Last updated on September 28th, 2025 at 09:05 pm
If you’ve ever wondered how well you’re tuned in to your body’s hunger and fullness cues, our Intuitive Eating Quiz is here to help. Intuitive eating is all about rejecting diet rules, making peace with food, and reconnecting with your body’s natural signals—but figuring out where you stand can be tricky.
This quick, evidence-based quiz will give you insight into your current eating habits, mindset around food, and relationship with your body. Whether you’re new to intuitive eating or looking to deepen your practice, you’ll walk away with personalized tips to help you feel more confident, nourished, and free from diet culture.
Use this quiz to help you decide if you have truly rejected the diet mentality at each stage of intuitive eating.
How to Use The Intuitive Eating Quiz
There are 10 intuitive eating principle. Each principle should be explored independently to determine if you have food and body freedom in that area. ask yourself each one of these intuitive eating questions and keep track of how many times you can answer yes.
You should be answering yes to 90% of these questions before considering yourself an intuitive eater. You might find one area where you are struggling and going ack to do some investigation on that principle is best.
I’ve designed this quiz as some of the principles of intuitive eating can feel a bit ambiguous. It’s hard to determine if you’re doing intuitive eating “right.” This quiz simplifies the intuitive eating principle and puts these goals into clear yes and no answers.
You should be answering yes to 90% of the questions for the first 9 principles of intuitive eating before progressing onto gentle nutrition (principle 10)
Intuitive Eating Questions
Reject The Diet Mentality
- Have I unfollowed diet-y social accounts that make me feel bad about my body and food?
- Have I tossed out weight-focused and healthism magazines?
- Do I refuse to participate in diet and weight talk?
- Have I let go of my fear of weight gain
Honor Your Hunger
- Have I connected that dieting = starving and that food rules = restriction?
- Do I nourish my body adequately at all times, even if it goes against diet culture rules?
- Am I eating when I feel physically or emotionally hungry?
- Have I broken up with a ritualistic meal and snack schedule?
- Have I let go of any fear of wasting food?
Make Peace With Food
- Have I made a truce to stop fighting the desire for any and all foods?
- Do I allow myself unconditional permission to eat
- Do I keep a stocked pantry with all the food types I enjoy?
Challenge The Food Police
- Do I scream “no” when my inner critic starts using terms like “good, bad, healthy, and unhealthy” foods?
- Do I emotionally dismiss internal and eternal diet talk?
- Can I easily identify my inner critic as messages from diet culture that don’t belong to me?
Discover The Satisfaction Principle
- Am I getting pleasure from eating?
- Can I slow down to enjoy my food?
- Do I stop to notice the taste, texture, aroma, and feelings I get with food?
- Do I go for the foods that I want when I want them?
Feel Your Fullness
- Do I listen to the signals from my body that say “i’m not hungry anymore?” or “i’m still hungry after eating“
- Do I acknowledge that different levels of fullness exist and explore where my body feels the most comfortable?
- Am I checking in before and after meals to ask myself how my body feels?
Cope With Your Emotions With Kindness
- Am I treating all feelings as equally valid (sadness, grief, fear, happiness)?
- Do I accept that food won’t fix the hard feelings that I have, and practice many types of coping skills?
- Am I accepting any negative thoughts I have about food as “just thoughts” and exploring the origins outside of the food that might have prompted the thought?
Respect Your Body
- Do I accept my genetic blueprint? In other words- i’m not striving for weight loss or body changes through what I eat?
- Am I rejecting diet culture ideas of thin being superior and healthier?
- Do I honor my body, even if I don’t love every part of it?
- Do I reject the popular “I hate my body” status quo?
- Do I celebrate non-scale victories?
Feel The Difference In Movement
- Do I dismiss militant exercise (harder and faster = better)?
- Am I moving because I enjoy it and not to change my appearance?
- Would I be doing the exercise I do if it was guaranteed nothing cosmetic would change on my body?
Gentle Nutrition
- I understand I don’t have to eat perfectly to be healthy
- I know sudden nutrient deficiencies don’t come from a single day of “bad” eating
- I know that healthy eating = food balance
- I explore different foods that make my body feel good
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