Unfortunately, that’s a great way to really fucv up your health. Unfortunately, i know this from first-hand experience.
Wise to make sure the one same meal every time, has all required nutrition.
For years I did a hemp smoothie, refined to add all the things to make it meet recommend levels of each nutrient.
I do it mainly for the reason because I am lazy. I don’t like having to think what I need to buy before I go shopping. If I eat the same stuff every week, I know what and how much I need to get and where to exactly find it in the supermarket.
Buttered, toasted, cinnamon and raisin bagel, and an oat milk flat white. Buttered, toasted, cinnamon and raisin bagel, and an oat milk flat white. Buttered, toasted, cinnamon and raisin bagel, and an oat milk flat white. Buttered, toasted, cinnamon and raisin bagel, and an oat milk flat white. Buttered, toasted, cinnamon and raisin bagel, and an oat milk flat white. Buttered, toasted, cinnamon and raisin bagel, and an oat milk flat white. Buttered, toasted, cinnamon and raisin bagel, and an oat milk flat white. Buttered, toasted, cinnamon and raisin bagel, and an oat milk flat white. Buttered, toasted, cinnamon and raisin bagel, and an oat milk flat white.
Am I autistic or depressed?
Yes
Neither, just a bit crazy for liking raisins /j
we have a pretty similar breakfast😈
hell yeah, I love pizza.
Bologna and cheese on white bread. I can eat it every day and have for years
I’m not autistic but I have eaten the same breakfast for the past 13 years.
Also, eating the same things, or very similiar, on a regular basis is really good if you want to gain/lose weight since all you need to do it add/remove things.
I’m not autistic
Are you sure?
I was sure, for 38 years.
I was wrong.
On the other hand, I suspect I’m on the spectrum but can’t relate to this at all. I love a variety of food and would get bored to death if I had to eat the same thing all the time.
I also like new and unexpected textures in foods (unless I’m already familiar with it and know it isn’t supposed to have that texture). That shit’s delightful.
But maybe it’s just the ADD overpowering anything else in the constant search for new sources of easy dopamine (while also overriding any urgency towards actually context shifting to eating or cooking mode).
Well, not 100% sure. I have quite a few ADHD traits though. But on the other hand I’m social and can read other peoples feelings quite well.
It’s also just easy. My lunch every workday is the same. When I ate meat I’d swap out what kind of lunch meat was on the sandwich, but now it’s a peanut butter sandwich with a piece of fruit. My breakfast is often the same on workdays. My variety comes from dinner and weekends. Is it because the idea of doing this is appealing? No, but I never have to worry that I forgot to pack a lunch or that I chose a breakfast I didn’t have time for.
My wife on the other hand once spent years eating the same thing and considered it a perk of powerlifting, because that woman is autistic af.
Yeah, it makes things simpler. You have the same as me, variation comes from dinners and weekends.
When working out it’s even better to always eat the same thing; making adjustments is so much simpler
I know of an 18 year old boy who is autistic and eats nothing but chicken nuggets and potato waffles. His rigid diet has caused him health problems and it’s been very difficult for his parents. It’s sad to see.
For my cousin it’s day old Caesar’s pizza, literally nothing else. For someone my SO grew up with, it was noodles with ketchup, also nothing else. It’s wrecked havoc on their bodies.
Any tips? You’re freaking me out with regards to my little dude.
Finding nutritious safe foods is vital. People super into weights often eat a pre portioned amount of rice and chicken and all the spinach they want, and my autistic wife enjoyed doing that when she did it. Texture is huge but so is familiarity. For western autistic people safe foods tend to be heavily processed “kid foods”, make sure your kid’s idea of comfort foods isn’t that.
Also encourage him to be brave and try new things with the safety of it not being commitment to the food, and as he’s older talk to him about what he likes and doesn’t about things and check in before trying something new when he’s old enough to. My wife has days where she has the mental energy to try something new, and days where she doesn’t. Additionally if I can describe what it’s like it takes less energy for her to try. And don’t pull the “it’s just like chicken” thing, go more “these fried mushrooms are tender and slimy with a strong umami taste, kind of like soy sauce but not as salty or fermented tasting”
Thank you! Good highlight on “without commitment”.
Yeah it’s vital that agreeing to try something new doesn’t feel unsafe. If the kid doesn’t like it a parent can eat it, it’s fine. And that’s not just for autistic kids, but it is especially for them. Adventurous behavior, especially in children, is associated with it feeling safe to push outside one’s comfort zone. That can mean trying kimchi or it can mean trying the monkey bars. Encouraging adventurous behavior is also good. You want the kid to be comfortable leaving their comfort zone and entering the growth zone. Food is just one element of it.
I’ve had to help autistic adults learn that they can just try new things, fail, and be ok whether it’s setting up a doctor’s appointment, new foods, or new skills. Many people, but especially common in people diagnosed with autism as children, are raised where if something doesn’t go right the first time they’re scolded or punished or fussed over or whatever else discouraging behavior and it results in people who struggle to leave their comfort zones, which is crippling as an adult.
