Jorge Cruise's Belly Fat Cure - May have Cured Me!

I started mentioning this in an early post.  I knew something HAD to be done about my weight. When your 13 yr old son says, "Dad, you look pregnant" or your 13 yr old daughter says, "Dad, you're fat and disgusting looking" you know it's time to diet.    And then to hear the constant nagging from your parents and brothers, it was like overload.  Oh and I almost forgot...the doctor telling me that I might be in early stages of diabetes and wanting me to buy the blood sugar testing kit to keep track of my blood sugar...that was the scare that really got me thinking I better get moving to lose this weight.

I had tried Weight Watchers, South Beach Diet (both, very healthy diets), and also tried just cutting back on "stuff" (sweets, fried foods, etc).  But none of those diets kept weight off for any great amount of time.

Then towards the end of last year my brothers started talking about this guy Jorge Cruise and his "Belly Fat Cure."   So I asked them what kind of gimmick this was.  "ya know, Steve, you told me that South Beach Diet was THE best diet in the world and you lost all this weight, and it was so easy and I could do it, and ..and..and..
Now you're telling me that this guy Jorge (Horhay) Cruise has some kind of miracle cure for all the weight I've put on."

So, my brother starts by telling me about some kind of sugar and carbohydrate ratio.  Oh terrific...something else to count. If it's not calories, or protein, or carbs, or points; now I have to count both sugar AND carbs.  So Steve continues to rant on with this 15/6 ratio.   I hated ratios in math class  and 15 divided by 6 looks like 2.5. 2.5 what?  See, I got confused pretty quickly. Actually, Jorge calls this the S/C value which is sugar/carbs.  Always keep this in mind. Stay very low on the S value, for sure!

After doing some reading, I found out what this stuff is all about.  It's really easy.  If  ** I ** can do this diet, ANYONE can do it. His Belly Fat Cure is basically cutting WAY down on sugars and swapping out bad carbs for good carbs. Bad carbs are processed foods and "white foods" like white bread, potatoes, and pasta made with white enriched flour.  You swap those out for as much whole grain and high fiber products as you can.  Jorge ( Horhay!) recommends about 30 grams of fiber per day.  I haven't actually hit that yet.

Now you may be wondering what the picture off to the right has to do with what I'm talking about.  Actually, nothing at all. I thought it looked like exactly where I wanted to be right now, so I thought I would stick it in here and also to see if you were paying attention.

Now, I'm not saying it won't take a bit of work on your part...but losing weight takes work.  I hate to exercise, but there's still some work even for those of us who don't like the gym.
The work part is that you HAVE to get used to looking at the nutrition labels on food packages and also the serving size!!!!   It is important because you need to pay attention to the sugars, carbohydrates, and the fiber.  Low, Low, HIGH!  S/C  LOW LOW

Anyway...here's how it works. 15/6.  You are allowed 15 grams of sugar a day, and 6 servings of carbs.

OK I know you're asking what 6 servings of carbs are.  HA! If you had read an earlier post, you'd be ahead of the game, here.

Here's how it works and while it seems difficult it's really NOT.
0-4 grams of Carbs is free (like free parking in Monopoly)
5-20 grams of carbs is 1 serving
21-40 grams of carbs is 2 servings
41-60 grams is 3 servings, etc. etcl.

So on the left, what ever product that is, if you had about 1 cup of it (prepared) you'd eat no sugar (hooray!) and the carbs of 43 grams is considered 3 of your 6 allowed servings.  and no fiber...not so great....a lot of carbs and no fiber.

You can have a total of 120 grams of carbs a day.


So you gotta pay attention.  The first week or two, I carried a little piece of paper and marked down what I was eating so I knew how many carbs I had for the day..  After the first or second week, you probably don't need to keep track anymore as you have a pretty good idea what you've eaten.

Like I said, there are things you will have to give up. I was a REALLY big sugar fan.  It was pretty high there on MY food pyramid!  I also was a big evening nosher.  I thought giving up this stuff would be difficult.  But I found that the more fiber I ate, the less I really cared about sweets, chips, ice cream, etc. Also, I was really surprised to read of all the foods that are full of sugar.  Milk for example has something like 12 grams of sugar for a 8 ounce glass.  OUCH! 12 grams of sugar for one glass of milk!!   Now I know the thought of almond milk may sound disgusting, but I have been buying Diamond Breeze UNSWEETENED almond milk   
which I use for baking, cooking, etc.  Jorge highly recommends Jay Robb protein shakes which are delicious and I use the almond milk for that well.  I have made french toast (on whole grain bread) using almond milk instead of regular milk.

Hidden sugars also hang out in juices, fruits and vegetables.  I didn't know that tomatoes were so high in the sugar! Same with onions!

So just review the labels and you'll find it easy to get started on this. In upcoming posts I'll delve more into the belly fat cure and provide some examples of meals that Jorge has passed on.  I won't go into a whole lot of detail because I think you need to really get his book to get an appreciation of how good this diet is.

As of the other day I am down 33 pounds since starting in mid January. But you gotta remember one thing!
This is a LIFESTYLE change in eating.  Meaning cutting sugar intake down to almost nothing and then eating lots of whole grain foods and foods very high in fiber.  It's not bad..again, if I can do this, then ANYONE can!