As we’re all getting older the life that we live starts to take a toll on our bodies, now lorry driving and healthy living are not good bedfellows, especially driving over here, most of my days are spent driving down a straight road, I may change gears a few times, but for the majority of the time I’m sitting there lightly holding the steering wheel, there are no roundabouts or tight turns like we had in Europe, on vans or reefers we don’t have curtains to pull, straps to tighten etc, basically we’re couch potatoes.
We also have far too many bad choices available when it comes to eating, fast food or food from a box or tin from a Dennys or similar, none of it is any good for us, so I’ve started making a few changes, but I’m looking for ideas too.
I’ve started eating a lot more in the cab, salads, rice with chicken breast/tuna, that sort of thing, I’m spicing it up a bit with some sauces to make it more appetising, but it will become a bit boring, so any meal ideas anyone has will be more than welcome.
I’m also doing a bit of walking and some simple exercises I can do as I drive, but the walking part is difficult, apart from the extremes of weather, there are no pavements FFS, so I’ve come up with a little plan, I’ll park in a Walmart as far away from the entrance as possible, then once inside I’ll get a trolley, fill it with car batteries or jugs of water and walk up and down every aisle for half an hour or so, this is an all weather activity, now I’ve got to put the plan into action, that’s not as easy as it sounds, at the moment I plan my journeys around places that make me fat not fit.
I’m hoping we can all bounce ideas off each other, some of you may already have things that you do, so if you have, post them up, no matter how silly they may seem, it’s very hard to do do anything remotely healthy in this job, so silly or not, if they work, they’re not so silly.
One other thing, I’ve started going to a Chiropracter, I’m the World’s biggest cynic usually, but I was surprised by the whole thing, it really makes sense, it also stopped a pain I was suffering with, I kept getting pins and needles in my left hand, then it became a dull ache up my arm, it scared the merde out of me, I thought I was having a heart attack, I went to the Doctor, they sent me to the Hospital, they hooked me up to allsorts of machines and scared the remaining merde out of me, apart from being told to pack up smoking (next on my TTD list) they said I was fine, my BP was good and my heart rate was normal, so it was back to the Doc about the pain in my arm, it was waking me up at night it got that bad, the Doc said that it was nerve damage and I needed physio and if that didn’t work I’d need an operation, well how can I do physio when I can’t make appointments more than a few days in advance due to not knowing where I’m going to be from one week to the next. Long story short, my wife got a job with a Chiropracter, I looked into it and thought it made sense, three visits later and my arm is fine, the Doctors wanted to give me a prescription that would’ve stopped me driving trucks, maybe even operate, the Chiropracter moved a few bones in my neck and the pain has gone, there are a million other things that visiting a Chiropracter can do, so if you’ve any medical complaints, they’re well worth looking into 
). Diet won’t make you lose any weight either if you sit on your arse all day not moving. Only time diet will make a difference is if you cut the portions right down to virtually nothing. If you think you can lose weight by sitting on your arse still but stuffing your fat face with salads and tuna and fruit instead of burgers, pies and chips then think again - it won’t do jack ■■■■.
It’s not all bad though, I’ve got a cracking pair of ■■■■ 
