ADHD + NUTRITION

Your meal plan was built for the wrong brain.

ADHD changes how your body registers hunger, how you experience time, and how your brain follows through on anything. Including eating.

Gabby Barreto, MS, RD, CDN, CSSD · ADHD Nutrition Specialist

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ADHD doesn't just make you forget to eat. It makes every nutrition plan designed for neurotypical brains fall apart by week two.

Forgetting meals until you're running on empty

It's 3pm. You haven't eaten since 7am. Now you're shaky, irritable, and eating whatever requires zero thought. This isn't a willpower problem. It's your dopamine system not forwarding hunger signals to your conscious brain.

Appetite suppression from medication

Your stimulants kill your appetite all morning. By evening, they wear off and you're ravenous. The timing is backwards from every nutrition recommendation out there — and most dietitians don't know how to work with it.

Plans that collapse the second you go off-schedule

Rigid meal plans don't survive ADHD brains. They require too many micro-decisions and create too much opportunity for forgetting, skipping, or giving up when you're 20 minutes off-schedule.

FIT CHECK

This works best if you...

If several of these describe you, the Fuel Audit is worth an hour of your time.

Have ADHD (diagnosed or self-identified) and have never been able to make a nutrition plan stick
Cycle through restricting and overeating without intending to
Need external scaffolding — not more willpower
Want to work with a dietitian who actually understands how your brain works

WATCH

Hear it from Gabby.

Gabby answers the most common questions about ADHD and nutrition — from a sports dietitian who lives it herself.

Your brain works differently. Your nutrition plan should too.

The Fuel Audit: a 60-minute 1:1 with Gabby, $250. She shows up having actually read what you shared, and you leave with a written plan.

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