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How to Eat Well for Adults with ADHD: A Practical, Non-Diet Guide to Feeding Your Body & Mind When You Have ADHD
- GenresNonfictionMental Health
192 pages, Paperback
Published March 18, 2025
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Rebecca King
227 books100 followersI live in Leicestershire in the United Kingdom where I currently spend my time reading, anything and everything, but mostly books about Cornish smuggling, ghosts and mysteries (Mmmm, I think there is a story there somewhere!)
My love for books has grown throughout my life, fed by my relentless daydreaming. As a child I was always told by my teachers that I daydreamed too much. As an adult, I frequently find myself reading and mentally re-writing the stories, when I read something and feel it could have been done better.
Several people have asked me what inspired me to start writing. Well, I was haunted! Literally. I had a story that just wouldn't leave me. It kept going around and around in my mind, being the first thing I thought of when I woke up, and the last thing I thought about before I went to sleep. I was driven to get the ideas down on paper, initially in a rough draft. But still the stories in my head wouldn't leave me and I soon found myself embellishing my notes and turning them into a book. Thus the Cavendish Mysteries was born. As a working mum, I spent my evenings when the children were tucked up in bed tapping away on my laptop. I still do, and find the 'muse' flows better at night without the constant interruptions of, 'mum, can I have', and 'mum, I'm hungry'.
As soon as I started writing the words flew onto the screen, and I found I couldn't stop. More and more stories came forth and I knew I had to remain true to my dream and turn my passion for writing stories into a job.
It has been a long and very bumpy road, but I do sincerely hope the stories I write bring people pleasure.
I do believe everything in life is a learning journey, put before us to enrich us as we travel life's pathway. I try to learn from all feedback received, and fully appreciate that one cannot please everyone all of the time. There will be people who love my books; in turn there will be people who hate them, but I hope that the majority of people love them.
If you have any comments/suggestions please feel free to use the 'Contact Me' page. I do try to reply to everyone but obviously if I am writing, it may take me a day or two, so please be patient.
Alternatively you can Tweet me I do follow back), or you can check my blog or you can follow me on Facebook:
Website: rebeccaking-author.co.uk
Blog: rebeccaking-author.blogspot.co.uk
Twitter: rebeccaking123
Facebook: www.facebook.com/RebeccaKingHistorica...
Whatever you decide to read, I hope you enjoy it and take a few moments to leave a review for other readers.
Thank you.
My love for books has grown throughout my life, fed by my relentless daydreaming. As a child I was always told by my teachers that I daydreamed too much. As an adult, I frequently find myself reading and mentally re-writing the stories, when I read something and feel it could have been done better.
Several people have asked me what inspired me to start writing. Well, I was haunted! Literally. I had a story that just wouldn't leave me. It kept going around and around in my mind, being the first thing I thought of when I woke up, and the last thing I thought about before I went to sleep. I was driven to get the ideas down on paper, initially in a rough draft. But still the stories in my head wouldn't leave me and I soon found myself embellishing my notes and turning them into a book. Thus the Cavendish Mysteries was born. As a working mum, I spent my evenings when the children were tucked up in bed tapping away on my laptop. I still do, and find the 'muse' flows better at night without the constant interruptions of, 'mum, can I have', and 'mum, I'm hungry'.
As soon as I started writing the words flew onto the screen, and I found I couldn't stop. More and more stories came forth and I knew I had to remain true to my dream and turn my passion for writing stories into a job.
It has been a long and very bumpy road, but I do sincerely hope the stories I write bring people pleasure.
I do believe everything in life is a learning journey, put before us to enrich us as we travel life's pathway. I try to learn from all feedback received, and fully appreciate that one cannot please everyone all of the time. There will be people who love my books; in turn there will be people who hate them, but I hope that the majority of people love them.
If you have any comments/suggestions please feel free to use the 'Contact Me' page. I do try to reply to everyone but obviously if I am writing, it may take me a day or two, so please be patient.
Alternatively you can Tweet me I do follow back), or you can check my blog or you can follow me on Facebook:
Website: rebeccaking-author.co.uk
Blog: rebeccaking-author.blogspot.co.uk
Twitter: rebeccaking123
Facebook: www.facebook.com/RebeccaKingHistorica...
Whatever you decide to read, I hope you enjoy it and take a few moments to leave a review for other readers.
Thank you.
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April 20, 2025
This is an incredibly useful book, made up of three sections: ‘This Is Your ADHD On Food’, ‘How To Feed Yourself When You Have ADHD’, and ‘Let's Get Cooking!’ The author is a trained dietitian who has ADHD, and is also in recovery from an eating disorder. The tone of the book is friendly and understanding without being patronising, and explicitly acknowledges that ADHD affects every part of your life.
This book is neurodiversity affirming, and takes a non-diet approach. "This means you can expect to get encouragement and learn strategies to help you move away from restricting or avoiding foods and toward thinking about how you can give your body the nourishment it needs."
The first section talks about how ADHD can impact your relationship with food, gives some examples of common struggles that ADHD folks experience, and explains what intuitive eating is. It also talks about how ADHD medication can affect your relationship with hunger and food; many people aren't actually told this information, so I'm very glad it was included here.
