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There is some great info in here, but I'll add in what I would be doing if I was in the shoes of the OP.

First off, as others have said, your eating is askew. You should be eating 4-6 small meals a day. Meals should be around the size of your fist, as that is usually the size your stomach should be(or somewhere near). Breakfast is the one meal you can go big on. The others need to be fist sized, except for the last meal, which should be smaller. The reason for eating like this, is that your metabolism ramps up when you eat. So, eating 4-6 small meals throughout the day helps to keep your metabolism up, and keeps your sugars a lot more stable, which helps to keep you from the mid-afternoon crash.

Buy a 12volt cooler to take your food in. Prepare each meal for the next day, the night before. Wrap them separately. That way, it's easy to grab and eat them on the road. Also, if you want to eat something warm during the day, buy a 12volt hotbox. 45 minutes before you'll be eating, plug the hotbox in and put your next meal in it. Warm food on the go.

Do NOT cut out carbs, HOWEVER, try to reduce your grains and processed crap to a minimum. Try to stop using breads, flours, sugar, etc. You'll get enough sugar from fruits and veggies. Also, NO SODAS! Those have nothing good for you. Nothing at all.

Exercise is key. Since you're stopping at a hotel each night, bring a portable DVD player with you, and grab some sort of exercise DVDs. P90X, TurboJam, or whatever floats your boat. Do them each evening, but at least 2 hours before you go to bed. Ideally, if you could do them in the morning instead, that would be better. Also, if you are able to, do some sort of resistance(weight) training 3 or 4 times a week. Muscle burns calories even when at rest. More muscle on you means more calories will be burned as you sit and drive.

If you're somewhere that you cannot do an exercise DVD, make sure you have some running shoes, and go for a jog. It's been great for the human body for thousands of years. I hate running, myself, but I can't argue about how effective it is.

Track your progress, and be realistic about what changes your body will make. You're not on the Biggest Loser, so you won't make strides in fatloss like they do. But, you WILL see progress, and charting that progress will help to keep you motivated.

So, there are some ideas for you.

 

Drivers has to seat for very long and hence he must not have the heavy food like cheese and butter.

 

Maybe not, but if you noticed they are all wearing black armbands. That armband is called a Bodybugg. It keeps track of the calories you burn, the steps you take, and the amount of time you "exercise" each day.

It's not cheap ($250.00), but it's worth every penny. It doesn't lie about calories burned. I have had mine for three weeks now and I have dropped 15 pounds.

It's not a low carb diet you want. It's a low glycemic diet you need. Look it up on line. The body needs a balance of proteins, carbs and fat to stay normal. Those three groups need to be low-glycemic.

You don't need to eat bland, crappy food to lose weight either. You just need to take the time to prepare a decent meal. Yes I know time is of an essence, but you don't sleep for the whole 10 hours do you?

While you are waiting for your shower get out and walk around the lot.. Count the lot lizards, or something.

@Chrome, I have to eat right. Trust me when I say for years I was on a seafood and root diet.. I see food I eat it, if I don't see food I 'd root it out and then eat it. Maybe you can help me to be a better driver and I can help you be a healthier one..

 

If you eat some yogurt & some fresh fruit maybe some nuts for breakfast and cut out the snickers and red bulls you will have more energy and be getting less calories.

 

Lots of good stuff here. To which I will add: get your thyroid and glucose/insulin levels checked. I agree with the red bull and snickers elimination. If you feel like you simply cannot go without the caffeine, get it in the form of coffee or unsweetened iced tea.

Always eat something for breakfast. Even one of those sausage and egg biscuits (roughly 250 calories) is enough to jump start your metabolism in the morning. At dinner, cut as much of the grains as you can. You can get more than enough carbs from a baked potato, carrots or beans. If you simply must have some sort of grain product, switch over to rye.

I usually eat twice a day: breakfast and dinner. It's when I'm hungry. Which is my final suggestion. Don't eat because it's time to eat or you're bored or whatever. The only reason to eat is you are hungry. Eat slowly, chew your food thoroughly, actually taste what you're throwing down your neck. And then stop eating when you're not hungry anymore...not when your plate is clean or when you're full. If you're full, you have overeaten. And regardless of what Mom and Gramma told you, it's perfectly okay to throw food away. It will have no bearing whatsoever on those starving children in Mongolia. You can tell you're not hungry anymore when your mouth stops watering as you eat. If you take a bite of something not liquidy and you have to chase it with water or something, you are done eating. You will be surprised at how small of portions you actually need.

One way to get yourself over the phobia so many Americans have of throwing food away is tell yourself you are sharing with the Grandmothers. (The female spirits who watch over us) A longtime Native tradition is always leave some for the Grandmothers. If you visit a traditional Native home and clean your plate, you will be served more food because the assumption is if you didn't leave any for the Grandmothers, you are still hungry.

If your body is screaming for something, let it have it. Your body knows what it needs. You have to learn how to listen to it. I get cravings for tomatoes sometimes. There's something in tomatoes that I run low on at times and eating them replaces whatever it is. I really don't care what it is, but I do know that after my occasional tomato binges, I feel better.

Replace those hashbrowns in the morning with cottage cheese. Get your eggs scrambled if you have an eating habit of breaking up your over easy eggs over potatoes. In other words, try to break your food habits. Do things a little differently...like a different order to what you eat first or try putting your fork in your off hand. This will get you to actually pay attention to what you are eating rather than swallow whatever it is simply because it's in front of you.

And get those levels checked. Keep us posted on your progress.

-from a former fatty

 

Water, Beans, Rice, Vegetables, Oranges, Apples etc. and a multi vitamin if you need it. No meat and no processed foods. Do push ups once a day and 30 minutes of dedicated cardio be it, jumping jacks, jog, stationary bike. Something to get your heart rate up for 30 minutes.

Don´t worry about how much you eat, if your hungry eat, just stick to no meat and nothing processed. If someone did something to it after coming off a plant it´s processed, bread as an example, don´t eat it. White rice has the shell removed, don´t eat it, eat brown rice, etc. In 90 days you will be very different. After 90 days take a drink of Soda and bite into a steak and you won´t believe you used to eat that for food.

 

Yea, I lost 85 pounds in 6 months doing this. It does work and its pretty easy too. You can also eat all the pork skins you want. No potatoes (fries / chips)

 

The question I have with such a diet is not can you lose weight on it but what the long term effects on the kidneys would be.

 

You can still eat carbs, just not so many they turn the sugars and such into fat...A multi-vitamin supplement also helps!

 

No Redbull for me only 5-hour energy......The Redbull's make my body crash.