Compulsive overeating and ADHD

My mother in law (the mother of DH) is visiting us and we got on the topic of overeating.  She has classic undiagnosed adult ADHD.  She has struggled with eating too many sweets all her life.  She said that she has gotten herself sick eating sweets in the past.  She blames this on the fact that she never got much when she was growing up, which I feel is maybe partly true but not the whole story.

 Its interesting to me because I have been researching an article on obesity and ADHD.  In my travels through the literature, I found a few articles on eating disorders and ADHD.  What interested me was that the articles also discussed some ways that people with ADHD can avoid binge eating, which matched a lot of what my mother in law was telling me about sweets.

Here are some of the tips, a la my mother in law, which went along pretty well with my research so far:
1) " I can't stop eating if its in the house.   If its not in the house, I'm usually ok."
2) "I have to put the candy I make in little bags in the the freezer.  If I can't see it, I won't eat it all in one sitting."
3)  DH chipped in this one.  "Mom would always sit on the couch and watch TV while eating one candy after another."  (Some people find TV is a trigger for overeating, or at least for ignoring the fact that they are full.)

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