u/Pretend_Koala7889

I have ADHD, when medicated I cannot tell if I am even hungry until I am ravenous and will hog my food up.
Without medication I cannot tell when I am full, until I am full to the point of feeling nauseous and bloated.

I genuinely cannot comprehend..the feeling? Like I try to use a hunger scale but I cannot seem to tell what actually a “somewhat hungry” feels like ? (I use the hunger scale Colleen Christensen provides)

Plus when eating, there is a tiny voice in my head that tells me “maybe I am full?” but I cannot seem to physically stop myself until I feel uncomfortably full.

Please help!

Also, with the whole binge-restrict cycle my entire life, I cannot seem to shake off the need to want to log in my calories and weigh my food etc.. any tips for that would also be appreciated!

About me: I am a newbie, barely been 3 days and have only consumed YT content mainly Colleen Christensen (no food rules) and diet.culture.rebel related content.

I would appreciate any recommendations on free books (or reasonably priced) and podcasts would be ideal..

I have always struggled with a binge-restrict cycle.. the whole weight gain/loss hoopla.

I have observed that once my brain detects something as a threat, no matter how small or inconsequential, it will develop into a full blown phobia/fear/panic attack?

I will harp on it so much, that I wouldn’t be able to leave it well enough alone even after technically I am far removed from that threat.

For example, I never use to be afraid on geckos/lizards. I was having a panic attack once (PTSD) and saw a Jason Statham looking gecko on my balcony and my panic attack somehow got even worse then.

From that point on, I have had this irrational fear of them, I will literally start crying and bawling my eyes out and hyperventilate if they are in my house.
Oddly enough I have no physical reaction to them if they are outside my house. This seems to only happen if they get inside.

And my brain will continuously try to figure out the “why” and end up thinking about it more..and more.. and amplify the fear.

I end up checking every nook and cranny EVERYDAY, everytime I open the door I dart my eyes around everywhere to make sure there isn’t anything around.

Recently one got in and I panicked so much I was crying and hyperventilating and I couldn’t move, it then disappeared and I haven’t seen it for 3 days *touchwood*, but all I can think about is what will I do if it shows up and why can’t I stop having this fearful reaction. I ended up learning all about them in an attempt to get over this, my logical brains accepts that they are harmless (just like I knew before) but I cannot seem to stop fixating on them and on the fear.

This fear by far has lingered around the most. There were other instances but those fears did eventually fade.

> It feels like the horror flip side of hyper-fixation

Please help me 😭

My dad has always been swayed very easily with what others suggest or anything new.
Why this worries me..

My dad will come home with this “my client told me about this new kidney cleanse he is on and I think we should do it, you will lose weight as well”
That client was obese and was being monitored by his GP, all throughout the time.

Plus if I am not wrong doesn’t the kidney and liver themselves work together to filter / process toxins, but he was vehemently against being told that this “cleanse” is not for everyone and not even necessary for everyone.
Then few weeks later, he forgot all about it..

This happens quite often, however, this time he is caught in this multi-tiered marketing scheme / pyramid scheme, he was roped in by one of his colleagues and he is so enamoured by their products that he is replacing everything and I mean EVERYTHING with their products.
Soap, bodywash, shampoo.. also is drinking this protein shake that we have no idea what is in it ??

Today he replaced the toothpaste and when I checked that it doesn’t have any fluoride in it, I suggested that we ask our dentist whether it is okay to switch to this? And he got oddly defensive, almost as if I was out here insulting him?

I told him, that it’s a good thing to be a little skeptical and do your own research before jumping head first into things.
But he started defending this company as if it’s his own?
“You don’t know how long this company has lasted” “They are the best at everything” “So what if we have to buy somethings to sell it”

Am I overreacting? This is fairly common experience with my dad, getting carried away with anything new.

Any social media conspiracy post and he immediately believes it to the point, that if I challenge it (as in ask questions) he gets totally defensive.

Recently he was watching an AI video and he completely believed it, when I pointed out that it is AI and even gave him reasons why, pointing out weird stuff in the video and the background, he was still convinced that it isn’t AI.

< It wasn’t a hard to spot AI video, it was literally a video of 4 girls taking a selfie in front of an elephant and the elephant shat on them.. the shit magically disappears off of the girls… their camera is untouched and most of all… they had this weirdly long..I mean really long fingers ..all of them and just the video itself and the plausibility of it was clearly off >

And no, it’s not something new, when I was barely 2years old, he again got roped into selling this “special” mattress and lost a LOT of money.

This gets very frustrating. Please help me as to how I can help him? Give me guidance that doesn’t make it so I have to argue and break my head with him please, it ends up negatively affecting my mental health as well.

Well the biggest thing I learnt from my mistakes is to always include the “exempt/0” items, unnecessarily lose 1/2 marks here and there if you don’t.

Any more to add?

Also, I feel ACCA should have updated their sample answers for the past papers, very hard to self-mark especially where rates /rules have changed.

So, in attempting the exam kit for section C, should I be solving all section C questions in full like how we would solve in the exam, or can I solve handful of them that way and the rest for just the calculations ?

I don’t know if I am making any sense, but can anyone give me some advice regarding this?