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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This seems pretty obvious, but why are you feeding him so much at breakfast?? Maybe just give him a granola bar at breakfast and then a bunch of healthy snackable items for lunch[/quote]

This is not helpful advice. For many kids and adults, their appetite is suppressed by their ADHD meds. For my son, that means he feels physically ill at lunch if he tries to eat like a peer who isn't on ADHD meds. It has nothing to do with what he ate or didn't eat at breakfast.

OP, your question is completely reasonable. I'll second and third the advice that a breakfast before meds, some sort of snack (have you tried the Fairlife chocolate protein milks?) for lunch, and then my middle school son eats when he gets home from school and again at dinner (so basically two dinners). He's on the young side, but also just regularly talking about how we are all different...friends at lunch all eat differently, some are vegetarians, some are on meds, some are diabetic and takes meds before they eat...just regular empathy talk. The good news is, by middle school, my son's friends know that he really doesn't eat lunch and they don't care. It's a nothingburger by now.

Good luck with this! 
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