i need help to start eating healthy

Starch and sugar is your enemy. Avoid all starch and you will be much healthier. Starch is Bread (wheat,etc.), potatoes, rice, pasta, and corn. If you need to make a sandwich use a lettuce leaf or a tortilla. Aviod "diet" foods. Eat only fresh or frozen food. Chicken, nuts, seeds, and fish are your best options for protien. Pork is ok and a little beef once in a blue moon. Drink only water, tea, coffee. No soda or diet soda.

 

Hey F BOB if you get Netflix watch a movie called , Fat sick nearly dead, you might and everyone might find some inspiration and helpful info here.

 

What about tuna? I want to pick up on more healthy eating as well. The majority of the time I drink water and powerades. If I get to a terminal, I get a soda or 2 or 3 or 4 not going to lie. But when I'm out on the road I just drink water and powerade. Now the food I use to buy from Walmart has been an excess of junk food. After I finish this batch I'm done with the excess load I get while shopping and thinking about getting tuna and crackers for snacks and nuts. I love bacon and meats but I also want to watch my heart. I've started working out. Nothing fancy just push ups and sit ups. I'm 5'5 and about 120 last I checked but I have a plan that I want to be able to enjoy when I'm retiring age and I know I have to start now.

Do any of you guys/gals take vitamins or those fish oil pills? Are they good for healthy living out on the road? I love salads and I'll start eating more of those and I eat at subway but I definitely want to make sure it's done right. Don't want to have a stroke or a heart attack because I thought it couldn't happen to me. I've watched a video on Netflix about how cows are so mistreated just to get it fattened up enough and though it really hasn't curbed my desire for beef it has opened my eyes that organic foods usually are the best. Sad that they are more expensive than the fatty foods at fast foods.

 

Tuna in those new foil packs is awesome. No need to drain. Really makes it nice for in the truck.

I've found that lettuce doesn't keep well in the cooler. But celery does. Good crunch factor as well.

A couple sticks of celery chopped up, pack of tuna, some walnuts and a squirt of mayo. Lunch. Faster than walking to the vending machine for a snickers bar or waiting in line for two slices of mediocre pizza at the J.

But you need to plan ahead.

 

I have to take a few supplements ( see the reason above ). I take a multivitamin, a calcium supplement, and a cinnamon supplement. The pancreas does a lot of things, two of which are regulating insulin and making digestive juices. After my surgery, a potential side effect was having to take insulin shots. I was one of the lucky ones, in that I took metformin for a while. After about a year of not eating certain things like high fructose corn syrup or processed sugars, rice, noodles, and other starchy foods, my muslin has regulated itself. Thevdoctor told me to take a cinnamon supplement and as a result, my blood sugar runs between 80 and 100 everytime I check.

I like organic foods as well, but he cost and inconvenience limits them for me. I stock up at Wal mart on canned vegetables so that I can cook them in my lunchbox oven. I keep veggie burgers and chicken breasts and heat them up in the microwave. My only vice is coke zero. I go through a lot of them a day. But I'm 6-2 and weigh 173 pounds wet, and in spite of losing a lot of my insides, I'm healthier than most other 42 year old males. You CAN eat healthy out here as long as you're creative and resourceful.

 

Many drivers are prone to consuming too few of the wrong calorie types and end up maintaining weight, but converting some of their muscle to fat in other places. You have get at least some moderate exercise daily to go along with eating a well-balanced ratio of carbs, proteins, and [good] fats (roughly 55/30/15). You need to get a handle on recognizing what foods can contribute what in the way of nutrition and try and eat in moderate amounts throughout your waking hours to keep your metabolism machine running non-stop ... especially if you're trying to lose fat.

Everybody is different in what they need, how much they need, and how they will react. And everybody will have different ideas of how/what to purchase and eat in the truck. I personally refuse to "cook" anything in the truck, others have no issues with the cleaning and odor issues. And as such I developed a shopping list that was minimal, but met my needs and wants, and had the things I liked and could tolerate and that supported my desired nutrition goal.

Also, treat yourself to at least two or three sensible restaurant meals a week. Don't condemn yourself to eating out the truck continually or you're liable to burn out quickly. Also, a sensible Subway turkey 6" sandwich is not a bad option (no mayo) and you'll find these everywhere, water from the truck and an apple or peanut butter and celery and you've saved money and eat sensibly.

 

These days with all the chemicals and steroids,you would be better off becomeing a vegatarian.Eat food in it's rare form and you will be safe...Have some baked fish and some baked chicken.

 

Today's lunch/ dinner

Just pulled into a rest area and less than 15 minutes later...

 

Fat, Sick and nearly dead is interesting movie. but difficult to maintain in a truck unless you have a lot of time. i do mean green fasts when at home and 80/20 on the road 80% veggies 20% meats.
Perhaps the most important thing about diet is doing on that you will stick with, long enough to see results.
For example Freightliner Bob is having success doing a diet by sticking to it. i would not last long on that diet, but he has, and 45 pounds since January is something to be proud of and to keep motivated to continue......

 

if you can run a microwave in the truck they have this microhearth grill pan that grills and cooks meats. i have not tried this yet but reviews are good online, you can also cook veggies and other things in it. Its sold at numerous places you can search for it comes up quickly.