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Self-Identification
1. Are there certain foods that you trust not to stick to you, bloat you, or make you gain weight?
2. Do you secretly eat in such a way that your meals last longer, or seems larger? For example, cutting each piece in tiny sections, counting each mouthful as you eat, etc?
3. Do you feel compelled to eat when you are home alone?
4. Do you secretly crave food all the time?
5. Do your eating and weight loss activities ever interfer with work, school, and/or relationships?
6. Do you use laxatives, vomiting, diet pills,or exercise whenever you eat "bad" foods?
7. When you have to eat a meal in the presence of others, do you worry about how you're going to get rid of that meal?
8. Did you purge occasionally when you wanted to, but now find you cannot stop?
9. Do you feel secretly proud when someone tells you that you're too thin?
10. Is the struggle over food, eating and weight getting to be too much for you? Have you wished you could just be out of all this misery?
11. Do you find you cannot stop thinking about food and weight, that it intrudes in your thoughts much or most of the time?
12. Do you feel frightened of food or eating?
13. Do you feel compelled to exercise a lot, even when you're tired, not feeling well, or have to work, study, etc?
Adapted from the SELF program at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
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