Is an eating disorder taking over your life? Ask yourself these questions?

Do you:

• Feel guilty or ashamed about eating?
• Have thoughts about food, weight, and eating throughout your day?
• Feel out of control when it comes to eating?
• Vomit after meals?
• Use laxatives or diuretics?
• Feel tired, exhausted, and/or depressed?
• Obsessively think about food, weight, and eating?
• Exercise obsessively?
• Avoid eating meals or snacks when you’re around other people?
• Calculate fat grams, calories, and/or carbohydrates?
• Weigh yourself often and feel obsessed with the number on the scale?
• Exercise because you feel like you have to, not because you want to?
• Feel afraid of gaining weight?
• Feel out of control when you are eating?
• Engage in these eating patterns: extreme dieting, withdrawn or rigid behaviors at mealtime, or secretive bingeing?
• Consider weight loss, dieting, and/or control of food to be one of your major concerns?
• Feel ashamed, disgusted, or guilty after eating?
• Worry about the weight, shape, or size of your body?
• Feel like your identity and value is based on how you look or how much you weigh?