Rating: 
Summary: Solid Information for New Cruisers
Review: 1-The eating plan: simple and easy to follow. I think most
nutritionists would support the Cruise Down Plate method.
2-The exercise: very simple. If you are already an exerciser you
may find these strength training moves too simple and will need
to do some alternative moves (if you have already been
exercising I suggest you might want to use the website instead
of the book).
3-The book itself: it is colorful, well written and easy to
follow. The advise is sound.
The results: I lost 3 pounds in 1 week. Then 2. Then "that time of the month" and I maintained (which was a miracle). Week four I gained one pound but I only did the exercise and was way off on my eating for my own emotional issues.
I am starting week five and I know I will continue to live healthier. I strongly suggest this book for beginners and the Jorge's website is a good resource to develop a support community. I know, for myself, that talking to people face to face about my weight is stressful but online is a godsend.
Good luck!
Rating: 
Summary: so confused!
Review: By following the techniques in this book, I shed 15 pounds in one month and my daughter lost 20 pounds!! This book is for those who have not exercised or dieted for quite some time. Jorge gives the reader great diet tips combined with exercises that will get the reader's metabolism moving again. This book is highly recommended for those who want the weight loss but can only do minimum exercises.
Rating:
Summary: Great book for those just starting out
Review: By following the techniques in this book, I shed 15 pounds in one month and my daughter lost 20 pounds!! This book is for those who have not exercised or dieted for quite some time. Jorge gives the reader great diet tips combined with exercises that will get the reader's metabolism moving again. This book is highly recommended for those who want the weight loss but can only do minimum exercises.
Rating:
Summary: so confused!
Review: Do I need to do each book; 8 minutes for belly, 8 minutes for abs, 8 minutes for thighs, 8 minutes for arms, 8 minutes for easy weight loss, 8 minutes original....Goodness sakes, before you know it, Jorge is going to have me doing a real one hour workout. I feel like I am talking crazy pills...doesn't anyone else realize this? 8 minutes is nothing other than a marketing machine designed to take our money every 8 minutes that Jorge publishes a new 8 minute miracle fix! If his program were that good...would we really need serial sequels? His first book as great, this book is just rehashed, reworked, reitieration of the same re-diculous advice!
Rating:
Summary: FOR WOMEN ONLY
Review: I KNOW MOST DIET BOOKS ARE GEARED TOWARD WOMEN BUT THIS
BOOK TAKES THE CAKE. THE TITLE SHOULD BE FOR 8 MINUTES FOR
WOMEN ONLY. AT LEAST HIS FIRST BOOK WAS MORE FOR EVERYONE.
Rating: 
Summary: THIS BOOK IS FANTASTIC
Review: I Love this book. I can really handle the 8 min a day. But do not blow off the beginning of the book. It is a great way to set yourself up for success! It guides you through getting mentally prepared to succeed as well as help you to set yourself up with a support system to succeed. The exercises are very easy and you do not need any equipment. I'm on my 3rd week and actually lost 4lbs this week - YAHOO! I would recommend this book to anyone who is serious about losing weight. It is fantastic!!!
Rating:
Summary: THIS BOOK IS FANTASTIC
Review: I Love this book. I can really handle the 8 min a day. But do not blow off the beginning of the book. It is a great way to set yourself up for success! It guides you through getting mentally prepared to succeed as well as help you to set yourself up with a support system to succeed. The exercises are very easy and you do not need any equipment. I'm on my 3rd week and actually lost 4lbs this week - YAHOO! I would recommend this book to anyone who is serious about losing weight. It is fantastic!!!
Rating: 
Summary: It's helpful....
Review: It's a helpful handbook for weight loss. However, one will get very tired of seeing Jorge's face on just about every page of the book. The weight loss stories are inspirational and the exercises seem to be easy. Having an easy exercise plan makes it better for those of us who are trying to lose weight...it makes things effortless.
Rating: 
Summary: The more I read, the more disgusted I got
Review: Remember those Looney Tunes cartoons where a particularly gullible character would momentarily appear to morph into a giant sucker (lollipop)? I think that must have happened to me as I walked by this book on the store shelf....
I'll start with what I hated about this book.
