Eating Disorder Quiz

Do you Need Women's Eating Disorder Treatment? Take the Eating Disorder Quiz.

Taking an eating disorder quiz can help you determine if you need women's eating disorder treatment. This is a difficult question to answer because only you know the degree to which your preoccupation with food and weight is interfering with your life. If you answer "yes" to any of the eating disorder questions in our eating disorder quiz, you may suffer from bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder or anorexia nervosa.

To locate eating disorder treatment that works call the eating disorder helpline at 1-800-391-4309.Or contact The Women's Center for Healthy Living at 1-800-231-2950 No matter what you do or where you go, GET HELP NOW, if you have an eating disorder!

Eating Disorder Quiz

• Does the description in the section "What is Anorexia Nervosa?", "What is Bulimia" or What is Compulsive Eating, describe you?
• Do you promise yourself you will stop eating certain foods but, begin eating them again?
• Do you continually eat more than you intended to?
• Have you tried several diets to lose weight, but end up gaining it back and more?
• Are you constantly thinking about food, weight, or body image?
• Is it difficult to concentrate on the daily tasks of studying or work because of food and weight thoughts?
• Do you worry about what your last meal is doing to your body?
• Do you experience guilt or shame around eating?
• Is it difficult for you to eat in public?
• Do you count calories every time you eat or drink?
• Do you chronically diet only to regain the weight after going "off" the diet?
• Do you feel "out of control" when it comes to food?
• When others tell you that you are too thin, do you still feel fat?
• If you see yourself as thin, do you still obsess about your stomach, hips, thighs, or buttocks being too big?
• Do you weigh yourself several times daily?
• Does the number on your scale determine your mood and outlook for the day?
• Will you exercise to lose weight even if you are ill or injured?
• Do you label foods as "good" and "bad?"
• Do you vomit after eating and/or use laxatives or diuretics to keep your weight down?
• Are you sad and depressed most of the time?
• Have you used drugs to try and maintain or lose weight?

If you have answered "yes" to several of the above eating disorder quiz questions, it may be time to see a professional familiar with women's eating disorders to assess your need for eating disorder treatment. There are many types of eating disorder treatments, just as there are several types of eating disorders. Don't be scared, the sooner you receive eating disorder help, the greater the chances of recovery are.

Get eating disorder help NOW! For eating disorder help call our toll free helpline at 1-800-231-2950. Help is available 24 hours a day and all calls are confidential.

Reprinted from A Guide to Eating Disorder Recovery