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Eating Concerns Check-In

8 questions3 minutesCustom guidance

Eating concerns can involve restriction, binge eating, purging, body-image distress, rigid rules, or feeling that food and weight take up too much mental space. This check-in is designed to notice patterns, not to label your body or diagnose an eating disorder.

Over the last three months, how often have these experiences been part of your life?

FOOD AND CONTROL
Feeling out of control while eating or unable to stop once you started
RESTRICTION
Skipping meals, eating very little, or following rigid food rules because of weight, shape, guilt, or fear
COMPENSATION
Trying to make up for eating through vomiting, fasting, laxatives, excessive exercise, or other compensating behaviors
BODY IMAGE
Your weight or body shape having a strong effect on how you judge your worth
PREOCCUPATION
Spending a lot of time thinking about food, calories, weight, shape, or how to compensate for eating
AVOIDANCE
Avoiding meals, social situations, or foods because of anxiety about eating or your body
PHYSICAL SIGNS
Feeling faint, weak, unusually cold, having major weight changes, or noticing other physical effects connected to eating patterns
DAILY LIFE
Eating or body concerns interfering with relationships, school, work, or routines

Your answers are used to calculate this result. Raw answers are not stored.

About this assessment

This tool is designed for self-reflection and support navigation. It is not a diagnosis. Results should be interpreted in context, especially when symptoms are severe, persistent, or affecting daily life.

Sources

About the evidence: Project Semicolon custom eating-concerns check-in. It does not reproduce the SCOFF or another proprietary eating-disorder instrument.

Project Semicolon reviews assessment wording, scoring logic, safety routing, and source status separately from the directory experience. Custom check-ins are clearly distinguished from validated instruments.

Privacy and your results

We store the completed assessment type, result band, score when applicable, limited secondary signals, and basic engagement events for aggregate metrics. Raw question responses are not stored.

Content disclaimer

This assessment is a screening and support-navigation tool, not a diagnosis or substitute for professional medical care.

Eating disorders FAQs

Can someone have an eating disorder at any body size?

Yes. Eating disorders are defined by behaviors, thoughts, distress, and health impact, not by appearance alone.

Are eating disorders only about wanting to lose weight?

No. Eating concerns can involve control, anxiety, sensory issues, trauma, body image, compulsive behaviors, or other factors.

Is purging dangerous even if it does not happen often?

Purging can cause serious electrolyte, cardiac, dental, and gastrointestinal complications. Medical advice is appropriate.

Can I seek help before I am sure it is an eating disorder?

Absolutely. Early support is appropriate whenever eating or body concerns are distressing or disruptive.