How to keep your weight in check?

Stop stuffing your face with truck stop garbage, and eat food, not garbage.

 

I can't agree with the simple... calories consumed versus calories burned.
It depends on what kind of calories. Much more in our society today.
Also we consume too many toxins. Fructose is actually a toxin. They put it in everything. Even bread.

If you want to straighten out your weight. Go pay attention to Dr. Carolyn Dean. Book: The Magnesium Miracle. Get on her program. Weight will simply fall off. Many things will get straightened out. I'm convinced we have a bad problem with lack of minerals. Big problem.

Also I must confess. Driving... I'll look forward to 'comfort food' at the end of the day. Not good.

 

Dude, you hit 30. Metabolism slows and you thicken up. If you eat right and work out you get more muscular and your heart improves with it.

If you keep eating the same, and don't eat real food, you get the Dad bod and then the Dad stroke at 55.

 

the real headache with weight gain are all the sweets that are available.
Dont drink sodas to keep you awake.
Dont eat snacks from a bag.
Avoid the donuts.
Anytime you get out of the truck do a enroute pretrip. Even if it is only to stretch your legs for five mins.
If you have to have something to drink, drink water. It keeps you hydrated and will help flush your kidneys.

That subway sandwich you like? Try having a wrap instead. There are ALOT of carbs in that bread.

 

In my 40's my metabolism slowed enough to be noticed. Up until then quality food as served in the Dutch Country or cooked correctly in the oven as a meal was like pouring rocket fuel onto a small fire. Makes it huge amounts of energy availible. I have always done that to push for a thousand miles by sunrise the next day (Paper logs be ######, they could be repaired while waiting for unloading many hours, which conviently fixes the conflicts on paper.

There was a smaller truckstop that was either a Bonsian, Czech or Serbian in that part of Texas which I called little Europe. A play on Little America which itself is a righteous truckstop back in the day. They have always served me food the way I required it even though it was slightly off menu. The Cook was fantastic and occasionally worked in what they thought was eastern european touches. I do not love them or any particular nationality because I come again from Baltimore where it's possible to travel the world in food just by taking a walk across the city for a week. They would not only feed you, but for a batch of dishes put you up in a corner for the night as we explored the city slowly for a time. And so we were a number three seaport that had the whole world show up every day seeking to gtfo the ship that they have been on for months for liberty run ashore. They spent money like gods once they got ahold of that US Dollar. And the girls were accomodating at the block more or less.

Anyway, that truckstop provided relatively quality food at a price I could tolerate. They burned soemtime I think in 1999. A little something burned with them and it was not quite the same. The body refused to respond correctly with energy to the food I would serve myseelf up with. and started gaining weight of all things. Wife gained first fast. Which was horrible. She was around 130 and boom up to 165 and declining health in front of my eyes. We lost 4 days waiting on her to recover in Plainview texas which is essentially a meat plant. She improved a little enough to run. Otherwise I would have driven her home or stuck her on the Texas Eagle and have her hop off at the flag stop and walk home down the road.

We managed to win the battle of the bulge and retain her health at that point. My own system was liking the changes for the worse when away from the truck. Everything was drop hook. Sit and sit some more and do more sitting.

If I hear someone bark at me to be careful with the dang trailer while leaving after a drop hook, Im a going to slug em. (Empty noise, its not possible across internet but the meaning is understood. Too many drivers line the bench like a batch of magpies and toss advice like rocks,, ye aint fittin. Yes we know youa int fitting, raise your wheel a little. Dump your bags etc etc etc.

If they want to do it they can #### well do it themselves LOL. One time I put them to work doing it. Not easy getting 10 drivers to get up and fall in. Made that happen that day. Epic.

Subway is my alamo if confronted with bad choices. I'll make a custom order out of it. They weep when 15 people line up waiting on my order to be assembled. What do they think? It's snack time at the college. However its rationed to twice a month, two weeks apart. only. It's not the same anymore.

What I cannot stand is a sub sandwitch butchered and slammed togeter being assembled by temper temper temper. It never comes out right. I'll come back to counter, rip off a chunk with knife and tell the manager to take a bite of that death by pepper his angry employee piled in there. All thats gotta come out. Along with the credic card and so froth.
That was 20 years ago. I pay cash for all of it now. The theft situation has to be experienced to behold.

 

Man you guys make feel big.....I am about 5 foot 9, weighing about 245. I have a bit of a beer belly, from frequent binge drinking once upon a time. I used to have a slender build, then I got into the thirties lol.

 

It's much easier to NOT EAT something than to lose the weight and/or deal with the issues from gaining weight. Food is justvto keep you alive. It won't make you happy or fix the feeling you or others have or don't have. Eat less when you start trucking than in your previous job.

 

Drink only water

 

Seems like there are plenty of advise on here, but something you can not do anything about is age.
I graduated high school weighing in at 195, and a 29in waist, That held up until about age forty, then in the span of three or four weeks went to a 33 in waist, my weight stayed the same, just repositioned it self. lol
It could not be attributed to any change in diet or lack of exorsize either. At the time I was wrenching at the shop and running a 24 hour service truck and wrecker, lots of hours and physical work too.

It happened funny, our family reunions are 3 or 4 days long camping in the mountains and lots of good eats, When I got back I could not hardly button my pants, but figured it would just be temporary, over the course of the next 3 or 4 weeks I bought new pants twice. lol