I have a daughter on the spectrum. It took many hours each week and many weeks in a year of ABA (RBT, hopefully getting my acronyms right) therapy to get her to accept a variety of foods. Fast forward to a few years later, she’ll eat anything including spicy food (by her own choice). It was definitely a texture thing, as well as her wanting a constant she could reliably predict. As part of her therapy we always included something she liked alongside the things she didn’t. We were firm she had to try everything every time, even if she couldn’t finish.
You got this!
Don’t take no for an answer. What’s for dinner is what you get or you can go to bed hungry. My mom just didn’t put up with my bullshit and let me not eat my food if I didn’t want it but absolutely refused to let me have anything else until dinner was eaten. If I ate my dinner I could have whatever I wanted (in the house, which was pretty much all healthy food).
My mom used this strategy. The problem was there was and still are a lot of foods I just straight don’t like. Not “I’d just rather have spaghetti-os” but, “I cannot stomach this because of the taste or texture or whatever”. She also was not a very good cook so even if it was something I liked usually I sometimes wouldn’t like it. This led to a lot of nights of us sitting at the table with me getting yelled at and not allowed to leave the table until my plate was cleared .
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I’m willing to try this if I can introduce it gradually.
I’ve heard talk of this causing “disordered eating” but haven’t done the reading myself on that. Do you think it caused any negative outcomes for yourself?
I have a reduced appetite as an adult because of medical conditions, so it’s difficult to tell because I have a hard time eating anyway. I don’t have any food aversions and if I’m hungry will eat most anything. But like the other reply to my comment said, it resulted in a lot of unpleasant dinners. I was on a behavioral diet most of my childhood as well so that had a factor in it all too. I think having a standard, boring “second choice” might be a good idea, but also definitely just communicate about what they like and don’t like, children are capable of reason just not always encouraged into the ability.
Thanks for your honest feedback and sharing.
What’s a behavioural diet, just like what you said with “if you do this, then that”?
I had pretty serious behavioral issues as a kid, mom put me on an exclusion diet designed by a kind of woo-y Dr, but I do think it helped. I guess people have lots of food “sensitivities” that might be tied to childhood behavior? I didn’t eat gluten, corn, milk, potatoes, tomatoes, and a bunch of less significant things for 18 months, than was reintroduced to those things slowly via tincture for 6 months. As an adult I still don’t really know what he was doing because the diagnosis involved holding 2 electrodes like an e meter but it did seem to have noticeable benefits to my behavior.
Could they sneak vitamin stuff into his food/drink or does that only help so much?
I think they tried something like that but it didn’t work out. Very difficult situation sadly.
Dude I used to know a guy in his 30s that ate this way his whole life. Breaded chicken + fried potatoes of some sort + vanilla ice cream. No idea how he’s doing now but he’s gotta be feeling the effects his 40s.
Luckily my wife has a rotation of safe foods, because even that’s a nightmare.
I have a less severe version of the same thing. ARFID. Turns out I’m not that crazy.
My diet is at least 30% sandwiches xd
You’d fit in here in Belgium. 80% of people eat 2 pieces of white bread with a spread or a single piece of meat in between for lunch lol
I am pizza
Butterbrot geht immer
You know, I want to get into sandwiches, but I always feel like I throw away half the stuff because I don’t eat it quickly enough, or because I run out.
Any tips?
You can freeze bread and defreeze it in the oven pretty quickly if it’s already pre-sliced.
I often combine meals, for example I buy salad and cucumber, so I make sandwiches & a salad. Next day I’ll make wraps using the salad and condiments fromthe sandwiches. I barely buy stuff just for one dish, I always have a second use in mind.
Oven?? A microwave takes 30 seconds
This is exactly what I do too. I’ll also sometimes buy a rotisserie chicken and use some for salad, then make soup the next day. I also buy pickles and put them on sandwiches as well since they can stay good in the fridge for longer than a cucumber
Peanut butter and jam is my… jam :)
Shit I always thought I had a little 'tism… Yeah I’ve eaten pretty much the same meal plan every day for over a decade. Soup and Sandwiches! Can’t go wrong with a bowl of soup and a sandwich for dinner, nope nope!
Breakfast is Steelcut Oatmeal made with splenda, cinnamon, and a dash of salt. 2 cups of coffee, each with splenda, pinch of salt and cinnamon.
Lunch I don’t eat, just power through with caffeine.
Dinner is two open-face turkey sandwiches. Scirachi aoli, cheddar cheese, smoked turkey, turkey pepperoni, jalepenos, topped with a nice bed of crunchy lettuce. A can of high-protein soup, with some tobasco and (a lot of) extra beans thrown in, microwaved for 6 minutes, then pop in some Italian seasoned croutons, let them soak up the soup for like 15-20 min while you eat the sandwiches, turns that bad boy into a delicious bready stew. Add to the dinner a pound bag of baby carrots, and a big ass iceberg/cabbage salad with whatever dressing for a great big bolus of fiber.
