Attention Different | Adulting with ADHD Why Your ADHD Makes Eating So Hard with Nicole DeMasi Malcher
Your relationship with food and your ADHD brain are more connected than you think. 🧠🍽️
Nicole DeMasi Malcher is a Registered Dietitian, Diabetes Educator, and founder of Damasi Nutrition and Eating with ADHD, a virtual nutrition practice helping neurodivergent people stop dieting, heal binge eating, and rebuild their relationship with food and body image. She discovered her own ADHD at 33, after nearly a decade as a practicing dietitian, and that diagnosis changed everything.
In this episode, Nicole joins Stephen and Aaron to explore the under-discussed connection between ADHD and disordered eating, from dopamine-driven cravings and missed hunger cues to the shame cycles that diet culture makes worse. 🔄
✨Highlights✨
✔️ The "gremlin hormone" and how ADHD affects hunger signals
✔️ Why labeling food as good vs. bad makes bingeing worse
✔️ The late-night compensatory eating cycle (and how to break it)
✔️ How diet culture fails neurodivergent people
✔️ Why your body is the least interesting thing about you
✔️ Where to start if you feel overwhelmed by all of this
This conversation could genuinely change the way you think about food, your body, and your ADHD brain. Nicole makes a compelling case for intuitive eating as an ADHD-friendly approach that works with your neurology instead of against it, no guilt, no rigid rules, just a better understanding of what your brain actually needs.
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