Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast Series by Attitude magazine.

I'm Susan Coffin I'm here for Attitude magazine and you're listening to

Attitudes 80-H-D experts. Our topic today is weight management and

attention deficit disorder. As ADHD adults many of us are impulsive organization it can be and

deficit disorder as a ADHD adults many of us are impulsive organization can be a challenge

and classic advice for weight loss things like keeping a strict diet log or

eating at very specific consistent times can be very difficult to manage.

Our guest today is Dr. John Fleming.

He's a psychologist in private practice in Toronto, Canada.

With more than 25 years of experience in the treatment of eating issues.

He earned a PhD at the University of Wisconsin

and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Chicago.

He has been working with ADHD individuals for over 18 years and during that time he also

co-directed a research program on the connection between ADHD overeating and obesity and

I think he'll tell us a little bit about what that study found.

So welcome Dr Fleming and let me turn it over to you.

Thank you for joining us.

All right.

I'm very glad to be here and what I'm going to start with are some comments about

weight management like it is definitely difficult for everyone to lose weight. Like we have a very simple

understanding and we've held the simple understanding that if you eat less

you exercise more you lose weight and absolutely that's true that's physics but the reality is that's

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