Trainer Jorge Cruise shares recipes from his Cruise Control diet: coffee with MCT oil and butter that suppresses hunger for three hours, chia seed pudding, and guac bacon bombs. He claims the 16:8 intermittent fasting approach can burn up to a pound of belly fat daily.
Hi. So our next guest is a celebrity trainer who's worked with Brooke Shields, Jennifer Lopez, and Khloe Kardashian. You need to listen. He's also the author of the book called The Cruise Control Diet. Please welcome the healthy snack man, Jorge Cruise. Woo-hoo!
Thank you, Wendy.
How you doing?
I'm good. You look gorgeous. Thank you, Jorge. Beyond gorgeous. And tiny. You're so tiny. Thank you.
You look great. I like a healthy snack though.
Yes, I do too.
So what are we doing and how many calories? Are there a lot of calories?
Well, we don't count calories. Shocking, but listen to this. A lot of people are doing keto. I don't know if you guys have tried keto, but you can't have carbs on keto. It's hard.
Right.
And I love carbs. How many people love carbs, right?
Yes.
Yes, and popcorn. So imagine being able to fast for 16 hours, but we're gonna cheat the fast where you don't feel hungry with healthy fats, and then you get to eat carbs during your 8-hour window. And then you lose up to a pound of belly fat every day. Yeah.
Okay, let's get started.
I know, I know. Are you ready? Are you ready? All right. So I don't know how many people love coffee or tea. I love coffee. I don't know if you do tea or coffee or both.
I like tea better, but I will sip the coffee.
So imagine this is, I call it cruise control coffee. It has heavy cream, butter, salt, a pinch of salt, and MCT oil. And then I love this— And the what? MCT oil.
What's that?
Medium-chain triglyceride. Very fancy word for coconut oil. But it's the best for suppressing appetite. None of them. The trick to cheating the fast is no carbs, no protein. And then I just blend it up like this. Check this out. It's like a little mini frother, right? No! And then if you don't use this, then the oil stays on top and I don't like it because then it looks like soup.
No! Right, yeah.
But watch, when you're done here, it looks like a $10 latte from wherever coffee shop.
Okay.
So this turns out hunger for 3 hours.
Is this it?
Yeah, and it won't break your fast.
So salute. Let me taste this.
You wanna try that? Yeah.
I'll be the judge.
And I put erythritol. I think it has erythritol. Does this—
I taste the erythritol.
So we can have it plain or stevia.
So what is it?
It's a natural sweetener, because remember, you can't use real sugar, and I don't like artificials because it can raise insulin. So you don't wanna do that.
Okay, and you put chi in here.
No, so this is another one. So here's a second one. You know, I've worked with Steve Harvey for many years. He's a big man. He likes to have a bigger meal. So what I do with him is we do chia seed pudding. Now you can have this pudding, guys, and what's great about chia seeds, they expand in your stomach. I know. No cooking required.
I know.
No cooking required.
A handful, you feel like Thanksgiving.
Absolutely, and what's great about this recipe, guys, and we have all the ingredients on thewendyshow.com, and vanilla extract. You put this in.
Mm-hmm.
Isn't that good?
Yes, it is.
You blend it up or stir it. You let it sit overnight, and then it turns out like this.
It's kind of like rice pudding.
Yep, and what's great about this, you can do this while you're fasting, and you can have it at night as a dessert, and it won't break the fast.
Is this a serving size? Yeah, yeah.
I mean, you could have more. That's unlimited. So this is in the morning or at night when you're fasting. Now, these snacks you can have while you're eating for 8 hours. Now, I love popcorn. You love popcorn. So I made this special for you, Wendy. Now the trick to making healthy popcorn is never using the microwave kind, a lot of hydrogenated oils, and no air popping. Our goal is to use healthy fats, avocado oil or olive oil or coconut oil. So we use that, make your popcorn, and then all the spices don't raise insulin, so it keeps the sugar low. Delicious, spicy, put a little hot sauce.
And the spicy burns the calories.
Yeah, it's great. And so the goal though, the hack, guys, is to add healthy fats so you suppress appetite.
Olive oil. That's the key.
Avocado oil. Avocado is the preferred one. It's what I use with a lot of my celebrities like Brooke Burke in Malibu.
I have to tell you, so far all three things are good, but this—
Isn't it good?
You love it?
Mm-hmm. And it's filling and it expands and there's no cooking required for that. Now, how many people love cabbage? Not too many of my celebrities like cabbage. You do?
Love it.
Well, but here's the trick. How do you make it delicious? So you put a little of this oil on it. This is avocado oil, right? And you kind of give it a little massage. I don't wanna get my hands too dirty. But you do that, a little Parmesan, a little salt, Wendy. You know I love salt.
Good idea.
Yeah, yeah. Pepper. Then you massage it, you put it in the oven, and then they come out looking like chips. And I have two sons. I have a 15-year-old and a 13-year-old almost, and they love these because they're salty and delicious and vegetables. Yeah, and healthy fats. Again, anti-inflammatory.
These are really good.
All right, guys, now last but not least, uh, it's a guac bacon bomb. Check this out. Basically, take guacamole. You can add your onions, your garlic, your chili, butter, lime. You let it sit overnight in the fridge. You scoop it out. It comes It comes out like so, right? And then you put it in here and then you roll it in bacon, right guys? Have you guys had these little bombs before? And they come out looking like this. And this turns off hunger for up to 3 hours as well. So this is the kind of snacking that you do where you don't feel hungry.
Babe, this is guacamole. This is really good.
Isn't this good? Yeah. Your team did it for me, but they took it outta my book.
Boom.
And the book is out nationwide. And if anyone wants to lose weight, Wendy, and lose up to a pound a day, I'm doing a weight loss challenge. Brook Burke in Malibu, is working with me. She's doing the fitness part. You know what?
Her body is sick.
She loves you, by the way. She says to send her love. Thank you. So she sends her love from Malibu. So join us, guys. And it's all on the wendyshow.com site. And I think we're giving away books to everyone too, Wendy.
Well, his new book, it's called The Cruise Control Diet.
Yeah.
It's available every place. Studio audience, you're all going home with your copy.
