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.
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One day, try going the whole day on just water. Pick your day carefully so you are free to do nothing if you choose.
Whenever you get hungry, pause, drink a glass of water, and check in with yourself. Odds are you aren’t that physically hungry, but your mind is going ape shit trying to get you to eat.
You don’t have to go crazy here, if you start not feeling well, then eat.
Try that again a few times at your leisure, but aim to actually go a full day at some point.
The point of that exercise isn’t to lose weight per se, it’s to gain a better understanding of how much of your eating habits are mental/psychological and also to show yourself that you have the ability to go a full day without food, so when a random Tuesday rolls around and you’re slightly peckish, you can grab a banana and get past it rather than going bananas at a Chinese buffet and downloading five thousand empty calories into your gut.
That is an imperfect approach, but it helps you get to know yourself and provide context for how “hungry” you are when it’s two hours past breakfast and two hours until lunch.
Obviously don’t do this if you have any kind of medical condition that requires you to eat. I am not a doctor.
I’ll back this up. That’s what started my weight loss journey. I felt like crap after having eaten way too much on Christmas. I stumbled upon a conduit called Eat Stop Eat, which is basically a 24 hour water fast. It’s a lot easier to get into than a longer fast, since if you’ve just eaten lunch, you only have to wait until lunch the next day.