| Congrats on taking the initiative! It’s hard. I have ADHD and I eat healthy and track macros semi-successfully. Here’s my advice: Ignore 99% of advice out there. Personally, I try to cook as little as possible. Some people enjoy cooking, that’s great! Even I do sometimes. But for most meals, the slog of buying groceries, preparing, cooking, then cleaning is no fun and I end up throwing away food and eating out. Things like meal prep can be extremely taxing for a neurodiverse person — I’m sure you can do it but it’s probably harder than it is for most people and you can put all of that incredible creative energy into something more productive. Find a few healthy snacks that you like and buy those. Healthy = not junk, don’t overthink this part. These are just to curb cravings. Baby carrots, lettuce + deli meats, chickpea popcorn, watermelon, whatever. Set up a recurring order from an online grocery delivery or Amazon and call it a day. Eating these when you’re hungry will make all of your other food decisions more deliberate. Get all of your groceries delivered. Safeway has it, FreshDirect, Instacart, many other options. It makes it quick to reorder the same things, you avoid indecision in the grocery store, and you save lots of time. Buy healthy microwaveable food. I use The Chicken Pound [1] or you might like Freshly [2]. Trader Joe’s and other grocers have pre made stuff that’s pretty good too. Don’t cook rice the 45 minute way on the stove, buy microwaveable rice. All of these could be healthier: watermelon has sugar, pre made has extra sodium, etc. If you get to the point you have extra time and space to optimize for these things then go for it, but to start out, the only thing that matters is calories + not eating junk. Probably just not eating junk will make a world of difference, but if you want to dive deeper, track calories. Figure out what your baseline is using TDEE Calculator [3] and choose the slow loss. I use Keto app [4] for tracking (I don’t do keto) because I like searching by barcode and voice. There are lots of rabbit holes to dive down and I anticipate if you get the basics on “easy mode” then you might view some of these smaller optimizations as actually fun! But ya, as someone with ADHD the biggest thing for me was just letting go of the shame of not being able to meal prep like a normal person. Instead, I spend some extra money on premade and grocery delivery, set myself up to be 80% healthy on autopilot, and then spend my energy on much more engaging and productive (and high leverage / high return financially) activities. [1] https://thechickenpound.com/
[2] https://www.freshly.com/
[3] https://tdeecalculator.net/
[4] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/keto-diet-app-macro-tracker/id... |