If you've ever eaten the same meal every single day for three weeks and genuinely loved every bite, and then suddenly couldn't look at it ever again, this episode is for you.

This week we are getting into something that doesn't get talked about enough in ADHD spaces: food. Not in a diet culture way, not in a wellness way, in a why have I ordered the exact same thing from this restaurant fourteen times and felt zero shame about it kind of way.

Because the ADHD relationship with food is its own thing entirely. The hyperfixations that take over your entire personality for a month. The safe foods you return to when your brain has nothing left. The forgetting to eat until your blood sugar crashes and suddenly every emotion you own arrives at once. The specific paralysis of standing in front of a full fridge and genuinely being unable to decide what to eat. The way a favourite food can go from the only thing you want to completely repulsive overnight with absolutely no warning.

It's chaotic. It's neurological. And it turns out it makes a lot more sense when you understand how the ADHD brain actually works.

In this episode:

• What food hyperfixations actually are and why the ADHD brain keeps returning to the same things
• The safe food list — what yours says about you and why the grief when a safe food stops working is completely real
• Forgetting to eat and then eating everything — the blood sugar crash spiral and why it keeps happening
• Decision fatigue and food — why a full fridge can feel more overwhelming than an empty one
• The dopamine hit of food and why ADHD brains are especially wired to seek it
• Beige food, sensory sensitivity and why certain textures and foods feel genuinely unbearable
• The restaurant order thing — why so many ADHDers find one thing they love on a menu and never order anything else ever again
• ADHD medication and appetite — what actually happens and how to work around it
• The chaos of food shopping with ADHD — buying seventeen ingredients for a recipe and then ordering a takeaway anyway

This is not a nutrition episode. We are not here to tell you what to eat. We are just two women with ADHD comparing notes on the most unhinged food habits we have and figuring out why our brains work this way.

Chaotic, honest, and very relatable — especially if your current hyperfixation meal is getting slightly out of hand.

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Is ADHD actually a disorder — or is it a brain that evolved for a completely different world?

In our first ever guest episode, we sit down with Dr. Alex Curmi — psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and host of The Thinking Mind podcast — for one of the most eye-opening conversations we've ever had on this show.

We get into evolutionary psychology, why the ADHD brain may have been an extraordinary advantage in hunter-gatherer times, and why modern life — think open-plan offices, smartphones, TikTok, and 9-5 schedules — is essentially kryptonite for the way our brains are wired.

But this episode goes way beyond the theory. Dr. Alex gets into the stuff that actually affects our day-to-day lives: why so many women aren't diagnosed until their thirties or forties, why medication alone isn't enough, and the specific, practical interventions that can genuinely help with the ADHD symptoms that nobody talks about enough — impulsive spending, emotional dysregulation, and rejection sensitive dysphoria.

In this episode:

• What evolutionary psychology actually is and why it changes how you see your ADHD brain
• The hunter-gatherer theory — why ADHD traits that feel like problems today may have been survival superpowers
• Why smartphones and social media actively make ADHD symptoms worse (neurologically, not just in a "phones bad" way)
• The real reason so many women are diagnosed late — and what gets missed
• Why ADHD is a spectrum and what severe ADHD actually looks like day-to-day
• The overdiagnosis vs. underdiagnosis debate — Dr. Alex's honest, nuanced take
• Why medication is just one piece of the puzzle and what else needs to happen
• Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) techniques for emotional regulation and RSD — explained simply and actually usefully
• The journaling technique Dr. Alex uses with patients to rewire impulsive spending habits
• How to structure your life and career around your ADHD strengths rather than constantly fighting your weaknesses
• Where to start if you're struggling and don't know what to do next

Dr. Alex's take-home message: You don't have to stay stuck. Start with the simple stuff — sleep, exercise, cutting back on overstimulating tech. Try the strategies. And if you've tried a lot by yourself and you still need more support, reach out to a professional. But don't let your problems just simmer.

We are not medical professionals — we are just two women with ADHD having the conversations we wish someone had with us sooner. Dr. Alex is the expert in the room and this one is genuinely worth listening to twice.

Find Dr. Alex Curmi:🎙️ The Thinking Mind Podcast — available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and YouTube📱 Alex Curmi Therapy

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We just got back from six nights at Kala Festival in Albania, and we are feeling it. When you have ADHD, that kind of exhaustion hits ten times harder than it does for anyone else — and honestly, it felt like the perfect time to record this episode.

This is our ADHD Girls Guide to Making Life Easier — and we want to be really clear about what this is not. It's not a self-improvement episode. We're not going to tell you to colour-code your kitchen cupboards, batch cook on a Sunday, or buy a beautiful planner you'll use for three days and then feel terrible about. We've all tried that. We know how it ends.

Instead, we're sharing the real, honest, sometimes completely unhinged strategies that have actually made our lives more manageable — the hacks that might look lazy or silly from the outside, but are genuinely clever adaptations for a neurodivergent brain. We're calling this a permission slip, because that's exactly what it is.

In this episode we cover ten practical tips including: why frozen and pre-cut veg is a game changer for reducing decision fatigue around cooking, how meal kit boxes like Gusto and HelloFresh remove the overwhelming mental load of planning and shopping, our "chuck-it bucket" method for tidying without the paralysis of having to put everything in exactly the right place, the in-your-shoe trick and visual cues for never forgetting things again, why uniform dressing and a capsule wardrobe can save your entire morning before it even goes wrong, the two-minute rule and how doing tiny tasks immediately stops them piling up into unbearable background noise, phone charging habits and screen time boundaries that actually protect your sleep and your focus the next day, body doubling for life admin — not just work and studying, how to automate your bills, groceries, prescriptions and more so you're making fewer exhausting decisions every single day, and why you need to stop apologising for the workarounds that make your life work.

We also get really honest about the shame that comes with having ADHD in a world that wasn't built for us — the guilt of forgetting the washing, losing your keys, leaving your laptop on a plane during a layover in Hong Kong, spending £200 in Tesco when you only went in for one thing — and why getting a diagnosis changed everything for both of us when it comes to finally understanding our brains.

If you have ADHD, suspect you might have ADHD, or just feel like the typical organisation advice has never once worked for you, this episode is for you. We hope it makes you feel a little less alone, a little less broken, and a lot more equipped to figure out what actually works for your brain.

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