▸ How have you been feeling in general? How do you feel about yourself?

▸ Do you mind if we talk about your eating habits?

▸ Are there foods or food groups that you avoid eating? How do you feel about dieting in general?

▸ How do you feel about your body size?

▸ In what ways does your weight affect the way you think about yourself?

▸ What percentage of your waking hours do you spend thinking about weight, food and body image?

▸ Do you worry that you have lost control of how much you eat?

▸ Are you happy with your eating behaviour?

▸ Do you eat in secret?

▸ What did you have for breakfast today/yesterday? Lunch? Dinner? Snacks?

▸ Do you count your calories? Watch fat grams? Avoid certain foods?

▸ Do you ever eat a lot in one sitting—enough that you feel sick afterward?

▸ Are you worried because sometimes you can't stop eating?

▸ Do you make yourself throw-up because you feel uncomfortably full?

▸ Do you use diuretics, laxatives or diet pills?

▸ When you look in the mirror, what do you see?

▸ What do you think you should weigh? What are you doing to reach or maintain that weight?

▸ Have you recently lost or gained a lot of weight in a short period of time?

▸ What was your lowest weight in the last year? Your highest weight?

▸ Do you exercise above and beyond what is required for your sport?

▸ Do you feel anxious if you miss a workout?

▸ Does your family have any history of obesity, eating disorders, depression, mental illness or substance abuse (parents or other family members)?

▸ Who are your primary sources of emotional support? How do they support you?

▸ Female patients: When did you have your first period? Are your periods regular? When was your last period?

▸ Do you have constipation? Diarrhoea?

▸ Are you ever dizzy? Weak? Tired? Have you ever fainted?

▸ Do you get cold easily?

▸ Have you lost any hair? Grown new hair? Do you have dry skin?

▸ Do you ever feel bloated? Have abdominal pain?

▸ Do you have muscle cramps, bone pain?