The second section talks about interoceptive awareness, describes bodily cues around hunger, explains different types of hunger as well as what fullness feels like, dives into the emotional aspects of eating, and talks about the connection between food, dopamine and stimulation seeking. It also explicitly addresses sensory sensitivities, and gives some very useful advice about working with them to improve your nutrition.
The third section talks about the practical aspects of feeding yourself, including how to manage overwhelm in the kitchen, what meal planning is, how to make and evaluate a meal plan, how to create a shopping list, strategies for shopping, how to organise your kitchen, how to store fruits/vegetables so they last longer, how to prep food, strategies for cooking and managing the cleanup.
The last chapter explains what makes a recipe ‘ADHD friendly’ (minimal ingredients, incorporate shortcut foods, don't take longer than 45 minutes, and use minimal utensils for easier cleanup), then provides some recipes.
This is an excellent book that compiles lots of useful information in one place. This is vital foundational knowledge, and I actually think that everyone—not just folks with ADHD—would benefit from reading it.
This book is neurodiversity affirming, and takes a non-diet approach. "This means you can expect to get encouragement and learn strategies to help you move away from restricting or avoiding foods and toward thinking about how you can give your body the nourishment it needs."
The first section talks about how ADHD can impact your relationship with food, gives some examples of common struggles that ADHD folks experience, and explains what intuitive eating is. It also talks about how ADHD medication can affect your relationship with hunger and food; many people aren't actually told this information, so I'm very glad it was included here.
The second section talks about interoceptive awareness, describes bodily cues around hunger, explains different types of hunger as well as what fullness feels like, dives into the emotional aspects of eating, and talks about the connection between food, dopamine and stimulation seeking. It also explicitly addresses sensory sensitivities, and gives some very useful advice about working with them to improve your nutrition.
The third section talks about the practical aspects of feeding yourself, including how to manage overwhelm in the kitchen, what meal planning is, how to make and evaluate a meal plan, how to create a shopping list, strategies for shopping, how to organise your kitchen, how to store fruits/vegetables so they last longer, how to prep food, strategies for cooking and managing the cleanup.
The last chapter explains what makes a recipe ‘ADHD friendly’ (minimal ingredients, incorporate shortcut foods, don't take longer than 45 minutes, and use minimal utensils for easier cleanup), then provides some recipes.
This is an excellent book that compiles lots of useful information in one place. This is vital foundational knowledge, and I actually think that everyone—not just folks with ADHD—would benefit from reading it.
December 1, 2025
this book provided a lot of useful information, especially for someone like me who was recently diagnosed and has struggled to find adhd management skills that aren’t meant for children or parents of children with adhd. i hope i can make use of the dopamenu the author presents; i think using one regularly could support not only a healthier relationship with food but also my daily functioning. additionally, i wasn’t really aware of how many different hunger cues exist or of the many reasons a person might reach for food besides physical hunger. understanding this will definitely increase my mindfulness of my habits and my needs in the moment.
my biggest issue was the recommendation of ai use to plan meals and figure out how to clean your kitchen. there is absolutely no need to go to chatgpt for something your brain can do with enough patience, even when you struggle with executive function. creative problem solving should be a skill in our mental repertoire that we work to strengthen for when we inevitably need it, and i think it does us a disservice to outsource that function completely when we should be learning how to manage low executive function independent of a device. also, if you really needed help thinking through tasks, there’s a million places to find ideas—from pinterest posts to tiktok vlogs to the person who sits next to youin the break room—that do not involve consulting the water guzzling pollution machine.
otherwise, i did find this book helpful for coming up with new strategies to better navigate mealtimes, destigmatize the ways adhd manifests around food, and combat comparison to the neurotypical people in my life. here’s to new beginnings in the kitchen!
my biggest issue was the recommendation of ai use to plan meals and figure out how to clean your kitchen. there is absolutely no need to go to chatgpt for something your brain can do with enough patience, even when you struggle with executive function. creative problem solving should be a skill in our mental repertoire that we work to strengthen for when we inevitably need it, and i think it does us a disservice to outsource that function completely when we should be learning how to manage low executive function independent of a device. also, if you really needed help thinking through tasks, there’s a million places to find ideas—from pinterest posts to tiktok vlogs to the person who sits next to youin the break room—that do not involve consulting the water guzzling pollution machine.
otherwise, i did find this book helpful for coming up with new strategies to better navigate mealtimes, destigmatize the ways adhd manifests around food, and combat comparison to the neurotypical people in my life. here’s to new beginnings in the kitchen!
August 23, 2025
With recipes with almost 10 ingredients just for breakfast and meal plan pages that take up 2 full pages, I found this book way too overwhelming for me.
December 26, 2025
This book is great for those who are struggling to actually get balanced nutrition into their diet. It's written for ADHD people who need to realize how good eating can work for them. The short blocks of text and colorful inserts and illustrations help make it an easy read for someone with ADHD. It is somewhat general in its nature, so someone who is already on their nutrition journey might need something more specific if they have digestive conditions.
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