Binge Eating Scale – BES

Select the statement that best describes you: 1. I do not think about my weight or size when I'm around other people. 2. I worry about my appearance, but it does not make me unhappy. 3. I think about my appearance or weight and I feel disappointed in myself. 4. I frequently think about my weight and feel great shame and disgust.

Select the statement that best describes you: 1. I have no difficulty eating slowly. 2. I may eat quickly, but I never feel too full. 3. Sometimes after I eat fast I feel too full. 4. Usually I swallow my food almost without chewing, then feel as if I ate too much.

Select the statement that best describes you: 1. I can control my impulses towards food. 2. I think I have less control over food than the average person. 3. I feel totally unable to control my impulses toward food. 4. 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: 1. I do not have a habit of eating when I am bored. 2. Sometimes I eat when I am bored, but I can often distract myself and not think about food. 3. I often eat when I am bored, but I can sometimes distract myself and not think about food. 4. I have a habit of eating when I am bored and nothing can stop me.

Select the statement that best describes you: 1. Usually when I eat it is because I am hungry. 2. Sometimes I eat on impulse without really being hungry. 3. 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. 4. 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: 1. I do not feel guilty or regretful at all. 2. 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: 1. When I'm on a diet, I never completely lose control of food, even in times when I eat too much. 2. When I eat a forbidden food on a diet, I think I've failed and eat even more. 3. When I'm on a diet and I eat too much, I think I've failed and eat even more. 4. I am always either binge eating or fasting.

Select the statement that best describes you: 1. It is rare that I eat so much that I feel uncomfortably full. 2. About once a month I eat so much that I feel uncomfortably full. 3. There are regular periods during the month when I eat large amounts of food at meals or between meals. 4. I eat so much that usually, after eating, I feel pretty bad and I have nausea.

Select the statement that best describes you: 1. The amount of calories that I consume is fairly constant over time. 2. Sometimes after I eat too much, I try to consume few calories to make up for the previous meal. 3. 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. 4. I have periods of about a week in which I impose starvation diets, following periods when I eat too much. My life is made of binges and fasts.

Select the statement that best describes you: 1. I can usually stop eating when I decide I've had enough. 2. Sometimes I feel an urge to eat that I cannot control. 3. I often feel impulses to eat so strong that I cannot win, but sometimes I can control myself. 4. I feel totally unable to control my impulses to eat.

Select the statement that best describes you: 1. I have no problems stopping eating when I am full. 2. I can usually stop eating when I feel full, but sometimes I eat so much it feels unpleasant. 3. It is hard for me to stop eating once I start, I usually end up feeling too full. 4. It is a real problem for me to stop eating and sometimes I vomit because I feel so full.