Binge Eating Behaviors Assessment - Change Clinic by Dr. Heba Abdelaziz

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Adult – Binge Eating Behaviors

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Below are groups of statements about behavior, thoughts, and emotional states. Please indicate which statement in each group best describes how you feel.

(1)(Required)

I don’t feel self-conscious about my weight or body size when I’m with others.

I feel concerned about how I look to others, but it normally does not make me feel disappointed with myself.

I do get self-conscious about my appearance and weight which makes me feel disappointed in myself.

I feel very self-conscious about my weight and frequently, I feel intense shame and disgust for myself. I try to avoid social contacts because of my self-consciousness.

(2)(Required)

I don’t have any difficulty eating slowly in the proper manner.

Although I seem to “gobble down” foods, I don’t end up feeling stuffed because of eating too much.

At times, I tend to eat quickly and then, I feel uncomfortably full afterwards.

I have the habit of bolting down my food, without really chewing it. When this happens I usually feel uncomfortably stuffed because I’ve eaten too much.

(3)(Required)

I feel capable to control my eating urges when I want to.

I feel like I have failed to control my eating more than the average person.

I feel utterly helpless when it comes to feeling in control of my eating urges.

Because I feel so helpless about controlling my eating I have become very desperate about trying to get in control.

(4)(Required)

I don’t have the habit of eating when I’m bored.

I sometimes eat when I’m bored, but often I’m able to “get busy” and get my mind off food.

I have a regular habit of eating when I’m bored, but occasionally, I can use some other activity to get my mind off eating.

I have a strong habit of eating when I’m bored. Nothing seems to help me break the habit.

(5)(Required)

I don’t have the habit of eating when I’m bored.

I sometimes eat when I’m bored, but often I’m able to “get busy” and get my mind off food.

I have a regular habit of eating when I’m bored, but occasionally, I can use some other activity to get my mind off eating.

I have a strong habit of eating when I’m bored. Nothing seems to help me break the habit.

(6)(Required)

I don’t feel any guilt or self-hate after I overeat.

After I overeat, occasionally I feel guilt or self-hate.

Almost all the time I experience strong guilt or self-hate after I overeat.

(7)(Required)

I don’t lose total control of my eating when dieting even after periods when I overeat.

Sometimes when I eat a “forbidden food” on a diet, I feel like I “blew it” and eat even more.

Frequently, I have the habit of saying to myself, “I’ve blown it now, why not go all the way” when I overeat on a diet. When that happens I eat even more.

I have a regular habit of starting strict diets for myself, but I break the diets by going on an eating binge. My life seems to be either a “feast” or “famine.”

(8)(Required)

I rarely eat so much food that I feel uncomfortably stuffed afterwards.

Usually about once a month, I eat such a quantity of food, I end up feeling very stuffed.

I have regular periods during the month when I eat large amounts of food, either at mealtime or at snacks.

I eat so much food that I regularly feel quite uncomfortable after eating and sometimes a bit nauseous.

(9)(Required)

My level of calorie intake does not go up very high or go down very low on a regular basis.

Sometimes after I overeat, I will try to reduce my caloric intake to almost nothing to compensate for the excess calories I’ve eaten.

I have a regular habit of overeating during the night. It seems that my routine is not to be hungry in the morning but overeat in the evening.

In my adult years, I have had week-long periods where I practically starve myself. This follows periods when I overeat. It seems I live a life of either “feast or famine.”

(10)(Required)

I usually am able to stop eating when I want to. I know when “enough is enough.”

Every so often, I experience a compulsion to eat which I can’t seem to control.

Frequently, I experience strong urges to eat which I seem unable to control, but at other times I can control my eating urges.

I feel incapable of controlling urges to eat. I have a fear of not being able to stop eating voluntarily.

(11)(Required)

I don’t have any problem stopping eating when I feel full.

I usually can stop eating when I feel full but occasionally overeat leaving me feeling uncomfortably stuffed.

I have a problem stopping eating once I start and usually I feel uncomfortably stuffed after I eat a meal.

Because I have a problem not being able to stop eating when I want, I sometimes have to induce vomiting to relieve my stuffed feeling.

(12)(Required)

I seem to eat just as much when I’m with others (family, social gatherings) as when I’m by myself.

Sometimes, when I’m with other persons, I don’t eat as much as I want to eat because I’m self-conscious about my eating.

Frequently, I eat only a small amount of food when others are present, because I’m very embarrassed about my eating.

I feel so ashamed about overeating that I pick times to overeat when I know no one will see me. I feel like a “closet eater.”

(13)(Required)

I eat three meals a day with only an occasional between meal snack.

I eat 3 meals a day, but I also normally snack between meals.

When I am snacking heavily, I get in the habit of skipping regular meals.

There are regular periods when I seem to be continually eating, with no planned meals.

(14)(Required)

I don’t think much about trying to control unwanted eating urges.

At least some of the time, I feel my thoughts are pre-occupied with trying to control my eating urges.

I feel that frequently I spend much time thinking about how much I ate or about trying not to eat anymore.

It seems to me that most of my waking hours are pre-occupied by thoughts about eating or not eating. I feel like I’m constantly struggling not to eat.

(15)(Required)

I don’t think about food a great deal.

I have strong cravings for food but they last only for brief periods of time.

I have days when I can’t seem to think about anything else but food.

Most of my days seem to be pre-occupied with thoughts about food. I feel like I live to eat.

(16)(Required)

I usually know whether or not I’m physically hungry. I take the right portion of food to satisy me.

Occasionally, I feel uncertain about knowing whether or not I’m physically hungry. At these times it’s hard to know how much food I should take to satisfy me.

Even though I might know how many calories I should eat, I don’t have any idea what is a “normal” amount of food for me.

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Adult – Binge Eating Behaviors

Below are groups of statements about behavior, thoughts, and emotional states. Please indicate which statement in each group best describes how you feel.

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