Hi guys since iv been truck driving i have piled on the pounds and with e getting married next year i need to lose the weight. What diet did you go on to lose the fat
While there are experts on here, coffeholic springs to mind, it essentially boils down to eat less ■■■■, and move more!
typical a other fat ■■■■■■ driver lay off the bacon rolls and get ya fat sweaty Arse off ya seat more often !!! LOL
Most drivers over eat because they are bored, or their body’s time clock is all out of sync with working different hours.
If you don’t put the extra food in your lunch box and don’t buy it when you are out, then you can’t eat it. All about controlling the number of calories that go inside.
Get a job with Aldi, you wont be fat for long.
Portion size , drink more water , exercise more
devonlad2009:
Hi guys since iv been truck driving i have piled on the pounds and with e getting married next year i need to lose the weight. What diet did you go on to lose the fat
When I was younger I had a cooked brekkie every day with no weight problems.
Nowadays it’s one a fortnight ,as a treat, and even then it’s poached eggs and no sausage because of high fat content.
I eat baked potatoes rather than chips, snack on fruit rather than crisps or mars bars and ■■■■ like that as I did once over.
I also eat salads and pasta a lot.
However all the good is undone if I go out and have 10 pts of John Smiths (weekend, before all the self righteous knobs start) so I’m still fighting a losing battle.
Trucking has never been a healthy lifestyle job, long periods between meals, wrong type food, irregular sleep patterns, sat on your arse all day, and a pint when parked up for the night = fat ■■■■■■■■ 
amamdada:
Get a job with Aldi, you wont be fat for long.
Or Brakes / Bidvest / 3663 et al on food deliveries - did one day last week (not done it for years), 3 drops but a full load on the truck, all 3 had to be put off pallets onto the little wheels (4 or 5 boxes or whatever at a time) and wheeled to wherever they say, dodging all the crap and grease and not falling on your backside etc, a hundred trips per pallet and a truck full of pallets, sweating buckets… Forgot just how **** that job was, but perfect if you wanted to lose some weight
I agree with Liberty Guy. Boring job. I find my left hand drawn to my food supply far too often recently.
Fat Gaz did it… on prime time TV. Just watch out for RSI.
Best starting point is to not have food in reach while driving as said above you’ll eat out of boredom,I stopped taking sandwiches for this reason I’d eat them before I got my first drop then end up buying something too later in the day.
If you do have food in reach them make it healthy like fruit ect.
Some days when I’m on boring shunting work I’m sat about twiddling my thumbs and hit the haribos out of sheer boredom, but thankfully I’m usually too busy and go home hungry. Fat drivers (fat people) are always lazy people so I don’t think I will pile it on as my metabolism slows down. I know it’s not a physical job but I always strap my loads, make sure the curtains are nice and tight, sweep out the trailer when necessary, clean my windows/cab etc when I get an opportunity etc. It’s not a lot but at least it adds a little bit of activity when other fat trampy drivers just sit in their cab eating a bacon sarnie.
Best trucker diet is put your sandwiches in the passenger footwell. Bring a packet eh chewing gum for the drive.
Somebody above has already nailed it, it’s boredom that makes you eat. Before you know it you’ve tanned your sandwiches so then at lunchtime you end up hitting a snackbar or Mcds. Day in and day out and that’s how it happens.
merc0447:
Best trucker diet is put your sandwiches in the passenger footwell. Bring a packet eh chewing gum for the drive.Somebody above has already nailed it, it’s boredom that makes you eat. Before you know it you’ve tanned your sandwiches so then at lunchtime you end up hitting a snackbar or Mcds. Day in and day out and that’s how it happens.
Only trouble is chewing gums gives me the ■■■■■ and that creates a whole new problem on a long run
amamdada:
Get a job with Aldi, you wont be fat for long.
Yeah walking with an electric pump truck will really burn it off…
Diet… Really depends on how much you got to lose…
The boredom of being in a truck all day, besides breakfast, lunch and evening meal, there’s also munchies time between jobs weather it be a bag of nuts, chocolate bar or even a bag of sweets…plus what you drink…
Key is to stay of processed food, takeaways and its a lot to do with portion control
Maybe just a case of eating a healthy eating plan …like Bran or muesli at Breakfast, mixed salads lunch time and a healthy low carb meal In the evening…snacks during the day …fruit…and plenty of water throughout the day, coffee and tea minus any sugar… plus exercise, I hear walking’s good…
Failing that then it maybe a case of doing a meal replacement plan… i.e. VLCD shake for breakfast and lunch… healthy meal in evening…
Fruit in the morning,
Fruit at Lunch,
Normal tea when I get home,
Jump on the back of the wagon as much as I can. ( Multidrop)
Don’t be fooled by “Low Fat” products, when they remove the fat they need to add other things to make it tasty again, the main one being sugar.
Fat in most cases is not always that bad for you, you have two main fat types Saturated fats and Unsaturated fats, it’s the Saturated fat that is bad because it takes longer to go through the system and is more likely to get stored and also is harder for the body to break down (hence the clogged arteries and so on)
Aside from the obvious (truckers breakfasts - high in saturated fats, bags of sweets - 99% sugar, carbonated soda drinks - 60% sugar) the thing you really need to keep track of is your Carbs intake.
Bread and pasta are very high in Carbs so even though you think that low fat cheese and salad sandwich is healthy it could still be making you pile on the pounds, the same applies to that healthy looking Tuna and Pasta salad.
Try Nimble bread for your sandwiches its nearly a quarter of the calories of regular white bread, eat lots of fruit, if you’re the sweet snacker type take a Tupperware tub of grapes with you instead.
And drink plenty of water too (about 4 pints / 2 ltrs throughout the course of a day) this helps your system flush foods through and also a lot of the time you “feel” hungry you are actually thirsty.
There are loads more things you can do like exercise and so on but this should at least get the scales moving in the right direction.
I advise you do some internet research for common high carb/calorie food replacements and substitutes for sweets and snacks, also if you’re overly worried contact your G.P. they will give advice and point you in the right direction too.
Keep moving, I’m struggling a little with the boredom eating. When I started I was so hungry as I was working harder than I had in a long time, now I’m stronger and fitter I really don’t need the extra calories but I bring them anyway although I generally manage to resist some each day. I do try and get out of the cab when I can, do some stretches, or use a pallet for steps, even just clenching your muscles / tapping your feet whilst in your seat is activity. Avoid the sugary drinks as we tend to forget that beverages are calories too.
You don’t need to diet just eat sensibly and exercise.
I cut out fizzy drinks and snacks and lost a stone in a couple of months. I try and walk too, an hours walking will burn around 500 calories