Stop Emotional Eating, Binge Eating
and Compulsive Overeating
 
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Take 5 minutes to learn what you do and don't know about emotional eating, binge eating and compulsive overeating.  What you learn may surprise you !!
 

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NOTE: Many of the questions have more than one correct answer, check all that you think apply.

1.  Which of these eating behaviors would you consider binge eating?

a. eating larger portions than normal at your mealtimes
 b. sitting down and eating a half gallon of ice cream
 c. grazing all day long

2. What is the definition of emotional eating?

a. eating to avoid feelings
b. eating when you feel angry
c. eating when you feel sad

3. People with eating disorders are:

a. always on a diet
 b. always coming off a diet
 c. always getting ready to go on a diet again

4.Compulsive eaters:

a. eat when they feel upset
 b. eat slowly
 c. eat all day long

5. What are the reasons people binge?

a. as a way to hide from their emotions
 b. to fill a void they feel inside
 c. to cope with daily stresses and problems in their lives

6. The underlying causes of obesity are:

a. largely unknown
 b. caused by excessive amounts of caloric intake
 c. due to obese people eating more than non-obese people

 7.  Binge Eating Disorder is characterized by the following:

a. eating within any 2-hour period an amount of food that is definitely larger than most people would eat
 b. not eating breakfast or lunch
 c. pigging out at the family barbecue

8. What were the biggest stumbling blocks that prevented compulsive eaters from starting recovery according to the Something Fishy website Poll started in June 1, 2005?

a. fear
 b. body image
 c. not ready to start

9. Overeating, compulsive overeating and binge eating disorder are:

a. exactly the same
 b. completely different
 c. all similar

10. In 1920, women attained the right to vote. This was also the first year:

a. of the Miss America pageant
 b. of the flapper dress
 c. that women started burning their bras
 


Solutionsweigh Program for Eating Disorders
1517 Franklin Avenue, Suite # 100
Mineola (Long Island), NY 11501 USA

Virginia E. Porcello, Ph.D., LMHC, CEDS, Director
Phone 516.877.0200  |  Fax 516.877.0211

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