Do I Have Bulimia?

Based a significant amount of your self-worth or self-esteem on your body shape and weight?

Used food to cope with stress, anxiety or boredom?

Eaten alone because you were ashamed of the amount of food you consume?

Avoided going to dinner with others because you wanted to hide your purging behaviors?

Eaten so much food that you made yourself uncomfortably full?

Felt an intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat?

Restricted your caloric intake in between binging and purging episodes to avoid gaining weight?

Been diagnosed with or experienced symptoms of another medical condition?

Eaten an amount of food within two hours that is larger than what most individuals would eat in a similar period?

Experienced a lack of control over eating during the binge period?

Used recurrent compensatory behaviors to prevent weight gain like self-induced vomiting, misusing laxatives or diuretics, fasting or excessive exercise?

Experienced binge eating and purging behaviors at least once a week for three months?