Exercise and healthy eating for the OTR truck driver

Breakfast is 2 hard boiled eggs, spinach, and either beans or lentils. Lunch is chicken breast, broccoli, cauliflower, and beans. Supper is usually roast, broccoli, cauliflower, possibly carrots, and beans. I keep my meals simple. Eating like this, I can eat until I'm full, and it holds me over for 4-5 hours. I also drink a gallon or more of water a day. I prepare my foods at home on the weekend, and have them in my cooler, ready for the week of driving.

 

Beans, vegetables, and the like are unlike the typical crap foods that are sugars or starches, like breads and the like. As such, it's labeled as a Slow Carb way of eating.

 

I wish I had the option of cooking at home every week, especially since hard boiled eggs you buy in truck stops are pretty nasty and overcooked. I also drink a gallon a day but I also eat a banana every morning as water flushes potassium from your body pretty quickly. Other than that sliced turkey and chicken, apples, natural almonds, pears, etc are what I try to stick to. I do use whole wheat w/ flax flatbread for making sandwiches with. I do want to get more into beans and actually creating something in the truck from time to time.

 

Beans or lentils.... Can beans?

Do you cook your broccoli and cauliflower or eat them raw?

You cook your food for one whole week? But don't they lose their nutritional value after a couple of days? How do you keep them from spoling? You have a refri in the truck?

 

I use canned beans. 2 cans of mixed beans, and 2 cans of black beans. Rinse them thoroughly, in a strainer to get rid of the murky water. Then, I combine them in a large frying pan and fry them with pepper, sea salt, and garlic until they're rather dry. Then I put them into a Tupperware container and dish them out as needed. My lentils are usually drained from the can, rinsed, and then taken in another container.

I eat all my vegetables raw.

Nothing that I prepare will lose nutritional value, so no worries there. As for keeping it from spoiling, I've used the same Koolatron cooler for 5 years now, and never had any issues. In summer, I just keep the AC on in the bunk while driving, and close the curtain. Keeps the cooler quite cool.

 

My spinach intake is to cover the potassium, magnesium, and calcium that would normally be depleted by my way of eating. I too take raw almonds with me. Fantastic little snack that will do in a pinch, if need be. Plus, I take a few tins of salmon with me, in case I want a different flavour for a meal. As for breads, I'm a bread junkie, and have had the belly to prove it. So, unless it's cheat day(which is once a week), I stay away from all grains, starches, and sugars, as best as I can.

 

IMHO, unless produce is eaten raw or no later than 24 hrs after cooked, it loses nutritional value. When I was living in a place (stationary), I used to cook brown rice and all sorts of beans and vegetables every other day and would eat them right away. But now, living in the truck, no more than one hr for cooking every day... so I have been using pre cooked Uncle Ben's rice and can beans which I think has very little nutrional value + the nasty chemicals I like my vegetables cooked but not much, so I mix them all with the rice and the beans. But will buy a "stove" as they call, it is a box that you plug into cigarret lighter and cook real brown rice while I drive. Enough of this Uncle Ben's... Wish could cook my beans in the slow cooker but haven't had much luck with slow cookers, they all burnt after a few months, power inverters went bad, had several coolers, including Koolatron that lasted a little over a year. Now I buy bags of ice every day. Spend more money but at least, it keeps every thing really cool, better than Koolatron.

 

Lunch meat has some really weird things done to it. things to make it have more volume, and texture.

Canned beans have a but t load of salt in them.

I am local now. I do 14hr days with 10hr breaks. My diet is a little better. I was 220 coming off the road. I was 199 a day or 2 ago. I don't have time for stopping for lunch. Or for that matter coffee!

I need to get a thermos for the long nights hauling fuel. Most places I deliver to don't sell coffee.

I prefer no caffein while working. Pack roll up tortillas with lunch meat, spinach, cheese.

The frikken tortillas has 350+ grams of salt! Then the cheese, turkey, and the salt and sugar in the horse radish sauce.

I am going to the doctor tomorrow for my cholesterol test, and see how the blood pressure is doing.

 

I got my dot physical coming up in the next 45 days and I'm shooting for a 2 year card this time. My bp was too high last time. I've switched to green tea from coffee among other things.

Try whole-wheat tortillas rug trucker.

 

High in salt also. At least the ones I have found.


One thing I know about a DOT physical is don't tell them you are on BP meds. Automatic 1 year card.

They don't test for BP meds.