Trucking Weight Loss

Introduction

Weight loss has always been a struggle for me, and once again I'm faced with a sizable amount of weight to lose. I've been through this before a few years ago. My weight had crept up to 290 working as a programmer. I took that number down to 226 with everyday visits to a gym and calorie counting. Nearly 2 years after leaving the programming job and going trucking, the number is back to 277. Sad, but true.

The Plan

Since I've been through this before, I know what needs done. It's simple, move more and eat less. You can buy all the diet books, pills, and potions you want, that's all there is to it. You count your calories and adjust until you're losing 1-2 pounds per week. If you want to eat more, you have to move more. For me, 1800 calories is the max for a 1-2 pound per week loss. I spread that out over a 7 day average. If I'm hungry and have no calories available, I use water, coffee, diet pop, and vegetables to get through it.

You have to accept there there may periods of time where there is no weight loss shown on the scale, but rarely will there be a gain. During those periods you try to increase other good variables, like the number of miles you can cover or the amount of weight that you can lift.

Until I get this site going, here is the link to the old website's weight loss section.

Frequently Asked Questions

  1. Why do you post the numbers on the Internet? Isn't that embarassing? Yes it's embarrassing, and that's part of the problem. Being fat is embarrassing too, so what? Posting the improvements makes up for it. It allows others to compare notes and come up with their own plan too.

  2. Why not quit trucking? Truckers are all fat, right? Not all of them are, some are healthy. Most of the healthy ones have a plan. Trucking has it's benefits that beat the office world, so for now I have to work with what I've got.

  3. Why can't truckers get exercise and go to the gym? The trucks are to big to get into a gym and the restaurants that we have access to are some of the worst you can imagine. The lifestyle is tough on us for healthy concerns.

  4. What's your goal weight? Right now, 226, I know it's obtainable. But anything less than 277 is the short term.

In Conclusion

I've been putting this off for a while because I know what it takes and I knew I wasn't ready. Yes, weight loss is an ongoing process, but as I'll explain later, the reasons for weight gain are all connected to food, but food intake is just a symptom of other problems. Lack of caring for yourself is the number one problem and until you get that out of the way, you're not going to lose weight.

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