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 record concerns a felt loss of choice
These prompts concern feeling unable to decide when to stop, feeling carried along rather than choosing, later distress about the lack of choice and shame about an eating experience. They do not establish an objectively large amount, an episode frequency or a clinical binge-eating event. No amount, weight, timing detail or private narrative is requested.
An ordinary meal is not classified by this form
Feeling full, enjoying food or eating more than on another day does not automatically fit a loss-of-choice statement. Equally, distress can be meaningful even when someone cannot describe how much was eaten. The form does not adjudicate either experience. It retains the selected words without sorting people into normal and disordered eating categories.
Shame is not a verdict about character
Endorsing a sentence about shame records a feeling, not proof that you did something wrong. Preferring not to answer is not evidence of concealment or dishonesty. No record rates self-discipline or responsibility. The exercise cannot tell what others would think, and it never asks you to disclose an eating event as a test of openness.
No sequence of behaviours is inferred
A selection here does not establish that a restrictive rule preceded an experience or that an attempt to undo eating followed it. The five records are organised topics, not a causal model. No total or highest theme decides what started a difficulty or what action would resolve it. You may leave every uncertain part unknown.
No need to reproduce or document an occasion
This reading offers no exercise involving food, a test of stopping or a request to document an eating occasion. If useful, you can choose a general phrase for a private conversation, such as having felt less able to choose. You can also end here. Support does not require sharing this form or proving an event meets a definition.
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.