1. Fresh Food, Fast Food: If you find yourself eating at McDonald's for lunch and heating up packaged frozen dinners at night, you're eating too much processed, high-calorie food and not enough fresh foods.

[At the height of my food & health ignorance, this was totally me. I considered the lettuce on a Big Mac enough veggies for the day :eyeroll:]

2. Food Fretting: Are you so concerned about what you eat that you experience negative and guilty feelings when you think about food?

[Nah.]

3. Task Snacking: You're too busy to sit down and eat right. So you just grab things to eat at your desk or in the car. If you're distracted when you eat and you're dining at the dashboard, chances are you'll eat more and gain weight.

[Very much me. Since I recently moved, I'm trying to make eating it's own thing. No eating in front the computer or TV. I make and effort to sit down at the kitchen table.]

4. Eating Atmosphere: Where you eat is as important as what you eat. When you dine in a calm setting, you're less likely to struggle with how much you eat.

[I'm working on this and agree eating at a frenzied pace makes me pick poor foods and/or inhale my food so I end up eating more.]

5. Social Fare: People who eat alone tend to overeat. When we enjoy meals with others, we're far more likely to slow down and eat less.

[Yea, guilty of this one too.]

6. Emotional Eating: Are you using food to manage your feelings?

[Have they been reading my diary. Do this too.]

7. Sensory/Spiritual Nourishment: People who eat this way are infusing their food with special meaning.

[Finally the yes streak is broken, I don't do this. But, I get the whole "Well it's a holiday so I *should* engorge myself on yada yada yada..." The last few years I've been weaning myself off that mentality by saying, i can have turkey and stuffing any day of the year, it doesn't just grow on Thanksgiving Day so there's no need for me to eat as if I'll never see it again.]

Ok, you heard my sordid confessions, how about you? Do you recognize yourself?