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i actually have an eating disorder, a restrictive one, but intermittent fasting helped me a lot. i don't take it to an extreme, but as someone with ARFID and ADHD it helped me [thread] https://twitter.com/ElyKreimendahl/status/1347993864511123459
One of my biggest problems, and this was on the ADHD, was time blindness, and mostly, no motivation to get up and cook. The no motivation comes from the fact that I hate cooking, I feel guilty when I make something I shouldn't be having, and it just takes up time-
i'd rather spend doing something else. Because of this lack of drive to cook food, I would wait until the last possible minute to eat dinner, often times going to bed just an hour after I ate. I was eating things I shouldn't have been—bread and lactose specifically—
not because eew gluten but because i have a mild allergy—regardless, my acid reflux got SO bad. I also gained a lot of weight. It wasn't the only reason why I gained weight, but it was a contributing factor. As someone who had been too skinny her whole life because—
Of said eating disorder, I didn't mind gaining SOME weight but it was getting unhealthy. Also, since I woke up at 4 a.m. for work, I would have a dunkaccino every morning as soon as I got up, even before I ate anything, and would then go HOURS without eating
like a lunch or something. so when i read about intermittent fasting it helped me set up times to help guide myself by. Don't eat anything heavy 3-4 hours before you go to sleep, aka, eat dinner around 4-5 p.m.
also don't chug a dunkaccino when you first wake up, you'll feel horrible physically, so give it an hour or two because I always had felt sick when I first woke up in the morning. Giving myself a regimented time to eat during the day
also helped me pay attention to my hunger cues, which I notoriously ignore (which is also why I'm not on ADHD medication at this time). It gave me some structure and a window to get things done. I wasn't starving myself. I've starved myself before and this wasn't it.
I haven't followed the intermittent fasting schedule I had set up for myself in a while because the pandemic really threw my ADHD self into chaos but I hope once I am able to establish a routine again I can bring it back. Intermittent fasting helped me a lot.
(and i did lose weight. i combined this with moving to gluten free and lactose free things and switching my anti depressant. no more heart burn, no more sick in the morning, and the weight dropped off).
