The Nutritional Mental Health Podcast · Annika Angelo, M.S.

How To Recognize Hunger and Fullness Cues If You're ADHD or Autistic | Interview with @The_Intuition_Dietitian

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Annika says intuitive eating helped her binge eating, but nobody discussed how hard it is with ADHD.

Annika opens by introducing Steph and framing the conversation around bodily intuition, hunger cues, and fullness cues for people with ADHD. She says she is learning from the discussion too. The episode stays conversational and direct. Annika and Steph keep returning to the gap between what people expect themselves to do and what their brains can actually handle. They talk about how hunger and dysregulation pile up together. Once you are already struggling to eat, the next food choice can feel overwhelming. Steph points out that executive functioning drops when a person is underfueled. Annika agrees that decisions become unusually hard. They compare that feeling to having too many things going on in the brain at once. One practical answer is to remove choices. Steph describes giving clients a short list of foods, especially for breakfast. Annika says breakfast is the hardest meal for her. The list gives people something to reach for without having to invent a plan from scratch. The conversation also makes room for letting go of big goals. Steph says some clients do best when they temporarily drop all food goals except putting something in their body within three hours of waking. That permission matters because it makes the first step smaller and clearer. Annika and Steph talk through how people often want to change everything at once. They push back on that impulse. Micro steps are the better fit when larger attempts keep failing. Annika brings in her own experience of wanting to overhaul her life all at once. Steph keeps steering the discussion back toward what actually works in real life. The result is a grounded, conversational episode about how to build more reliable eating habits without pretending the brain is simpler than it is. The closing is warm and direct. Annika thanks Steph, asks listeners to reflect on how ADHD affects their food cues and what helps them, and invites them to support the show by subscribing, liking, following, and rating it.

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A practical talk on reading hunger when ADHD makes cues hard to trust.

It frames hunger cues as an executive-function issue rather than a test of willpower, with Annika and Steph keeping the focus on ADHD and the unevenness of bodily intuition instead of trying to tidy it up.

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For the days when eating feels confusing before it even starts.

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