Intuitive ADHD Eating for Everyday Life with Rebecca King
Eating well with ADHD is an essential part of our well-being and thriving alongside this tricky neurobiological condition. However, the challenges of dopamine, mood and energy fluctuations, executive functioning difficulties, cravings and sensory needs, nutrition can be a complex part of our lifestyle.
In this episode, I'm delighted to welcome author, registered dietitian and ADHD nutritionist Rebecca King to explore the unique connection between ADHD and intuitive eating habits. Rebecca shares her personal journey with disordered eating and offers practical advice for overcoming common food challenges faced by people with ADHD.
What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
✨ How to intuitively eat alongside ADHD medication
✨ Why ADHD and sensory needs impact our food choices and meal planning
✨ The importance of intuitive eating and reconnecting with hunger cues
✨ Intuitive eating alongside our menstrual cycles
✨ How to help ourselves with ADHD and disordered eating
✨ Simple strategies to make meal prep easier and less overwhelming
✨ Different types of convenience foods to ease nutritious cooking
✨ How to manage healthy ADHD eating habits alongside decision fatigue and exhaustion
✨ The role of self-compassion in building a positive relationship with food
Timestamps:
- 02:00 - Understanding ADHD and Nutrition
- 12:45 - Understanding Eating Patterns and ADHD
- 18:41 - Navigating Food Choices and Cycles
- 29:20 - Meal Prep Strategies for ADHD
- 34:06 - Navigating Meal Planning with Different Sensory Preferences
- 35:45 - Nutritional Strategies for Busy Lives
Becca’s insights resonate deeply, providing a roadmap for those of us seeking to reclaim control over their eating habits and cultivate a more fulfilling relationship with food. If you’ve ever struggled with food decisions, emotional eating, or meal prep due to ADHD, this episode will leave you feeling knowledgeable, empowered, and supported with actionable strategies to nurture your body and mind.
You can connect with Rebecca via her Instagram, @adhd.nutritionist.
Find Kate's popular online workshops and free resources here.
Kate Moryoussef is a women's ADHD lifestyle and wellbeing coach and EFT practitioner who helps overwhelmed and unfulfilled newly diagnosed ADHD women find more calm, balance, hope, health, compassion, creativity and clarity.
Transcript
Welcome to the ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast.
Kate Moore Youssef:I'm Kate Moore Youssef and I'm a wellbeing and lifestyle coach, EFT practitioner, mum to four kids and passionate about helping more women to understand and accept their amazing ADHD brains.
Kate Moore Youssef:After speaking to many women just like me and probably you, I know there is a need for more health and lifestyle support for women newly diagnosed with adhd.
Kate Moore Youssef:In these conversations, you'll learn from insightful guests, hear new findings, and discover powerful perspectives and lifestyle tools to enable you to live your most fulfilled, calm and purposeful life wherever you are on your ADHD journey.
Kate Moore Youssef:Here's today's episode.
Kate Moore Youssef:I am absolutely delighted to welcome someone that I've been waiting for a long time to get on the podcast.
Kate Moore Youssef:Her name is Becca King.
Kate Moore Youssef:Now Becca is ADHD nutritionist on Instagram.
Kate Moore Youssef:We were just talking about it.
Kate Moore Youssef: s had an amazing account from: Kate Moore Youssef:She's based in North Carolina and as an adult with ADHD who struggled for years with disordered eating, Becca is passionate about helping other adults with ADHD who struggle with binge eating, chronic dieting and body image issues, find food freedom and improve self esteem.
Kate Moore Youssef:And she uses the principles of intuitive eating and weight inclusive approach to nutrition for ADHD in her virtual practice.
Kate Moore Youssef:So I know that lots of you might be very interested in, in speaking to Becca.
Kate Moore Youssef:I just want to say welcome to the podcast.
Kate Moore Youssef:You've now got a book coming out as well, which is very exciting.
Kate Moore Youssef:So, so I'm so excited to like dive into this conversation with you and hopefully help lots of people.
Becca King:Yes, thank you for having me.
Becca King:I'm very excited to chat with you and I'm glad we finally made it happen.
Kate Moore Youssef:Yeah, absolutely.
Kate Moore Youssef:And I mean first of all, the book is available for pre order.
Kate Moore Youssef:What is the book called and what's it about?
Becca King:Yeah, it's called how to eat well for adults with adhd.
Becca King:So it's a non diet guide to basically like how to feed yourself when you have adhd.
Becca King:Because I think a lot of the current books that are out there are very like eat this, not that kind of like, or like heal your ADHD with diet kind of thing.
Becca King:And I was like, there's nothing that's like how do I actually feed myself and deal with some of the like challenges that come with adhd?
Becca King:And there's just like, I mean there's a lot of executive function that goes into eating and then like eating for stimulation and emotional reasons.
Becca King:And all of these things make it, really can make it something that like, maybe to someone who doesn't have adhd, feeding themselves seems pretty easy, but for a lot of ADHDers, that's, that's not the case.
Kate Moore Youssef:Yeah, absolutely.
Kate Moore Youssef:You've totally hit the nail on the head there that if someone from the outside who doesn't understand all the deep complexities of adhd, they'll be like, what's the connection?
Kate Moore Youssef:And like why, you know, why what's nutrition and food?
Kate Moore Youssef:And then you just explained it so well, the executive functioning, the planning, the prioritizing.
Kate Moore Youssef:But then we've got the emotional side as well.
Kate Moore Youssef:And then we've got the stimulation side with the dopamine, we've got the addictive side, we've got the impulsive side, we've got the binge eating.
Kate Moore Youssef:And it's just, you realize how complex it is, but also how much it can take over someone's life and how if you're being diagnosed later on in life and you've never been able to understand why you found it's so difficult to be regulated and to cook healthy food and choose healthy food and not eat for stimulation.
Kate Moore Youssef:Like you kind of think, what's wrong with me?
Kate Moore Youssef:There's something wrong with me.
Kate Moore Youssef:And then we get this understanding of adhd.
Kate Moore Youssef:So perhaps you can tell me a little bit about maybe your background.
Kate Moore Youssef:Like what you obviously a trained dietitian, but also with adhd.
Kate Moore Youssef:So how did this all come about for you?
Becca King:Yeah, so I had, I own struggles with food.
Becca King:Kind of pre diagnosis is kind of when they started.
Becca King:I was diagnosed at 19.
Becca King:And so I didn't fully make that connection between the two that like maybe ADHD had had a role in my, in my eating disorder.
Becca King:But once I went to school, I started to kind of have to figure out how to like feed myself on my medication so that I wouldn't binge when my meds would wear off.
Becca King:Because that was like a big issue when I got to grad school.
