Eat too much at mealtimes because you don't feel satisfied with smaller portions

Continue to snack after a meal

Allow yourself a snack, intending to eat one or two, but difficult to stop once you start

Think about food too much of the time

Feel hungry much of the time

Feel hungry even after a full meal

Often feel uncomfortable or unwell after eating a meal (sleepy, bloated, nauseous)

Rarely feel a natural, true hunger

Feel fearful when genuinely hungry

Eat too much, too quickly, with difficulty slowing down

Go into a trance and lose awareness you’re even eating

Opt for simple, quick foods over chopping fruits and veggies

Find it difficult to stick to a diet, or, when you do, you regain any weight lost

Feel compelled to binge on unhealthy food you don’t usually eat, only to feel regret later

Suffer from other uncomfortable health symptoms (fatigue, achy joints, muscle soreness, heartburn, constipation, poor sleep, poor digestion)

Rely on stimulants such as caffeine, sugar, or nicotine for energy and to get through the day

Care a great deal more about your family’s healthy eating than your own

Regularly feel guilty or regretful about what or how much you eat

Consistently make, and break, promises to yourself about what you are and are not going to eat

Know you eat too much unhealthy food but dislike healthy food, especially vegetables

Feel as though your life, and especially your mood, is ruled by what you eat

Focus on weight loss, believing it will be the answer to improved health and happiness

Habitually compare your body size to others

Feel good about yourself if you’re the thinnest in a group

Feel bad about yourself if you’re the heaviest in a group

Form opinions about other people based on their body size

Note the calorie content of a meal (without considering the nutritional content)

Sometimes think, “if only I were thin, I would be confident and happy”

Feel your heart sink, if you gain weight, when you think it might be noticed by others