What kind of foods do you carry on your truck?

"What kinds of things do you eat on the road? "

Goods ones, and very few are on your list!
Wish ya luck, looseing weight is tough! and eating healthy on the road can be a challange

 

A lot depends on your metabolism, age, and general health status how your body will react to a long-term, low-calorie diet. If I cut my calories too much (including fat), I'll actually see my fat buildup increase and my muscle mass decrease (I will begin to burn muscle to offset a caloric deficiency). You have to find the right diet and "exercise routine" (or lack thereof) that works for you and that can take a lot of trial and error to adapt to foods that are readily available, "desirable", and reasonable for OTR truckers. Extreme dieters tend to virtually cut out all fat and that's not good. Your body needs -some- fat (good fats such as olive oil, avocado, and nuts). These fats should generally make up less than 10-12% of your daily caloric intake.

 

When you can find good grapefruit (whole and un-processed), and can eat them (without added sugar), these should be a staple item in your daily diet if you're looking to lose or maintain weight.

 

I carry fairly similar things and don't mind eating similar things for extended periods of time. I have a 4 ft tall fridge/freezer, rice cooker, coffee maker and microwave, so I'm able to keep and cook food not that different than I would at home. With the lid left open on the rice cooker, it serves the same as a pot on the stove top. For foods, usually what ever fresh fruit or vegetables are in season. I like buying the bags of prewashed sugar peas, green beans, broccoli, etc., as they make for healthy and filling snacks. I prefer soy milk for my morning high fiber cereal along with a glass of pure grapefruit juice. Though expensive, I like buying the Odwalla juices and protein drinks. Some other things I'll cook up in my rice steamer are fish (using the top steamer tray), turkey and egg beaters (it makes for a tasty and healthy breakfast sandwich). Chobani yogurt...mmmmm. I too look for low sodium foods, but am a bit annoyed at the increased cost for lower sodium foods, especially soups. Though not edible, I carry my mountain bike on my top bunk and get out whenever I can. Cheers.

 

Husband has:

Shredded wheat with fruit in the middle (uses for a snack food)
cashews
mixed nuts
Trail mix
Tomatoes any size, shape or form
Lipton Green Tea (you can get the sugar free type) mixed with Walmart brand Cranberry, Grape Juice and some water.
Some type of breaded fish to make a hot fish and cheese sandwich out of (Gorton's, etc)
Oscar Mayer precooked bacon (10 sec to heat up) to use for a sandwich or with scrambed eggs
Small cans of vegetables (lima beans, green beasn, peas, carrots, spinach) these are not low sodium though, but they are enough for one serving with no leftovers. He uses some of them to mix in with noodles once in awhile.

Also a once in awhile Subway sandwich with all the veggies you can add.

I had read in the past that any type of pineapple helps people lose up to 7% more weight and that it should be eaten at night before bed.

 

Thought you said food?

 

You can add a lot of different things to these. I had the flour tortillas in the past and would add pre-cooked chicken strips of beef, cooked peaches with sugar and cinnamon, other vegetables like tomatoes and a sauce of some sort like french onion dip or sour cream, or honey mustard, with a cheese slice and heat a little. We really liked these when we could hit up a good fruit stand market, even squash can be added to it.

I had the George Foreman I used a lot to do things like this with. But they can be made in the microwave too.

Egg sandwiches are good too with ketchup or mayo

Peanut butter, jelly, a slice of cheese and ham and cheese lunchmeat added makes a good rolling down the road sandwich. You can still lose weight even eating like this if you just don't get carried away with yourself. You will have cut back a lot on all the added calorie foods like gravies and a lot of the sweets that people don't really need. We use to even split a candy bar (sometimes it was a lack of a lot of money to spend).

We did eat out maybe every 3rd day or so.

You also need to remember to feed the brain and cutting out too many proteins in my opinion can harm you.

Also cold baked potatoes are good. Cook 2 and save one for a later time. Sweet potatoes too.

Boiled eggs (you can get the microwave boiled egg maker at most Walmart's, it uses about a cup or less of water, then cooks 7-9 minutes in a large microwave, longer in the smaller wattage ovens.

 

The simple truth is if you do not have good oral hygiene it does not matter what you eat.Too many drivers think they are too busy to take 5 mins a couple times a day to brush their teeth.A lot do not know this is a quick way to a heart attack and other health problems,not to mention nobody wants to see your nasty food encrusted rotting teeth.