TABLE 1.

Standardized item-level canonical discriminant function coefficients for predicting clinician-assessed loss-of-control and full-threshold status

Self-report item	Any LOC	Full-threshold
Binge-eating/compensatory behavior items
I felt I had lost control while eating.	0.335	0.405
I’ve experienced binge eating.	0.435	0.509
I felt unable (or it was difficult) to stop eating once I’d started.	0.157	0.105
I felt unable (or it was difficult) to prevent an episode of eating from starting.	0.263	0.202
I’ve made myself vomit, taken laxatives, and/or fasted more than 24 hours in order to control my weight or to try to make up for an overeating episode.	0.133	0.238
Binge-eating/overeating features
Have you typically eaten much more rapidly than normal?	0.036	0.101
Have you typically eaten until you felt uncomfortably full?	−0.051	−0.098
Have you typically eaten large amounts of food when you haven’t felt physically hungry?	0.149	−0.022
Have you typically eaten alone because you felt embarrassed about how much you were eating?	0.108	0.009
Have you typically felt disgusted with yourself, depressed, or very guilty?	0.110	0.080
Distress.	−0.244	−0.066
General overeating items
I didn’t really notice how much I ate; I ate mindlessly.	0.110	0.153
I liked the taste of the food, so I kept eating.	0.007	0.175
I ate more than I intended to.	−0.021	−0.076
I felt regretful about how much I ate.	0.132	−0.094

“Any LOC” represents endorsing any loss-of-control eating over the past 3 months (clinician interview); “full-threshold” represents the subset of these individuals who endorsed at least 12 objective binge-eating episodes over the past 3 months (clinician interview). The top three predictive items are bolded in each column.