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Truck Driver Loses 65 Lbs. By Cooking Vegan Meals on the Road​


For long-haul trucker Bobby Anderson, the weight-loss journey was particularly hard.


After 21 years on the job – spending 14 hours a day, six days a week behind the wheel – the Mississippi veteran’s sedentary lifestyle and poor eating habits took a toll on his waistline.


“I used to want to look like Arnold Schwarzenegger. And I ended up looking like Chris Farley,” Anderson told Today.


But last year the 45-year-old swapped fast food (ever-present at truck stops) for a vegan diet. It helped him shed 65 lbs. “My belly used to be right up here on the steering wheel. And now, I have room to breathe. And it’s still going down,” said Anderson.



So, how does he maintain his new size? It’s actually a foodie adventure! After cutting out Southern food staples (goodbye BBQ and hush puppies!), Anderson gave up meat, fish and dairy and starting eating more nutritious fruits and vegetables like avocados, blueberries and the occasional potato.


And that was just the beginning. Once Anderson started actually cooking plant-based foods for himself, his physical appearance changed even more dramatically. These days he uses the truck’s electrical power for a pressure cooker, waffle maker, hot plate, toaster and Nutribullet. “It’s very exciting and every day is a different flavor,” said Anderson about his meals, which include dishes like vegetable stir-fry with peanut sauce and healthy salads. “It takes all day to get ready to do this stuff, but it’s well worth it.”

In addition to improving his overall health — “I don’t take no antidepressants, anymore. No blood, no medicine at all and it’s all doctor approved,” Anderson said — his new eating habits also inspired him to start exercising and help others. He now chronicles his progress on Instagram and Facebook under the name Plant-Fueled Trucker. He has over 2,700 Instagram followers and 17,000 Facebook likes. For Anderson’s recipes, click here:

He lost that weight most likely due to getting away from processed food.

Strict carnivore diets have netted the same results.

Simply eating real food of all kinds and avoiding processed foods have netted the same results. It’s as simple as that.
 
He lost that weight most likely due to getting away from processed food.

Strict carnivore diets have netted the same results.

Simply eating real food of all kinds and avoiding processed foods have netted the same results. It’s as simple as that.
That and he's exercising.
 
Strict carnivore diets have netted the same results
The same results as in losing 65#. No doubt.

So have just about every other diet the world over.

The same results as in over all health, I'm betting no. I think he'd be the first to tell you that what he did was not a simple as that.

He kinda did tell us that.
 
He lost that weight most likely due to getting away from processed food.

Strict carnivore diets have netted the same results.

Simply eating real food of all kinds and avoiding processed foods have netted the same results. It’s as simple as that.
Depends on your definition of "processed".

All cooking is processing.

I think you're referring to the adding of preservatives and other ingredients that do nothing except preserve the color or something though. Can't argue with that.


One thing to keep in mind is when you boil certain vegetables like green beans, all the nutrients transfer from the veggies into the water.

So the only time you should boil vegetables is when you're making soup, because you don't drain the water.
 
I'm of the belief that you can pretty much eat whatever if you don't have a medical condition and move your ass around.

Hunter gatherers who had to kill mastodons to survive didn't have dietary plans.
 
Disease and predators more so than diet. While they were alive they were probably pretty healthy overall.
Exactly

That and we are estimating how long they lived.

Biblical days, people were documented as living well over 100 years if not taken by disease, battle, or anything similar.

They ate meat, they ate berries, they ate whatever was in season. For the most part, they didn’t overindulge in any one thing.
 
Exactly

That and we are estimating how long they lived.

Biblical days, people were documented as living well over 100 years if not taken by disease, battle, or anything similar.

They ate meat, they ate berries, they ate whatever was in season. For the most part, they didn’t overindulge in any one thing.
And wine lots of wine.
Jesus we are running out of wine.
Not a problem.
 
Disease and predators more so than diet. While they were alive they were probably pretty healthy overall.
They were healthy because they were young.
I don't know what their most common causes of death were, but clogged arteries doesn't typically happen to people under 50 and these cave men we're talking about didn't live long enough for that to happen.
Exactly

That and we are estimating how long they lived.
Pathologists, or anthropologists, some kind of ologists have their microscopes and test tubes & gas chromatographs (whatever those are) and they can determine the gender, height, age and approximate year of death of a skeleton.

Radiocarbon dating is most accurate on someone that's been dead less than a century, but when we're talking about thousands of years, they can still be confident within a few decades.

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Biblical days, people were documented as living well over 100 years if not taken by disease, battle, or anything similar.

They ate meat, they ate berries, they ate whatever was in season. For the most part, they didn’t overindulge in any one thing.
In the days of the Old Testament, in a geographical area that doesn't experience much of a seasonal change in the weather, how did they measure years?

As far as I know they didn't start studying the stars and making calendars stuff until like the 5th century AD. (The date of Christ's birth was chosen as year zero many centuries later.)
 
They were healthy because they were young.
I don't know what their most common causes of death were, but clogged arteries doesn't typically happen to people under 50 and these cave men we're talking about didn't live long enough for that to happen.

Pathologists, or anthropologists, some kind of ologists have their microscopes and test tubes & gas chromatographs (whatever those are) and they can determine the gender, height, age and approximate year of death of a skeleton.

Radiocarbon dating is most accurate on someone that's been dead less than a century, but when we're talking about thousands of years, they can still be confident within a few decades.


In the days of the Old Testament, in a geographical area that doesn't experience much of a seasonal change in the weather, how did they measure years?

As far as I know they didn't start studying the stars and making calendars stuff until like the 5th century AD. (The date of Christ's birth was chosen as year zero many centuries later.)
Plenty of young unhealthy people from bad diet and sedentary lifestyles.

Young doesn't automatically mean healthy.

They had to hunt and gather their food and run from predators. Good diet and basically constant exercise.
 
Well guess what guys.

Many if not most bible scholars and the bible itself do not support the ideal of cavemen or prehistoric man. Sure there were Mayans that lived in specialized rocks on the sides of mountains that the remnants still can be seen today.

But to think there was an era of prehistoric men/ Neanderthals carrying around clubs, dragging women by their hair grunting and whatnot, nope, never happened.
 
Well guess what guys.

Many if not most bible scholars and the bible itself do not support the ideal of cavemen or prehistoric man. Sure there were Mayans that lived in specialized rocks on the sides of mountains that the remnants still can be seen today.

But to think there was an era of prehistoric men/ Neanderthals carrying around clubs, dragging women by their hair grunting and whatnot, nope, never happened.
No I believe they used large leaves to reduce the friction.
 

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