1. Questionnaire: Find out about your individual eating habits!

Find out about your individual eating habits!

Read the statements below and decide whether they apply to you or not. You have to make a decision, even if it might be difficult sometimes.
Rank the statements with numbers from 1 (=absolutely not applies to me) to 6 (absolutely applies to me).

PART A concerns the importance of your inner signals (like hunger, thirst, appetite, repletion) for your eating behaviour.

* I always eat when…
… I am hungry
… I feel like it.
… I'm stressed.
… I'm bored.
… I feel lonely.
* I stop eating when I'm full.
* Sometimes I have a ravenous appetite for sweets.


PART B concerns the importance of outer stimuli (like rules, habits, influence of other people)

* I always eat together with my family at fixed times.
* I don't have to eat just because others eat.
* An open packaging (e.g. a bar of chocolate) does not lead me
into temptation.
* I always finish off my meal even if I don't like it.
* Frequently, I eat just 'out of solidarity'.

PART C concerns the importance of acquired attitudes towards food and knowledge about it


* I consciously eat healthy food
* I don't mind where the food I'm eating comes from or what it is
made of.
* I watch calories.
* I control my eating habits because I want to stay slim.
* I'm interested in the living conditions of farm animals.
* I don't read a lot about a balanced diet.
* I feel guilty in case I ate too much.
* I'm vegetarian.

After you have completed the test, please sum up and evaluate the results: What are the things that mainly influence your eating habits and what is less influential?