Let me explain all the things that used to get in the way of me eating like a healthy adult and taking care of my overall health cause #ADHD
1. When I put food in the fridge, it disappeared. Out of sight, out of mind. I would spend like, a LOT of money and then let it rot.
1. When I put food in the fridge, it disappeared. Out of sight, out of mind. I would spend like, a LOT of money and then let it rot.
2. Not going to the grocery store with a plan or getting overwhelmed at the grocery store. Its overstimulating.. I see things and I get ideas for things I'd like to cook. Those ideas aren't there on Tuesday night or Saturday morning. See #1.
3. How do you even meal prep when your schedule is such a nuclear wasteland of chaos that you have NO idea if you'll be home any given night or not to cook?
4. If by some miracle you do cook, and put the food in the fridge like making lunches for work, then you repeatedly forget the lunch every day and beat yourself up both for spending money & time cooking PLUS having to buy lunch but secretly you wanted to buy lunch anyway.
5. Can we also talk about cooking? Prepping / chopping vegetables, standing at the stove... my version of cooking was basically 'burn everything and get it over and done with asap'. I would try to make up recipes on the fly & they would turn out so gross I didnt want to eat them
I saw my neurotypical friends make food by looking in the cupboard and combining ingredients to make some sort of dish. WHAT IS THIS SORCERY. One time I tried to make a yellow curry and I put in purple cabbage and it turned out grey. 🌋😂
6. You cant meal prep in a kitchen that's filthy when theres no clean cookware. Was I going to clean the kitchen? Ha! Not likely. Did I even own Tupperware in which to store the food I prepped? No, and often I forgot that fact till after I'd cooked a whole mess of something
7. Which by the way even when I did get Tupperware I would leave sitting on the stove and forget to package up and now all that time doing all the previous steps has been wasted and I am thoroughly demoralized
Let me tell you how much time in my 20s I wasted trying to emulate my neurotypical friends with exactly zero success and then feeling SO. DUMB.
8. Okay so all the other 7 things aside, I was often very confused about what to eat and not eat. Was I getting enough calcium as a woman? I couldn't ever remember yo take supplements. Is it true even 1 glass of alcohol a day is bad, or is a glass of red wine good?
Protein, fats, carbs, keto, raw, vegan, local, macros - if you cant even keep track of whether you own a spatula, it can be pretty overwhelming to try to manage through buzzwords and keep up with what's best for your body
I am also luckily NOT a picky eater but I know a lot of the #neurodiversesquad are and even I struggled to remember to eat enough fruit & veg. Some days literally all I ate was carbs! Keeping track of all that..
Oy
Oy
9. Now add in trying to manage weight loss which I was pretty much always trying to do. Counting calories on top of all that or following a pre-plannes meal plan? Yikes.
10. Drink water, they said. It's good for you, they said. I felt like my house was always on fire and I just couldn't. Give. A. Shit.
11. Did I mention that aside from the time it takes to cook you also have to PLAN to cook? As in, block out time or maybe like have the energy after work or stop what you're doing midday Sunday to COOK? How???? How did people have the discipline???
Okay as you may have guessed by now this is all to say that I 100% get the struggle and this is why I built the 'Rock Your ADHD: Nutrition Edition' course. I've partnered with a nutritionist to help ALL OF US figure out what we should be eating and I'm here as your #ADHD coach
To help you figure out HOW you're gonna do it.
Because now that I figured all these things out I can tell you that it IS worth it. Once you hit your 30s and 40s the impacts of short term thinking about health start to show up. Obesity, type 2 diabetes, even osteoporosis
Because now that I figured all these things out I can tell you that it IS worth it. Once you hit your 30s and 40s the impacts of short term thinking about health start to show up. Obesity, type 2 diabetes, even osteoporosis
Heart disease...and just general energy and wellbeing - all of these things are impacted by ADHD today when we look at how and when and what we eat. Also feeling like you have a bad relationship to food or like food is evil sucks.
What I love about Devon (the nutritionist) is that she has a background in disordered eating and approaches nutrition from a mental health standpoint.
I know it's coming up on holiday season so I made this shizz affordable- 8 full weeks of supportive coaching for $400. That is $50 a session for a coach AND a nutritionist! That's a super good deal.
If you're a current client of mine DM me before registering because imma give you a discount.
Anyway that's all 😋
