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Do you know about HAES (Health at Every Size)?

HAES is a growing movement in the health and BED treatment communities designed to help people live healthier lives without such focus on a number on the scale. The basic tenets of the HAES philosophy are simple:
  • focus on the quality of your day-to-day life (eating and moving according to needs, pleasure and healthful nutrition information)
  • find sustainable ways to take care of yourself (meet your needs: physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual)
  • accept that the size your body is when you are taking care of yourself is your unique healthy weight (allow your body, not the scale or other measurement, to determine what weight is best for you).
  • value the beauty and diversity of all of us!
HAES is all about letting go of external "absolutes" and dieting rules, and instead listening to your own wisdom. The Bodywise program is named for this idea. It is all about reawakening that healthful, authentic voice; your body will find its own way!

Bodywise Food Attitudes Quiz

The Food Attitudes quiz is designed to give you some idea of whether compulsive eating or binge eating might be an issue for you. Please click the button after each question that best applies to you. A "1" means this statement never applies to you, "2" means it rarely applies, "3" is occasionally, "4" is a fair amount, and "5" is frequently.

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    I feel out of control of my ability to stop eating more than once in a while.
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    I have dieted many times, but the weight most always comes back.
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    I eat when I am not physically hungry more than once in a while.
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    I am often unaware of my hunger and fullness cues.
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    My self-worth can change, depending on what I say, accomplish or look like.
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    I often put others' needs before my own.
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    I sometimes change my plans with others in order to overeat alone.
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    I eat to the point of significant discomfort more than occasionally.
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    When I overeat, I am often alone.
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    I feel better or worse about myself on a given day depending on how I look physically.
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    I often don't fully speak my mind.
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    Food is a source of shame.
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    I tend to graze, never really finishing a meal.
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    I believe there are "good" foods and "bad" foods.
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    I believe I cannot trust my body to maintain a healthy weight.
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    I feel guilt after overeating.
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    I tend to eat more if I am stressed, anxious or depressed.
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    I tend to be fairly critical of myself if I fail at something.
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    I find it upsetting if I think someone is disappointed in or angry with me.
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    Food is a source of comfort.
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    I think about food often when I am not hungry.
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Are you considering weight loss surgery?

Please call us! Bodywise offers evaluations and consultations for people contemplating surgical procedures for weight loss. If an underlying eating disorder exists, weight loss surgeries cannot address the problem. Let us help you determine what intervention is best for you.