S7 EP15: ADHD & Nutrition
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
ADHD can make all sorts of tasks that other people take for granted more complex, so it’s no surprise that it can cause challenges with eating as well. Today, Kelsea interviews Becca King, a registered dietician who has ADHD herself and who focuses on the ins and outs of ADHD eating.
In today’s episode, you’ll learn more about the challenges and hurdles of ADHD eating and how people can address these issues when they have them. Listen in to learn more about eating for stimulation, how nutrition is different for people with ADHD, and eating intuitively when you don’t know what you’ll want to eat in advance.
Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode:
- The stigma around ADHD and eating with ADHD
- Shame associated with ADHD
- Finding strategies that work for people with ADHD
- The first questions that Becca asks clients
- How to stop eating for stimulation
- How nutrition looks different for people with ADHD
- Becca’s nutrition advice for people with ADHD
- Intuitive eating when you never know what you want to eat
- Misconceptions about ADHD
- What eating for stimulation looks like
- The timing of eating
- ADHD and overwhelm when it comes to food
- The harm of restrictive dieting for people with ADHD
- Advice for people with ADHD
- Advice for people who have ADHD in their lives
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Transcript
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| 0:23.2 | Oh, yeah, like I eat dinner pretty late. I also stay up late. And so, like, I know there's a pick, like, don't eat past seven or eight o'clock at night. I'm like, but if my meds don't, if I take my meds later in the day, my meds don't wear off until around that time, like, I don't really want food until then. And if I stay up till 11, 12 o'clock at night, like, that's plenty of time for me, my body, to digest that food, and I'll be okay. |
| 0:24.6 | Like, I'm not concerned about it. |
| 0:29.2 | And then just removing the shame and the judgment from that, too, like, this is what works for me, and that's okay. |
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| 1:07.6 | Welcome to the Thick Thighs Save Lives podcast. Hi guys and welcome back to the Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast. |
| 1:12.6 | Hi guys and welcome back to the Thick Thigh Save Lives podcast. |
| 1:16.3 | I'm Kelsey and today I am joined with Becca King, who is a registered dietitian from North Carolina. |
| 1:23.6 | And she is an adult with ADHD who struggled for years with disordered eating. |
| 1:28.6 | Becca is passionate about helping others with who have ADHD and struggle with binge eating, |
| 1:34.1 | chronic dieting, oh my God, and body image issues. |
| 1:38.5 | So welcome, Becca. |
| 1:39.8 | We're so glad to have you on today. |
| 1:42.7 | Thank you so much for having me. I'm personally really excited about |
| 1:47.3 | this topic because I have ADHD. Yeah. It's a personal one for me. And I feel like there's been |
| 1:55.1 | so much stigma over the years about talking about ADHD and then getting specifically into just like how that |
| 2:03.7 | affects eating. Yeah. Yeah. I think there used to be, like we were talking about this before |
| 2:08.9 | we started of like there used to be so much stigma with like, yeah, mentioning it or talking about it. |
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