ADHD Meets Weight Loss

I am not "kitchen creative"; don't enjoy cooking or meal prep. This is a great lunch/dinner meal but could be a snack with a few adjustments. Of course, this is my own combination; you may prefer different ingredients. I will leave it to you to determine if it fits in your fat/carb/protein goals.

Avocado Lettuce Wraps

Oscar Mayer Selects - Applewood Smoked Turkey Breast (No Artificial Flavor, Ingredients, Msg, or Hormones), 56 g ( 2 oz./About 6 Slices) (or any kind of meat or fish)0
Romaine Lettuce - Lettuce 4 leaf outer (28g)
Fresh Medium - Hass Avocado, 50 g
Italiano Rose - Mango Salsa, 1 tbsp
Celery, 1/4 c or so, chopped to your preferred consistency
broccoli, 1/4 c or so, chopped to your preferred consistency
seedless cucumber, 1/4 c or so, chopped to your preferred consistency
grape tomatoes (6), quartered
*Sometimes I add 9 grams shredded cheese.
*Sometimes I add red, yellow, orange bell pepper.
*Sometimes I have a serving of corn tortilla chips, but that will add about 140 cal.

Wash, dry, and set the lettuce leaves to the side.
Mix all other ingredients to, you got it, your desired consistency.
Spread fairly even amounts on each leaf.
Roll/fold each leaf kind of like a burrito, and savor the goodness.

*Note** It can be messy.

Calories should run between 250-300 calories, obviously depending on your own measurements.

Best wishes~

I don't know about the breakdowns but I have bad adhd. I stick to the same meals almost every day and mix it up by changing to two or three things. I eat what I like but this I can manage. I cannot manage changing it severely every day and planning, prep etc.

Breakfast every day: Old fashioned oats 30g, with psyllium husk (thickens it) and fruit like half banana and blueberries.

Lunch. Yukon gold potato, sliced raw tomato, cooked spinach, half can salmon and 2 fried eggs. Or other protein.

Dinner. Almost the same-add big salad and alternate protein (turkey burger, chicken breast). Sometimes I will stirfry zukes and spinach with bit of soy sauce and add 1/2c rice...

I'm quite boring with it but it works for my brain haha

ADD falls under the acronym ADHD now as it's more of a spectrum disorder. You can have inattentive, hyperactive or combined type however...regardless, all the struggles are the same I think..

Eating the same thing all week helps a lot when I'm busy, but it can also get boring quickly. Here are a few of the meals that I use to keep my protein up. These are things I'm generally willing to eat repeatedly, at least for a little while, and they're very easy to prepare.

- Spinach & Mozzarella Ravioli (I get Pasta Prima from Costco)
- Pineapple Chicken Quinoa Salad (recipe on Good Life Eats; travels well)
- smoothies (which I mostly try to make from fresh ingredients but I also keep some protein drinks in the house to use as a base if I'm feeling lazy or am in a hurry)
- a cup of Greek yogurt mixed with cereal (if you get good quality cereal, like Kashi brand, it is deceptively filling for the calories)
- multigrain waffles and turkey burger (use the waffles instead of a bun with just a touch of syrup on the burger; half a sandwich might fit your meal sizes better)

I think the most important suggestion I can make is to have a backup plan. I'm hyperactive and inattentive, so even when I do take the time to plan my meals, it doesn't always work (I forget to go to the store, forget something at the store, get distracted and forget to actually cook, buy ingredients and 2 days later can't remember what I intended to make...). Currently, Zone Perfect protein bars are my breakfast backup and a bag of ravioli in the freezer covers dinner. I also have an index card taped inside one of a kitchen cabinets to remind me of what I planned on eating for the week, including my available snacks and backups. It's not a meal-by-meal menu, just a list of options, but it helps reduces the amount of food I throw away because I forgot all about it.

Someone else mentioned exercise: if I don't do it first thing in the morning, it basically doesn't happen. Once I'm engaged in a project for the day, it's very difficult to make myself stop for a workout (the downside of "hyperfocus"). Unfortunately, lately it's been difficult to stop for food too because it feels like an interruption to whatever I'm doing. I think that's why the notecard is working: I don't have to stop to think about food, just pick something off the list and eat. Now if only I had such an elegant solution for the rest of my organizational issues

I really want to try that pineapple chicken quinoa salad!