Binge-eating disorder is a serious condition. It always involves feeling like you’re not able to stop eating. It also often involves eating much larger than usual amounts of food.

Symptoms

overweight or obese,

binge-eating disorder feel upset about their body size or shape

Feeling that you don’t have control over your eating behavior

• Often eating much larger than usual amounts of food in a specific amount of time
• Eating very fast during eating binges.
• Eating until you’re uncomfortably full.
• Often eating alone or in secret.
• Feeling depressed, disgusted, ashamed, guilty or upset about your eating.

A person with bulimia nervosa, another eating disorder, may binge and then vomit, use laxatives or exercise excessively to get rid of extra calories.