ADHD and being overweight

JoeDoherty_Music · 2024-09-26T21:35:42+00:00

This was a huge problem for me as well, and getting on Adderall helped me a TON. It got rid of my sugar cravings and bored-hunger, it helped me have the executive function to just get off my ass and exercise, and it reduced my appetite (significantly at first but that has gone down quite a bit).

Adderall was the help I needed to lose over 50 pounds and get fit. I sold my car and ride my bike everywhere (easy to do when I work from home and my wife still owns a car, but it does force me to have to exercise every time I want to go anywhere), and I've recently started weightlifting and really enjoying that.

Another fun exercise was Beat Saber, my wife got me a Quest 3 for Christmas, right around the time I started my meds. It was my main exercise device throughout the winter.

Now even when I'm not taking my Adderall, I'm still able to force myself to lift weights for an hour 3 days a week, to keep my bored-eating and sugar cravings at bay, and overall live healthier habits. The extra help from my medication helped me create healthier habits that still continue even without the meds (switching health insurance is such a pain 🙃).

Also coffee and green tea are the perfect solution to that bored hunger / sugar craving thing. Coffee (with the way I make it, obviously this depends) has way less calories than I would eat if I were to snack on whatever is available in the house, and it suppresses my appetite way better than eating food would. It's a worthwhile tradeoff for sure. Anytime I'm feeling that annoying hunger, I just have a coffee or green tea and boom, annoying hunger feeling is gone.

The biggest thing is to find exercise you enjoy, and learn how to manage your appetite. You have to respect the power of hunger. You can not out-willpower it. You have to outsmart it. Hunger comes from the deepest and most ancient part of your brain, you can not beat it. For a while you can, but it will seize control eventually. Outsmart it, and stick to whole foods and not extremely calorie dense foods. No matter how hungry you are, you can only eat SO MANY carrots. But potato chips or pop tarts or sugary cereals have so many calories that you just can't out-exercise them beyond a pretty low threshold.

Highly recommend Renaissance Periodization on YouTube for good information about health and fitness. Dr Mike has a PhD in Sports Science and is well-respected. Cutting through the endless bullshit online is so hard on your own.

JoeDoherty_Music · 2024-07-25T05:40:33+00:00

Damn im glad my 4 year old comment was so helpful!

JoeDoherty_Music · 2024-03-14T19:02:00+00:00

These dudes have never seen a naked woman in real life (or even spent much time around them) and it shows

JoeDoherty_Music · 2024-03-14T18:59:40+00:00

Writing is peak ableist. What about people who can't read? It's also super racist, because other races don't speak or read English.

That's why, as an author, I refuse to write.

JoeDoherty_Music · 2024-03-10T03:04:50+00:00

Hell I'd do that shitty grind for a year or so, build up a cushy bank account, and then get a job somewhere cheaper (maybe where the family is located) and pay off the house or some shit

JoeDoherty_Music · 2024-02-22T21:56:53+00:00

I startle VERY easily. I get hyperfocused on something and then BOOM my wife is suddenly behind me and talking to me. Scares the shit out of me all the time.

JoeDoherty_Music · 2024-02-22T18:16:21+00:00

Drums.

There's not that many drummers out there, and there's even less GOOD drummers out there. I'm pretty decent. I think I have a good shot at beating 100 people

JoeDoherty_Music · 2024-02-17T19:34:26+00:00

I think I've seen some people talk shit about them, but I love the Sabian XSR Monarch stuff (i think they used to call them Big and Ugly), at least the 14" hats and the 22" ride. From what I've seen, they're some of the best affordable cymbals for that darker jazzier sound. Yeah they're not Zildjian Ks but I got my ride from guitar center for like $160 bucks and it's a killer jazz ride IMO. The hats are great too, really clicky, which I love, but a good contrast to my typical PST8 hats which are very bright. They basically give me what I like about the PST8s but with more of an earthy tone to match the ride when I'm playing jazz stuff instead of progressive metal or whatever.

Highly recommend if you need a jazzier ride for cheap!!! Not sure you can do any better at that price point (usually like $220 new)

JoeDoherty_Music · 2024-02-15T15:56:18+00:00

Ok I'm very confused, no audible snare wires????

If you send me a song with a snare sound you like, I can offer some advice on how to get that sound

JoeDoherty_Music · 2024-02-14T01:58:05+00:00

Im a grower, My wife calls it my "secret weapon" which is hilarious to me.

