What’s Your Diet Personality?

Your answers suggest that you are: THE MINDLESS MUNCHER

This quiz is not scientific (at all), and you are most likely a combination of diet personality types. We hope that taking the quiz was fun, and that you’ve found a nugget (not the chicken kind) of useful information here that helps you to better manage your weight and health.

If you’re looking for more scientific recommendations to help you, consider asking a registered dietitian for some advice. Here’s what your answers suggest that your diet personality may be:

THE MINDLESS MUNCHER

Mindless Munchers rarely make time for a balanced, sit-down meal. They graze throughout the day, grabbing a snack here, some hors d’oeuvres there. When peckish, they pull out crackers or chips, intending to just eat one or two, and the next thing they know—um, empty package. They’re often unaware of how much they eat. Look down at your computer keypad. See crumbs? It’s hard to resist a snack—that bowl of peanuts at the bar, or the breadbasket at a restaurant.

Bottom-line advice: Keep a food diary. Make time for sit-down meals, steer clear of finger foods, and ask the waiter ahead of time to nix the breadbasket. Start paying close attention to the actual process of eating. Learn more about mindful eating here.

Your answers suggest that you are: THE ROYAL ROLLER COASTER

This quiz is not scientific (at all), and you are most likely a combination of diet personality types. We hope that taking the quiz was fun, and that you’ve found a nugget (not the chicken kind) of useful information here that helps you to better manage your weight and health.

If you’re looking for more scientific recommendations to help you, consider asking a registered dietitian for some advice. Here’s what your answers suggest that your diet personality may be:

THE ROYAL ROLLER COASTER

Royal Roller Coasters too often eat according to how they feel. We all know the Bridget Jones stereotype—someone who deals with a breakup (or other blow) with a spoon and a pint of ice cream. No bowl required. Or maybe they turn to chocolate. The weight loss plan? Out the window. And sometimes, the same response can be triggered when Roller Coasters are ecstatically happy. Maybe they land a good job, and on the way home that day, they buy a box of cupcakes displayed in a bakery window. In a study that spanned 50 years, researchers found that people who scored the highest on “impulsivity” weighed 24 pounds more on average than people who scored lowest.

Bottom-line advice: Moods, by definition, are temporary. Time them, and you’ll know how long you need to ride out your cravings to avoid impulsive eating. Treating yourself once in a while is fine, but swinging from deprivation to overindulgence according to the pendulum of your moods wreaks havoc on both your waistline and your blood sugar levels.

Your answers suggest that you are: THE SECRET SNACKER

This quiz is not scientific (at all), and you are most likely a combination of diet personality types. We hope that taking the quiz was fun, and that you’ve found a nugget (not the chicken kind) of useful information here that helps you to better manage your weight and health.

If you’re looking for more scientific recommendations to help you, consider asking a registered dietitian for some advice. Here’s what your answers suggest that your diet personality may be:

THE SECRET SNACKER

Secret Snackers put up a good front, eating all the “right” foods, but once their guard comes down, it all falls apart. They’re prone to bingeing. They may be virtuous during the day, simply because they’re so busy, it’s easy to be good. Come evening, they’re ravenous, scarfing down (usually high-carb) foods. Snacking at night is a double whammy, too. Nighttime eaters tend to consume more calories overall, and also tend to gain more weight. For one thing, they’re not hungry the next morning, and often skip breakfast—starting the cycle again.

Bottom-line advice: Your best solution is to eat breakfast and have a good selection of healthy, low-carb snacks handy to eat throughout the day. Not only will this fuel your body more naturally and steadily, but it is also the ticket to better blood glucose levels. Maybe if you allow yourself small indulgences, too, you will feel less need to sneak.

Your answers suggest that you are: THE CONVENIENCE CONSUMER

This quiz is not scientific (at all), and you are most likely a combination of diet personality types. We hope that taking the quiz was fun, and that you’ve found a nugget (not the chicken kind) of useful information here that helps you to better manage your weight and health.

If you’re looking for more scientific recommendations to help you, consider asking a registered dietitian for some advice. Here’s what your answers suggest that your diet personality may be:

THE CONVENIENCE CONSUMER

Convenience Consumers are pressed for time, and love junky convenience foods. Their weekly repertoire might include McDonald’s®, Chinese take-out, drive-thrus, microwaveable containers, and Slim Jims®. These days, with Dunkin Donuts® kiosks in the grocery store, chips and soda sold at drugstores and gas stations, and vending machines in schools, there’s no getting away from junk food. Trouble is, with this comes nearly-toxic doses of sodium, sugar, preservatives, bad fats, and other chemicals.

Bottom-line advice: Diet plans with delivered foods or meals may work for you. Also, try to replace one or two processed or fast foods a week with healthier alternatives, such as pre-washed mini carrots, nuts, hard-boiled eggs, or lettuce roll-ups. The more times you see you can do it, the more healthy choices you’ll be able to make.

Your answers suggest that you are: OR MS. MEAT AND POTATOES

This quiz is not scientific (at all), and you are most likely a combination of diet personality types. We hope that taking the quiz was fun, and that you’ve found a nugget (not the chicken kind) of useful information here that helps you to better manage your weight and health.

If you’re looking for more scientific recommendations to help you, consider asking a registered dietitian for some advice. Here’s what your answers suggest that your diet personality may be:

OR MS. MEAT AND POTATOES

You never entirely saw the humor in the book title Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche, and you’d take a steak and fries over a spinach-y egg pie any day. If your plate doesn’t contain meat and a starch, you end up feeling unsatisfied. And please don’t even mention sushi. Finally, when it comes to vegetables, your taste buds stop somewhere right after corn and peas.

Bottom-line advice: You need a greater variety of vitamins, minerals, fats, and plant nutrients for optimal health, diabetes or not. This means having more variety on your plate. C’mon, salads come pre-washed and pre-chopped in the supermarket now. And certain fish—like tuna—is just as satisfying as beef. Start with a few simple substitutions, and build from there. (Psst! Quiche is pretty darn good.) Some other food for thought: a 2010 study found that when people are offered food in a meal setting (with plate, utensils, and cloth napkin) versus a snack setting (paper plates and no utensils) they ate 28 percent more calories.