Becca King:And I was like, I need to figure this out because I'm going to be a dietitian.
Becca King:I can't, I can't be binge eating if I'm going to be a dietitian.
Becca King:So I started exploring the intuitive eating framework, which is what I use with my clients.
Becca King:But I was trying to figure out like, how do I implement this when I take a medication that suppresses my appetite?
Becca King:Because honoring your hunger is one of the principles in intuitive eating.
Becca King:So it's like, yeah, well, what if I don't feel hunger cues like everybody else does?
Becca King:How do I, you know, how do I do this?
Becca King:And so trying to kind of navigate all of that.
Becca King:And then I actually started working when I became a dietitian in a weight loss clinic, which was not the right environment for me, didn't really feel like I was helping people there because it was just.
Becca King:Yeah, just a not but I'm sustainable place.
Becca King:Yeah.
Kate Moore Youssef:I'm interested to know now with your understanding of adhd, I wonder how many of those patients that you were looking at were.
Becca King:So many.
Becca King:Yeah, so many.
Becca King:And I would see people come off of their ADHD medication to take appetite suppressants.
Becca King:And I was like, I remember just being like, there's no way in the world this is more helpful than actually taking the medication to help you function in your day to day.
Becca King:Like we're making me sad for them.
Becca King:Like you're, you feel like you need to shrink your body that much that like you're willing to go off of a medication that helps you function in your day to day life that also helps regulate your appetite.
Becca King:And usually they would struggle with, you know, the food journaling piece.
Becca King:And all of my co workers would be like, I don't understand.
Becca King:It's not that hard to just journal.
Becca King:And then I go look at their chart.
Becca King:I'm like, they have adhd?
Becca King:Yeah.
Becca King:It's really hard for them to remember to journal.
Becca King:And they just could not understand some of those things.
Kate Moore Youssef:We're seeing this in so many disciplines though.
Kate Moore Youssef:Like I was talking to someone about substance abuse and we, you know, in criminal justice system as well, and all these comparables with not understanding there's ADHD in the mix.
Kate Moore Youssef:And so if we understood neurodivergence, then we'd be able to help so many more people.
Kate Moore Youssef:But what's happening is that just loads of professionals who aren't trained in these different areas who then just go, I don't know what's going on.
Kate Moore Youssef:And kind of like washing the hands of these people who clearly you're not.
Becca King:Trying hard enough or you just don't care.
Becca King:Yeah, you're not motivated.
Becca King:And it's like the person's really motivated and you know, if they're feeling a lot of shame and guilt coming in there and being like, I know I didn't journal, I'm terrible, you know, I'm sorry.
Becca King:And it's like, well, let's one like explore why we weren't doing that.
Becca King:Maybe we don't need to be like journaling Is a tool.
Becca King:Like most of my clients, we don't food journal or I have other ways that we keep track of things or have them take pictures of things instead of writing.
Becca King:Writing it all down because that's easier.
Becca King:And they're probably on their phone anyway.
Becca King:So it's like just snap a picture and we can work with that.
Becca King:And it already gets the like time and all the things that you need on there, which is nice.
Becca King:So there's ways around it if that's something you want to do.
Becca King:But like, also, I don't think lifelong we should have to stop it and write down what we eat.
Becca King:You know, long term, like, that's just a barrier.
Becca King:Another barrier for people, especially people with adhd.
Becca King:Like, if eating is already challenging, being like, hey, let's stop and write down everything we eat, every time we eat is going to probably prevent people from.
Becca King:From eating to some degree of just like, oh, I don't.
Becca King:I'm not going to bother with that if I have to do that.
Kate Moore Youssef:Yeah.
Kate Moore Youssef:So what mean.
Kate Moore Youssef:What we're understanding is that with intuitive eating, the way you sort of help people and guide people is more sustainable way of kind of listening to those hunger cues and hopefully making choices and not having.
Kate Moore Youssef:Not feeling shame and guilt and the self criticism.
Kate Moore Youssef:But what you said, I think is so important is that if we are on stimulant education, then that just changes everything.
Kate Moore Youssef:And to have a dietitian who understands or a nutritionist who understands that if we've got someone on medication, this is a whole different ball game.
Kate Moore Youssef:Like we have to treat this in a very different way.
Kate Moore Youssef:And again, who's being trained like this?
Kate Moore Youssef:Unless maybe they've got ADHD themselves?
Becca King:Yeah, pretty much.
Becca King:Yeah.
Becca King:We don't really learn.
Becca King:Like, my nutrition textbook is like a little two paragraphs about ADHD in the pediatric section again.
Becca King:So it's just like, yeah, kids might be on stimulants and blah, blah, blah.
Becca King:And you're like, well, probably a lot of us are on them lifelong.
Becca King:So you still have challenges eating when you're an adult on stimulant medications.
Becca King:I think of intuitive eating is like removing the shoulds with eating and kind of figuring out what works best for you.
Becca King:And that really will look different for everybody.
Becca King:Instead of it just being like, here's this like plan or these are all these rules you have to follow kind of thing, or your eating needs to look like, you know, three meals and two snacks a day and that kind of thing that might not work for people.
Becca King:And then think about, like, what can I add to the things that I, I'm eating in terms of like.
Becca King:Like eat what you want, add what you need is a, A popular little mantra in kind of the intuitive eating space that I really find helpful of like, thinking about what we can add in instead of trying to take things away and feeling deprived.
Kate Moore Youssef:Totally.
Kate Moore Youssef:I mean, it's.
Kate Moore Youssef:If you think about it just from a mindset perspective, if you're not being riddled every day with the shoulds and the guilt and the shame, then you're going to be a bit more open to being like, curious about, oh, actually, what can I do?
Kate Moore Youssef:What can I eat alongside my cheeseburger?
Kate Moore Youssef:Oh, maybe I can like cut some carrots or some broccoli on the side, but I'm still going to enjoy my cheeseburger.
Kate Moore Youssef:Yes, those cravings are very real cravings.
Kate Moore Youssef:And you know, let's not forget that women, we've got menstrual cycles.
Becca King:Yes.
Kate Moore Youssef:And it's so, so, you know, prolific with ADHD that we're going to have big highs and lows and our emotional regulation is going to be so tied.
Kate Moore Youssef:The stimulation, like, it's so, I mean, it's so profoundly interconnected, isn't it, what you do and adhd, that it kind of blows my mind that this is just.
Kate Moore Youssef:This should be a conversation from the very beginning and it should be part of diagnosis, assessment, everything.
Becca King:Yeah, it.
Becca King:In my book, I talk about it.
Becca King:I'm like in a dream world.
