Do Weight Suppression and Body Mass Index Predict Daily Body Image and Eating Urges in Non‐Clinical Adults?

ED symptomatology moderated the relationship between BMI and dietary restraint, such that BMI positively predicted restraint urges at low levels of ED symptoms but negatively predicted them at high levels. No other moderating effects of ED symptomatology were observed for BMI or weight suppression on the remaining state-based outcomes. Overall, both weight-based severity indicators (BMI and weight suppression) demonstrated limited utility for indexing ED-related state-based variables in a female non-clinical sample. Future studies should examine additional weight-related severity indicators across both non-clinical and clinical ED samples.