Relationship with Food Quiz
Questions: 15 · 10 minutes
1. When you believe you have eaten more than planned, how does it affect you emotionally?
I may notice fullness or surprise, but I do not judge myself for it.
I feel briefly disappointed or uncomfortable, then the feeling passes.
I experience lasting guilt or shame that changes the rest of my day.
I feel intense self-disgust, panic, or hopelessness that becomes hard to manage.
2. How often do thoughts about food, calories, weight, or body shape interrupt your concentration?
Rarely or never; the thoughts pass without disrupting what I am doing.
Occasionally; I notice them but can return to the task.
Often; they take up substantial attention during the day.
They dominate my attention and regularly prevent me from studying, working, resting, or connecting with others.
3. A restaurant changes the menu and your planned meal is unavailable. What are you most likely to do?
Choose another available meal that seems satisfying enough.
Choose something else, though the change leaves me uneasy while eating.
Order mainly according to my food rules, even if the choice will not satisfy me.
Skip the meal or leave because none of the alternatives feels permissible.
4. Which description best matches moments when you eat beyond comfortable fullness?
If it happens, I still feel able to choose whether to continue or stop.
I sometimes eat past comfort automatically, but I can usually pause once I notice.
At times, stopping feels difficult and the experience leaves me distressed.
I experience episodes of feeling unable to stop or control my eating, with intense distress, secrecy, or fear afterward.
5. Someone makes an unexpected comment about your body or eating. What is the most likely effect?
I may have a reaction, but the comment does not alter how I eat.
I think about it for a while and feel somewhat self-conscious.
It leads me to restrict, monitor, or avoid certain foods afterward.
It triggers severe distress or an immediate urge to punish or deprive myself.
6. When you have gone a long time without enough food and feel physically unwell, what usually happens?
I eat and attend to what my body needs.
I hesitate because eating feels uncomfortable, but I am eventually able to do it.
I frequently continue restricting despite noticeable weakness or impaired concentration.
I continue refusing food despite faintness, collapse, severe weakness, or advice that I need immediate nourishment or medical care.
7. When illness, injury, or exhaustion conflicts with a planned workout, how do you respond?
I rest or adapt the activity according to what my body needs.
I rest, though missing the workout leaves me uneasy or disappointed.
I often exercise anyway or alter my food intake because I missed it.
I continue intense exercise despite injury, faintness, illness, or medical advice to stop.
8. If your weight or body shape changes, what happens to your sense of self-worth?
My feelings may vary, but my basic worth does not depend on the change.
The change affects my confidence somewhat, alongside many other parts of my identity.
It strongly influences whether I feel acceptable or successful.
It determines whether I feel worthy of food, care, relationships, or participation in daily life.
9. You become clearly hungry earlier than your planned eating time. How do you respond?
I have food that fits my hunger and circumstances.
I may wait briefly for convenience, but I still eat before long.
I regularly ignore the hunger until my rules say eating is allowed.
I refuse food despite weakness, dizziness, or difficulty functioning.
10. At a social event where the available food does not fit your usual plan, what tends to happen?
I participate and choose according to hunger, preference, and what is available.
I eat something, but monitoring the food distracts me from the event.
I restrict beforehand or tightly limit my choices so I can maintain control.
I avoid or leave the event because eating there feels unmanageable.
11. How much do eating or weight-control behaviors interfere with school, work, sleep, relationships, or ordinary responsibilities?
They do not interfere with these areas of my life.
They occasionally require extra planning or cause minor disruption.
They regularly cause conflict, lateness, cancellation, isolation, or reduced performance.
They prevent me from managing essential responsibilities or keeping important relationships and commitments.
12. How strongly do labels such as “good,” “bad,” “clean,” or “forbidden” shape what you eat?
I may use those words casually, but they do not determine what I allow myself to eat.
They influence some choices, although I can usually remain flexible.
They often lead to guilt or make me avoid foods I would otherwise want.
They form rigid rules that I feel unable to break, even when eating becomes difficult.
13. Which physical experience is closest to what accompanies your eating pattern?
I have not noticed physical symptoms connected with how I eat.
I occasionally notice fatigue, feeling cold, digestive discomfort, or mild dizziness that may relate to eating.
I repeatedly experience dizziness, weakness, shaking, digestive problems, sleep disruption, or trouble concentrating around eating.
I have fainted or experienced chest pain, blood in vomit, confusion, severe weakness, or another alarming symptom.
14. What, if anything, do you do specifically to compensate for eating?
I do not use compensatory behaviors; I return to my normal routine.
I sometimes delay or reduce a later meal because I feel I ate too much.
I regularly skip meals or add exercise primarily to cancel out food.
I have induced vomiting or misused laxatives, diuretics, diet products, or medication to compensate, even once.
15. After eating an unplanned dessert, what usually follows?
I continue with my usual eating pattern.
I mentally review it for a while but do not change my next meal.
I deliberately reduce what I eat later to make up for it.
I skip meals or fast because I feel I must cancel it out.