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I wanted to talk with adults who have been diagnosed with ADHD. The more I pay attention to my eating habits, the more I find that I'm super impulsive when it comes to eating. I don't think it's just "low willpower". I think it's more like "high impulsivity." My teenager was diagnosed with ADHD when he was 5 and I always assumed it was inherited from his dad who is bipolar.
I'm curious to talk with others who have ADHD as adults and whether this has negatively impacted their lives and their weight loss journey.
I know that I am a very high-energy person and I'm even more high-energy since losing about 40 pounds. I have a demanding job where I am required to multi-task all day and be on my feet most of the day. To me, this is fun! My idea of torture is being forced to sit at a desk for an 8-hour shift and I don't know HOW my husband and others do this and enjoy it. I've never taken a desk job in my whole life. While I enjoy classes, love to learn, and can become extremely focused on an assignment, I can't stand to sit in a classroom for very long and I get very restless and start to have difficulty focusing on the speaker.
I also do the majority of the housework at home, keep track of the budgets, and am very good with details, planning ahead and working efficiently. I love having lots of things to do and I HATE weekends where I have nothing going on. I don't like sitting down for long either and, when I'm on my computer at home, I'm often flipping between a few open browser tabs reading things. I can become engrossed in a novel but lose attention after about half an hour or less and find myself playing on my phone or looking for something to clean at home. Some people dream of a vacation lying on the beach. To me that sounds horribly dull to just sit around and do nothing lol.
I also exercise daily and am involved in a few work-related organizations around town. My mind is always going, always thinking, jumping around topics in my head. Sometimes I can't sleep because my brain won't shut off.
However this IS NOT negatively impacting my life except I am recognizing the impulsiveness around food. I also tend to get focused on food and cannot stop thinking about it. Someone said I could have ADHD or similar since my son does, and I just wondered about others' experiences, if this sounds familiar to them.
Has anyone else experienced ADHD in a mostly positive way? How do you control impulsiveness around food?