I am self-employed and my boss is an incompetent jerk.

I've already punished myself with a pay cut.

I’m gonna sue my ass for what I did to me!

"Junk food as a reward" is something every expert I've ever heard talk about it says is a terrible idea, and I don't think this is unique to ADHD (just probably exacerbated by it). More generally, "Food as a reward" undermines healthy eating.

That brushes up against "well then when should I eat junk food? never?", and that's something I can't tell you. The most balanced mindset might be to treat it like many treat alcohol – both poison to your body – and eat something junky occasionally when you're out with friends or just want to relax one night.

But tying it into "I earned this" is detrimental psychologically, even if it feels natural to gate junk food behind effort so you (in theory, rarely in practice) don't overconsume. Imagine if you gave yourself a shot of whiskey every time you finished x amount of work.

undermine your internalized capitalism with this one weird trick

My brother in christ, you are all I see in /new. How do you manage to average more than a post a minute? You're a meme machine