"weight concerns" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to worries about one's physical weight or concerns that one's weight is unhealthy. For example, "My weight concerns have driven me to start exercising and eating healthier."
Weight concerns, a poor self-image related to perceptions of overweight and repeated attempts to diet, also now develop at an early age, influenced both by parents and the media.
Previous research has linked female weight concerns and smoking.
No previous studies have explored weight concerns in relation to smoking habits, or investigated how weight concerns affect smoking cessation in a general population.
A child's weight concerns, he says, often fluctuate and can be temporary.
Participants high on weight concerns were more likely to cite the group format of the intervention as a deterrent.
The restrained eating scale, adapted from the Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire, was used to measure students' weight concerns.
Our results suggest that weight concerns, though differently conceptualized, may motivate African American women as powerfully as white women.
Objective Determine body image satisfaction, weight concerns and dieting behaviors, Tanner index, and dietary adequacy in young women and girls.
The present study was designed to examine the effects of a disgust mood state on negative interpretation bias, in particular in the domain of body and weight concerns.
Given the relationship of weight concerns and negative mood to smoking relapse, interventions designed to address the postpartum experience are indicated.
The sample included 68 pregnant and 927 nonpregnant young women who participated in a population-based longitudinal study examining eating and weight concerns in young adults.
