 Patient admission and treatment: patients are continuously admitted to Mandometer treatment, which is a standard of care for eating disorders since 1997 in the Stockholm City Council. Hence, patients are treated according to the clinical practice of the Mandometer Clinic. 20 of the patients are admitted through referral within the Swedish Health Care System and 80 through self-referral, which is an option within the system. 85 of the 354 patients are women, their age and BMI were similar to those of men, their mean SD age at admission was 38 15.4 years and their BMI was 37.1 7.5 kgm2, for women and men combined. The marked sex difference is expected, most patients with eating disorders are women. The patients first come to the clinic for instruction on how to use Mandometer at home and they return after one week for an eating examination. While eating at home over the first week using Mandometer is now part of clinical practice, this was not the case when Mandometer treatment for BED was launched. Thus, the first 354-166188 patients who were admitted to Mandometer treatment did not eat using Mandometer at home before they entered treatment. Instead, these patients ate using Mandometer as part of the initial examination at admission. At that examination, which is referred to as an eating examination, all patients fill in the the Eating Disorders Inventory, the Comprehensive Psychopathological Self-Rating Scale, and questionnaires of the quality of life. As part of the eating examination, the patients are also examined by a physician, including blood pressure, heart and lung examination, and palpation of the stomach, and they are interviewed concerning their medical history and history of eating disorders. The patients body weight and composition are examined Tanita BC-418 MA and a record of their recent 24-hour food intake and eating habits is also taken. They are then diagnosed with BED using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. 