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

Hello everyone. My name is Stuart Jordan and I'm here for Attitude magazine today and you're listening to Attitudes ADHD experts.

In this hour of attitudes ADHD experts.

In this hour of ADHD experts, we're going to be talking about weight loss and ADHD.

Our guest today is Dr. Roberto Olivardia. He's a clinical psychologist and clinical

instructor of psychology at Harvard Medical School and he specializes in the treatment of ADHD, body dysmorphic

disorder, BDD and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Ocid. And his topic today is your ADHD tested weight loss guide take it off keep

it off. Dr. Olivardia is co-author of the Adonis Complex, a book detailing the various manifestations

of body image problems in men, and he maintains a private psychotherapy practice in Massachusetts.

Dr. Alavardia, thank you so much for joining us today.

Let's get going and turn it over to you Dr. Oliveria.

Thank you, Stuart. It's always my pleasure.

This is a topic that is a particular passion for me. The first time I remember speaking about the

subject at the 2008 Chad conference it was met with a lot of very positive

feedback from people who had been struggling with eating issues.

And I come to this via the avenue of specializing in the treatment of eating disorders and would work with many men who had binge eating disorder or bulimia nervosum who it turns out also had ADHD.

And when the ADHD was treated, then the treatment of their eating disorder took on a whole new level, a whole new perspective.

So before we talk about weight loss per se, I first want to just address why it can be difficult

for people with ADHD just to simply eat healthy because as we know one of the most

important things for weight loss is to eat and to eat in a way that's very healthy and keeps people sort of feeling satiated without feeling

that they're overeating.

There are lots of empirical studies that have been recently done over the last five years that have really

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