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Eating Attitudes Test

Age: Sex: Height: feet, inches
Current Weight (lbs.): Highest Weight: Lowest Adult Weight:

Education: If currently enrolled in college/university, are you a:
Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior Grad Student

If not enrolled in school, level of education completed:
Jr. High/Middle School High School College Post College

Ethnic/Racial Group: African American Asian American European American
Hispanic American Indian Other

Do you participate in athletics at any of the following levels:
Intramural Inter-Collegiate Recreational High School Teams

Please check a response for each of the following statements:

  Always Usually Often Sometimes Rarely Never
1. Am terrified about being overweight
2. Avoid eating when I am hungry
3. Find myself preoccupied with food
4. Have gone on eating binges where I feel I may not be able to stop
5. Cut my food into small pieces
6. Aware of the calorie content of foods I eat
7. Particularly avoid food with a high carbohydrate content (bread, rice, potatoes, etc.)
8. Feel that others would prefer if I ate more
9. Vomit after I have eaten
10. Feel extremely guilty after eating
11. Am preoccupied with a desire to be thinner
12. Think about burning up calories when I exercise
13. Other people think I'm too thin
14. Am preoccupied with the thought of having fat on my body
15. Take longer than others to eat my meals
16. Avoid foods with sugar in them
17. Eat diet foods
18. Feel that food controls my life
19. Display self-control around food
20. Feel that others pressure me to eat
21. Give too much time and thought to food
22. Feel uncomfortable after eating sweets
23. Engage in dieting behavior
24. Like my stomach to be empty
25. Have the impulse to vomit after meals
26. Enjoy trying new rich foods

Please respond to each of the following questions:
1. Have you gone on eating binges where you feel that you may not be able to stop?
(Eating much more than most people would eat under the circumstances)
No Yes If yes, on average, how many times per month in the last 6 months?
2. Have you ever made yourself sick (vomited) to control your weight or shape?
No Yes If yes, on average, how many times per month in the last 6 months?
3. Have you ever used laxatives, diet pills or diuretics (water pills) to control your weight or shape?
No Yes If yes, on average, how many times per month in the last 6 months?
4. Have you ever been treated for an eating disorder? No Yes If yes, when?
5. Have you recently thought of or attempted suicide? No Yes If yes, when?

EAT©David M. Garner & Paul E. Garfinkel (1979), David M. Garner, et al., (1982)
Permission Granted by copyright holder to reprint the test on the HealthyPlace.com Website.

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