Becca King:Like, we would be given like a whole treatment team when we get diagnosed or a doctor would let you know when you get diagnosed that, like, I'm not the only person you should get support from.
Becca King:You should, if you have the resources to be able.
Becca King:And it would be nice if it was more accessible for more people too.
Becca King:But like being able to get a coach, having a therapist, if it's, you know, needing a trainer so that you actually move your body, being able to have a dietitian to help you would be so nice instead of, I hear so many people being like, well, doctors just give you medication and that's it.
Becca King:And it's like, well, that's kind of their job in the treatment, like, world is to manage, kind of manage your medication.
Becca King:And unfortunately that's what they have time for.
Becca King:But it'd be nice if it was like, here's a pamphlet of like, other people that you should think about, like, working with because it takes, it does take.
Becca King:Kind of take a little bit of a village to help kind of figure out how to manage your adhd.
Becca King:Being able to have resources for people like, hey, I.
Becca King:You're going to start medication, you might want to make sure you have some support from a dietitian.
Becca King:So that way when you know you can make sure you're still getting in all the nutrients that you need and that you're not going to end up in that, like, cycle of not eating during the day and binging at night.
Kate Moore Youssef:100%.
Kate Moore Youssef:I mean, that would be an ideal world.
Kate Moore Youssef:And maybe one day that will be the case, that it's seen as a much more kind of holistic, full, full circle, you know, healthcare, where it's not so dependent on pharmaceuticals and we're able to be signposted to much more sort of lifestyle, kind of more functional medicine where we can look at all the different aspects of our life and see how ADHD has impacted it and what we can do to reclaim that control.
Kate Moore Youssef:Because I think for so many people who've lived undiagnosed for so long, they felt out of control.
Kate Moore Youssef:They felt like, yeah, especially with food.
Kate Moore Youssef:I mean, let's go, let's go back to, you know, what we wanted to discuss is like, managing eating, you know, with, you know, for stimulation and.
Becca King:Yeah.
Kate Moore Youssef:When we don't have that awareness, but where they're constantly picking, snacking, dopamine, hunting.
Kate Moore Youssef:We like the salts.
Kate Moore Youssef:We like the crisp.
Kate Moore Youssef:We like the sugar.
Becca King:Yes.
Kate Moore Youssef:We like the fizzy.
Kate Moore Youssef:We like the chewy.
Becca King:The like chewy candy.
Becca King:Like they're sour.
Becca King:Like Sour Patch Kids here.
Becca King:I don't.
Becca King:Or like Twizzlers.
Becca King:Those like that kind of.
Becca King:That and crunchy, I find, are like two really big textures.
Kate Moore Youssef:Yeah.
Kate Moore Youssef:Let's just like remove the shame now.
Kate Moore Youssef:Let's just kind of put it out.
Becca King:Yeah.
Kate Moore Youssef:Because somebody might not have made that connection and been like, oh my God.
Kate Moore Youssef:I'm always like looking for like, fizzy, sour.
Kate Moore Youssef:Sweet.
Kate Moore Youssef:Sweet.
Becca King:Yeah.
Becca King:I'm a boredom eater is kind of the label a lot of.
Becca King:Especially I work with mostly women, so, like when they get diagnosed later in life, a lot of them are like, I've always been abort, like a boredom eater or a grazer.
Becca King:And like, I'm just always kind of eating, but I'm not really hungry and I don't really know why I'm eating, but I feel like I need to eat for some reason or just need something to do or it helps.
Becca King:Sometimes it's like they unders.
Becca King:Kind of understand that it helps, helps them function better by doing that.
Becca King:And it's like, oh, well, then when I get diagnosed, like, oh, I'm basically self Medicating with food is my brain is getting dopamine from food, which is like, for most people, food's pretty accessible.
Becca King:It's especially like packaged foods, low effort.
Becca King:You just have to open something and eat it and you can do it while you're doing other things, which makes it something that often we can kind of rely on.
Becca King:And I don't think eating for stimulation is necessarily a bad thing.
Becca King:I think it can be a tool in our toolkit and like, normalizing that, like, it's going to like, you might eat for stimulation.
Becca King:That's okay.
Becca King:Because like, saying don't ever do it is like, you know, isn't going to be realistic for people.
Becca King:But I think learning how to find like tool.
Becca King:More tools to add to our toolkit there of like, so that food's not the only thing.
Becca King:But understanding like when it shows up and when we're likely to.
Becca King:To eat for stimulation too.
Becca King:Because like, yeah, during your menstrual cycle, you are probably.
Becca King:Or your luteal phase, I should say, you're probably going to need to feel like you need to eat for stimulation more than your meds, not meds may not suppress your appetite as much during that phase of your cycle.
Becca King:And so I think understanding that and we can give ourselves a little bit of great grace there too, that like, this is something normal.
Becca King:Because I've had clients who are like, doing so great.
Becca King:I haven't binged in weeks.
Becca King:And then all of a sudden they're like, and I binge out of nowhere.
Becca King:I don't understand why.
Becca King:And then we'll start looking at where they're at in their cycle and they're like, oh, and they'll come back the next week.
Becca King:Yeah, I started my period.
Becca King:That makes sense now.
Becca King:That's why I was craving all these things out of nowhere.
Becca King:And binging was because, you know, especially if they have PMDD mix in the mix there too, it's just like, oh, yeah, that, that makes a lot of sense.
Becca King:And so it's just kind of starting to build awareness for it.
Becca King:And then when you know, kind of know that it's going to happen versus it just magically showing up, it's a little easier to navigate to totally.
Kate Moore Youssef:It takes the sting out of it, doesn't it?
Kate Moore Youssef:Because like you say that awareness, it's kind of like, okay, so this is what happens.
Kate Moore Youssef:And for a week of the month, it is a lot harder.
Kate Moore Youssef:And maybe I can just give myself that bit of grace and sort of it just being, oh, you've done it again, like, try Harder, like, do something different than.
Kate Moore Youssef:It's the.
Kate Moore Youssef:The depriving that makes everything much harder.
Becca King:And, yeah, it's like a pendulum back and forth between, like, deprivation and restriction and kind of, like, overeating and binge eating.
Becca King:And so it's just if you do try to deprive yourself, it's probably gonna swing back that other direction to feeling more out of control when you do finally eat that food you're trying to not avoid, or like, the cravings are too much and you can't and you quote, unquote, give in to it or something like that.
Kate Moore Youssef:God, it's so much about the word, isn't it?
Kate Moore Youssef:The wording and the way the different phrases and the stuff that we've heard from, you know, generations before us and the diet culture.
Kate Moore Youssef:And I mean, I am so careful.
