More Time · Belly Goes First · Hosted by Jorge Cruise

Six weeks.
More life in your day.

A FREE six-week challenge to build a calmer eating rhythm, everyday strength and better rest — practiced together, live.

November 30, 2026 through January 10, 2027
Six live Mondays · 5 p.m. Pacific
No gym required · No purchase required

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Client success.

Individual results vary. These experiences are not guaranteed outcomes of the six-week challenge.

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30 yearsof coaching
39 bookspublished
40th bookMore Time Protocol™, forthcoming
Since 2010challenge featured in The Costco Connection

More energy for the people you love. More strength for the life you want. A rhythm you can keep.

How to join

Three simple steps.

01
Apply
Tell me a little about you in the application below. Applications for the November 30 group close November 23, 2026.
02
Watch your inbox
100 participants will be selected and notified by email. Applying does not guarantee a place.
03
Start November 30
Join the first live Monday session at 5 p.m. Pacific and begin together.

Why these six weeks

Small changes, practiced together, add up.

You don't have to change everything at once. Each Monday we focus on one practical habit, try it during the week, and come back to share what worked.

It's built on the ideas in my forthcoming 40th book — eating rhythm, movement and recovery — made simple enough to fit a real life.

Forthcoming MORE TIME PROTOCOL hardcover by Jorge Cruise

Jorge's coaching framework

Your starting map.

Create your digital four-step Longevity Map before the sessions begin, then revisit it in Week 1. This is my coaching framework — a way to organize your habits, not a medical hierarchy.

01
Define what more time means to you
Name your own healthspan and lifespan goals — the energy, strength and moments you want more of. No promised number of years.
02
Note your starting point
A waist measurement can be one useful personal marker to track over time. It's not a diagnosis, and there's no universal cutoff.
03
Find a workable meal window
Choose an eating window that fits your day. The free assessment offers an eating-window starting point only.
04
Plan your hunger support
Nourishment and hydration, a short emotional pause, and connection with others.

The Longevity Map — Jorge's coaching framework.

Base · Belly Goes First — Physical hunger, Emotional hunger and Social hunger.

Middle · Muscular Repair — Skeletal, Cardio and Balance.

Top · Circadian Repair — aim for about 8 hours of sleep; individual needs vary.

The Path · What to learn next

Six weeks. A clear path.

Focus the teaching. Build healthy habits together.

Weeks 1–2
Belly Goes First
Understand physical, emotional and social hunger. Choose practical support for your daily routine.
Weeks 3–4
Muscular Repair
Build strength, cardiovascular fitness and balance. Choose movements that fit your starting point.
Weeks 5–6
Circadian Repair
Create a repeatable sleep and wake rhythm. Refine your evening routine and review your progress.

A learning sequence, not a waiting period. Movement and sleep habits can begin from day one.

Revisit your map in Week 1; complete this first practice block after Week 2.

See the six live Mondays →
Read the framework →

The Routine · What to repeat

Small actions. Repeatable days.

The map becomes a practice, not another thing to memorize.

Start with intention
Notice your energy. Choose one practical focus.
Support hunger
Identify the kind of hunger. Use your chosen support.
Move with purpose
Follow your movement plan. Adjust to how you feel.
Protect your sleep
Keep a steady daily rhythm. Make room to wind down.

Once a week

Reflect. Adjust. Continue.

What worked?
What felt difficult?
What is one useful change?

A sample rhythm, adapted to your needs. Personal guidance and clinical care belong alongside the map.

The method

One method. Three levels.

Each two-week block has a primary focus, with recommended complements. You keep every habit going — movement and good sleep matter from day one.

Level 1 · Weeks 1–2

Belly Goes First.

Waist size is one useful personal marker to notice — not a diagnosis. In this first block you practise a personal eating window, nourishment and hydration, and a response to emotional and social hunger. Results vary; there is no guaranteed order or amount of fat loss.

