Only a health care professional can provide a comprehensive and accurate assessment of your health. However, you might want to consider these broad guidelines.

Normal body-image and eating concerns

• Interest in improving physical appearance, health, and overall wellness

• Enthusiasm about a new fitness or healthy eating plan

• Focus on body image, while maintaining a reasonable level of self-acceptance

• Pursuit of a challenging physical training program that incorporates good nutrition and balance

Problematic body-image and eating concerns

• Singular focus on weight loss or obsession with restrictive (yo-yo) dieting

• Punitive approach to body image which includes self-denigrating comments and/or excessive exercise or purging after eating

• Working out to lose weight without regard for health and nutritional needs

• Self-worth based entirely on body image

• Compulsive, rigid or inflexible approach to a diet/exercise routine.