I feel like when someone says "eating disorder", people naturally think of anorexia or bulimia and other eating disorders in the opposite direction like binge eating disorder get overlooked. Binge eating disorder is an eating disorder. Because you said you struggle with being overweight, I'm going to assume that you are talking about BED. Sorry if that is incorrect. Just like the other two "standard" ones, people with BED are have an unhealthy, preoccupied relationship with food. Not all people with eating disorders are thin!

I am remission from BED. I had gastric bypass surgery and that has helped curb my desires to eat along with assisting me in losing a lot of weight. I'm not finished losing the weight yet, but I'm 70% of the way there. I found that I didn't really understand how BED could be an eating disorder like anorexia/bulimia until I had the surgery and I physically couldn't eat the way I could before. I quickly found myself swapping my problem with food for a more serious problem with SI. I was using food to medicate some internal pain I had in the past.

I went to several nutritionists and did weight watchers online and I tried medical weight loss and sorta tried Jenny Craig. The thing for me was that while those things did help me lose some weight, they didn't address my issues with food on an emotional level. I would lose a small amount of weight and then I would lose momentum and gain it back FAST. I did not do a serious group program because I was scared of talking about my weight and what I was eating with other people. I did do a few things before my surgery that were in a group setting, and I found myself hating listening to all the other people passionately rant about their favorite vegetable and all of their other health problems.

But there is this book called the Hunger Within. It is about BED and digging in your past trying to figure out what is the underlying problem causing your problems with food. It's a very interesting and helpful resource.

From the people I know, of the people that did WW, they benefited much more in a group setting than just online. It helps to have a support system.