Are You Addicted to Food?

Have you ever tried the newest fad diet, used medications, laxatives, herbal weight loss tablets, had personal trainers, Lap-band or gastric bypass in order to battle your weight?

Have you ever had, therapy, hypnosis, past life therapy, attended personal development seminars or read self help books in order to battle your weight?

Do you have a history of many different unsuccessful diets?

Do you go on a shake/juice fast only to give up before you are at goal weight?

Do you ever read health, fitness magazines or diet books in the hope that you will get “the magic bullet” to fix your weight problem?

Do you ever eat when you are not hungry?

Do you eat when you are sad, anxious, lonely, scared or bored?

Can you stop eating without a struggle after one cookie/sweet/chip etc?

Do you ever drink a lot of coffee, tea, hot chocolate, soft drinks etc to keep you from eating?

Do you eat large amounts of high-calorie/fat/carbohydrate food in short amounts of time?

Do you often eat more than you planned to eat?

Have you ever had the best intention to stop eating and found that you just couldn’t?

Do you ever feel unsatisfied after a meal, even if you know that you are no longer hungry and still try to find some kind of taste or meal that will satisfy you?

Do you ever find yourself scavenging for food, going through the fridge or pantry many times, searching for “that something” to satisfy a certain urge and continuing to eat until you have found it?

Do you give yourself full permission to over indulge on food when you are happy, going on holiday or at a party or meeting a special friend etc?

Have you become angry when someone eats food you have put aside for yourself?

Have you ever stolen, hidden or hoarded food?

Do you go to any length to satisfy a craving for food?

Do you feel as though you can’t stop when you start eating certain foods?

Do you ever restrict certain foods sometimes but overeat or binge on them at other times?

Do you ever plan binges and look forward to them?

Do you have feelings of guilt and remorse after overeating or binging?

Do you often promise your self: THIS is the last time I’m going to eat this way, I’m starting my diet tomorrow”.

Do you have fluctuations in your weight?

Has anyone ever annoyed you by criticising your eating or weight?

Do you ever feel driven to exercise excessively to control your weight?

Are you ever “on and off” exercise. Have the best intentions to stick with the exercise but stop “as life got in the way”?

Have you ever invested in exercise equipment, gym memberships etc only to find it was unused after some time?

Are other members of your family, including parents, siblings, aunts, uncles and grandparents, addicted to food, alcohol, drugs or nicotine?

Does your eating behaviour make you or others unhappy?

Do you wonder why food has such a strong hold on you? You have a lot of willpower in other areas of your life, but not when it comes to food?

Do you give too much time and thought to food and weight?

Have you withdrawn from activities because of embarrassment about your weight?

Have you had “secret fantasies” about what life will look like when you have lost your weight?

Do thoughts about your weight and changing your body dominate your life?

Are you waiting for your life to begin “when you have lost the weight”?

Do you feel hopeless about your relationship to food?

Is your weight stopping you living the life you crave?

Do you think food is a problem for you?