Kate Moore Youssef:I've got three daughters and I'm so, so careful with anyone talking about weight food, having these kind of, like, little words of saying things like, I'm trying to be good today, or, oh, no, I'm.
Kate Moore Youssef:I'm.
Kate Moore Youssef:I'm, you know, going on holiday.
Kate Moore Youssef:And so I'm just, like, trying to, like, be careful this week or whatever.
Kate Moore Youssef:And I look at them, I'm like.
Kate Moore Youssef:I, like.
Kate Moore Youssef:I can feel like smoke coming out of my ears.
Kate Moore Youssef:And I've got, like, someone that does that.
Kate Moore Youssef:And it's so unconscious that she just speaks like that the whole time.
Kate Moore Youssef:It's just so part of her mental narrative that she's constantly on this sort of, like, restrictive situation.
Kate Moore Youssef:Whereas I'm like, with my girls, you know, very much.
Kate Moore Youssef:Where are you in your cycle?
Kate Moore Youssef:If they come in and they come in from school, they're always hungry anyway.
Kate Moore Youssef:Oh, yeah, they raid the snack draw and then they might, like, toast and this and that.
Kate Moore Youssef:And I kind of know where they are in this in their cycle, so I just kind of give them a bit of wide birth.
Kate Moore Youssef:But then other times I'm like, no, I want them to have a good dinner.
Kate Moore Youssef:And so I think, what do I say here?
Kate Moore Youssef:Because I don't want to eat too many snacks.
Kate Moore Youssef:So when I put the nutritious meal on the table, that they're not hungry.
Kate Moore Youssef:So there's always this fine line of I kind of want to give them a bit of space to do the thing, but I also want to make sure that they are eating.
Kate Moore Youssef:They've got adhd.
Kate Moore Youssef:I want them to have the nutritious food because I know when I'm not there, they're probably not making the healthiest of choices because, A, they're teenagers and B, they've got ADHD and they just want that fast, quick fix.
Becca King:And it's kind of like letting them know, like, helping them maybe be a little aware of, like, time in a sense of like the now and not now of like, in their brain.
Becca King:Probably coming home from school, all they're thinking about is the snacks in the moment that they want and not that, like, oh, yeah, we'll probably have dinner in an hour or whenever it is.
Becca King:They're like, snacks, yes, let's get all the snacks.
Becca King:And then it's like, oh, hey, just a reminder, like, you know, I'm cooking dinner right now.
Becca King:Just to remind them that that's even something that that's gonna be happening, can help them hopefully a little bit too, without being like, hey, you know, don't spoil dinner or whatever.
Becca King:Because if they're hungry, then like, they're.
Becca King:They're listening to their bodies in some degree.
Becca King:Or it's like, hey, let's.
Becca King:Maybe I'll, you know.
Becca King:Do you want me to cut up an apple and put it with your snacks or something like that?
Kate Moore Youssef:I do try that one.
Kate Moore Youssef:Not always that well received.
Becca King:Yeah, they're like, no, not interested.
Kate Moore Youssef:Actually, what I have noticed is that because they're teenagers, they're a bit like, oh, if you're going to give it to me, me, because I don't have to do it myself, I'll put the apple in front of them and I will be eating the other stuff.
Kate Moore Youssef:And then they will just kind of pick up the apple because they're quite happy not to move.
Kate Moore Youssef:So that makes.
Kate Moore Youssef:Yeah, that makes me happy.
Kate Moore Youssef:That kind of.
Kate Moore Youssef:Subliminally I've managed to get some nutritious food down them.
Becca King:Yeah.
Becca King:Often if you offer it, like, even if it's like, I'll just put it on the table and it's there.
Becca King:Like, even kids will be like, maybe I'll try some.
Becca King:Maybe I won't eat all of it, but I'll have a couple pieces of whatever it is because it's available.
Becca King:Especially if they're not having to do, especially with ADHD and kids.
Becca King:Like, I wouldn't want to have to cut everything up and wash it and do all of that.
Becca King:So I was like, oh, cool, this just got put in front of me.
Becca King:I'll eat some.
Kate Moore Youssef:We need someone to do that for us though, don't we?
Becca King:Yeah.
Becca King:And when you do, like, if you could find.
Becca King:So yeah, like, my ex used to be really great at, like, he'd be like, do you want a snack?
Becca King:I'm gonna cut something up and eat and like do.
Becca King:I'll bring you some.
Becca King:While I was, would be working or something, I'd be like, yes, that's amazing.
Becca King:So like, yeah, having people in your life too, if, if you can share things that you need or maybe they help you in this area and you help them in other areas that are your strengths.
Kate Moore Youssef:It is, it's making those choices, isn't it?
Kate Moore Youssef:It's making those choices in the moment.
Kate Moore Youssef:And everything seems to have a knock on effect as well, I think with food.
Kate Moore Youssef:So if we start our day well ish, you know, making a good choice for us, then we.
Kate Moore Youssef:It typically follows, doesn't it?
Kate Moore Youssef:What, I mean, what would you say to someone that's listening now and goes, I would love to start my day and hopefully for it to ripple out to healthier choices.
Becca King:I would say protein's great in the morning.
Becca King:Like whatever.
Becca King:Any kind of way you can get protein in.
Becca King:I think thinking about like, what's easy and doable and just even getting in the like where I usually kind of start as like a foundation with my clients.
Becca King:It's like I don't necessarily care about the like nutrient quality necessarily of what you're eating.
Becca King:I just want you to get in the routine of eating, eating regularly throughout the day and just getting used to like pausing and having to stop what you're doing sometimes and go eat and getting used to doing that.
Becca King:And then we can kind of start tweaking things as that starts to become a little bit more natural.
Becca King:So usually it's like, okay, hey, if breakfast is, we're skipping breakfast right now, we're just going to focus on how can we get breakfast in and we'll find things that are quick and easy.
Becca King:I usually try and find things with some protein in it too because that just kind of helps keep you more satiated throughout the day.
Becca King:So I will find things.
Becca King:Sometimes for some of my clients it's like, hey, I drink coffee in the morning and I don't eat breakfast.
Becca King:And I'm like, okay, can we put a scoop of protein powder in your coffee?
Becca King:So that way, if that's the thing that you can do, but you don't have time for breakfast because sometimes it's like I don't have time for that.
Becca King:I can't, can't do that.
Becca King:And it's like, okay, I'm like, can we do that?
Becca King:You know, so trying to find things that it's like, okay, we, what can we put in in here and make it easy and accessible to eat and it Might be using things maybe that are pre prepared or things like that or use shortcuts to make it easier to do.
