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Here's the toughest Questions Those with Eating Issues Can ask Themselves Here's a Health Quiz for the Answers

Find Out Now! Does Your Life Really Consist of Healthy Eating?
Hereâ€™s a Health Quiz for Eating Habits and Weight Issues

Take Inventory of Dangerous Cultural Attitudes
By Kathleen Fuller, Ph.D.

Learn about the many twists and turns that convolute the path and the process when healing eating issues and weight issues. Each personâ€™s journey is unique, just as each body shape is different, but certain behavioral similarities are fundamental at the start for nearly everyone who is affected.

Consider that, at any given time, approximately 20% of our population suffers from either mental or emotional distress. This means that those with eating issues are up against both mental and/or emotional distress and pressure from the sociocultural roots of eating issues and weight issues that are hidden deep in plain view. These distorted sociocultural expectations are found in the often unspoken and generally accepted beliefs we hold about the world in which we live. These beliefs are primarily determined by the combined attitudes of people who comprise this culture and society.

Candidly speaking it is personally shocking to find out how deeply controlling these sociocultural systems are to the eating behaviors of each of us. Yet, taking stock, of the conscious and unconscious influence these beliefs lock us into individually, is the first step to preventing their unhealthy influence forever. By choosing to learn the principles of healthy eating you can take the steps to earn your freedom. The outcome is well worth it. Enhanced self-esteem and self-respect are the treasures at the end of this rainbow.

To find out for yourself how immune or immersed you are in these biases, complete the Health Quiz for Eating issues and Weight Issues by answering â€œyesâ€ or â€œnoâ€ to the following questions. The outcome may surprise you, but the results can also act as a catalyst and a call to action giving you positive rewards

Health Quiz for Eating Issues and Weight Issues

Have you ever:

(1) Thought constantly about food or talked incessantly about dieting?

(2) Felt overwhelming emotional stress?

(3) Felt depressed with low self-esteem over several weeks, months, or longer?

(4) Felt out of control?

(5) Believed that all it takes to conquer weight issues and eating issues is willpower?

(6) Tried to restrict your diet to lose weight gained from overeating?

(7) Felt guilty or ashamed about your eating habits or patterns?

(8) Started eating, then found you couldnâ€™t stop?

(9) Eaten so much at night that you could hardly get up in the morning?

(10) Experienced relationship or family problems because of overeating, dieting, bingeing or purging?

(11) Held high expectations or standards for yourself and others?

(12) Told family what you think they want to hear about your eating habits, rather than the truth?

(13) Maintained a lower or higher than average weight?

(14) Gorged yourself, then used exercise, vomiting, or laxatives so you wouldnâ€™t gain
weight?

(15) Placed overt importance on your physical appearance?

(16) Admitted physical appearance is of ultimate importance to your family and/or yourself?

(17) Experienced swollen glands from vomiting?

(18) Experienced menstrual irregularities?

(19) Felt compelled to monitor what you or your children ate?

If you answered yes for one to five of these questions, then youâ€™re reading this at a good time.

If you answered yes to five to ten questions, itâ€™s a wake-up call. Pay attention to the warning signs of weight issues and eating issues now and begin seeking help. Implementing a commitment is a good first step.

If you answered yes to ten to fifteen questions, consider employing the help of a qualified therapist as you use other tips and tools, for the sake of your health and well-being.

If you or someone you know can answer yes to fifteen or more questions, itâ€™s time for immediate action or a personal intervention. Healthy eating has been absent and your life or the life of someone you love may be at risk.

How to Take the First Steps to Healing -

Support yourself by taking inventory of where you are in relation to societal attitudes about food and weight. After you complete the Health Quiz for Eating Issues and Weight Issues which is the first step, take a break and let the answers integrate while you do something to relax. Then the next step is to write a brief commitment stating you will become actively involved in techniques, exercises, and the process of actually living the principles of healthy eating. Repeated reading of your commitment will catapult you into your anticipated outcome. Once you do these actions your life will never be the same again.

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About the Author

Kathleen Fuller, Ph.D.â€˜s work as a leading eating disorder expert, Licensed Counselor, and National Certified Hypnotherapist, has helped countless individuals find happiness that has eluded them. Finding her own power to change has enabled Dr. Fuller to become a recognized authority on dysfunctional behaviors and find personal accomplishment as a painter, author, and in academic research. Fuller is known to her patients as The Surgeon of the Subconscious. Her seventeen years of private practice and teaching at Indian River State College gives her a unique insight into what can work to change oneâ€™s life. Free biweekly newsletters loaded with tips and tools for eating issues and weight issues are at her website. Youâ€™ll gain understanding on how to establish healthy eating in the easiest way possible. Go and sign up now and receive free excerpts from her book Not Your Motherâ€™s Diet.