Too late to edit the above post, but I wanted to add that I am at the part of the book where the author realizes that going to a therapist for years trying to resolve the underlying reasons for over eating did not help her at all with binging. She also realized that when she stopped binging for a few months with the help of medication, she still had all of the same emotional issues, but none the less was able to stop. She knew stopping her behavior had nothing to do with her issues. She could simply stop binging and deal with everything else separately, for better or worse.
It reiterated Jack Trimpey's same point to me about how you stop drinking first and things might just get better because you stopped drinking. If they don't, you work on that separately. The AV searches for every reason to have a drink. If you resolve one emotional issue, something else will come up that the AV will use for an excuse to get drunk.