Do you ever talk about ADD and ADHD? Do you claim it? Do you claim it even thought you’ve never discussed the possibility with a professional and your definitely not on any sort of prescription? You’re not the only one. It’s a popular line of discussion for many in the last several years. People just like to talk about it.
It’s somehow become quite popular to talk about having one of these conditions. Why? Well…probably because if we had one of them we could blame out inability to complete simple tasks on them. We’d have a medical condition that limited our ability to successfully focus on daily tasks.
Sometimes the ADD/ADHD discussion can make discussing dieting easier and make unsuccessful dieting patterns more clear. For instance…dieters who can’t follow one diet long enough to see results are what we call ADD dieters.
Or are you what we like to call an ADHD dieter? If you’re an ADHD dieter then you can’t seem to stop swinging wildly back and forth like a pendulum between different weight loss programs. If you’re an ADHD dieter you’ve probably been on multiple diets in one week. ADHD dieters tend to waste their time because they can’t stick to one set of dieting protocol long enough to lose weight.
We all hate to waste time. It’s one of the main reasons we all try to blame our time wasting on fictional ADD/ADHD conditions. We attempt to blame it on a medical condition. Unsuccessful dieting is a big waste of time and it’s one of the things that we all hate. We hate it just as much as wasting time running errands all day and not being able to mark anything off the to do list by the end of the day.
The philosophy can be applied to quick weight loss diets. They’re obviously quick; it says so right there in the name. But just because it’s “quick” doesn’t mean that you’ll only be expected to stick to it for a few hours or even just a few days. You’ll need to stick to it for a few weeks. That’s the minimum amount of time required for any effective dieting program. Take two weeks and dedicate your energy and thought to dieting. Get it done and move on to working on your to do list again afterwards.
Just think strictly about the weight loss and dieting. Two full weeks of “focused” work and effort will do the trick for most individuals. And two weeks is not a long time. It’s a fairly short stretch of time that is easily manageable. Stop complaining about your “medical condition” of ADD or ADHD and you’ll save some time right there.
And then after you’ve done that…and you’ve finished your dieting program (2 weeks worth) you can stop. And you can be done. You can go back to doing what you did before. You can even go back to pretending that you have a medical condition that keeps you from getting stuff done so you can mark it off your to do list. We won’t tell anyone you’re faking it.
Amelia Handley studied exercise science at university with a minor in Nutrition. Yet she still found herself jumping from diet to diet in order to control her weight. With HCG Diet Direct she’s found a program that allows her to combine her desire to control her own body weight with her education and not feel off balance.