“…LOC eating is cross‐sectionally characterized by pronounced eating disorder and general psychopathology, marked distress, obesity, and related metabolic symptoms (e.g., Hilbert & Czaja, ; Matherne et al, ; Radin et al, ; Shomaker et al, ). Longitudinally, childhood LOC eating predicts full‐syndrome BED and, at least in vulnerable youth, excess weight gain (Hilbert, Hartmann, Czaja, & Schoebi, ; Hilbert & Brauhardt, ; Stojek et al, ; Tanofsky‐Kraff et al, , ).…”