Published on 12, July, 2020
My relationship with food has always been terrible, even before I was diagnosed with autism.
I would eat very large plates of food as a child, and would pick off of other people's plates once they had finished. I loved sweets, so much so that when my mother started to hide the sweets, i would dig through the cupboards until i found them. I ate and drank things so fast that i would have frequent nausea. I never stopped mouthing, so any pen, pencil, lid or bottle cap would either be chewed to an unrecognisable clump of plastic or swallowed.
Even with the diagnosis, i haven't seemed to control myself. I know now that i mostly overeat because of a lack of mental stimulation and because of sensory input, but I can't change my diet no matter how hard I try.
However, i do worry that at the rate i am going, i could end up with diabetes.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
my diet growing up was about as unhealthy as yours. i ate sugar constantly - occasionally someone might tell me not to, but really to no effect whatsoever. entire bags of candies. bags of cookies. i was kind of active physically, so i actually was quite thin. three years ago i tried intermittent fasting. i eat all the fat i want, stuff veggies down (altho i really don't care for them, but i no i have to eat them), i still eat sugar, alas. but i intermittent fast about five days a week. that means in its simplest form, eating in a 6 hour window, so you have 18 hour fasts in a day.
it's kind of mitigated the eating when you're bored, eating when you're really needy, to a certain extend. sometimes i worry about it developing into an eating disorder, but i think it's over all been ok. i don't have a social life at all, so that makes fasting pretty easy.