Drivers should eat like a trucker, not like they’re on a vacation trip

I'm very worried about gaining more weight while on the road. It's part of the reason I'm going to be cooking so that I can control what we eat. However, the prospect of all those chocolate bars lined up to attack me at every exit ramp has me nervous.

 

Try to plan your meals ahead of time and have it cooking while you're driving so you have a hot meal waiting for you when you stop. Temptation is always worse when you're hungry.

 

i know that's right! i have passed on the steak in the fridge for fast food just because i was too tired to cook it LOL

 

I smoked to smoke for 15 years, and now at the tender age of 30 have not had a smoke for 18mo. and don't regret it even a little bit. However having tried to quite for a few years before hand, even just smoking to smoke your body is addicted to nicotene. You will find it very hard to quite the longer you keep smoking.
Also, at nearly 5.00 a pack or more depending on the region you live in, think of the money you will be saving every month.

I apologize for hijacking the thread.

 

granola makes a great otr snack.

 

First of all, I've been vegetarian for almost 28 years and now it's been very hard to eat otr. Since when I started this trucking career I lost almost 20 lbs. I look scary skinny right now... so much that I feel very embarrassed. My veins showing everywhere.... it's awful I feel fine and have a lot of energy to do this job but would like to gain at least 10 lbs and eat some more. It's been hard cause although I have a refrigerator in the truck and do groceries at least once a week, and cook in the truck.... the way the truck is wired by the co., I can't keep refri on when truck is not running or not iddling cause power inverter start beeping... and I can't iddle very long or co. may charge me. So, I have to turn refri off everynight and now, in the spring/ summer, food spoils very quickly, and I feel so tired after driving 10 or 11 hrs almost everyday that I don't feel like cooking afterwards.... I definitely don't eat junk food and don't eat white sugar... so, I starve a lot.... don't know what to do. If only I could keep refri running constantly.... Would like to have a battery only for the refri, but don't think co. would allow that. I may bring my cooler back in the truck and move food back and forth between refri and cooler.... Don't know if that will work though... Maybe batteries in this truck are weak... I don't know... If anybody has an idea, plz help. Thanks.

 

I'd have to say from a medical standpoint that you have to decide if this life choice is for health benefits or for principles. Objectively if it is not providing the health benefits you're looking for you're going to have to make some hard choices. You still shouldn't have to eat junk food but you'll need to get your proteins up and at minimum find a really good multi-vitamin while you're in limbo. You don't want to lose that much muscle-mass weight.

 

I am with ya Nana!! The chocolate bars are hard to resist and I usually can't