Do you see yourself in some of these questions?
By Katie Jay, MSW
http://www.obesityaction.org/magazine/oacnews6/Food Addiction.pdf
1. Has anyone expressed concern about your thoughts and/or behavior around your eating, body or weight?
2. Do you think or obsess about food, your eating, your body and/or your weight much of the time?
3. Do you binge on a regular basis, eating a relatively large quantity of food at one sitting?
4. Do you eat to relieve unpleasant emotions?
5. Do you eat when you are not hungry?
6. Do you hide food for yourself or eat in secret?
7. Can you stop eating without difficulty after one or two bites of a snack food or sweets?
8. Do you often eat more than you originally planned to eat?
9. Do you have feelings of guilt, shame or embarrassment when you eat – or afterwards? 10. Do you spend a lot of time calculating the calories you ate
and the calories you burned?
11. Do you feel anxious about your weight, body or eating?
12. Are you fearful of gaining weight?
13. Do you tell yourself you'll be happy when you achieve a certain weight?
14. Do you feel like your whole life is a struggle with food and your weight?
15. Do you feel hopeless about your behavior with food, and/or your obsession with your body and weight?
16. Do you entertain yourself with thoughts of food and what you are going to eat next?
17. Do you weigh yourself once, twice or more daily?
18. Do you exercise excessively to control your weight?
19. Do you avoid eating or severely limit the amount of food you will eat?
20. Being totally honest with yourself, do you think you have a problem with food?
