Nutrition and ADHD – your brain runs on what you eat. The problem is follow-through.
You already know: protein helps, sugar crashes you, omega-3 is good for focus. But between 'knowing' and 'actually preparing three meals a day' there's a whole ocean of executive dysfunction. The app doesn't count your calories. It helps you remember to eat at all. NFC anchor on the kitchen drawer, one tap, done. No food diary. No 'you missed your target.' Just a small reminder that your brain needs fuel.
Three reasons eating with ADHD is genuinely hard
You forget to eat. Or you eat the wrong thing.
Registering hunger isn't automatic with ADHD. Your brain is in hyperfocus, you're drinking coffee, eventually you're shaking and then you eat whatever is within reach. Usually not what you planned. And then comes the shame. Not because you're 'undisciplined.' Because your brain only lets the 'you need energy' signal through when it's already too late.
You've started 47 eating plans. None of them stuck.
Meal Prep Sunday, intermittent fasting, keto, intuitive eating – you've tried them all. Every plan lasted three days, then the first bad day hit and the plan was history. Not because you're weak. Because plans that ignore your ADHD brain don't work for ADHD. Planning, shopping, prepping, cooking, cleaning – that's five separate tasks, and each one needs executive function you don't have on most days.
Eating is emotional. ADHD makes emotions more intense.
Bad day, rejection sensitivity kicks in, dopamine is in the basement – and the only comfort is in the cookie jar. That's not a character flaw. Your brain is hunting for the fastest dopamine hit. Sugar delivers. The problem isn't the one cookie. The problem is the shame spiral afterward that derails you completely. Tomorrow becomes 'the day I turn everything around.' And the day after that.
Eat. Not perfectly. Just better than yesterday.
DopaLoop isn't a food diary. No calorie counting. Instead: NFC anchors on the kitchen drawer that remind you you haven't eaten today. A 0–5 scale where '12 PM, toast with cheese' counts just as much as '7 PM, homemade curry.'
NFC Anchors: One tap on the kitchen drawer and 'ate' is logged
Sticker on the kitchen drawer, on the water bottle, on the fridge. One tap and the app knows: you ate. You drank. No opening the app, no typing. For days when even that is too much. The anchor optionally asks for intensity – but it doesn't force you. Default value and done. Tracking that actually works on bad days.
0–5 scale: Toast with cheese at noon is a 5, if that's what was possible
Not every day is a three-meal day. The scale doesn't ask 'did you eat perfectly?' It asks 'how well did you take care of yourself today?' Some days, toast with cheese at noon is a 5 because you ate at all. Other days, homemade curry is a 3 because you were stressed and overwhelmed while cooking. That's more honest than a calorie log – and gives you genuinely useful data.
Water tracking: Because you forget to drink until your head hurts
Your iPhone counts steps and workouts. Why not water too? NFC anchor on your water bottle, tap when you refill. Or manually, if you remember. You'll be surprised how often you have 'random headaches' and the app shows: you haven't had water in 14 hours. This isn't a health tracker. It's a survival tracker.
No food diary in the cloud. No excuses.
What you eat, when you eat, how you feel about it – that's nobody's business. No server, no account, no AI trainer analyzing and selling your eating habits. Everything local. Everything on your device. Even the HealthKit data the app reads is processed locally and never transmitted anywhere. Privacy isn't a feature. It's the architecture.
No food diary in the cloud. No excuses.
What you eat, when you eat, how you feel about it – that's nobody's business. No server, no account, no AI trainer analyzing and selling your eating habits. Everything local. Everything on your device. Even the HealthKit data the app reads is processed locally and never transmitted anywhere. Privacy isn't a feature. It's the architecture.
Frequently Asked Questions
14 days free. No meal plan. Just a little more structure.
Try it. Print NFC stickers, stick one on the kitchen drawer, never forget to eat again.