Anyone ever lose weight while being OTR?

If you have no choice get some beef jerky and a handful of peanuts and keep driving until you can eat some veggies and meat .Go get groceries every 2 days

 

Its all about eating the right foods at the right time something i never used to do, i'd be the first one to put my hand up and say i can't stop at just one plate at a buffet going back for the 4th and 5th plate full when i left aussieland i was a lean 82 kg when i left the States i was a hefty 94 kg i put it all down to not really doing much hard physical exercise and just eating way to much. In my whole life i'd never put on 12 kg in 12 months so i was doing something wrong. Whats funny is i wasn't eating lots of donuts and fried mars bars etc etc always went to the buffet salad bar still what i learnt was never to have a big feed at the end of the day cause your bodies metabolizm is turning off to sleep so it tends to burn less calories ( which means you'll put on the kg's, lbs if you have a big feed), so what i learnt to do was have a bigger breakfast, medium dinner and a light very light supper.

 

Ohhhh ,I guess thats what it means to eat breakfast like a king ,lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper.

 

Not without catching some form of aggressive cancer.

 

My way of maintaining weight or losing it....
Hungry sometimes means thirsty... Your body doesn't have a way to tell you which it is. Drink something first.
Eat only when you're hungry and only what you're hungry for, even if it's not nutritious.
Chew well and taste your food well. The longer you chew, the more time it takes to get to your stomach, and the first bite has time to hit the "not hungry" button before you can eat too much.
Don't eat til you feel like they're gonna have to roll you back to your truck. Stop when you're "not hungry".
Only eat one "big" meal a day. Eat a couple snacks that take time to eat.. Like nuts, or fruit loops, or popcorn one at a time.
I eat carbs and snacks and all kinds of stuff, and I stay at or below my goal weight. The trick is to eat slow.
I drink (weak) coffee most of the time, which has less sugar in it than sodas and stuff. I reduced the sugar in my coffee by half and lost 40 lbs.
One plate at any restaurant is more than one person should eat in a sitting. They have to charge so much for each person to sit in their store to cover overhead, and it's cheaper to put more food on the plate to make it look like you're getting what you paid for. Don't eat the whole thing (That's for the big guys with lots of muscle that burn a #### ton of calories a day)
Intake has to equal output. It takes about 1500 to 2000 calories a day just to breath and be alive if you stayed in bed. Driving in a seat all day doesn't use much more than that. Walking doesn't burn as many calories as you think, so if you're eating 5k calories a day, you can't walk off 3k calories by walking from the far end of the truck stop. It takes paying attention to hhow many calories go in. Look at portion sizes on snacks, look at calorie counts on menus, just to get an idea. If that burger and fries contains 2k calories, you're reduced to drinking tea and eating rice cakes for the rest of the day.

 

When I was 21 I was a runt. 6 foot and maybe 135 wet. But I was fit enough to work in that trailer twice a day, loading onto the floor, and taking it off the floor after a overnight drive. Dead head back or out to grab something else and do it again. I worked so hard that when I was married at about 34 or so I was still 145. Sometimes eating huge amounts of food in winter or hard working.

That changed permanently in my 50's I got close to 260 and now am back to 185 where I should be. Members of my family died from Obesity before they hit 40 in some cases. My brother weights twice me, no almost three times I do. He wont live to see 65.

I don't eat much primarily to keep the weight down because I am not working to burn that fuel. Also medication impacts the gut creating other problems potentially. So what I do is take about 8 days with no medicines at all towards the end of each of my 30 day cycles so that my body weight will drop down into the 170's and we clear out the drugs etc. A holiday so to speak. Sometimes I'll stockpile some extra medicine which is used some other day.

Quitting smoking adds 20 pounds, a wife adds another 20. And so on. (Cooking foods etc)

There is one other complication to aging. After 40 you begin to lose 8% of your body mass every few years. That is why older people seem to be a shadow of their former selfs sometimes. That's the process of time. It marches on erasing your foundation, strength, mass and so on given a long enough number of years to do it.

 

When I cared about weight loss and working out, I would eat like 6 times a day. Wake up, water, banana/Apple etc, black coffee. Snack.
Lunch.
Snack.
Dinner.

Work out on either 30 minute break or after work. Nothing hardcore. Just basic stuff. Jogging/sprints, push ups, dumbbell, ab stuff, etc.

What I learned is it’s not exactly how much I ate ( within reason obviously) so much as it is what I ate.

Be surprised how much you might would lose drinking water, diet green tea and black coffee vs energy drinks etc. Although by my own admittance I’m the worlds worst about on and off dieting/working out. I love Monsters.

 

I started on the Keto diet (low carb) diet after seeing pictures from our family vacation. In three weeks, I’ve lost 20lbs., I try and work out at least three times a week while on the road. I carry a set of dumbbells, jump road, and walking/running shoes. Even if I’ve run 700+ miles, I force myself to get out for at least 30 minutes and get my heart rate up.

 

I lost 80# doing Keto and got my T2 diabetes under control......went from a handful of pills 2x a day to NO pills and my first 2 yr med card in over 15 years........it works!!!!

 

I gained about 45 lbs within the first six months of trucking. Then I visited the doctor because of a flu. Found out I was prediabetic, blood pressure creeping up, and a resting heart rate of 72 bpm.

That shocked me.

I'd watched a lecture on YouTube:


After that I bought a 12v cooler and started eating mostly fresh fruit and vegetables. My sense of taste changed. I can't stand sweet things anymore. Fruit is about as sweet as I can take. I completely stopped drinking soda pop.

With these changes I dropped those 45 lbs in six months. Went back to see the doctor and he was shocked. Normal blood sugar and blood pressure, resting heart rate of 62 bpm (now down to 58 bpm).

Since then my understanding about diet has progressed. Google and start reading about human microbiome. Microbiome research is exploding with all the advances in DNA technology.

The average human has about 10 trillion cells. If you are HEALTHY you should have 10X that number of bacteria living in your gut, at least 3000 species. THEY are the key to health. Feed THEM well and you will be well.

Eat probiotics (good bacteria). I eat yogurt (plain with fresh strawberries), kimchee or sauerkraut, and drink kombucha every day. These all have live bacteria in them. The surface of ALL fruits, roots, and vegetables have probiotics on them that are symbiotics to "our" food.

Get dirty. 13% of all living mass is in the soil. That's where the majority of our own microbiome comes from. Throw away your antibacterial soaps. Avoid antibiotics if at all possible, that's basically like taking a flamethrower to your house to get rid of a few mice.

The last time I was sick was in January 2014. That's remarkable considering a treck to the doctor two or three times a year for persistent colds, flu, etc was my norm.

Heal yourself.

Edited to add: it's the fiber, stupid.