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Summary: Try it and You Will Be Hooked!
Review: I Love, Love, Love this book! I have lost 57 lbs and I am still going strong. The exercises are very simple and the eating plan is so easy to follow. Jorge's book covers meal plans and exercises but more important, he puts emotional eating issues right out there for us to deal with. He helps the reader to address the reasons that we are overweight so that we can take charge of our own lives and keep the weight off! No more yo-yo dieting!! I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to lose weight and keep it off.
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Summary: This does not live up to any expecttions
Review: I read the reviews carefully and ordered the book. What a disappointment. I am returning it today even though I have to pay the shipping. This is a book full of hype about the author, his picture on page after page, words of how wonderful he is--get real, try Dr. Phil's Ultimate Diet - much much better and realistic. Don't buy this book unless you want to spend money on slick pages with Jorge's picture on most of them.
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Summary: The perfect book for people in really bad shape
Review: I read this book 14 months ago and I have lost 51 pounds since then. I am now normal weight, as thin as I was 20 years ago. I had tried other books about weight lifting and found the exercises much too difficult. I was able to start with the ones in this book and work up to the more difficult ones later.
I really like the diet because he teaches you how to figure out what and how much to eat by just looking at your plate. It is so much less trouble than other diets. Nothing is completely off-limits. This is the kind of diet that you can stick with for the rest of your life.
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Summary: With tweaking, it works for nusing moms, too!
Review: I recently had my 7th child and needed to lose about 35 pounds I've accumulated. But I have a VERY busy schedule (don't we all!) and need a program that doesn't make me leave home for the gym or take too much time from my kidlets. This program fit the bill! I started when the baby was 6 months old. In 7 weeks, I lost 15 pounds. I modified Cruise's eatting plan to include one more portion of dairy and meat, but I ate half a plate of veggies at every meal and did my morning exercise reigiously, right after nursing the baby. I realized I was eatting a lot of sugar in the afternoons to give me energy, and I changed my schedule to fit in a nap and snack on whole grain toast instead of cookies. But I still had my little sweet treat every evening, so I never felt deprived! I have graduated to Cruise's regular program, as this one now is too easy for me... I only have 20 pounds left to lose! Really works for real, busy moms!
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Summary: great synthesis
Review: I started my own plan to lose weight in January of this year. I've had slow-but-gratifying success. People ask me what diet I'm on and I know they want it to be simple. I didn't know what to say because it is the culmination of about 20 years of experimentation, including at least eight books that have really had an impact. Sometimes, when I'm out and about and having a bit of attraction to old habits, I stop in at a bookstore and read some diet books for inspiration. I'd looked at Cruise's first book about a year and a half ago, but I wasn't ready, and the calorie count seemed too low. However, I liked the sound of this newer book and flipped through. It was amazing! It had almost all the elements I was using: starting from the premise that I had to quit hating the body I had, that eating and moving sanely were more important than just getting thin, incorportating reasonable amounts of good fats, having about half my volume at lunch and dinner made up vegetables (I eat much more dense vegetables than lettuce, or when I do, I eat a lot more than a cup!), being willing to examine and avoid emotional eating and therefore waiting until I am hungry to eat, and eating 5-6 times a day-because I get hungry! Which is good! It's good to get hungry and then eat! Here it was, all together! Some have complained about his picture all the way through, but people are so visual, I think it would help to see him. He sounds like a man who has continued to learn on this journey and has true compassion for the dilemma of women in a society that worships an ideal that is natural for only a small percentage of women, and I salute him for that. It sounds like it is working for many. The only gaps it had for me was that I went through a period of time allowing myself to eat a lot more sweets without guilt. This helped to break the attachment. The idea that really clinched this, though, was learning that the French, who are notoriously slim despite eating bread at every meal, and fats, too (saturated ones, at that!)average less than a twentieth (a twentieth!) of the refined sugar each year that Americans do. They just don't choose sweet! I figured if they can adore food the way they do, and not want sugar all the time, I could, too. I know this has helped because I have been in a weight loss support group which I am quitting. The women there all afraid to eat out, they talk about non-fat foods all the time, they advocate fake sweeteners, and they are constantly looking for some magic diet foods that will allow them to eat sweets and still get slim, while you can hear that they are just dying for the day when they can overeat again! I just don't feel these things. Jorge's book is the closest thing I've seen to putting it all together. I think my weight loss may be slower because I eat more at snack time, but I don't feel bad because I am legitimately hungry at every meal, and I feel this is doable for the long haul. I also feel good because I have a scale that measures body fat, and all of my loss has been fat. I hope that others can take this book to heart and start feeling great fast.
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Summary: No more excuses!
Review: I think this book is great. The exersizes are easy and quick therefore offering no excuses for not doing them. Who doesn't have 8 minutes to exersize? It also helps get to the root of the overeatiing problem for all of us who are emotional eaters. I have finished the first 4 weeks and lost 8lbs. It's so satisfying to finally have found something that works for me. I would reccomend this book for anyone who has 30lbs or more to lose, especially those who have had trouble sticking to programs in the past!
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Summary: A Great Road Map For Weight Loss Success
Review: I thought this book was great. It gives you a step by step plan to follow. It gives you daily helpful hints about diet/exercise that inform you of things you probably didn't already realize. This book is chuck full of inspirations, guild lines, and support. This book gives you the tools to help you to unlock the hidden reasons why you maybe emotionally eating. I should know, look on page 63, and you will find a before and midpoint picture of me. I highly recomment this book for anyone who needs guidance in starting thier weight loss journey.
Good luck, you have come to the right place.
