The things that get in the way for me are: getting instantly bored with any weight loss strategy, an inability to do things if I’m told I have to, forgetting that I need to lose weight, needing the sensory input of food, inability to recognise when I’m full, hyper-focusing on weight loss for a month and losing a ton of weight and then putting it all back on the next month because I celebrated the weight loss with cake…

I just wonder if there are any ADHD behaviour hacks where I could use my neurospicyness to actually help me lose weight consistently.

  • Infynis@midwest.socialEnglish
    10·
    3 days ago

    I have definitely used my difficulty starting tasks to help myself lose weight. I find its way easier to just be hungry than to make food. Most of the time.

    I still have to make sure I’m not eating snacks without thinking about it. A good option for me has been keeping easy, small, healthy foods, that can get me through hunger pang. My favorite is a pot of Greek yogurt. They’re like 80¢ at Aldi where I live. Fresh fruit works great as well! And for late night treats, I eat frozen fruit. It fills the ice cream niche, without being packed with calories and extra sugar

    • ghashul@feddit.dkEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      If you have very ripe bananas, you can freeze them and then they make a nice ice cream substitute blended.

      • Zenith@lemm.eeEnglish
        22·
        3 days ago

        Every gram of fiber in a food allows you to essentially “erase” a gram of sugar so fruits with fiber (not bananas or many melons) are essentially free foods calorically speaking and they do have plenty of nutrients on top of it

          • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            fibre reduces the absorption of nutrition in the gut, but it doesn’t erase bad nutrition.

            This is very easy to test at home, get a glucose meter and eat your favorite fibre and sugar together and see what your blood sugar will do… it will still spike.