Read the specific descriptions without a health label.
A complete original guide to this part of eating and body-related experience, with category records, uncertainties and independent support.
Choose whether each original statement describes your past four weeks, partly describes them or does not describe them. Cannot judge, no relevant experience and prefer not to answer remain separate. The twenty choices form five records of four statements. Six category counts in each record add to four, with the original statements and selected labels retained. Labels have no points, and counts are neither symptoms nor severity or frequency. There is no total, mean, cutoff, health tier or eating-disorder result.
The described reason matters
These four prompts concern skipping eating because of shape or weight worries, limiting eating despite hunger under a felt rule, avoiding a setting without control of food choices and difficulty changing a food rule. They are specific self-descriptions. They do not decide whether a dietary choice is medically appropriate, freely chosen, culturally meaningful or constrained by resources.
Different reasons should not be collapsed
Food availability, allergies, medical advice, religious practice and a worry-driven rule are not interchangeable reasons. The form does not collect enough context to sort them. Answer only if the sentence as written describes your experience, rather than making any avoidance fit the theme. Cannot judge and no relevant experience stay separate from non-endorsement.
No target for how much or what to eat
No category or count supplies a portion, nutrient target, food rule or permission to skip a meal. The exercise does not test how long you can wait or how much control you have. It does not evaluate a care plan you already have. Decisions about actual health needs belong in an appropriate individual setting, not in a comparison between records.
One theme cannot cancel another
Describing a restrictive practice does not establish what happened during another eating occasion. A feeling of loss of control and a food rule may coexist without one explaining the other. The record does not combine them into a mixed diagnosis or a stage of illness. Missing information in one part is not filled from another.
Reflection does not require a new food task
You do not need to alter a meal, challenge a rule, prove flexibility or keep a food log to finish. You may simply notice which wording was difficult to answer and keep it private. If there is a real concern, support can be sought without demonstrating the pattern again or waiting until all four statements fit.
How the record works
Choose whether each original statement describes your past four weeks, partly describes them or does not describe them. Cannot judge, no relevant experience and prefer not to answer remain separate. The twenty choices form five records of four statements. Six category counts in each record add to four, with the original statements and selected labels retained. Labels have no points, and counts are neither symptoms nor severity or frequency. There is no total, mean, cutoff, health tier or eating-disorder result.
Origin, limits and independent support
- FermatMind authored these twenty statements and five complete readings. They are not EAT-26, SCOFF, a diagnostic checklist or a validated translation of another instrument. Reliability, validity, norms and English–Chinese equivalence have not been established. The record cannot assess nutrition, weight, medical stability or an eating disorder. A low count cannot establish health, and a fitting answer cannot establish a condition. The public health source supplies background, not an item bank or endorsement.
- If eating or body concerns trouble you, you can seek support from a qualified health professional without finishing this form, a particular count or a particular appearance. This exercise prescribes no restriction, compensation, body checking, weighing, food diary or change to food or activity. It cannot decide urgency or explain physical symptoms. For immediate danger or severe current symptoms, seek local emergency medical help rather than continue the questionnaire.