ADHD Dietitian
If eating feels chaotic, stressful, and food takes up way too much mental space (planning, deciding, cooking, remembering), you’re not alone.
As an ADHD dietitian (and fellow ADHDer), I can help you overcome challenges like forgetting to eat, “dopamine-snacking”, food overwhelm, and binge eating.
I get it, and would love to help you.
ADHD Dietitian in Brisbane + Online
Suggesting slow, small, realistic changes (not extreme all-or-nothing plans)
Creating low-capacity meal and snack ideas for days when cooking feels impossible (that honour your sensory preferences)
How An ADHD Dietitian Can Help
While any dietitian can support your health, nutrition, and energy by helping you understand what to eat and why, an ADHD dietitian helps make this information doable.
Instead of relying solely on motivation to change behaviours, we’ll use ADHD-friendly, non-diet, neuro-affirming strategies to build simple food systems that work with your neurospicy brain, so eating feels more consistent, less overwhelming, and way less exhausting.
Supporting you to eat regularly, even when hunger cues are inconsistent, or you forget
Using visual meal planning tools to reduce decision fatigue and overwhelm
Addressing binge eating or other eating disorder behaviours
Reducing reliance on food for dopamine-seeking and emotional regulation
Building flexible food routines that adapt when life, energy, or focus fluctuates
working with your neurospicy brain, not overriding it
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respect for your lived experience & sensory needs
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non-diet, weight inclusive care
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My non-diet approach: navigating ADHD and eating without dieting, shame or judgement
If food feels chaotic, exhausting, or all-consuming, it’s not because you lack discipline or “should know better.” ADHD can affect hunger cues, impulse control, dopamine regulation, memory, and task initiation, all of which directly impact eating and risk of disordered eating.
Planning meals, deciding what to eat, cooking, grocery shopping, and cleaning up can feel like running a marathon. When food feels overwhelming, eating becomes irregular, or delayed and can contribute to low energy, binge eating, and emotional eating.
As an ADHD-informed dietitian, I’ll help you understand:
- Why food planning, prep and cooking feels harder for ADHDers
- How decision fatigue influences food choices
- What and how to eat to boost/support your executive dysfunction
- How to feed yourself easily and consistently with limited executive function
Understanding Executive Dysfunction and Food
Snack boxes to reduce the risk of you forgetting to eat
Visual meal boards, ‘choose your own’ dinner lists
Creating Simple Food Systems
I don’t do multi-step, complicated, cookie-cutter meal plans.
Instead, we create ADHD friendly food systems that are visual, flexible and low effort.
Our goal is simplicity. Less thinking, less pressure, and more regular eating (in a way that works with your brain).
This might look like:
Low prep, no recipe meal ideas
Repeating weekly menus to reduce overwhelm and decision fatigue
Many ADHD medications, especially Vyvanse, can suppress appetite during the day, which can lead to “rebound hunger”, binge eating, impulsive eating, or feeling ‘out of control’ around food, in the afternoon or evening
If your appetite is impacted by ADHD medication, I can help you with:
- Eating patterns that work with your medication
- Strategies for mornings when food feels unappealing
- Preventing the afternoon energy crash
- Rebuilding hunger cues
- Understanding the medication appetite cycle
Support With Eating & Appetite With ADHD Medication
Build emotional safety and trust around food
Reduce unintentional or intentional food restriction that drives rebound hunger
ADHD & Binge Eating Support
Did you know that ADHDers are three times more likely to struggle with binge eating? It’s far more common than people realise. Emotional regulation challenges, impulsivity, dopamine seeking, medication patterns and long gaps between meals all play a role.
As an ADHD and binge eating dietitian, I can help you with:
Address shame, embarrassment and guilt surrounding your food behaviours
Suggest easy, quick and soothing post-binge eating strategies
As a neuro-affirming dietitian, I support ADHDers experiencing binge eating with compassion, not judgment.
I’m Kiah Paetz, an ADHD dietitian, Accredited Practising Dietitian, and Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician and I work with people who feel overwhelmed, stuck, and exhausted by food, eating, and their own brains. I was diagnosed with ADHD only a few years ago, as an adult, a late diagnosis that suddenly made my whole life make sense.
For years, I struggled with things I thought were personal failings: not being able to get things done, feeling constantly chaotic, starting tasks but never finishing them, and relying on last-minute panic to function. I had 101 to-do lists, lost my keys more times than I can count and, felt like I was always behind - no matter how hard I tried.
Like many women with ADHD, I internalised this as “I’m lazy,” “I’m disorganised,” or “I just need to try harder.” Spoiler: trying harder wasn’t the problem.
Eventually, I realised the problem wasn’t me; it was the systems I was trapped in. Diet culture. Rigid nutrition advice. Productivity rules that weren’t built for ADHD brains. So I did what so many people do in recovery: I unlearned everything I thought I knew and started again. That journey is what led me here.
Today, I support adults with ADHD, eating disorders, and disordered eating, especially people who have felt dismissed, misunderstood, or overwhelmed by traditional nutrition advice. I work with people who struggle with executive functioning around food, inconsistent appetite, forgetting to eat, sensory sensitivities, emotional eating, binge eating, or feeling like food takes up way too much mental space.
If food feels hard, your brain feels loud, and you’re tired of feeling like you’re failing, you’re not broken. You’re human. And you don’t have to do this alone.
(who also has adhd)
Meet Your ADHD Dietitian
ADHD doesn’t pause between appointments - so neither does support.
You’ll be onboarded to an app where you can message me between sessions, ask questions, and get guidance when things feel tricky or overwhelming.
If we're also working on your relationship with food, you'll get access to my signature online program, designed to support you in building a healthy relationship with food.
additional support
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We’ll begin with an initial session, followed by weekly or fortnightly sessions, depending on your needs and capacity. These sessions often feel a bit like psychology, but with food.
We’ll talk about what’s actually getting in the way: executive functioning, inconsistent appetite, forgetting to eat, bingeing, food rules, overwhelm, burnout, or all-or-nothing thinking. Together, we’ll create practical, realistic strategies that work with your ADHD brain, not against it.
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We’ll start with a 15-minute free discovery call- no prep, no commitment.
This is a space to talk about what’s feeling hard right now, how ADHD is impacting your eating (and life), and what you’re hoping for. We’ll also chat about whether we’re a good fit and what working together could look like for you.
it all starts off with a discovery call
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How To Work With Your ADHD Dietitian
While I’m based in Brisbane, I offer online ADHD dietitian appointments via telehealth across Australia and world wide. My consults are accessible, flexible, and designed to reduce stress. This means no commuting, no waiting rooms, no extra load for executive functioning.
Frequently Asked Questions
An ADHD dietitian understands how neurodivergence affects your relationship with food. We support you with practical strategies for regulating hunger, reducing binge episodes, eating consistently, managing executive dysfunction, and creating sustainable and simple routines that fit your brain, and not a generic meal plan approach.
Yes. If you have a Chronic Disease Management Plan (CDM) or Eating Disorders Care Plan (EDCP) from your GP, you may be eligible for rebates from dietetic services. Ask your GP for more information, or bring it up during the discovery call.
Binge eating in ADHD is very common, and often linked to:
Long gaps between meals
Appetite suppression and rebound from medication
Dopamine seeking behaviour
Emotional dysregulation
Sensory preferences
Impulsivity and urgency around hunger
Dietitians trained in ADHD can help you in breaking this cycle, without restriction, guilt or dieting.
Session fees vary depending on initial vs review appointments. After discussing your goals, we can recommend a plan that meets your needs. Medicare and private health rebates may apply.
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