cross filmed his juice and travel through america, and released a documentary, "fat, sick & nearly dead", in 2011. in the movie, while travelling, cross meets people and talks to them about their eating habits. the movie features interview segments with people who were inspired to follow his example. he charts his progress with an itemized list of what day of the fast it is, what city and what state cross is filming in, how much weight he’s lost (both in pounds and kilograms) and what kind of medication he’s taking. during his road-trip cross meets and inspires phil staples, a morbidly obese truck driver from sheldon, iowa, in a truck stop in arizona to try juice fasting. the movie was originally called "death by fat". then it became "faster". however, after cross came to america to shoot the movie, he had to completely change the concept and the idea of the movie.