Few people get through a day without looking in a mirror, assessing the fit of their clothes or taking stock of their overall appearance. Body checking, in the era of continually updated selfies, may ...

Body checking involves a person repeatedly seeking information about their body shape or size using scales, mirrors, or other methods. This behavior may become unhealthy and lead to eating disorders.

In the fitness and weight loss communities, progress photos, body fat measurements and other “non-scale victories” are touted as healthy alternatives to obsessively checking the scale. For some people ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Body checking: The inconspicuous trend taking over TikTok. (Getty Images; designed by Jay Sprogell) A 22-year-old influencer hits ...

For every fun dance challenge on TikTok, a far more sinister trend goes viral. In this case, it's body checking. Body checking doesn’t have to be obvious to be dangerous, either. Often it’s hiding in ...

"Body checking" — you may have seen the phrase recently in the comments of 'fit checks, GRWMs, or "what I eat in a day" TikToks, often thrown out as an accusation toward the creator. The term refers ...