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Well&Good 2001, Issue 3
What's your score?
Here are some questions that may help you identify the presence or
potential for an eating disorder. (These are not a substitute for
evaluation by a professional in the field.)
1. Are you preoccupied about your weight or shape?
2. If you are dieting, have you lost a significant amount of
weight or lost weight rapidly?
Are your family, friends, or doctor concerned?
Do you feel colder than your friends or family?
Has your energy level decreased significantly?
Females: have your periods stopped or become irregular?
3. Do you experience binge eating or "grazing" with a sense of
loss of control that causes physical or psychological distress?
4. Do you purge after eating by inducing vomiting, using
laxatives, taking water pills, using diet pills, skipping meals, or
compensating in other ways for eating more than you thought you
should?
5. Do you compulsively exercise--to the point where friends or
family are concerned, your coach is concerned, or you have medical
symptoms from excessive exercise?
6. Are you using any bodybuilding steroids to increase you muscle
mass?
7. Do you experience yo-yo (up and down) weights on a regular
basis?
8. Do you have a significant increase in carbohydrate craving or
binge eating or grazing in the fall and winter months?
9. Do you have a negative attitude about your body weight or shape
to the extent that it interferes with the quality of daily life or
preoccupies you much of the time?
For more information, call the UI Behavorial Health Eating
Disorders Program at 319-356-2263 or visit www.uihealthcare.com/uibehavorialhealth
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