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.
Find an exercise you like, and make sure to keep doing it until it’s a habit (8 weeks is usually enough for me). It raises your baseline metabolic rate, so even if you slip a bit, you can usually recover. Personally, that’s hiking or exercising while reading an audiobook which makes the time fly.
The other thing is to religiously count calories. Have an app on your phone, enter the calories every time something comes close to your mouth. Eventually, you’ll reach to eat some snack, realize you don’t know the calories, get up to figure it out from the container, and often forget about the snack while you’re up and doing something.
I’ve been habitually excercizing for over a year, and then one day I just stopped going. And I’m not even diagnosed for ADHD, just a regular guy with some of the traits. So I don’t think that first tip is going to work.
As always, everyone’s experience varies, but having ADHD I’ve always found the best way to get yourself to do something long term is to make it a super ingrained habit. I usually say 8 weeks is a good minimum to get it ingrained, and while I’ve had breaks, I generally find it much easier to get back to the swing of the habit if I have to take a break from it (or forget one of my exercise days).