• snooggums@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Excessive amounts of food. I have to eat, but cutting back to the amount I should be eating for my age and physical activity is so tough.

    The cause is binge eating in my youth when I was extremely active but didn’t eat three meals a day due to adhd absentmindedness. Frequently I would only have one or two meals a day, but eat two or more meals worth of calories at a time and burn it off in short order.

    Now with family and a desk job with a scheduled lunchtime it is basically impossible to eat when I’m hungry instead of when it is ‘time to eat’ and portion control is a struggle. Quitting smoking required buying a house and quitting together with the wife, at least that had a cutoff date that I could say “I haven’t smoked since moving in”. Eating less is something I need to do every day!

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      2 days ago

      When I was assessed for (and diagnosed with) ADHD when I was 39, 5 years ago, I asked the psych whether my obesity was perhaps linked to it. He replied that, “no, probably not. Most of the people I see are thin”.

      This had the double whammy of making me doubt my diagnosis and consider that I’m just an irredeemable fat cunt.

      Which was nice.

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        2 days ago

        He said most, not all. If my parents had been more regimented about me eating every meal I probably would have had weight issues earlier on.

        To spin it positively, being exception to the general trend makes you exceptional!

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      2 days ago

      Since covid, there’s been a lot of food in the house. Something about not being able to get it when we wanted made us buy more, more often and stockpile. Of course, food expires and throwing it away means that it was a bad decision to buy so much, so eating it is the only financially responsible thing to do, right?