As a truck driver, you burn anywhere between 100-200 calories per hour while driving. The recommended calorie intake for an adult ranges from 1800-2600 per day. Knowing how many calories you need to get through the day is an important factor to healthy living. Knowing how many calories you eat a day is also important. While you may not want to count every single calorie, having a ballpark figure will also help you understand how close you are to eating the way you should. To get an idea of how healthy your eating is, think about what you eat. Sometimes truck driving jobs may make it virtually impossible to eat healthy. Sometimes your only option is fast food.
When the need to eat fast food arises there are plenty of choices to be made on where to go and, once there, what to order. Many drive through restaurants these days offer a range of salads on their menus along with other healthy choices such as apple slices instead of French fries. Eating fruits and vegetables is always a healthy choice, but the honest truth is that a salad doesn’t always cut it.
When you’ve been driving for hours on end and you feel faint from hunger, you want something solid. You want something you can really sink your teeth into and you want there to be a lot of it. So, when you are looking over the menu, intending to buy the whole shebang of burger, fries and a soda, it is important to be sure you know what you are ordering.
When eating fast food frequently, you should know the many items on a menu and what each of them really will do for you. Which selection on the menu has the most calories? Which one has the least? Which item will keep you full longer and which item will get your stomach rumbling again in a few hours?
To help you as a truck driver better understand what you are eating, we will be doing a number of Monthly Menu Management articles. These articles will provide a breakdown of a different fast food menu each month, including information such as the largest and smallest items on the menu and which items will keep you full longer. This Monthly Menu Management is simply for your information and is neither encouraging nor discouraging the purchase and consumption of fast food.
It’s time you understood what you are eating every day. Truck driving jobs are hard enough without having to count the calories on a fast food menu. Instead, take a break and we’ll do the counting.
One of the most important aspects of living a healthy lifestyle is movement. Though for those with a truck driving job, this can be a difficult task. It is true that truck driving provides the opportunity to travel the continent, but there is rarely the chance to get out and explore your surroundings. Realizing this challenging aspect of a truck driving job, three truck drivers found a way to overcome this obstacle and are now helping other truckers stay fit while out on the road.