Magpie Gathering

Hello Dear Reader, One of the biggest things I have learned with ADHD planning is not to just build my planning and tracking around what I want to do in the future but also to record what I actually do. For some things, this is built into future planning. I have a goal to drink more water and I record what I drink even if it's not the goal amount. But if I end up working on the garden because the weather is really good, or I wash the dog because he got into mud and I did not plan to do those things then I will look back at my still full todo list and it will feel like I haven't done anything. Being somewhat scattered and forgetful is par for the course with ADHD so I do my best to outsource the remembering to other things my bullet journal is a big one but my phone is with me nearly 24/7 and I can sync the data I have there with other people in my support system can know what is happening as well which takes "remember to communicate X" off my mental todo list as well....

Hello Dear Reader, Nutrition is an incredibly complex and overwhelming topic in our current culture. We have a huge industry around the production of food, diet products, and fitness products that works hard to muddle and confuse the science on nutrition, which in and of itself is ever-evolving and complicated by research that is paid for by the companies that are attempting to promote particular products. Which makes it hard to make good and truly informed choices about what we are eating which is evidenced by all the data on American health.  To complicate things for me, my family and I have a lot of food allergies and sensitivities that limit our choices further. We also have different safe foods and food aversions that make balancing our various needs a little harder. At the moment I am focusing on learning more about how food, the modern industrial processed food, impacts the brain in general and ADHD in particular. While there is no consensus for "The ADHD diet" We can ...