Disordered Eating Signs & Symptoms
If you identify with some of the signs and symptoms below, therapy can help.
Do you...
- feel like you cycle between under-eating and over-eating?
- label foods as "good" or "bad" and feel the same based on what you choose?
- purposely restrict your food, or never allow yourself to be fully satisfied?
- obsessively track what you eat, or numbers such as calories, macros, etc?
- experience guilt, shame, or disgust because of food or your body?
- use behaviors like excessive food cutting or tiny bites to manage anxiety?
- exercise as a punishment for food, or is exercise conditional based on your intake?
- have urges to hide your food habits from others?
- feel a compulsion to eat when you're not hungry, or regularly eat beyond fullness?
- get anxious about the idea of others seeing you eat, or about eating in public?
- have an obsessive relationship with the health value of your food choices?
- struggle to stop thinking about food, exercise or your body?
- frequently weigh or measure yourself?
- rely on the scale to inform how you should be eating/moving your body?
- avoid places or events due to anxiety about what you'll eat or how you'll avoid it?
- compensate for eating by exercising, vomiting, using laxatives, etc?