Becca King:But getting in that groove of eating regularly just because that helps kind of keep our blood sugar stable, it prevents us from having those big like I'm not hungry and now I'm ravenous kind of moments.
Becca King:And that's really big.
Becca King:For a lot of ADHD years it's like oh, I'm not hungry and then all of a sudden I need to eat like right now and whatever I'm going to eat.
Becca King:And then often it's at that point we're usually so hungry that even if you wanted to make a decision like eat something more nutrient dense in that moment, that's probably not what's going to even sound appealing because your body is like I need the quickest, fastest source of energy right now and something that has lots of fiber and you know, is a lean protein and all that that it's like that's not appealing to my brain right now.
Becca King:I want the fun, more fun foods that are, you know, I want the chips and I want the candy or the soda or whatever is going to get my blood sugar back up, give my brain some stimulation and you know, help me feel temper a little bit better.
Kate Moore Youssef:So yeah, that's really well explained actually for people to understand and see their pattern and kind of again it's just to reducing if when you talk about it and you normalize it and you can kind of go oh yeah, okay so that is exactly what happens.
Kate Moore Youssef:But I understand why because our brain is basically saying we're on like emergency, like yeah, on the dregs of your fuel, you know like the red light in your petrol.
Becca King:Yeah.
Kate Moore Youssef:And that's what you know, straight we see and see our gas in our, in our car flashing.
Kate Moore Youssef:We go straight to the, to the petrol station.
Kate Moore Youssef:But we need to do the same for us.
Kate Moore Youssef:But the convenience side, what you just said then I think is so good to hear.
Kate Moore Youssef:It's like this compassionate permission slip to say guys, buy the frozen food, buy the pre cut vegetables, make your life easy.
Kate Moore Youssef:Like you said, we need simple, we need easy, we need effortless, we need as least amount of steps as possible and there shouldn't be any shame in that.
Kate Moore Youssef:You know, we don't get, no one gives us, I mean I'm as a mum, no one has once given me a badge of honor for cooking from scratch some soup.
Kate Moore Youssef:Like no one stood over me and gone, you've cut those carrots yourself.
Kate Moore Youssef:That's so good.
Kate Moore Youssef:Yeah, not one person, no one's once asked me.
Kate Moore Youssef:So I kind of think if I want to buy a bag of frozen vegetables and that is how I'm going to make some soup or I'm going to.
Becca King:Yeah, yeah.
Kate Moore Youssef:I'm just going to put some frozen fish and some chips in the air fryer, then that's great.
Kate Moore Youssef:So I love that you're saying this because it's giving all these women who I think from social media, from lifestyle, from all these different horrendous channels that we're hearing that you're not a good person unless you're eating fresh fruit smoothies.
Becca King:Yeah.
Kate Moore Youssef:And hand chopped salads.
Becca King:Yeah.
Becca King:Every single.
Becca King:You're prepping all of your food and it's all, you know, whole ingredients and it's all, all these things that's like, that's really great.
Becca King:But it takes, it's an immense amount of privilege to be able to do that.
Becca King:And like the people you see on social media who are like wellness influencers, that is their whole entire job for most of them.
Becca King:So, like, yeah, it's easy for them to cook every single meal at home and from scratch because that's like part of all they do all day.
Becca King:They don't go work a 9 to 5 or they're not taking care of their kids all day long and doing all these other things or they have help helping them do other things so that they don't.
Becca King:They're not having to clean their house and do all these other things.
Becca King:They have people helping them do that.
Becca King:So it's like it just.
Becca King:Yeah, I think people feel.
Becca King:I had someone comment once on something like, I'm using a meal kit right now and they felt bad, like, you know, just for right now kind of thing.
Becca King:And I was like, there's no rule that says like you have to go to the grocery store.
Becca King:There's no rule that there's this one way to feed yourself.
Becca King:Like, that's just like we've been told this basically.
Becca King:But yeah, you don't have to go to the grocery store if you don't want to.
Becca King:If you like ordering groceries, order your groceries.
Becca King:If you like using meal kits, I find them really helpful.
Becca King:Like when I wrote my book, I used meal kits because I was like, cool, I don't have to go to the grocery store.
Becca King:There's only so many meals I can pick from each week instead of like going on my Pinterest and there's, you know, millions of recipes that I can pick from.
Becca King:There's only a certain amount I can pick and that makes it easier.
Kate Moore Youssef:Yeah, it's being intentional, isn't it?
Kate Moore Youssef:And I know that you mentioned right at the beginning executive functioning for us, it transcends so many parts of our life.
Kate Moore Youssef:But like you say, going to the supermarket, planning meal prepping, knowing what we're going to make each day, especially when we're just all over the place doing a million things and then recognizing, oh my God, I've got a few kids now and all of that.
Kate Moore Youssef:I know that a lot of women kind of like unravel a little bit when they become mums because they just about held it together, you know, looking after themselves.
Kate Moore Youssef:Have just about managed to kind of keep this sort of relatively healthy ish life.
Kate Moore Youssef:But when it comes to, then you have kids and all of a sudden all that energy expenditure that we've put on just keeping ourselves together is now with kids and that's when a lot of things unravel.
Kate Moore Youssef:And so I think to have these, I'm going to say in inverted commas, hacks to make our life easier shouldn't be, it shouldn't be like shameful.
Kate Moore Youssef:It shouldn't be, oh look, I'm doing this lazy girl thing.
Kate Moore Youssef:This should be celebrated.
Becca King:Yeah.
Becca King:If you're anything, we're being like innovative and like resourceful.
Becca King:And to me it's being like working smarter and not harder, like is exactly what you're doing.
Becca King:And saving spoons for yourself so that you can go do other things or have more energy to go do other things.
Becca King:Because like cooking, like even feeding a family can feel like a full time job.
Becca King:And so it's like, yeah, let me take some pressure off of myself.
Becca King:I don't need to spend all of this time doing all of these things because like that is kind of the beauty of living in the era that we do live in is like we do have a lot of things that are convenient.
Becca King:And part of that was.
Becca King:And I think that that's really great.
Becca King:Like we have foods that make cooking and things more accessible so that we don't have to spend an hour making every single meal that we cook or longer.
Becca King:It's like, cool.
Becca King:I can make a 15, 20 minute meal.
Becca King:It can be very nutrient dense and satisfied, satisfying.
Becca King:But I don't need to feel exhausted when I'm done or have like a mountain of, you know, pots and pans that I use to make this meal because then it's like, great, now I have to do the dishes after I just spent all this time cooking.
Becca King:Like I don't want to do that.
Becca King:It's Just gonna be.
Becca King:Yeah, a lot.
Becca King:So.
Kate Moore Youssef:So do you advise people with ADHD to meal prep or plan, like, a weekly schedule?