Sincerely, Ann Kirkendall
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Summary: Gain self esteem, nurture your soul while loosing weight
Review: I'm 30 years old, I've been dieting since 6 without long term success. I found out on this book an enormous light of hope, a guide, the most sincere, touching, rewarding and successful weight lost program ever. Something truly complete, 100% realistic, fun, easy to stick to, cheerful, soul enhacing, where you can quickly feel positively engaged.
For the fisrt time ever I feel somebody understands my eating habits and lovely directs me on the right track. Way to go! Congratulations! Thanks! DON'T REGRET IT, GET IT!
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Summary: Take 8 minutes and change your life!
Review: If you have any weight to lose, if you've tried to lose weight before, or if you've never really wanted to lose weight, try THIS PROGRAM! Both of Jorge's books are very easily and basically written so that you better understand some of the important things such as: why we eat, why we lose weight but then gain it back, why we get out of control, just to name a few. If you've been looking for a way to: 1) work a weight loss program into your busy schedule; 2) be able to ask questions any time and get answers; 3) get support, be it individually or within a group; 4) better understand yourself and why you "can't seem to change the way you eat, exercise and lose weight, then you've come to the right place. In addition to an outstanding 4 week strength training program, Jorge helps you with absolutely every aspect of a weightloss program you could imagine. It is truly a life changing event. I lost 70 pounds in 9 months (averaging 2 pounds a week) and have kept it off for about 9 months! You CAN do this! ... Please....You'll not regret it. Thanks, Karen
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Summary: This Program Will Work For ANYONE!
Review: Just a thought: I have to question the first reviewers comments because this book is for people with MORE than 30 pounds to lose. If she was trying to lose 10 pounds doing exercises created for people with more than 30 to lose, perhaps therein lay her complication. Another issue there is that anyone who reads and truly does the homework in these books gets a really positive attitude and deals with their emotional issues around food and other negative issues in their life as well... If I could write her I'd tell her to give away her 'Real Shapes and Sizes' book to someone she knows who has at least 30 pounds to lose and then get the first book (the yellow one), which is helping a lot of people with her situation right now and then see how she feels about it. 8 Minutes In the Morning for Real Shapes and Sizes is all about reality and simplicity. Jorge Cruise is a real personal fitness trainer and coach who's worked with all kinds of people after grasping truths for his own weight issues and has now put them out there for all of us into these books! You don't have to pay a membership fee or join a gym. Having a treadmill or a pilates machine is nice but not necessary, you don't even have to buy support workbooks, or special food! All you need to do these exercises is an open bit of floor, an open bit of wall or a doorway, two phonebooks (or the like), two equal cans of food or bottled water from your cupboard, a sturdy chair and a table with one end cleared off. (You use these things a few times over 28 days, how difficult is that! You can even do this on business trips, while visiting friends/family or on vacation!) This book is a about the whole person, about true FITNESS, not just FAT or weight loss and has helped myself and so many others on the support websites that I've become involved with since reading it! ... First of all, it doesn't matter HOW MUCH weight you need to lose because this method is so practical as seen on the recent Dateline NBC Show (Here is a link to the transcript for it: ... as well as in this review of that show: ... that anyone can do it! Jorge Cruise has developed exercises for people that will work whether you haven't moved in a while much at all or whether you just need to tone up while you work through your emotional eating/exercise issues, either way, YOU CAN DO THEM! His method of eating is simple and easy to do anywhere too! This isn't the kind of weight loss program that you look at and get depressed and think, "Dang I'll have to change my whole lifestyle and I'll never see my favorite foods/snacks again!" This program isn't about guilt or lack, it's about being more educated to make good choices and to do things in the right timing! What I hadn't realized until I read this book is that most people just have misinformed or ingrained habits that keep their metabolism so low or overwhelmed that anyone would gain weight, regardless of what they eat! That's what happened to me, I had developed a pattern of eating at all the worst times of the day and evening when my body really needed NOT to be eating and I wasn't drinking enough liquids for as many emotional reasons as when I was eating later than I should have. All of that meant I wound up feeling like my body was broken somehow and thought I would never lose the weight but on Jorge's easy-to-follow/never-go-hungry program, I've lost 25 pounds in just 5 weeks! I've also lost over 45 inches! And believe me, if I can lose that kind of weight I really believe anyone who wants to can too! I still have several weeks to go to get to the weight that I WANT to be, but NOW I have easy to reach goals and a light at the end of the tunnel. I had become convinced that I'd have to have surgery to lose this kind of weight and even signed up for it, but now that I have this book and see it working, there's no way I'd put myself through that! Thank goodness because I've met people who've had it and they still have the same issues with food as they did before the surgery and most of them are having a lot of complications! Let me suggest something.. if you're tired of being overweight but not quite sure if you're altogether ready for yet another weight loss program, then, get this book. Look at the information he gives... Did you know that your body (yes YOURS) is more amazing than you ever realized? Did you know that it is JUST as hard to GAIN a pound as it is to lose one? Did you know that those pounds that you can't seem to get rid of can be gone in the near and forseeable future if you divide the number you WANT to lose by 2? Did you know it's more important to be FIT than it is to worry about how FAT you are or feel? Are you tired of looking around at all the 'skinny' people in their cute clothes so full of energy and wondering what's wrong with you? If you've always felt fat or trapped or never thought you could ever be fit, than stop looking, this program is for YOU! Get this book and start dreaming about all the things you ever wanted to do, because I really believe, that like the rest of us at .... who are losing weight and keeping it off, that you'll be soon doing those things you'd all but given up hope for and that is so exciting - you'll have a new lease on life! All the best! Joy =)
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