Just this weekend I bought $25 worth of Chinese food, ate like 1/3 of it and closed it up to put in the fridge. Something distracted me. 6 hours later I look over and see it still sitting there and I realize I just let 2 meals go bad on my desk. I was so mad. I need to start medicating myself on my days off.
The amount of food I waste is ridiculous. at the grocery store, "Oh man that steak looks delicious, I can't wait to BBQ it tomorrow" A week later I go in the fridge and find a steak starting to turn green because I've been going out with friends or ordered a pizza. FUCK.
When I buy meat, I freeze it all except for what I plan to eat one day at a time. And if something comes up and I know I can't make it for a few days, I'll throw it back in the freezer again (although you shouldn't do this infinitely, I try to only re-freeze things once).
For produce, I have a day where I just cut a week's worth of things up and have them ready in sealed glass containers. I find that I am much more likely to incorporate veggies into my meals if they're ready to go (throw them in with an omelette, stir fry, tacos, etc.).
Pots boiled dry on the stove, food found in the microwave the next day, heck I even forgot to pickup a bag of groceries after setting it down in the elevator and didn't notice until my wife asked me where the frozen pizzas were.
Once I forgot to put away three bags of frozen food we had bought for the cabin. Just set the groceries down and left the room and it never even crossed my mind that they even existed.
People without ADHD love to say "Oh we all get distracted!", but seriously, people with ADHD will walk away from the thing they're currently doing and forget it ever happened. I've gone in to the kitchen to make breakfast and spent 2 hours cleaning the microwave. If I didn't have a family that kept me on track I'd probably starve.
what medication works for you? Which ADHD subtype?
I am hopefully going to get medication within the next month. Damn paperwork involved in getting diagnosed, treated, reimbursed is definitely the hardest thing. My social life had been devastated because no one respects me anymore since graduating from a pretty advanced degree and yet not being able to take off from there and live a secure life.
my kiddo is ADHD inattentive type and while it mostly effects his school work, he still takes it on weekends and holidays because he still needs to be able to function and be responsible on days off.
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u/[deleted] May 30 '17 edited Sep 24 '19
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