ADHD and COE

Sep 07, 2009

It is labor day weekend 2009.  I have learned alot in the past 6 months.  I am a compulsive overeater and I have been diagnosed with ADHD.  I have not been as succeesful at my weight loss as I had hoped.  The surgery was a great tool.  But I failed to learn to deal with the reasons I was eating.  My desire to avoid my feelings meant that I would want to eat food when I was sad, happy, scared, angry, confused, bored....ect... any feeling would make the desire to eat food.  I don't feel hungry but I still want to eat.  My weight has stayed the same for the past 6 months.  I still have 35 lbs that I need to loose the be at a healthy weight.  I don't exercise, not that I cant excercise, I just don't make the time to do it. 

I am currently trying a 12 step program to deal with my COE.  i have attended several meetings in the past two months.  Additionally, I have been working a OA Newcomers program through online and email.  I know that my surgery was able to help me get healthier and it allowed me to see that I would eat even thougth I was not hungery. 

I have been prescribed Adderall for my ADHD.  It has been a long process to get this diagnosis.  I have read that people with ADHD have a more difficult time staying on a food plan.  I would tend to agree with this.  I think about eating something and before I really consider the effects of eating, I eat.  Then I feel sick and I feel upset with myself about eating it.  I seems like a big circle.  I am hoping that the Adderall will help with impulsive behavior.

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