The Alliance for Eating Disorders Awareness


Eating Attitudes Test:

Height

Current Weight

Highest Weight (excluding pregnancy)

Lowest Adult Weight

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

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

NEVER, RARELY, SOMETIMES:0
OFTEN:1
USUALLY:2
ALWAYS:3

MY 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.