* Jorge Cruise's Cruise Down Plate (R). This consists of the following: "Mentally divide the plate in half. Fill the upper half with vegetables. Then again mentally split the bottom half of the plate into two equal parts. Fill the left side with a high-protein food and the right side with a carbohydrate food. Finally, add 1 teaspoon of fat.... If you ... eat everything on your plate - and you're still hungry - you may dish yourself up another plate of vegetables.... And that's really all you need to know to use my Cruise Down Plate (R) to achieve weight-loss success." Well, no, it's really not. You have to read another 14 pages to get to the bottom of it, which actually turns out to be just another low-calorie diet. The plate gimmick barely enters into it. YAWN.
* "Visit www.JorgeCruise.com...." I was perplexed to find that there is apparently NO content on this website that doesn't require you to pay $3 a week. The one exception I found was a link to My Virtual Body, which is free. One section of the book tells you to go to www.JorgeCruise.com/localclubs to see a list of weight-loss clubs meeting in your area. Unfortunately, nothing exists at that web address. At another part of the book, Jorge encourages you to "share your story" and invites you to weekly online meetings by joining the "online club" at www.JorgeCruise.com. He doesn't mention there's a fee for this extra support. The most irritating one yet was "You can even go to www.JorgeCruise.com/music to hear selections from my personal picks of the most inspiring and moving music." What actually happens when you go to this URL is you find a "Welcome to a JorgeCruise.com Active Link!" page with a "Click here" link. When you click on the link, it takes you to www.JorgeCruise.com/shopping/videos.php. Yes, it's an online store for Jorge's $39.95 VHS tape, or one of his audio kits and books, "Jorge's favorite" exercise tools, and some nutritional supplements. No music whatsoever. While we're on the website, let me point out what the FAQ says about the books:
"Can I use Jorge's 8 minute books in combination with this online plan? Although the books are excellent resources of information -- the plan presented here online is Jorge's NEWEST and might not follow the book's exercise or eating plan exactly. In order to avoid confusion, follow the online plan 100%. NOTE: We are updating all of Jorge's books to match all new materials offered here online." So now that I've purchased the book (which includes online support as part of its weight-loss plan), it's already obsolete? What was it, just an expensive advertisement for the website? Infuriating.
* Jorge's smiling face. I was getting tired of seeing it before I was halfway through the book. Every few pages there's a little sidebar with a Jorge quote, topped by a 2-inch-square photo of the man. By the end, I had difficulty resisting the urge to take up a black Magic Marker and eradicate every one of them. Whose idea WAS that?
* The exercises. Come on - soup can bicep curls and tricep kickbacks? What, have I been lying on the couch doing no heavier lifting than a can of beer for the past few years? I have 15-month-old twins, each of whom weighs about 25 lb. I carry them around ALL the TIME. Lifting one-pound soup cans for strength training is ludicrous. And how about the "lift hold" - sit in front of a table, put your palms under the tabletop and push up on the underside of the table as hard as you can. Well, I don't own a solid marble table, so if I tried this I'd have the table flipped over off its feet before any real benefits accrued to my strength. If you're 70 years old or just have not lifted anything heavier than your purse for the past several years - and I'm not knocking you if that's the case - these exercises might be useful. For me, they're laughable. And I'm not THAT strong.
There's more, but those are the major points.
So what made me give this book 2 stars? Strictly this: It's packed with all kinds of motivational tools. This is something I'd never seen to this extent in a weight-loss book, and I think they might actually help me (with the glaring exception of his online support "club," as I refuse to shell out the bucks for it). There are journaling tips, lists of empowering books, weight-loss websites, motivational magazines, etc. So I think I might actually be able to adapt some of it for myself. It might even be worth what I paid for it, if I can get past my annoyance with the rest of it....
Rating:
Summary: Same material, different title
Review: So, if the previous reviewer is correct and this is simply a paperback version of 8 minutes original, why not call it that, or the 4 other books out under this franchise all with a slightly different twist. I read this book, cover to cover. My review is accurate and fair. This book is little more than an advertisment to sign up for his website weight loss program, thus generating MORE revenue than just the cover price of this latest blockbuster book. I am not saying Jorge's methods aren't sound...they are. BUT to say on the cover of your book "NO deprivation, NO calorie counting" but then to give a day by day DIET for the reader to follow.....NEWSFLASH Jorge, if I want a cheeseburger and it isn't on your menu.....that is deprivation to me! AND, why would I have to count calories if you did it for me and are telling me what to eat to stay under 1200 calories a day. 8 minutes to another fad....that is all this is, plain and simple! I hope your 15 minutes are up soon Jorge.
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