Do you ever claim ADD or possibly...ADHD? If so...have you been to the doctor regarding your suspicions? Are you on medication? No? And that doesn't stop you from claiming it still, right? So many people play that game.

It's somehow become quite popular to talk about having one of these conditions. Why? Well...probably because if we had one of them we could blame out inability to complete simple tasks on them. We'd have a medical condition that limited our ability to successfully focus on daily tasks.

For some people the whole ADD and ADHD claim can help them understand unsuccessful dieting patterns. What we call ADD dieters are those who can't stick to a diet long enough to see results.

What we call an ADHD dieter cannot stop swinging from one diet to another wildly. They never finish one program before they start another one. ADHD dieters tend to be on multiple diets in one week. ADHD dieters can't follow a set of dieting protocol long enough to see weight loss; they switch to a new program before they are able to see results.

And since one of the main reasons that we're all constantly claiming and complaining about our fictional ADD and ADHD conditions is because we hate to waste time this inability to successfully diet is a big deal. We hate running around hectically all day trying to get everything done and then discover at the end of the day that we're exhausted and we didn't seem to get anything done. We don't get to cross even one thing off the infamous "to-do" list.

The philosophy can be applied to weight loss diets. You'll need to stick to it for a few weeks. That's the minimum amount of time required for any effective dieting program. Take two weeks and dedicate your energy and thought to dieting. Get it done and move on to working on your to do list again afterwards.

Just keep your mind focused on weight loss. Two dedicated weeks focused on weight loss can do the trick. It's not a long time when you think about it. It's especially not a long time when you think about it in the big picture. So quit complaining about your fictional case of ADD or ADHD and instead dedicate that time to getting focused and staying focused on your weight loss. 

When you've completed your two week "focused" diet you can start complaining again. You can discuss with everyone you run into how you can't seem to get anything done because you're so easily distracted. You can just keep it a secret that you were able to focus on weight loss diets for that two weeks straight. And you can continue on with your constant obsession with claiming ADD and ADHD with no professional basis at all.