Kate Moore Youssef:Does that work or doesn't.
Kate Moore Youssef:Doesn't it work?
Becca King:Every one's a little bit different, traditional, like, meal prep.
Becca King:For most of my clients, to spend your whole Sunday or spend a couple hours on Sunday, making meals for the week is not a strategy that generally works.
Becca King:And even for me, when I was in grad school, I tried to do that, and I was like, I'm going to be a dietitian.
Becca King:I should be meal prepping, because that's what everybody does.
Becca King:Then I was like, this isn't working for me.
Becca King:And I was like, I also think it's kind of like, if it works for someone, that's great.
Becca King:But I also kind of get grossed out.
Becca King:If I cooked something on Sunday by, like, Wednesday is probably, like, when I personally is, like, probably the last day I would eat something.
Becca King:So if I'm like, Thursday or Friday, you're eating what you ate, especially if it.
Becca King:It's like, you know, has chicken or whatever.
Becca King:And I'm like, that just doesn't sound appealing to me.
Becca King:So then I would cook all this food.
Becca King:Food and probably waste it and then go buy food because I didn't want to eat that thing that I made.
Becca King:So, like, I find that that doesn't necessarily work sometimes, like, bulk prepping things, like, kind of prepping components versus meals.
Becca King:So you can grab, you know, like, chicken's a great one because it's, like, cool.
Becca King:I could throw this in a pasta dish, or I could throw this on top of a salad or put it in a wrap or something like that.
Becca King:Yeah.
Becca King:So those kind of things can be nice to prep and meal planning.
Becca King:Some of my clients write out their meals for the week, but I think of it as, like, more of a flexible meal plan.
Becca King:So, like, for some people, unless if they need to, like, writing it out and assigning a day can work.
Becca King:But for a lot of my clients, it's like, let's just pick the meals we want to make this week.
Becca King:And then the day of, we can kind of decide what we want to make or what feels realistic.
Becca King:Because sometimes there's just a little resistance when we're like, oh, we're going to have tacos today because it's Tuesday.
Becca King:And then you get to Tuesday, and you're like, I don't really want the tacos.
Becca King:And.
Becca King:And that, for me, works.
Becca King:Kind of having some meals, you just.
Becca King:I rotate through.
Becca King:I might add some things in there.
Becca King:Different things depending on what season it is.
Becca King:Like, since it's getting cold, there'll probably be some more soups and chilies in the mix in the winter months for lunch.
Becca King:So just, it makes it easier that way.
Becca King:And like, not planning out every meal and being okay with, like repeating some meals throughout the week.
Becca King:Week is really helpful for me.
Becca King:Like, I don't need to make seven different dinners.
Becca King:Seven different lunches.
Becca King:Like, I can kind of repeat them, some of them.
Becca King:Or make enough so I have leftovers, you know, kind of thing.
Kate Moore Youssef:Yeah.
Kate Moore Youssef:100.
Kate Moore Youssef:I'm, I'm very similar as well.
Kate Moore Youssef:And I, I.
Kate Moore Youssef:If someone turned around to me and said, right, this is your meal plan for the week, My ADHD brain would go, no one's telling me to stick to a, to a routine.
Kate Moore Youssef:And like, my brain would be like, that is not happening.
Kate Moore Youssef:But I love knowing that, okay, I've got some chicken that needs eating over two days.
Becca King:Yeah, I can.
Kate Moore Youssef:Is it going to go in a wrap?
Kate Moore Youssef:I'm going to make a salad.
Kate Moore Youssef:Like you say pasta, you know, anything, or, you know, soup, definitely.
Kate Moore Youssef:Right now I'm making a lot of soup, but sometimes my kids love soup in the evening.
Kate Moore Youssef:And I'll make like a cheese toasty.
Kate Moore Youssef:Do you know what a cheese toasty is?
Kate Moore Youssef:Is that probably a grilled cheese.
Kate Moore Youssef:Grilled cheese sandwich, Exactly.
Becca King:Yep.
Kate Moore Youssef:So that's like one of my favorite things in the world is a grilled cheese sandwich.
Kate Moore Youssef:So I will.
Becca King:Especially with soup.
Kate Moore Youssef:Soup.
Kate Moore Youssef:Or maybe make like a tuna melt or, you know, have some tuna fish with that.
Kate Moore Youssef:And so I kind of know that they'll enjoy the grilled cheese sandwich, but if I can get them to have the soup on the side and they can dip it in, then we do things like that.
Kate Moore Youssef:But it definitely.
Becca King:That's a great example of that.
Becca King:Like, eat what you want and add, Add what you need.
Becca King:Like, they're getting in probably some vegetables in the soup and things like that.
Kate Moore Youssef:Yeah.
Kate Moore Youssef:Like, it kind of just work it out with what.
Kate Moore Youssef:And, and listen, we've not even touched on sort of the, the more sensory side of adhd.
Kate Moore Youssef:Where before, again, before we have diagnoses or we have our kids diagnosed, they're just, we're face eaters.
Kate Moore Youssef:The kids are.
Becca King:Yeah.
Becca King:You're just picky.
Becca King:And it's like.
Becca King:No, I just.
Becca King:They're upset.
Becca King:Strong sensory preferences.
Kate Moore Youssef:Yeah.
Kate Moore Youssef:And that is so limiting and it can be so difficult to.
Becca King:Yeah.
Kate Moore Youssef:You know, even if we want to eat healthy, if there's certain fruit and vegetables that we just won't go.
Kate Moore Youssef:Go near, like my door One of my daughters won't go near any berries.
Kate Moore Youssef:She hates anything squishy.
Kate Moore Youssef:She doesn't like anything that smells a bit like a berry.
Kate Moore Youssef:One of my other daughters probably will eat almost all green vegetables.
Kate Moore Youssef:So I'm navigating.
Becca King:It's a lot.
Becca King:Yeah.
Becca King:And then like, having to plan as a parent, Like a parent having to plan.
Becca King:When you have, you know, kids with different sensory preferences, trying to plan meals that honor everyone's sensory needs can be challenging.
Becca King:When it's like, oh, well, she's.
Becca King:She's not going to eat this and she's not going to eat this.
Becca King:So, like, what meals, you know, kind of meet everyone's preferences.
Becca King:So I'm not having to make four or five different dinners a night.
Kate Moore Youssef:You know, sometimes I'm making two, two dinners because I've got one of my other daughters, again, she doesn't eat fish, whereas the other ones eat salmon.
Kate Moore Youssef:And I kind of think I really want them to have the salmon.
Kate Moore Youssef:So I'm always having to make like a meat or another type of protein on the side.
Becca King:So she.
