In this solo episode of the Zero Hunger Guide podcast, Jorge Cruise explains that an inflated ego creates chronic fear and stress, which in turn drives emotional eating of sugar, carbs, salty snacks, alcohol, and even drugs. He argues that the only effective way to curb this cycle is to surrender to a higher power—whether framed as Christ consciousness, God, or a universal presence—and to use prayer, specifically the Serenity Prayer, to calm the ego and reduce stress. Cruise shares his personal story of childhood sugar addiction, forgiveness, and how a relationship with God gave him control over his cravings. He also outlines practical nutritional tactics such as a 23:1 intermittent fast, consuming healthy fats (e.g., avocado mayo from Primal Kitchen), and using Zero Hunger Water to suppress false hunger. The episode includes sponsor shout‑outs, a call to listeners to send questions via email, and a promise that future episodes will blend nutrition, exercise, and spiritual tools to achieve “radical hunger control.”
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Happy Tuesday. It's August 3rd. I'm Jorge Cruise and welcome to the Zero Hunger Guide podcast. My mission every single day on this podcast is to help you get radical hunger control over sugar, carbs, and salty snack foods so you can drop belly inches. Belly inches are the thing that— high waist circumference is the very thing that causes heart disease, cancer, type 2 diabetes, and even can push COVID into a part of your life where you lose your health. So very important stuff we're going to talk about here. On today's podcast, we're going to talk about ego reduction and how our ego is not our amigo, how our ego causes us to live in a constant state of fear because we can't manage it. There's no way to manage the ego. And then that triggers us to overeat. And you're going to find out that the solution, as always, is having the power of prayer in your life. Now you may be thinking, Jorge, You talked about this yesterday. Well, I'm going to continue to talk about it. We're rebooting the entire podcast to really be something that is God-conscious, because for me, the greatest thing that's given me control over sugar, carbs, alcohol, and even drugs over the course of my life has been a relationship, a union with God. And whether you call it a Christ consciousness, a God consciousness, or maybe it's just a presence, because maybe you're atheist and you think, "Oh, I'm not into God." Well, it's having the power to believe in something, a presence or person or a thing that is higher than you. That is what will give you the ability to turn off this fear and this ego. So we're going to talk about that all on today's show. Now, before we get started, I want to thank our sponsors. We've been brought to you by these folks. They've been with us since the very beginning. I want to give a special shout out and thank you to Elemental Labs for giving us a free box of electrolytes that I use on the go. I call it zero Zero Hunger Water. They have all these flavors from chocolate to orange. And I can tell you, one of their little packages in 32 ounces of water turns off false hunger where you do not overeat throughout the day. It allows me to do what I call an intermittent fast of 23:1, right, for 1 hour a day, and I'm not hungry all day. This is how I turn off physical hunger. It's with Zero Hunger Water. And if you want to get a free box of this, simply order the value bundle. You simply go to Zero zerozerohungerwater.com, and there'll be a link there or a button. Just click on free box. Again, zerozerohungerwater.com. All right, thank you to those guys. Finally, I also wanna thank Primal Kitchen. Primal Kitchen is my favorite place. I've been going to it for years because of my mentor, Mark Sisson. He created this company. They make avocado salad dressing and avocado mayo. Now they have other products, but they're giving all our listeners and all our viewers of the podcast a free lemon chipotle mayo, which I use every day when I eat steak, Put a dollop of it on there, and it is something that turns off hunger further. Because remember, healthy fats, not only do they not break a fast, but they turn off hunger further. And healthy fats are incredibly important, good fats that are anti-inflammatory. And so you want to try this mayo that's out there. And salad dressings that are made out there are usually made with canola, soybean, or corn oil, which is inflammatory. You do not want that. So check out primalkitchen.com/oil. Jorge Cruise for a free bottle of lemon chipotle mayo. Again, the website is primalkitchen.com/jorgecruise. All right, so let's talk about this. Uh, you know, I'm so excited. First, I want to thank you guys for sending all these DMs to me on Instagram, on Facebook, on YouTube, via email. I've been going through a bit of a spiritual sabbatical the last couple of weeks to really improve my spiritual tools and to create a faith in my life that I was missing, I think my entire life. For me, I was the kind of person that I had a very difficult childhood. For me, I wasn't happy. And for me, it was the drug of sugar. As a little boy, I would eat ice cream, milkshakes, cookies, all the things that you're not supposed to eat. And obviously I was overweight. So if that may be you today where you can't stop eating sugar and carbs, I want to tell you what I told myself. I had to forgive myself back then. It's not our fault. Sugar and carbs and even salty snack foods, and it's the carbs, it's the potato, it's the corn chip, it isn't the salt, is what helps us feel better. Carbohydrates turn into sugar and sugar numb us. They make us feel good. They turn off the pain of not being happy. Now, why aren't we happy? Here's today's show, guys. Here's what I want you to hear me right now on. It's this thing called an ego. We have a sense of confidence sometimes that becomes something bigger sometimes where we think we can control everything from the stoplights to the weather, to our spouses, boyfriend, girlfriends, bosses, and kids, if you're a parent like me. And we think we can do that. And the truth is we cannot. We are human. They say the only thing we can control, right, is in between our head and between our ears. That's 6 inches in between our head is it. Everything else you can't control, but we try to. And what happens when we try to control something we can't control? We end up being really frustrated and we go crazy. And that stress at night can lead us to feeling like, you know what? And so that stress causes us to eat emotionally. Here's what I want you to do. I want you to realize that you got to surrender this to a higher power. I call it Christ. It's this Christ consciousness. And the way you do it is through the power of prayer. Prayer for me has become something I utilize in the morning, midday, at night before bed. And if I'm feeling agitated, stressed, overwhelmed, anxious, I use prayers. And the prayer I'm going to share with you tonight is one of my favorite prayers of all times. I use it anytime I want to feel relaxed. So let's do the following, guys. Bow our heads. I'm going to read you this prayer. It's actually a prayer that I have framed. Check it out. I'm going to read it to you here. It's called the Serenity Prayer. So let's bow our heads, and I'm going to read this to you 3 times. And on the 2nd and 3rd time, if you want, please say it out loud like an affirmation, because this will help calm down stress in your life. All right, let's bow our heads. God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Let's say it again. God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom, God, to know the difference. Last time, say the following. God, Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom, God, to know the difference. Amen. How do you feel? For me, I read this often. This Serenity Prayer is hanging in front of my office. That's why I had to share it with you today, guys. It's probably my number one prayer of all times. It is such a simple prayer. And what it will do is it'll help reduce your ego, because your ego, my friends, is not your amigo, just to be really honest. And it's the very thing that sparks fear, causes stress in our body. And when we have that again and again and again and again, we're going to go to sugar, carbs, alcohol, and some people are addicted to drugs. So whatever your addiction is, this prayer calms that down by connecting you to God. And I can promise you, the podcast is now with its reboot here, gonna dedicate every episode to giving you these tools. We'll talk about nutrition, sure, we're gonna even talk about exercise, but the core thing, the number one reason you're overweight right now is because you're stressed or you're fearful. The Serenity Prayer will help turn that off because you're gonna connect to a power greater than yourself. If you have questions, you wanna send me comments, you think I'm crazy, please let me know, shoot me an email. At Jorge@ZeroHungerGuy.com. That's Jorge, J-O-R-G-E, at Zero, Z-E-R-O, HungerGuy.com. I can't wait to hear from you guys. All right. Peace and purpose. Take good care. Talk to you soon.
