My Hunger Free Trucker Diet
One thing I have learned over the years is the best solution to a problem is quite often the simplest one. The trucker life is never easy and A healthy diet needs to be easy to do pain free, and hunger free, during my life as a trucker, I have tried diets that actually worked for a while but I stopped doing them because there where so many hoops I had to jump through or I just got sick and tired of them.
I went vegetarian for a while actually lost some weight, however I got tired of the extra shopping I had to do. I know I know how hard is it to go to the grocery store and buy veggies? well, when I only have 34 hours or so home time that extra time cleaning my cooler and shopping for perishable fruits and veggies doesn't seem so appealing. Within a month I had pretty much back slid my way to convenience store, fast food, truck stop fare because it was quick and easy.
Remember those words " quick" and "easy" they are the key to making a successful healthy trucker life style and diet, It has to be easy, accessible,hunger free, and not require too much time away from our jobs.
So, what is this hunger free trucker diet? First Ill tell you what it's not. It's not a diet where you starve yourself or limit your types of food or pay for expensive meals. It's not a diet where you have special drugs or chemicals you have to take. In fact you eat as much food and whatever type of food that you choose to eat.
Before I started this diet I was weighing in at 354 pounds. Out of desperation I took a leave of absence from my job and headed down to Belize, thinking I needed a health vacation. I was thinking tropical paradise. I was thinking snorkeling every day, long walks on the beach and eating nothing but fresh fruit right off of the tree. In reality what I found was indeed paradise, but it's a first world paradise. Lots of gourmet restaurants, hotels, and bars, beautiful beaches and friendly people. Basically It is a partying good time of a place, maybe not so great a place to lose weight at.
I lost a little bit of weight and had a blast! but with ten days to go I realized that I had not accomplished my objective and soon I was going to have to leave. One night sitting at the patio of the place I was renting I had my breakthrough.
I had just explained to one of my room mates a belizian person I'd become friends with about my situation. She was quiet for a bit, and then she started telling me about her life in Punta Gorda as a child. I listened not sure exactly what her story had to do with my predicament, but when she finished I suddenly realized that nestled in her words was the Pearl of Wisdom I was looking for to develop my ultimate meal plan for truckers. That very night I went to bed formulating my plan of attack.
In the five months after that conversation I have lost close to sixty pounds. I have done it without being hungry or even stressed out. In fact I love to eat so much that I even blog about my food adventures here in this website. This meal plan for truckers is so simple that you will not believe you didn't think of it yourself. Don't worry your not alone I felt the same way.
So I've taken the last few years using myself as a guinea pig to document and write down this diet in words here.
I went vegetarian for a while actually lost some weight, however I got tired of the extra shopping I had to do. I know I know how hard is it to go to the grocery store and buy veggies? well, when I only have 34 hours or so home time that extra time cleaning my cooler and shopping for perishable fruits and veggies doesn't seem so appealing. Within a month I had pretty much back slid my way to convenience store, fast food, truck stop fare because it was quick and easy.
Remember those words " quick" and "easy" they are the key to making a successful healthy trucker life style and diet, It has to be easy, accessible,hunger free, and not require too much time away from our jobs.
So, what is this hunger free trucker diet? First Ill tell you what it's not. It's not a diet where you starve yourself or limit your types of food or pay for expensive meals. It's not a diet where you have special drugs or chemicals you have to take. In fact you eat as much food and whatever type of food that you choose to eat.
Before I started this diet I was weighing in at 354 pounds. Out of desperation I took a leave of absence from my job and headed down to Belize, thinking I needed a health vacation. I was thinking tropical paradise. I was thinking snorkeling every day, long walks on the beach and eating nothing but fresh fruit right off of the tree. In reality what I found was indeed paradise, but it's a first world paradise. Lots of gourmet restaurants, hotels, and bars, beautiful beaches and friendly people. Basically It is a partying good time of a place, maybe not so great a place to lose weight at.
I lost a little bit of weight and had a blast! but with ten days to go I realized that I had not accomplished my objective and soon I was going to have to leave. One night sitting at the patio of the place I was renting I had my breakthrough.
I had just explained to one of my room mates a belizian person I'd become friends with about my situation. She was quiet for a bit, and then she started telling me about her life in Punta Gorda as a child. I listened not sure exactly what her story had to do with my predicament, but when she finished I suddenly realized that nestled in her words was the Pearl of Wisdom I was looking for to develop my ultimate meal plan for truckers. That very night I went to bed formulating my plan of attack.
In the five months after that conversation I have lost close to sixty pounds. I have done it without being hungry or even stressed out. In fact I love to eat so much that I even blog about my food adventures here in this website. This meal plan for truckers is so simple that you will not believe you didn't think of it yourself. Don't worry your not alone I felt the same way.
So I've taken the last few years using myself as a guinea pig to document and write down this diet in words here.