Kate Moore Youssef:Because she won't eat the fish.
Becca King:Yeah.
Kate Moore Youssef:And then we've got to remember this as women, like most women now are working in some community capacity and families and we and the executive functioning, we're just so exhausted, we're drained.
Kate Moore Youssef:So, I mean, I love the fact that you brought this book out because I presume in your book you've probably given examples of good food choices.
Becca King:Yes.
Becca King:Just ways to.
Becca King:I try not to think of food as necessarily good and bad, but just like, ways we can add in more of like, nutrition in different ways and making it easy.
Becca King:Like, your frozen veggies are a good example of that.
Becca King:Of just like, what are ways we can add things into the mix.
Becca King:That isn't gonna feel like I'm climbing a mountain in order to be able to do those things.
Becca King:Because then it's not.
Becca King:It might happen once that you're like, cool, I did this thing.
Becca King:And then it's like, oh, but I haven't done it ever again.
Becca King:So trying to just find ways to make it as easy as possible to get in nutrient dense foods.
Becca King:Because I think, I think two people always assume that, like, processed foods are bad.
Becca King:It's a big, big thing on social media.
Becca King:But there's so many processed foods that are very nutrient dense.
Becca King:And like.
Kate Moore Youssef:Go on, tell us.
Kate Moore Youssef:What?
Kate Moore Youssef:Tell us.
Becca King:Yeah, like, pretty much like everything we eat is technically pretty much everything unless it's in, like, its whole form.
Becca King:It is a processed food.
Becca King:Like, if it's Been changed.
Becca King:Like when you go to the deli and you get, you know, get chicken breasts, that's technically a processed food because it's not the whole chicken.
Becca King:Like unless you're getting the whole chicken like just straight from the butcher.
Becca King:It's processed technically.
Becca King:So like bean, canned beans, very nutrient dense.
Becca King:Frozen fruits and veggies also very nutrient dense, sometimes even more nutrient dense than fresh because they're like flash frozen at the peak of their nutrition.
Becca King:Technically protein powders like an ultra processed food food.
Becca King:But it makes getting in protein, especially for adhders who lose their appetite.
Becca King:Like it makes it so much easier to at least make sure you're getting something in your body to like hey, I can drink a protein shake if I know that I need to eat.
Becca King:But like the thought of eating food on my meds just makes me sick to my stomach.
Becca King:It's like cool.
Becca King:Well I can drink something though so that's doable.
Becca King:Even like getting.
Becca King:Sometimes I get like frozen pre cooked chicken so that way I don't have to, to like I can pop it in the air fryer, cook it on my stove top really quick.
Becca King:But I don't ever have to like handle the raw meat which I really like from like a sensory perspective.
Becca King:So it just makes it easier.
Becca King:And I don't have to remember to get chicken out of the freezer to thaw and then marinate.
Becca King:I can just put like start cooking it right away.
Becca King:I can get pre cooked like 90 second pouches of.
Becca King:I could get one that's like a brown rice quinoa blend.
Becca King:That's really good.
Becca King:I love those.
Becca King:So it's like yeah, those things make my life so much easier.
Becca King:And I'm still eating foods that have lots of nutrition in them.
Becca King:And like you said earlier, if you're working and taking care of kids, that makes it so much easier than versus oh, we're just going to stop and grab fast food or we're going to just get takeout again.
Becca King:And it's like that adds up financially and like you just don't have as much control over necessarily what you're getting there versus like at home you're getting, you can kind of get more nutrient dense foods for a lot less than you would get, you know, out and about.
Kate Moore Youssef:So yeah, yeah, I love those pouches.
Kate Moore Youssef:We have them here.
Kate Moore Youssef:We've got like brown rice, different types of lentils and one of my favorite fast food I guess recipes, it's not even a recipe but I'd like, I'll get a salmon fillet, fry it in two seconds, pop that in a bit of like curry paste, put some spinach leaves, bit of lemon juice and maybe some tomato puree.
Kate Moore Youssef:And genuinely in about six minutes, it's kind of like a weird risotto Indian mix which a few of my kids will eat that.
Kate Moore Youssef:But that literally I just have everything in.
Kate Moore Youssef:It's, it's like supermarket bought salmon.
Kate Moore Youssef:Chop it really small so it fries in two seconds.
Kate Moore Youssef:And for me it's kind of like I am willing to, I'm willing to just do that process bit because it's a relatively, it is a nutritious meal.
Becca King:Yeah.
Becca King:And it sounds like it's tasty too.
Becca King:So like you get to, it's something like spicy enjoyable.
Kate Moore Youssef:Yeah, that's my, that's my eating for stimulation.
Kate Moore Youssef:Definitely.
Kate Moore Youssef:Like me and my husband, it's just like the spicier the better.
Kate Moore Youssef:So we eat a huge amount of Indian food.
Kate Moore Youssef:We love Indian food because anything bland is like, but if we've got lots of spice and strong flavors, we love that.
Kate Moore Youssef:And my son has just started university and the first week, right, we took him and I did a supermarket shop.
Kate Moore Youssef:I was like, right, I'm going to start you off, I'm going to pay for your first kind of big batch.
Kate Moore Youssef:And I'm so happy because he went around the shop with me and I kind of had this one hour like fast track opportunity to say to him, use this frozen food.
Kate Moore Youssef:Try this, add this.
Becca King:Oh, that's so helpful.
Kate Moore Youssef:Put the pizza in.
Kate Moore Youssef:But like put some onions and olives on the pizza and little things where I can just try and imprint on him as much as possible so he can cook.
Kate Moore Youssef:I mean, listen, I know he's a student so he's probably eating a lot of takeaway food, but he's messaged me a few times saying, can I cook the chicken from frozen in the oven?
Kate Moore Youssef:I'm like, yes, it's fine as long as it's cooked.
Kate Moore Youssef:Put it in.
Kate Moore Youssef:And so, you know, we've got to, we've just got to cut ourselves a lot of slack here.
Kate Moore Youssef: And many of us aren't: Becca King:Yeah.
Kate Moore Youssef:Who were probably very, yeah.
Kate Moore Youssef:Very unfulfilled and thinking, you know, I wish I was doing more with my life.
Kate Moore Youssef:But probably only had the one thing to think about and that was like, what am I going to make for dinner every night?
Becca King:Yeah.
Kate Moore Youssef:But, but now we've got like you say frozen food.
Kate Moore Youssef:We've got ideas, we've got social media telling us that we can cook something in, in a few minutes and this is what should be embraced.
Kate Moore Youssef:And your book, the name of your book is fantastic.
Kate Moore Youssef:It's incredible.
Kate Moore Youssef:It's like, literally.
