Prevention Starts at Home

from Focus on the Family

Questions to ask teens

Are you frightened at the thought of eating situations where you will have to eat a normal meal?
Do you have food rituals such as eating food in rigid sequence, keeping foods from touching each other, eating a very limited variety of foods, cutting food into small pieces and blotting food with napkins to remove fat?
Do you feel good or bad according to how much you eat, how much you weigh or how much exercise you get?
Does weighing too much make you keep to yourself and feel lonely?
Do you spend most of your time thinking about how much food you have eaten or will be eating during the day?
Do you use laxatives, vomiting, diet pills, excessive exercise or water pills to help you lose weight or feel in control of your weight?
Would you eat more than others if you didn't control yourself?
Do you sometimes feel out of control when eating and frequently eat beyond the point of fullness?
Are you frequently depressed because you feel overweight?
Do you diet or fast (for other than biblical purposes) weekly or monthly?
Do you feel that if you could lose weight you could achieve all your other goals?
Do you restrict your eating or overeat when you are stressed and feel unhappy?

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