**3. Results**

#### *3.1. Participants' Demographics and Clinical Data*

Detailed demographic and clinical data of the three groups are shown in Table 1. The groups did not differ in age, gender, or education level. As expected, the three groups differed in FA symptoms; this difference stayed significant when controlling for BE symptoms. As expected, the H-C differed in BMI from both FAOB and NFAOB groups. The three groups differed in their emotional and uncontrollable eating symptoms (TFEQ-EE and TFEQ-UE, respectively), while the FAOB group showed the greatest degree of symptoms. The NFAOB and H-C groups did not differ in depressive or binge-eating symptoms (BDI and BE, respectively), but both groups differed from the FAOB group, who showed the highest level of symptoms. Lastly, the three groups did not differ in cognitive restraint related to food (TFEQ-CR), nor in their PANAS or VAS-hunger scores, but the FAOB group compared with the other two groups, showed a trend for greater hunger (i.e., lower scores on the scale) on the morning of the study.
