Binge Eating Scale – BES

Select the statement that best describes you: 0 - I do not think about my weight or size when I'm around other people. 1 - I worry about my appearance, but it does not make me unhappy. 2 - I think about my appearance or weight and I feel disappointed in myself. 3 - I frequently think about my weight and feel great shame and disgust.

Select the statement that best describes you: 0 - I have no difficulty eating slowly. 1 - I may eat quickly, but I never feel too full. 2 - Sometimes after I eat fast I feel too full. 3 - Usually I swallow my food almost without chewing, then feel as if I ate too much.

Select the statement that best describes you: 0 - I can control my impulses towards food. 1 - I think I have less control over food than the average person. 2 - I feel totally unable to control my impulses toward food. 3 - I feel totally unable to control my relationship with food and I try desperately to fight my impulses toward food.

Select the statement that best describes you: 0 - I do not have a habit of eating when I am bored. 1 - Sometimes I eat when I am bored, but I can often distract myself and not think about food. 2 - I often eat when I am bored, but I can sometimes distract myself and not think about food. 3 - I have a habit of eating when I am bored and nothing can stop me.

Select the statement that best describes you: 0 - Usually when I eat it is because I am hungry. 1 - Sometimes I eat on impulse without really being hungry. 2 - I often eat to satisfy hunger even when I know I've already eaten enough. On these occasions I can't even enjoy what I eat. 3 - Although I am not physically hungry, I feel the need to put something in my mouth and I feel satisfied only when I can fill my mouth (for example with a piece of bread).

After eating too much: 0 - I do not feel guilty or regretful at all. 1 - I sometimes feel guilty or regretful. 3 - I almost always feel a strong sense of guilt or regret.

Select the statement that best describes you: 0 - When I'm on a diet, I never completely lose control of food, even in times when I eat too much. 1 - When I eat a forbidden food on a diet, I think I've failed and eat even more. 2 - When I'm on a diet and I eat too much, I think I've failed and eat even more. 3 - I am always either binge eating or fasting.

Select the statement that best describes you: 0 - It is rare that I eat so much that I feel uncomfortably full. 1 - About once a month I eat so much that I feel uncomfortably full. 2 - There are regular periods during the month when I eat large amounts of food at meals or between meals. 3 - I eat so much that usually, after eating, I feel pretty bad and I have nausea.

Select the statement that best describes you: 0 - The amount of calories that I consume is fairly constant over time. 1 - Sometimes after I eat too much, I try to consume few calories to make up for the previous meal. 2 - I have a habit of eating too much at night. Usually I'm not hungry in the morning and at night I eat too much. 3 - I have periods of about a week in which I impose starvation diets, following periods of when I ate too much. My life is made of binges and fasts.

Select the statement that best describes you: 0 - I can usually stop eating when I decide I've had enough. 1 - Sometimes I feel an urge to eat that I cannot control. 2 - I often feel impulses to eat so strong that I cannot win, but sometimes I can control myself. 3 - I feel totally unable to control my impulses to eat.

Select the statement that best describes you: 0 - I have no problems stopping eating when I am full. 1 - I can usually stop eating when I feel full, but sometimes I eat so much it feels unpleasant. 2 - It is hard for me to stop eating once I start, I usually end up feeling too full. 3 - It is a real problem for me to stop eating and sometimes I vomit because I feel so full.