Body image self-assessment quiz

You have scored 15 points.

SCORE 10-20
You live comfortably in your body - most of the time. However, your body image and, therefore, your self-confidence can from time to time be a little shaky and there is a risk that certain situations could make you anxious on account of the way you feel about your body, size, shape or appearance. There are several aspects to this that you may need to work on in order to reduce this anxiety and make your life more comfortable.

Yep, not too bothered the older I get. When I was a teen, this would have been off the scale high. I had 2 EDS. Boy, how things have changed!

Scored 15

SCORE 10-20 You live comfortably in your body - most of the time.

That about sums me up

21

When I was younger it would have been a LOT higher. But these days I have came to accept myself. I still hate my lower half sometimes but other times I don't mind it, I could look a lot worse. My boyfriend of over 2 years has helped my body image incredibly and losing some weight has helped too.

Just have to remember that most people in magazines are edited. Once I realised that I could read a magazine without hating the woman on the cover!

34 and worse than I expected. Yikes.

I got a 12! I'm excited! I thought I'd score 20-30 for sure. Haha.

It would have been a little higher before weight loss, but still probably only in that 20-30 range.

78, oops

32. I'm not surprised, as these are all the reasons I joined MFP anyway.

25. Which says among other things

"You are likely to be spending quite a lot of time either trying to change your shape and weight, or trying to avoid doing quite a lot of things, or beating yourself up in some way. This behaviour will make life feel like a battleground and reinforce the bad feelings you already have about yourself.
Overcoming poor body image is not a simple task. You are likely to have practised feeling bad about your body (and thus yourself) for quite a long time - perhaps even as long ago as childhood. To continue living this way is unfair to yourself and to see how much it affects the permissions you give yourself to lead a spontaneous adventurous life. In the end, you may need to consider seeing a counsellor to build up your self-esteem and to separate the way you feel about your body, from what is realistic and appropriate."

I 'm shocked because 1) I'm so much better than I used to be!, 2) I feel much more relaxed about it than many of my friends, and 3) I'm already doing many of the positive suggestions on the list. ETA and according to that I need counseling! :embarassed:

I got a 21, now if I had done this a year and a half ago before loosing the weight I know it would have been through the roof. In clothes right now I feel great, out of clothes it depends, if you can see my bare butt and upper legs then I feel crappy, the rest of it is coming together quicker but never quick enough.