Dietary Restraint

Absent Dietary Restraint

Expressions activating this band do not convey a recognizable pattern of intentional eating control for weight or shape purposes. They instead focus on unrelated health, daily life, or general eating topics without a clear dieting or restriction motive.

Low Dietary Restraint

Expressions activating this band reflect eating-related concerns or habits, but intentional restriction is limited, inconsistent, or only indirectly implied. Eating may be described as problematic, excessive, or constrained by practical difficulties rather than by a sustained weight-control effort.

Moderate Dietary Restraint

Expressions activating this band reflect active awareness and management of food intake, including attention to healthy eating, avoiding tempting foods, and monitoring diet in relation to weight. Restriction is present as a purposeful stance, though it remains measured rather than urgent or extreme.

High Dietary Restraint

Expressions activating this band reflect pronounced efforts to eat less, persistent concern about fatness or weight gain, and worry about losing control over eating. Restriction is experienced as a salient and effortful strategy tied to body evaluation.

Severe Dietary Restraint

Expressions activating this band reflect rigid, sustained limitation of food intake for weight loss or maintenance, such as strict dieting, calorie cutting, and striving to become thinner. Eating control is framed as highly restrictive and central to managing body weight or shape.

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