Efficacy of a brief internet-based intervention designed to target harmful dieting behaviors

The brief internet-based intervention is designed to target extreme dietary restraint, the best replicated risk and maintaining factor for binge eating. The intervention is composed of 4 sessions. The 4 different sessions include: 1. Psycho-education: information on what dieting means, when it can become harmful, and why it can promote binge eating. 2. Self-monitoring: the importance of monitoring behaviors, thoughts, and emotions related to food, eating, and dieting 3. Regular eating: participants taught how to adopt a pattern of regular, flexible eating approach. 4. Food exposure: participants are taught how to overcome fear and anxiety around "forbidden" foods. Each session will take around 30-60 minutes to complete, and participants will be encouraged to practice the strategies taught in each session on a daily basis. Therefore, total time commitment will vary from person to person. Participants will be encouraged to stay on each session for around 7 days prior to moving to the next session, although they will be instructed that they can go at a pace that suits themselves. Each session will include: interactive videos discussing the content of the session and how to implement the prescribed strategies; written text; downloadable handouts to complete the prescribed activities; and quizzes designed to consolidate learning. To monitor adherence, google analytics will be set up to examine the number of times a page was viewed and how long each page was viewed for.