Do you participate in athletics at any of the following level:
Intramural
Inter-Collegiate
Recreational
High School teams
Questions:
Always
Usually
Often
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
Score
1. I am terrified about being overweight
2. I avoid eating when I am hungry
3. Find myself preoccupied with food
4. Have gone on eating binges where I feel that I may not be able to stop
5. Cut my food into small pieces
6. Aware of the calorie content of foods that I eat
7. Particularly avoid foods with a high carbohydrate content (i.e. 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 that I am 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. Enjoy trying new rich foods
26. Have the impulse to vomit after meals
Total Score
EAT-26 David M. Garner & Paul E. Garfinkel (1979), David M. Garner et al., (1982)
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 same circumstances)
No Yes
How many times in the last 6 months?
2) Have you ever made yourself sick (vomited) to control your weight or shape?
No Yes
How many times 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
How many times in the last 6 months?
4) Have you ever been treated for an eating disorder?
No Yes
When?
5) Have you recently thought of or attempted suicide?
No Yes
When?
After scoring each item, add the scores for a total. If your score is over 20, we recommend that you discuss your responses with a counselor (take your responses to the EAT with you to your first appointment).
If you responded yes to any of the five YES/NO items on the bottom of the EAT, we also suggest that you discuss your responses with a counselor.