Visceral body fat illustration — from lean to high — Visceral fat is the yellow tissue packed deep inside — wrapped around the liver, intestines, and stomach — not the pinch you can grab under the skin. That's the fat that drives insulin resistance and shortens lifespan, and it's the fat that goes first inside an 8-hour eating window.

Visceral fat is the yellow tissue packed deep inside — wrapped around the liver, intestines, and stomach — not the pinch you can grab under the skin. That's the fat that drives insulin resistance and shortens lifespan, and it's the fat that goes first inside an 8-hour eating window.

Illustrative teaching concept: visceral fat sits deep around the organs, unlike the fat under the skin. Not a diagnosis or a predicted result.

Level 2 · Weeks 3–4

Muscular repair.

Strength, stamina and balance support everyday life at any age. Each illustration below is an existing teaching concept with its own slider; practise at a level that suits your starting point.

Cross-section of a sedentary thigh — a thick pale ring of body fat surrounding shrunken muscle and a thin bone. — Same leg. Sedentary, then resistance-trained. Simple resistance training two or three times a week reverses the trade at any age: the fat ring recedes, lean muscle refills the leg, and the bone underneath loads up and thickens. Illustrative, after Wroblewski et al., *The Physician and Sportsmedicine* (2011), "Chronic exercise preserves lean muscle mass in masters athletes."

Cross-section of a resistance-trained thigh — dense red muscle filling the leg, a thin fat ring, and a thicker bone shaft. — Same leg. Sedentary, then resistance-trained. Simple resistance training two or three times a week reverses the trade at any age: the fat ring recedes, lean muscle refills the leg, and the bone underneath loads up and thickens. Illustrative, after Wroblewski et al., *The Physician and Sportsmedicine* (2011), "Chronic exercise preserves lean muscle mass in masters athletes."

Strength — illustrative thigh cross-section, not your predicted result.

Cross-section of non-endurance-trained skeletal muscle — pale, oxygen-starved fibres with only a sparse network of capillaries. — Same muscle. Different oxygen infrastructure. Cardiovascular training sprouts new capillaries around every fibre, so starved tissue becomes fed tissue. VO₂ max — the ceiling on that delivery — is the single strongest predictor of how long you live.

Cross-section of endurance-trained skeletal muscle — the same fibres wrapped in a dense red capillary network delivering far more oxygen. — Same muscle. Different oxygen infrastructure. Cardiovascular training sprouts new capillaries around every fibre, so starved tissue becomes fed tissue. VO₂ max — the ceiling on that delivery — is the single strongest predictor of how long you live.

Stamina — illustrative capillary density, not a measured treatment result.

Illustration of a man standing; his eyes, inner ear and feet light up in sequence as the stabilizer muscles catch him after a slip. — Reflexive muscle is the muscle nobody trains. The stabilizers that catch you before your brain knows you're falling answer to three inputs — your eyes, the stones in your inner ear, and the sensors in your feet. They fire about 120 ms after a slip; you only notice around 400 ms. When that sense fades you don't feel weak, you feel careful. It comes back with instability work, about twelve minutes a day. Illustrative, after Sharma et al., *medRxiv* (2025), on perturbation-based balance training (25 RCTs, 2,659 adults 60+; falls reduced 23%), and CDC Older Adult Falls Data (2018–2024).

Balance — eyes, inner ear, feet and stabilizing muscles work together. Illustrative only.

Level 3 · Weeks 5–6

Circadian repair.

A cool, dark room, a consistent sleep schedule and daylight earlier in the day. Everyday sleep support — not blue-light therapy or a universal fixed repair window.

Light anchorMelatonin onsetTemp minimum

You don't repair while you train. You repair while you sleep. The deep window is not a clock time. Most of the night's growth-hormone release and the brain's glymphatic clearance happen in the first two to three hours after sleep onset, wherever that onset falls — the ring shows a typical 10p bedtime. What fixes the timing is light: morning sun anchors the clock, evening dark lets melatonin rise, and the repair window lands where the body expects it. Illustrative, after Xie et al., Science (2013), on sleep-driven metabolite clearance; Van Cauter et al., JAMA (2000), on slow-wave sleep and growth hormone; Czeisler et al., Science (1986), on light as the primary circadian entrainer; and Covassin et al., JACC (2022), on sleep restriction and visceral fat.