Kate Moore Youssef:I think most people will need that book whether you think you eat healthily or not.
Kate Moore Youssef:Because to have your insight, your professional insight from a lived experience as well is going to be really, really helpful.
Becca King:Yeah, just to take away that, like, yeah, just taking away that shame, hopefully giving people some ideas.
Becca King:How can I make this whole process just easier for myself?
Becca King:And I will say, if you have kids and you are like an adh er who really does enjoy cooking, getting your kids involved in the kitchen to some capacity can be so, so helpful.
Becca King:Like, that's one thing I'm really grateful my parents did.
Becca King:They both, like, I would say cooking's like a hobby for them or a special interest.
Becca King:They taught me a lot of cooking skills.
Becca King:So that way, when I went to college and finally got an apartment, like my second year of college, whatever, like, I already knew, like, how to cook.
Becca King:It wasn't scary, like, oh, my gosh, I don't know how to feed myself kind of kind of thing.
Becca King:It was like, oh, I know how to, like, fry an egg.
Becca King:Or I know how to, like, do all these things in the kitchen.
Becca King:Which was really, really helpful because I had so many friends who were like, I don't even know how to scramble an egg.
Becca King:I'm like, okay, you know, and like.
Becca King:And that's okay if that's you, but giving your kids some skills.
Becca King:So that way it doesn't feel like this big, scary place.
Becca King:Because I also work with a lot of clients who's like, they never really had any experience in the kitchen.
Becca King:And that also, to me, makes total sense why it would feel.
Becca King:Feel scary and overwhelming to cook.
Becca King:Because it's just.
Becca King:It's a lot if they've never really spent time doing it where it's just not like a familiar thing for you.
Becca King:Like, it is if, you know, if you grew up in a family that does a lot of cooking, you're probably in the kitchen, hanging out with your parents or stopping in there to see what they're doing and that kind of stuff.
Becca King:So you kind of get used to that kind of thing.
Kate Moore Youssef:So I love that.
Kate Moore Youssef:I mean, I learned how to cook, first of all, because I'm very.
Kate Moore Youssef:I love cooking food.
Kate Moore Youssef:Food programs.
Kate Moore Youssef:It's like my special interest food cooking.
Kate Moore Youssef:Like, it's also my place where I express, like, creativity.
Kate Moore Youssef:And it's my.
Kate Moore Youssef:It's how I kind of relax as well, because I put my phone away and I can just play and just be intuitive.
Kate Moore Youssef:And I.
Kate Moore Youssef:That was.
Kate Moore Youssef:Came from my mum because actually on the flip side, my mum's also got adhd, but she did not like cooking.
Kate Moore Youssef:She was quite a.
Kate Moore Youssef:She just loved working.
Kate Moore Youssef:And so I would love to cook and I would say that her cooking skills on, you know, I think maybe she will agree that's not like her, the greatest quality that she has.
Becca King:Yeah.
Kate Moore Youssef:And so I used to cook for myself a lot, but when I was.
Kate Moore Youssef:So I was cooking at the age of 14, like full.
Kate Moore Youssef:Full meals.
Becca King:Yeah.
Kate Moore Youssef:So when I went to university, I was kind of like the resident chef and my friends, we'd come in and I would like make batches of pasta and sushi and all things like that because I loved it.
Kate Moore Youssef:I'm hoping that my kids will have just seen me in the kitchen and see.
Kate Moore Youssef:And hopefully I hope that, you know, they'll.
Kate Moore Youssef:They'll take some interest as well.
Becca King:But yeah, it sounds like at least with your son, if he's at least messaged you a couple times about feeding himself at school.
Kate Moore Youssef:Yeah, I hope so.
Kate Moore Youssef:So I just want to say thank you so much.
Kate Moore Youssef:I've loved this conversation, Becca, and it's been, I think, hopefully really helpful, really validating and just like we say just to like normalize these conversations that, yeah, we're all different.
Kate Moore Youssef:We know with adhd, we're all so different.
Kate Moore Youssef:It presents so differently.
Kate Moore Youssef:And I don't want to minimize impact that of disordered eating and binge eating and difficulties, you know, with our executive functioning and food and all of that.
Kate Moore Youssef:I also hope that this conversation has given people some ideas and some tips and little insights that they can maybe bring into their.
Kate Moore Youssef:Their daily life as well.
Kate Moore Youssef:Just to make life easier with adhd, because it is not easy.
Kate Moore Youssef:Most.
Becca King:Yeah.
Becca King:Yes, I think, yeah, normalizing that, like, what these struggles exist and that we can all kind of work, help each other and support each other too, I think can be really valuable.
Becca King:Or just knowing like, you're not alone.
Becca King:Especially like with disordered eating and binge eating, when I was struggling with those things, felt very alone.
Becca King:Even though, like, logically I knew that there are other people in the world that struggle with these things.
Becca King:It was like, nope.
Becca King:My brain would try and be like, nope, you're the only one.
Becca King:So I think talking about it can help remind people that, like, yeah, no, I really am not the only person that is experiencing those.
Becca King:These things and, and that I can work through them and it can get better.
Kate Moore Youssef:Amazing.
Kate Moore Youssef:So if people have enjoyed this conversation and want to find you, I know Your Instagram is incredibly helpful.
Kate Moore Youssef:Just remind people how they can find you.
Becca King:Yeah, Instagram's the best place at ADHD Nutritionist would be where you can find find me.
Becca King:You're welcome to send me a message if you have any questions or anything like that.
Becca King:So.
Kate Moore Youssef:And the book is on pre order and it's out in March, is that right?
Becca King:Yes, March 5th is.
Becca King:Or March 4th, sorry March 4th is when it will be out.
Becca King:And yeah, the lit there is a link in my bio to pre order and it's like at a bunch of different bookstores just on that.
Becca King:It's like a universal link so you can pick which place you would like to purchase it from.
Kate Moore Youssef:Amazing.
Kate Moore Youssef:Well, wishing you so much luck with it.
Kate Moore Youssef:I'm sure it's going to be a very, very helpful resource and yeah, look forward to connecting again very soon.
Becca King:Thank you so much for having me.
Kate Moore Youssef:I really hope you enjoyed this week's episode.
Kate Moore Youssef:If you did and it resonated with you, I would absolutely love it if you could share on your platforms or maybe leave a review and a rating wherever you listen.
Kate Moore Youssef:Listen to your podcasts and please do check out my website, ADHD womenswellbeing.co.uk for lots of free resources and paid for workshops.
Kate Moore Youssef:I'm uploading new things all the time and I would absolutely love to see you there.
Kate Moore Youssef:Take care and see you for the next episode.
