quartertonbubba

I am enjoying the holidays with my family this year. I have been a truck driver and for many of the past holidays I have been away except for a short time on Christmas. I am reading and studying and once the holidays are over I will be back blogging.

I am finding that being aware of my moods and habits is helping my diet. If I am upset then I have to be cautious that I do not grab a gallon of Ice Cream to make me feel better. When something causes you to do something else it is a trigger. If you are aware of it then you can plan ahead on how to avoid bad results. If getting upset triggers you eating too much overindulgent food(cake,cookies,candy,ice cream) then if you are aware of it you can replace it with a better outcome. If you get upset then go for a walk, take a bubble bath, put on your favorite song and boogey to it. Just be aware and prepare.

Since I have been home it has been easier to eat healthy. I am eating less processed and/or canned foods and more vegetables. When I was driving a truck over the road I ate fast-food 2-3 times a day. This was due to lack of cooking facilities on truck(no stove or refrigerator) and difficulty of maneuvering the tractor trailer into places. Many places you can go in a small vehicle on trips to find healthier food choices are unavailable to tractor trailer drivers. In addition more and more of the truck-stops have fast-food restaurants instead of the sit down menu style. You can sometimes get a somewhat healthy meal at fast-food places, but it is much harder.  Also you must really be careful with fast-food in that some of your choices are not as healthy as you think. One fast-food chain has a salad that has more fat and calories than their "Big Mac". If you are aware of the fast-food pitfalls to avoid that is good but it is better to totally avoid fast-food if possible. Many sit

I hate the word diet. I have tried many of them through the years. Most of them have one thing in common and that is starvation. Lots of diets allow you to eat barely enough food to keep a sparrow alive. You starve yourself for anywhere from 1-8 weeks then you go back to "NORMAL" eating. Well if you lose weight there is a good chance that once you return to your normal eating habits that caused you to gain weight in first place it is likely the weight is coming back. Sadly it is also likely that you will gain back more than you lost. This is due to the human famine starvation survival built into our genes. If there is a lack of food our metabolism will slow down to insure we survive and once we start eating our body stores all the calories as fat to prepare for future famine. Our ancestors were hunter-gathers and slowly advanced to herder and farmers. Our diet although omnivorous has always consisted of lots of roots, nuts, and grains. Meat was not to be counted on and consid

Once a person gets to be as obese as I am exercise gets to be not only hard, but can be dangerous as well. It only takes around 400 pounds to break bones in certain circumstances. At 540 pounds the impact when I walk is almost doubled to around 850 pounds of impact weight. It would  therefore be easy to break a bone if not careful. It is very important to get checked by your doctor before you start a exercise program. I had gotten to the point where walking just a short distance would have me out of breath. I have now worked myself up to being able to walk for 30 minutes without stopping to rest. The old saying of  "no pain no gain" is total baloney if you are obese. You must be careful , but that does not mean just sit on the couch. I find that the more I exercise the easier and "GASP" more enjoyable it is. I am walking and now am going to try various other exercises in addition. I am doing my "program" without joining a gym at the moment. I will explore