Illustrative 24-hour rhythm; individual sleep needs and timing vary.

Illustrations are teaching concepts, not controlled treatment results. Keep appropriate movement, nourishment, connection and rest going throughout all six weeks.

Six Mondays · 5 p.m. Pacific

Your six weeks.

Week 1 · Monday, November 30, 2026
Find your rhythm
Choose a workable eating-window pattern. Practice nourishment, hydration and mineral-water check-ins — adapting rather than prescribing.
Week 2 · Monday, December 7, 2026
Understand your hunger
Explore physical nourishment, an emotional Smile/Breathe/Move pause, and social connection. Support is central, not a bonus.
Week 3 · Monday, December 14, 2026
Build useful strength
Practice appropriate, home-friendly resistance moves for everyday life.
Week 4 · Monday, December 21, 2026
Add stamina and balance
Explore cardiovascular fitness and safe balance practice, adapted to your ability and fall risk.
Week 5 · Monday, December 28, 2026
Make room for recovery
Build consistent sleep opportunity, morning and daytime light cues, and workable daily timing.
Week 6 · Monday, January 4, 2027
Make it your routine
Bring eating rhythm, movement, sleep and support into a repeatable plan beyond the six weeks.

A note from Jorge

Thirty years, and it's still about people.

For thirty years I've coached people who were busy, tired and ready to begin again. What I've learned is simple: nobody changes alone, and nobody needs to change everything at once.
That's why this challenge is free, and why we'll meet live every Monday. I want you to leave with a routine that feels like yours — and a few people cheering you on.

— Jorge Cruise

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Your invitation to apply

Tell me what you want this next chapter to feel like.

100 participants will be selected. Applications for the November 30 challenge close November 23, 2026; the selected group is notified by email, with a few people contacted by phone. Applying does not guarantee admission.

The existing future challenge dates remain selectable below. Choose the application window that works for you.

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It’s free, it takes thirty seconds, and there’s no photo to upload. Pick the challenge you want, tell me why, and you’re in the pile.

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Why do you want to join? What are your goals for this next chapter?

What would losing the belly fat first — and building sustainable habits — actually mean for you? A sentence or two is plenty, and feel free to say more. I read every one of these personally.

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Questions

Good to know.

Is it free?

The six-week challenge is free for the selected participants. No purchase is required to take part.

When are the live sessions?

Six Mondays at 5 p.m. Pacific: November 30 and December 7, 14, 21, 28, 2026; January 4, 2027.

Do I need a gym?

No. Movement is home-friendly and adapted to your starting point. If you love the gym, you're welcome too.

Do I have to buy any product?

No. Zero Hunger Water® and other products are optional. A simple DIY mineral-water recipe is included.

How does the application work?

You apply using the form on this page. 100 participants will be selected; applying does not guarantee a place. Applications for the November 30 group close November 23, 2026, and the selected group is notified by email.

This challenge is education and coaching, not medical care. Individual results vary. Please talk with your clinician before changing how you eat or fast — especially if you are pregnant, take medication, or have a medical condition. Any medication changes should be discussed with your prescriber.

Your six weeks start November 30.

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Six weeks.More life in your day.

Client success.

Three simple steps.

Apply

Watch your inbox

Start November 30

Small changes, practiced together, add up.

Your starting map.

Define what more time means to you

Note your starting point

Find a workable meal window

Plan your hunger support

Six weeks. A clear path.

Belly Goes First

Muscular Repair

Circadian Repair

Small actions. Repeatable days.

Start with intention

Support hunger

Move with purpose

Protect your sleep

Reflect. Adjust. Continue.

One method. Three levels.

Eat First

Fast First

Split

Your six weeks.

Find your rhythm

Understand your hunger

Build useful strength

Add stamina and balance

Make room for recovery

Make it your routine