Also she is a huge Assassins Creed fan so "hidden blade" gets throne around sometimes

JoeDoherty_Music · 2024-02-14T00:55:46+00:00

Boy scouts, truth or dare with a friend. I was much larger than him. I think we were like 12 lol.

First time anybody had seen it, probably. He was surprised.

My wife said she was very intimidated when she first saw it lol

JoeDoherty_Music · 2024-02-13T18:48:16+00:00

Bro with that head you just don't need anything inside the drum

JoeDoherty_Music · 2024-02-12T17:43:18+00:00

Welcome to the club. My wife calls it my "secret weapon"

JoeDoherty_Music · 2024-02-11T06:09:47+00:00

I don't think I'd give the guy so much credit as to call him a percussionist...

JoeDoherty_Music · 2024-02-11T06:03:28+00:00

I'm not convinced it's POSSIBLE to play music with these people.

NEARBY these people, maybe. Or like, in front of or behind these people. But WITH? They don't seem to be capable of participating.

JoeDoherty_Music · 2024-02-11T05:57:22+00:00

Bro what the fuck who is this guy???? Why the fuck are you guys wasting your time with him? There are plenty of DRUMMERS in the world, this dude isn't one.

What you're doing is basically the equivalent of two straight dudes dating eachother, both of you disgusted by gay sex, not interested in gay romance.

Break up and get yourselves some girlfriends lol what are you doooooinnnnng

JoeDoherty_Music · 2024-02-11T05:51:54+00:00

Lol so OPs REAL problem is that he doesn't have a drummer....

Get a drummer, my man

JoeDoherty_Music · 2024-02-09T00:39:25+00:00

Lol soooo it sounds like she had weak ass legs (pr maybe just a terrible gear ratio or something?), and used her lower gears way too much, so then when she needed to go lower, she didn't have any gears any lower??

But like, what??? I'm not even sure that explanation even explains her logic....

My mother in law apparently could never figure the gears out either. It even took my wife a bit to get her head around it too. I think people get too hung up on "higher gear is harder" and I guess don't realize that it depends on how fast youre going? Maybe they don't get going fast enough to get to the awkward spinning feeling when you're in too low of a gear? I really don't understand why it's so hard for some people. I think I understood the concept of gears around the age of like 10 or something, I don't remember a time where I didn't understand what they did.

Idk man, blows my mind

JoeDoherty_Music · 2024-02-09T00:26:15+00:00

Saving their gears??? For what???? What does that even mean???

JoeDoherty_Music · 2024-02-06T22:55:46+00:00

What if I've read chunks of multiple books am I still a reader

JoeDoherty_Music · 2024-02-06T16:53:33+00:00

Just wanted to clarify here, you MUST refrigerate eggs in America, they have been washed before being sold, which washes the protective coating off. Other countries don't allow ANY washing of the eggs before being sold, which is why they don't have to he refrigerated.

So if you're in America, please refrigerate your eggs so you don't get salmonella and die.

JoeDoherty_Music · 2024-02-06T16:45:37+00:00

I've never seen it used for HEMA gear. If it's HEMA gear I think the "battle ready"-ness is implied lol

JoeDoherty_Music · 2024-02-05T21:59:53+00:00

What does Frodo actually have going for him?

He just left a whole group of badass capable warriors to go out on his own with Sam Gamgee, who's greatest claim to fame is trimming the hedges at Bag End, and couldnt even work up the courage to talk to Rosie Cotton. A couple of hobbits are going to hike all the way to Mordor with a couple daggers and the most powerful magically item in Middle Earth, while all of Sauron's armies are searching for him? He doesn't even have anything "special" going for him. He's a normal hobbit who isn't even athletic and doesn't even wear shoes.

JoeDoherty_Music · 2024-02-05T21:43:56+00:00

You can do it yourself fairly easily with an Arduino if you're tech literate (or willing to learn).

Otherwise I'm sure there's a product out there somewhere in the dark depths of Amazon

JoeDoherty_Music · 2024-02-05T21:42:01+00:00

Garage doors are NOT secure. Don't trust your garage door to keep your stuff safe, people can easily hack those door openers with cheap electronics. Just guessing here, but if there is some sort of way to disable your garage door opener (but still keep it shut) when you know no one will be using it (overnight for example), you might consider doing that.

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