When “Love Your Body” Isn’t Helping Your Client…

Start With Respect.

“I hate my body.”

“I’ll accept my body when I lose weight.”

“How am I supposed to love a body I don’t even like?”

Body image conversations can be difficult to navigate in nutrition counseling.

Telling clients they’re beautiful doesn’t fix body-image distress. And asking someone in eating disorder recovery to suddenly love their body may feel completely out of reach.

The Respect Your Body Workbook gives dietitians a practical way to take the conversation somewhere else:

Your client doesn’t have to love their body before they can begin treating it with respect.

Make Body Image Something You Can Work With

Instead of trying to convince clients to feel differently about their bodies, this workbook helps you explore how body-image distress is affecting their behaviors.

Use the exercises to open conversations around:

• Body checking and avoidance
• Restriction triggered by body dissatisfaction
• Exercise and compensatory behaviors
• Comfortable clothing and self-care
• Appearance-based self-worth
• Body trust
• Caring for the body even when they don’t like it

Ask:

What happens after a bad body-image day?

Do they skip a meal?

Change what they planned to eat?

Exercise differently?

Cancel plans?

Body check?

Compare?

Suddenly, body image becomes something you can actually explore in a nutrition session.

What’s Included

Inside you’ll get:

• Guided body-image reflections
• Body respect and body trust exercises
• Thought-reframing worksheets
• Strategies for responding to body shame
• Activities for reconnecting with the body beyond appearance
• Practical exercises you can use in session or assign between appointments

They Don’t Have to Love Their Body to Care for It.

A client can dislike their body…

and still eat lunch.

Have a terrible body-image day…

and still wear comfortable clothes.

Experience body shame…

and still choose not to restrict or compensate.

That’s what body respect gives you—a more realistic place to begin.

Bring the Respect Your Body Workbook into your nutrition sessions and help clients move from “I hate my body” toward a much more useful question:

“How can I respect my body today—even if I don’t like it?”