Table 1.

Unhealthy eating and weight control behaviors, alcohol, and tobacco vocabulary and definitions used in the study.

Ten definitions before phase 2: focus groups	Eleven definitions after phase 2: focus groups
Exercise: workout, train, or exercise for the purpose of controlling your weight or shape or to burn calories.	Exercise: physical activities or exercise that you do to lose weight or avoid gaining weight.
Restricting: purposefully limiting the amount of food or calories that you ate or dieting to control your shape or weight. This includes the use of lower calorie meal replacement products such as Slim-Fast.	Changing what you eat or how you eat (diet): changing what or how much you ate to lose or control your weight or deal with your worries about being or getting fat. This would include cutting down how much you ate, cutting out certain foods, skipping meals, and not eating anything for a period of time.
Fasting: taking in no food for a period of several hours to control your shape and weight.
Binge eating: you’ve eaten so much food in a short period of time that you would be embarrassed if others saw you, and during these times when you ate this way you feel you couldn’t stop eating or control what or how much you were eating.	Eat and eat: overeating, eating a large quantity of food that makes you feel guilty or embarrassed, accompanied by feelings of being out of control.
Diet pills and appetite suppressants: use of pills or other substances for the purposes of burning calories, altering your appetite or metabolism for the purpose of controlling your shape and weight.	Pills: pills that you take because of your worries about your weight and shape. Pills that cause you to get rid of food, reduce your appetite, lose weight, or avoid gaining weight.
Laxatives: taking pills or other types of substances to make your bowels move, to get rid of food or calories to control your shape or weight. Examples: pills, liquids, suppositories, enemas. Common brands may include but are not limited to Ex-Lax, Docusate Sodium, Metamucil, Milk of Magnesia, Citrucel, Fleet.	Powders: powders used to get rid of food, reduce your appetite, or cause you to lose weight or avoid gaining weight.
Diuretics: water pills or other substances for the purpose of reducing the amount of water in your body to control your weight or shape. This includes herbal pills and teas taken to reduce water weight.	Tea: tea that you drink to get rid of food, reduce your appetite, or cause you to lose weight.
	Drinks: drinks that are used to help you lose weight, sometimes they are taken instead of eating a meal; other drinks may be used to reduce your appetite or help you get rid of food.
	Drops: liquid drops that are put into food or water to help you get rid of food, reduce your appetite, or cause you to lose weight.
Vomiting: throw up to control your shape or weight or to get rid of food.	Vomiting: making yourself throw up to get rid of food or avoid gaining weight.
Smoking: use of cigarettes.	Smoking: use of cigarettes or tobacco products.
Alcohol: use of any alcoholic beverages.	Alcohol: use of any alcoholic beverages.