Delilah is overweight. She likes to eat cookies and other sugary snacks, and often eats an entire package at one sitting. She is upset by this because she knows how important weight is to health, but she does not engage in any compensatory behaviors. Which of the following would be a likely diagnosis?

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Delilah exhibits symptoms of binge eating disorder, including excessive consumption of food in a single sitting, feelings of distress or guilt afterwards, and lack of compensatory behaviors such as purging or excessive exercise. Anorexia nervosa involves restriction of food intake, while bulimia nervosa involves bingeing and compensatory behaviors such as purging. Purging disorder involves purging without bingeing.

Delilah Is Overweight