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Not sure if it’s related but I get more indecisive as I get hungrier. But I do keep a photo album of various meals in my phone. Freshly cooked, takeout, etc. Helps me decide on something faster.
I love the phot album idea!
I can't work against myself. I forget to eat so I drink smoothies. I love a hyper-fixation meal; current it's toast and pickles.
Don't carry shame around this. Just nourish yourself the best you can.
Toast and pickles though. I respect it. It’s only weird if it doesn’t work.
I definitely have this issue. I'm 54. I absolutely hate planning, shopping, cooking. Sometimes I even resent eating. I mean, what kind of inefficient creatures are we needing THREE meals a day?
When I was in my parenting years and had to feed my kids every.single. day. I would focus on their dinner, give them easy breakfast (lots of toast and veggie sausages), and pack them a healthy lunch (which years later they told me they mostly threw out). As a result, I barely ate.
I'd buy myself lunch at the office (like a giant sandwich), and many days that was all I ate. I feel like I invented intermittent fasting.
Anyway, now it's easier to only have to feed myself and I'm able to eat more intuitively and more nutritiously, which has its own rewards. I feel so much better that it keeps me motivated.
I mostly repeat the same 3 options for each meal, and I go out a lot. :)
I'm glad I'm not the only one! My family and friends think I don't get hungry or I don't like food.
No, not true. I just hate the process and think skipping a meal can be a better option than foraging for food.
Yes struggling! I'm 30 yo and I only just figured out a "safe" everyday breakfast like 2 weeks ago. And who knows if it will last! (God I hope!) Salted date oatmeal (the salt is SO IMPORTANT) with nuts/frozen fruit as toppings - changing the toppings keeps it interesting, but the base is cheap, quick, easy, delicious *and* healthy.
I don't have a safe dinner, but I've been happily settling for anything that can be easily microwaved. Right now it's microwave ramen with an egg or two cracked in OR-
brown rice (frozen) and veggies (frozen, or fresh avocado) with my safe seasonings (usually salt, black pepper, cardamom, red pepper flakes. I'll add a sauce or stew if I have some (bottled Indian stews are my guilty pleasure bc I should be cooking it instead 😅). I also like this specific Thai chili oil and infused sesame oil, etc. For this it's really easy to add a protein that is stored frozen but easy to air fry/microwave cook OR crack some eggs in this b**** as well!
Sorry to go into so much detail, but the point here is that almost nothing can spoil, the stuff that can spoil isn't traumatic to clean up (lmao, stokes the guilt if mold cleanup is more dramatic, I swear) and touches on the flavors I feel at home with, so even if I don't *feel* like eating, I can be content that I'm nourishing my body at the very least. The motivation needs to change.
Happy to talk you through your comfort foods and brainstorm about what your perfect *or* just satisfactory meals can be 😊
Just started a new job so hopefully that will help . I do well with routines.
Do I share the struggle???
The struggle is SO real!
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Do intermittent fasting. Just get coffee in the morning or whatever drink that gets you started. Then just plan for lunch and dinner.
If you make dinner, make enough to have for lunch next day.
During the week create meals that have
protein(chicken, fish, pork, beef etc)
carbs(rice, quinoa, sweet potatoes etc
fiber(greens, salad, broccoli, asparagus etc)
With this you can rotate between them and have endless combos that don’t get boring.
Have some frozen versions of all of these so you can fix something in case the hunger hits you hard and don’t know what to eat.
Then on the weekends or whenever you feel it, indulge in more fun meals that require more attention and time.
I share the ones you listed. Do you think something like HelloFresh or Instacart would help? I think you can choose meals in instacart and it automatically adds the ingredients to your shopping list.
I tried a meal kit service before but I couldn’t cook them fast enough! Also I hate recipes lol
I eat “safety meals” for breakfast and lunch and cook blue apron meals for dinner. I found a breakfast I liked (egg bites, toast, a fruit) and have easy stuff for lunches (a sandwich, premade meals from the grocery deli, soup) and then cook what blue apron sends me for dinner.
I saw you hate recipes so maybe you could crockpot meals and eat the leftovers for dinner?
Intellectually I can make a meal plan, shop, etc. but then I just… don’t follow through on my intentions. There’s something else going on. Ugh.
ADHD really impacts executive functioning. Unfortunately, executive functioning applies to almost every part of life.
Side note, apparently some people with ADHD turn to overeating as a dopamine source. I never understood that, I'm definitely in the same boat as you as far as forgetting to eat and generally undereating. My two big struggles are forgetting to eat until it's too late to properly make something, and my brain fighting against all the planning required to cook (acquire ingredients, prep them, cook them, eat, clean it all up).
Sometimes I just eat poorly because I go for what’s easy- either fast food or pre-packed things. But also not eating happens too.