This is the experimental arm. Participants will receive the 6-session enhanced cue exposure therapy.

This is the active control arm. Participants will receive the 6-session behavioral lifestyle intervention.

The E-CET will consist of six weekly sessions and will be delivered by a clinical psychology trainee in person. Session #1 will be used to introduce to the participant the rationale and procedures of E-CET to establish therapeutic alliance, agreement on treatment goals and tasks, and to collect information on idiosyncratic CS-US expectancies to be targeted in exposures. Sessions #2 to #5 will be in vivo exposures. The interventionist will prompt the participant to evaluate the CS-US expectancy to facilitate the violation of the CS-US expectancy maintaining NEE. Between-session homework exposures will be planned and conducted by the participant in their naturalistic environment. They will also be reviewed at the beginning of the following session to consolidate learning. The final session will consist of consolidation of treatment gains and relapse prevention.

The subscale consists of 13 items assessing the tendency to eat in response to negative emotions, on a 5-point Likert scale from 1 (never) to 5 (very often). The cutoff point of >3.25 is used to indicate negative emotional eating tendencies. Higher scores indicate greater tendency and severity.

Participants will respond to fixed-interval prompts asking whether they have engaged in NEE in the assessment period. The sum of all the reported episodes during the seven days will be computed to indicate the frequency of NEE per week.

It will be indexed by the association between negative emotionality and caloric consumption measured in three days a week. Negative emotionality will be measured using the four fixed interval prompts per day. Participants will be asked to select the negative emotions applied to them at the moment and rate the intensity of the selected negative emotions on a visual analog scale from 0 (not at all) to 100 (very intense). Caloric consumption will be measured by the 24-hour dietary recall interview conducted for three days a week. Stronger associations will indicate greater NEE.