinkFit. And what ThinkFit is, is basically you knowing that you have to be mindful of your thoughts, and that if your thoughts vary and they shift and you're not focused, you know, you'll look at a candy— I love candy canes back when I was a kid, and we have them on our Christmas tree. But you can go literally eat the ornaments off the tree if you're not mindful. You have to remember that life is short and that life, you know, our time here, our mortality is, we're not here forever. It's a long life, but it's not as long as you would want. It's not forever. And sometimes in midlife or in earlier times of our life, we forget that life is short and we need to seize the day and be mindful of that. And so mindfulness is so important. Important to remember why you're doing this, to remember that life, you know, has a limit. And if you have been wanting to get healthy, this is the time to do it, not mañana, you know, not tomorrow. You don't want to wait to tomorrow and keep pushing it off and act like a child. You want to be a grown-up about reality and say, you know what, I'm, you know, a grown person and I need to take care of my health. And as much as there is a candy cane on the tree, I'm not going to eat it. And as much as there is popcorn with caramel under the tree, you know, from my family and all that, it can stay there unless you've never had it at age 50 or 40 or whatever age you're at, you may be at. But I would guess most of us, especially if we have some belly fat, have been eating our share of carbohydrates. And I hate to say it, probably a lot of sugar, a lot of carbs, a lot of lattes from Starbucks with 30 grams of sugar. You've done all that. Check it off the bucket list and move on. And let's get to getting you healthy so you have the best health in 2020. And then literally, starting tonight, you can lose up to 19 pounds in 19 days. So when December 18th comes, you'll be a new person, literally a new person, in less than 19 days, or around 19 days. So that is the third pillar. We're going to talk about that throughout the program because mindfulness is everything. I'm going to do a special exercise tonight to share with you how to calm down the, the noise in your head so you can stay focused focused on what matters to you, and it's very, very simple, but it's so powerful. It can be literally the only thing that truly can sabotage you is your mind, and by knowing how to end that sabotage, you'll have total control, truly radical control, even more so than the sodium can give you for the rest of your life, and that way you are in control of your life rather than food and candy canes are in control of your life because You know, at age 50, I'm almost there, I don't want a candy cane to rule my life. I think that's silly. You know, that's fine if you're 3 years old, but not if you're a grown person. So I hope that makes sense. So those are the 3 pillars to the plan. Super simple, really only the first pillar is the most vital. Obviously the last pillar I think is vital too. I mean, they're all very important. All 3 work together, and that's what we're gonna be working on for the next 19 days starting tonight. So one last time, go to zerohungerplan.com, Fill out the form if you want to be a part of this, of this plan. We'll be emailing a second batch of people probably by midday today. Get on it and it's not too late and invite your loved ones, family, spouses, girlfriends, boyfriends, kids, grandparents, anyone you know. Please invite them. Tell them this guy Jorge Cruise, this author, he's doing the Zero Hunger Plan Challenge, 19 days, totally free, totally free. And really, you have this stuff on hand already. Hopefully you have salt in your house. That's the worst thing you're gonna need. And hopefully you have a little protein in your house. Hopefully some chicken, fish, some meats, burgers, whatever you need, some eggs, you'll be fine. And then we'll get you through the plan tonight and then you're gonna have an extraordinary week where on average daily, you lose up to a pound a day. That's that powerful. So I hope that makes good sense, guys. If you have any questions, you can also text me at 424-228-1000. 95 4-day, because I know a lot of you want to get into this plan, are not sure what to do. But again, it's this simple, just go to zerohungerplan.com. Everything is there, fill it out, and we'll be sending you another email. All right guys, have a beautiful Monday. Well, I hope you enjoyed today's show, guys.

I sure did, and I'm excited that you're listening and more importantly, hopefully sharing the podcast with loved ones, because I can tell you, taking control of your hunger, uh, is so important. It's the number one thing that sabotages all good intentions, uh, whether you're trying to eat well, exercise well, stay mindful. I can tell you, being able to turn off hunger is critical. And with that said, guys, I want to extend an invitation to you right now to join my 19-day challenge for free.

This will be the only time in 2020 that I'll be doing this, guys.

So join it. It starts on November 30th. It is the first Monday in November, uh, right after Thanksgiving. And I would love to have you and some loved ones join us.

We have space available.

You just need to go to zerohungerplan.com. That's all with the Z. Z-E-R-O hungerplan.com. Check it out. It just takes a few minutes to fill out a survey I have, and then as my thank you to you, you get access to this 19-day plan where I'll be coaching you for 19 days live on Zoom. We are going to be at about 200 people on the plan. There may be a couple people extra. I'm inviting some VIPs as well. And more importantly, you'll have a community of support for 19 days. I'll lead it, but you're going to meet some incredible people. And you know, the greatest lesson I think I've ever learned is that who you're with is who you become. If you need that kind of nurturing environment where people are thinking positively and moving forward and, and understanding that what we've been taught is wrong, that counting calories doesn't work, Zero Hunger is the plan for you guys. And I hope more importantly it'll become a lifestyle for you and something that you can do for the rest of your life so you keep the weight off and you stay at optimal health so you can work better, live a better day, and, and just enjoy life. Life again. So if that sounds good, guys, I'll see you soon. Go to zerohungerplan.com. Thanks so much. Take care. Peace and purpose.