These dieting-related differences were most evident on moderately complex trials, and were partially mediated by preoccupying thoughts about food, weight and body shape, but not by BMI or depressed affect.
"I fill up so many unoccupied moments with preoccupying thoughts -- to-do lists, ideas for scripts, investment plans -- that I fail to live the moment itself.
Much work in the field of eating disorders (ED) has focused on disorder-specific thoughts, suggesting that these individuals are particularly preoccupied with thoughts about the control of their eating, weight and shape (Cooper, Wells, & Todd, 2004; Fairburn, Cooper, & Shafran, 2003; Fairburn, Shafran, & Cooper, 1998).
Miriam gets preoccupied with thoughts of the funeral of the killed people.
When King wakes in the night, he is not preoccupied with thoughts of death.
Mr. Alfonzo that said he, like many of his friends, was preoccupied by thoughts of employment, graduate school and travel.
I was preoccupied with thoughts and fears of losing her, and I was very afraid of witnessing her physical deterioration and her death.
I realize not everyone in the Westfield is preoccupied with thoughts of the terror attacks that the Oculus is meant to memorialize.
According to a recent study by Mr. Thurber and Dr. Edward Walton, a physician and assistant clinical professor at the University of Michigan, sufferers can appear angry, irritable or disoriented and, of course, obsessively preoccupied with thoughts of home.
They would like, perhaps, to eat a meal together, hold a conversation or play a game, without feeling their mother or father is incapable of hearing a word they say, because they are constantly preoccupied by thoughts of work.
