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"Hurts, Habits, and Hang-ups"


You  Can Conquer the Painful Effects of Food Addiction

We seek to apply the Eight Recovery Principles to our lives and to our relationships. 

P We welcome you. 

P We cannot fix your problems.

P We will not seek to run your life for you. 

P We will accept you and we will love you.

This is a safe place. 

When we attended our first meeting, many of us were having a variety of feelings.  We were relieved to find a place where people might understand our pain and despair.  We were angry that we had to get help and could not manage alone this part of our lives.  We felt lonely and were ashamed of the way our lives had become.  We had secrets that we were reluctant to share.
 

Our group is not a therapy group or a study group.  It is a Christ-centered support group.  We do not give advice.  We share our experience, strength, and hope with each other.

 

A Food Addiction Questionnaire 

 

Please P all boxed where the question applies to you.

o      1. Do thoughts about food occupy much of your time?

o      2. Are you preoccupied with a desire to be thinner?

o      3. Do you starve to make up for eating binges?

o      4. Are you overweight despite concern by others for you to lose weight?

o      5. Do you binge and then vomit afterward?

o      6. Do you exercise excessively to burn off calories?

o      7. Do you overeat by bingeing or by grazing continuously?

o      8. Do you eat the same thing every day and feel annoyed when you eat something else?

o      9. Do you binge and then take enemas or laxatives to get rid of the food you have eaten?

o   10. Do you hide stashes of food for future eating or bingeing?

o   11. Do you avoid foods with sugar in them and feel uncomfortable after eating sweets?

o   12. Is food your friend?

o   13. Would you rather eat alone?  Do you feel uncomfortable when you must eat with others?

o   14. Do you have specific ways you eat when you are emotionally upset, sad, angry, afraid, or ashamed?

o   15. Do you become depressed or feel guilty after an eating binge?

o   16. Do you feel fat even when people tell you otherwise?

o   17. Are you ever afraid that you won't be able to stop eating when you are on a binge?

o   18. Have you tried to diet repeatedly only to sabotage your weight loss?

o   19. Do you binge on high-calorie, sugary, forbidden foods?

o   20. Are you proud of your ability to control the food you eat and your weight?

o   21. Do you have weight changes of more than 10 pounds after binges and fasts?

o   22. Do you feel your eating behavior is abnormal?  Do you try to hide it from others?

o   23. Does feeling ashamed of your body weight result in more?

o   24. Do you make a lot of insulting jokes about your body weight or your eating?

o   25. Do you feel guilty after eating anything not allowed on your diet?

o   26. Do you follow unusual rituals while eating, such as counting bites or not allowing the fork or food to touch your lips?

 

If you checked five or more of the questions numbered:

1  4  7  12  13  14  15  17  18  19  22  23  24  SCORE _____

you may be dealing with compulsive overeating.


If you checked five or more of the questions numbered:

1  4  7  12  13  14  15  17  18  19  22  23  24  SCORE _____

you have eating behaviors typical of anorexia nervosa.


If you checked five or more of the questions numbered:

1  4  7  12  13  14  15  17  18  19  22  23  24  SCORE _____
you have eating behaviors common in bulimia nervosa.

 
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