Write Stuff Down and Eat Cleanly – How I Changed My Life (For Real)

Warning: ADHD-ramblings ahead! Some might find it useful, but no guarantees for your time spent reading this article.

Seemingly unrelated? Maybe. This is what helped me. My life is chaotic, I work from home, don’t get much physical activity throughout the day. I deal with back pain, neck pain, anxiety, trouble sleeping, and my mind races faster than the Road Runner!

I wake up overwhelmed, not knowing what to do first. Clean my cat’s litter box, feed them? Stock their food bowls? Drink my supplements, make my coffee? Go to the bathroom? Oh my god. Just writing all this stuff down here actually helps.

Just. Write. Stuff. Down. Folks. Plan out your day, you’re not a wuss if you do it.

Whatever it is. Whatever is on your mind, transfer it to paper and it’s like magic – the thought is removed from your brain, and it frees stuff up to think and do other things.

Thought paralysis and action paralysis are real things and they can mess you up big time.

Buy a notebook and start writing everything down like when you were a kid. I promise, your life will change. I’m the last guy who thought I’d be doing this. My mind is a battlefield, and I hate dumb rituals like this – until they actually work!

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So, pick up a pen and a notebook and get to work.

Next? What you eat actually affects you big time. Seems obvious? Yeah, but you don’t realize it until you start monitoring your body like a science experiment.

Like any ADHD-rattled night owl out there, I was maniacally browsing random stuff all night, looking at cool air fryer recipes, even though I didn’t own one, and figured this will be my next impulse buy, and it turned out one of the best things I ever purchased.

Stop stuffing yourself with processed foods and start eating cleanly. Go for chicken breasts, get an air fryer – no oil, no pans, no cooking, scrubbing or whatever. It’s plug and play and whatever food you put in there – it will be done in 10 minutes.

You might go as far as meal prepping.

And honestly? You don’t need to become some clean-eating, color-coded meal prep ninja. Just simplify. That’s what changed the game for me. I didn’t count calories or weigh spinach. I just started noticing how I felt after eating real food vs trash.

Turns out, eating something decent – even basic chicken and rice – actually helps your brain chill out too. Less brain fog. Less crashing midday. Less guilt at night.

When I started putting together quick, clean meals and actually writing stuff down, my days started feeling less like I was drowning in static. I didn’t feel “fixed” overnight or anything, but the noise got quieter. That’s what I wanted. Not motivation or inspiration — just less noise.

If you’re overwhelmed, start there. Write it down. Eat something clean. That’s it.

Don’t overthink it. Don’t wait for the perfect system. Grab a pen, grab a notebook, throw some chicken in the air fryer and reset your head.

It doesn’t solve everything. But it buys you enough mental clarity to keep going.

And sometimes, that’s all you need.