Oh stop with the relatable memes, I can’t afford to get tested.
this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2025
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If all you need is to see if you likely have it (without an official diagnosis), you can search for ASRSv1.1. Answer the questions brutally truthfully. Again, it's not a diagnosis, but it'll tell you if you likely have it.
I'm too food motivated for this
Being food motivated is exactly why I do this sometimes... Everything tastes better when you're hungry, and you can eat more of it
I would love to go back to that and be a healthy weight again, but being forced to eat at scheduled times due to pressure from family and social scheduling means I end up eating too much over the course of the day even if I'm not hungry.
Hope you'll eventually be able to stop caring about pressure from family and social scheduling. I wish you well.
My recommendation is to eat just a little at the "scheduled" times, and and eat your main meal when your hungry.
The biggest problem with obesity is when we override our hunger signals. Then things get real bad real quick.
Yeah so my kid does this.
He ate a full ass portion of sweet and sour chicken rice and vegetables. And a brownie. And a cheesey roll up. And drank all the chocolate milk we had.
The kid is as thin as I was at his age, the biggest difference is that he has two parents that also both have ADHD so they get it, and also get that getting that food eaten is what's most important.
See, for me hunger is an all consuming distraction. There have been very few times I get so hyper focused I forget to eat.
Medication helps, but I still get hungry and crave chocolate.
Try smoking/vaping weed every day. Eventually you get your tolerance to the point where the anti-munchies kick in, i.e. you won't be able to eat if you don't smoke. Great for weight loss.
Unfortunately you won't be able to sleep, either, but that's why you simply partake shortly before bed and then fall asleep before you get hungry.
Lol every day. Not the best plan. Also munchies always hit when I was a daily use addict for over 15 years. Be careful with mind altering substances.
Same, never understood this side of ADHD. Meal time is the only time I don't deal with dysregulation lmao
I didn’t know this was an ADD thing
But this is so me
That's called OMAD! Just tell people you're doing Intermittent Fasting (of which OMAD is a specific way to do it).
Intermittent FEASTING
That's it... I sent my general practitioner a message to get tested for adhd and autism. It's gonna be fun to find out where on the spectrum I land
I like to say we're part of indigo - it's a color that's underrated, overshadowed by more "standard" colors, and often misunderstood or misidentified.
Also, once you get an eye for identifying indigo, you start to spot it more easily. Just as learning more about one's own autism can lead to one recognizing traits in their family or friends.
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OMAD is a common fasting method by more than just ADHD people.
True... but it's not really intentional or desired for some of us. Like, I WANT to put on weight (especially fat), but unless I set timers or am incredibly conscious that I need to eat, time just zips by, and I end up eating as described in the post. When I super focus on it (meal prep, shakes, etc), it starts to become a major point of anxiety in my life, and my relationship with food starts to get kind of toxic. I'm alive, healthy, and all that, but this kind of thing is very different than intentional fasting or dieting.
Food feels great when shared communally. Pretty sure it's hard for a lot of people to eat because we've sort of lost that as a society.
Right you have an eating disorder
Is fine
Many do
You're entirely wrong about that, and I think that's the entire point of this post. Eating does not repulse or disgust me. I have zero anxiety that xyz food is going to make me gain/lose weight. The idea here is that our brains absolutely do not easily create a routine around food. Let's say it's 10am and I'm starting to get hungry- I'll tell myself "okay, lunch in the next hour or two!" I briefly go back to whatever I was doing, look at the clock again, and it's 6pm.
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Yeah more eating disorder than adhd
Can we please stop pathologizing every little quirk? There is no one way to eat. Just because you're accustomed to the idea of 3 square meals in a day doesn't mean that deviation from that pattern is wrong. Different cultures approach meals, meal sizes, and meal times in different ways. How is that any different than an individual eating by their own schedule?
But when you get down to it, this isn't even about food. If there's any pathological component to this scenario, it would be the inability to keep track of time and/or sensory differences that don't trigger sensations (such as hunger) in the same way as neurotypicals. Which we're already well aware of. Having an unusual eating schedule is just one way that these differences manifest.
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Yeah, that is not how I roll: All day graze with possible actual meals, possibly even at normal times that people eat!
I'll have you know I had some cereal for lunch, so its two meals today.
(Fuck me I really need to get my official diagnosis - I'm waiting for an appt)
Or the old deciding I need to eat, getting up and going to the kitchen, seeing a chore that needs done to unlock the ability to eat certain foods, like I want ramen but my pots are on the drying rack, then realizing after I had been sitting down again for an hour that I just put away everything on the drying rack and forgot to cook and eat the ramen.
Then get up, go to the kitchen, and notice that the plants need to be watered...
I'm in this photo and I don't like it.
One Meal to rule them all, One Meal to find them, One Meal to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them
I can't be the only one who eats an entire loaf of cinnamon raisin bread the moment I wake up, then isn't hungry the rest of the day
That sounds amazing. I wish I had that appetite in the morning.
Yum, snakemeal. Mine is pasta tonight
Thanks for reminding me, I should eat something today before I crash for the night.
Happened today for the first time in a while. I was too busy with other stuff and then realized around 6pm that I was really hungry and oh I hadn't ate yet today.
Yo what the fuck, stop telling on me
Many ADHD meds have a appetite suppression side effect, which sometimes tapers off. Sometimes not so much.
Over the last few weeks I switched from the one meal to all day grazing Edit: I like the one meal a lot better
Happy the One Meal to you too, although mine is picked at all through the night
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I feel called out...
I eat enough to not feel hungry long enough to fall asleep
And a pleasant The One Meal to you too.
News to me that we all do this.
Phrasing!
Ouch. Do love that one meal tho
i’ve recently been started doing One Meals a little differently. i now get a big pan and add in basically every kind of food i should be eating throughout the day (fruits, vegetables, eggs, tofu, etc.) and cook it with a bit of oil and seasoning. i then add a bunch of spicy stuff to mask the taste, and sometimes add in yogurt to make it last longer and undo some of the spicy. i can then just scoop this into a bowl and heat it up in the microwave anytime during the day when i get hungry. it’s still One Meal, but it now lasts upwards of 3 days and i nibble away at it as needed.
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