For dessert, Get you a sugar-free package of pudding in your fav flavor (Banana Cream and Pistachio), mix it with 3 cups of cold fat-free milk, let that sit while you eat din-din, then pour some rice krispies over the pudding, and eat it layer by layer, adding rice krispies for mouth feel as you go.
Fucking delicious. I’ve eaten that everyday for around 15 years now? I’ve gotten better recently, and have started having pizza nights, where I replace the soup and sandwiches with a whole pizza, but yeah, 99.9% of the time, soup and sandwiches. Classic combo. The best combo.
That’s like…way to much food for me, but it sounds bomb as hell.
it’s so much food, and stupid filling, but only like 2000 calories for the whole thing! When I want to lose weight, I can either stick very strictly to JUST that food, and I’ll lose about a pound or 2 a week with zero activity. However, I’m also an amateur bodybuilder, so I gotta keep up with my gym time at least 3 times a week, so if I maintain that activity PLUS keep to this diet, I’ll lose a pound of belly fat every 2 days. It’s pretty dope.
I like to get real sexy and svelt, get down to like 155 (I’m 5’8" Male) for the summer and for my birthday, once I hit my birthday, I’m allowed to eat whatever the fuck I want until I feel the itch to lose weight again. I’ll balloon up to like 185 or 190 in the winter with all my snacking and extra chocolate, but all the while I keep myself from going too crazy by sticking with my usual meal plan.
My guide to life is “everything in moderation, but especially moderation”
Damn okay, that’s not bad at all. Still too much for me, I think my maintenance intake is like only 1500 calories, but that’s way less than I expected.
Envious of your ability to swing weight so rapidly though, dang haha
I don’t think I’m on the spectrum, but maybe?
Anyway, for the past four years or so, I’ve been eating nearly the same meals every day, and I’m fine with it. I know exactly what I’ll buy for the week’s groceries, and I waste zero food. My trip to the grocery store takes just over one hour every Sunday morning, including driving time. I take the same path through the store, and grab the same items off the shelves each time, and the store is practically empty at that time, so I just slow down to grab the item. However, on the rare occasion I decide to change an ingredient, I can spend a long time trying to decide on a replacement.
Last year, I wanted to stop using packaged picante sauce, which I used for eggs, and as a replacement for ranch salad dressing for about a year previous. The packaged has too much salt, also I’ve been reducing the processed foods I buy. First, I looked for one that had lower salt, and the few they had were too expensive. So, I decided to try to make my own. That meant I had to buy several ingredients I didn’t before. I did it for about six months, but really didn’t like it, and it was more work every Sunday after I got home from shopping. So, instead, I just dropped it altogether. That meant I dropped the salad with chicken, because I couldn’t find a suitable dressing replacement with low salt. So, now I’m down to my hot meal with chicken and vegetables all the time. I thought it would be rough having the hot meal during the summer, but I did it all last summer and it was fine. Also, it’s one less aisle I go down during shopping.
I don’t know if you or I are on the spectrum, but we’re in whatever club has people that like to explain eating habits in excruciating detail.
All those poor chickens :(
Try eating with your mouth instead of ass and you might want to try new things?
Also: how can just your ass be autistic? And hie do you know?
You could also try new things with your ass. We don’t judge.
Fair. My intent was not to kink shame, though, just to be clear.
Was meant to be funny, so don’t mind, we’re good.
It was, just wanted to make my comments intent clear so as to not cause pain. :)
The perfection of my ass could only be crafted by autistic hyperfixation. This is known.
I guess I’m one of the few autistic people who doesn’t have food attachments. The only thing I decidedly dislike is sea urchin.
That sounds easily avoidable.
Lately it’s been sourdough + pesto + tomato and mozz sandwich toasted up and cut in half, plenty of salt and pep.
I skip the pesto and sandwich part, I just chop up some tomato’s and mozzarella, add some oregano, salt, pepper, olive oil and balsamic vinegar, and have that as a salad. When I’m extra hungry I add some slices of bread with butter lol
Making your favorite meal is not autistic, everyone goes back to the things they like.
(Watching the entirety of The Office 50 times might be autistic.)
I’ve literally made the same exact meal for breakfast and dinner every single day for the last four years straight. Lunch changed because of an external factor, but I’ve had the same meal for lunch every day for about six months now. The meme isn’t referring to making your favorite meal, it’s referring to making the only thing you eat for that meal, ever.
Mind sharing what you make? I’m intrigued.
Sharing what I eat would give away my identity to anyone who knows me in real life and happens to read my comment, sorry.
What if it’s not my favourite meal?
In a row…
I watch The Longest Yard (2005) literally every day. Source: am autie.
I got the fries that will make you cry
I just got burgers
Watching the entirety of The Office 50 times
This is my wife
The piano haunts my nightmares
Luckily she’s moved to B99 for a bit but we’ll see how long that lasts
