And you can absolutely eat healthy at almost any truck stop in this country. It may not be what you've been dreaming of eating but that's not really the point of eating anyway. I have Hashimoto's thyroiditis and I'm female. My metabolism dropped so low a few years ago I went into a three day coma. I took a synthetic thyroid hormone and desiccated thyroid hormones about a year. Now I'm pill free and living with a very low metabolism but no energy loss and no weight gain. I keep a little binder in my truck of brochures and printed menus with nutrition facts of every restaurant chain I could possibly go to. If I know I'm stopping at Pilot with McDonald's I look for healthy foods that appeal to me before I go in. I also keep a small notepad and write down the amount of fat, calories, etc. I eat in a day. I thought I ate healthy before I did this but was shocked when my previous idea of "healthy" amounted to 3000 calories and 50g of fat or so a day. I still eat ice cream and hamburgers too (or there would be a trail of dead across this nation) but not every day. Sunday is Junk Food Day and I eat whatever I want in whatever quantity I want. The other six days I eat like a starving hippie, but it makes the bad food oh so much more tasty… My doctor recommended the book Body for Life to me years ago and that's sort of what I go by but with my own ideas in the mix. I've lost 125 lbs in 2 years as female driver with one of the most severe metabolic diseases around. It's totally possible.

I ran as hard as anyone out there over the years and I found the time and available food to eat healthy and exercise 5 days a week. I would go jogging wherever I was at when I had the chance, brought weights with me to tone up, and carried tons of healthy food with me. We all have the time and the resources to eat healthy and exercise. If the President Of The United States can find the time, so can us truck drivers.