Weight Loss, Diet and Fitness Program

Calorie Commando, Juan Carloz Cruz believes he has found a weight loss strategy even for those who have crashed trying to follow any of the fad diets that come and go.
He arrived at that solution the hard-way, by trying it out on his own bulges.

As health experts have always said, there is no substitute for diet and exercise. Cruz decided to heed their message, riding bycycle to work at the Hotel Bel Air. He lost some 30 lbs, routed the bad cholestrol and his gall-bladdfer pain. disappeared.

Jennifer, Cruz’s childhood sweetheart and wife of 27 years, pitched in with an offer to hire him a personal trainer, despite the arm-and-a-leg it can cost in Los Angeles. Fortunately for the Cruz family finances, he didn’t have to accept her offer. A personal trainer was soon supplied free by producers of a Discovery Health Channel lifestyle show called Discovery Health Body Challenge. Cruz’s public TV show, Cruising In The Kitchen, designed to give his Pastrudude.com business a boost, caught their eye and they invited him and a group of otheroverweight citizens for an extreme on-air makeover. The cameras followed them around for four month of supervised diet and exercise. Cruz did well, losing another 43 punds, “I looked different,” he says. “My gut was gone. Just gone.”
After the show, he kept at it and eventually got down to 180 lbs, exactly 100 lbs less than the old pastry dude.

Back at the West LA restaurant, the beautiful people eagerly asked how he got so slim. That was how Calorie Commando Catering was born, with the mission of providing the best heart-healthy, low calorie food in Los Angeles.
In a savvy aside, Cruz confesses that the economics of catering are so much easier to plan than those of a restaurant. In catering you don’t incur expense until you’ve landed the client, while a restaurant can sink under its fixed costs if nobody walks in the door.