434-Coaching When Clients Still Want Weight Loss

Описание: How do you coach when your client says, “I want to lose weight”?

In this episode of the It’s Beyond the Food Podcast, host Stephanie Dodier shares a powerful, compassionate framework for coaching clients through their desire for weight loss—without defaulting to diet culture or gaslighting their experience.

You’ll learn how to understand where the desire really comes from, how to coach through it (not around it), and how to create space for sustainable behavior change rooted in compassion, curiosity, and self-trust.

Stephanie also introduces a free coaching guide with two real client conversation scripts you can use right away.

🔍 What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

✔️ Why hearing “I want to lose weight” sends coaches into panic mode
✔️ The difference between a thought and a fact when it comes to weight
✔️ How systems like diet culture & patriarchy shape weight loss desires
✔️ Coaching scripts & questions to explore the deeper meaning of weight loss desire

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FREE RESOURCES:

Guide: What To Say When Clients Want to Lose Weight
🚀 Get the exact words i use in real coaching sessions—when weight loss come up and i’m holding a weight-neutral stance.
👉 Get It Here: https://bit.ly/ytconvoguide


Non-Diet Coaching Assessment Tool

🚀 Download the Non-Diet Client Coaching Assessment Tool to better understand your clients and elevate your coaching practice!
👉 Get It Here: https://bit.ly/ytndassessmenttool

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⏱️ Timestamps:

00:00 – Why weight loss always comes up in coaching
02:22 – The panic moment: “But I want to lose weight”
04:30 – Desire for weight loss = thought, not fact
07:00 – How beliefs & systems shape body image
10:34 – Coaching through the desire instead of convincing clients
11:22 – The one coaching question that changes everything
13:49 – What clients are really asking for with weight loss
18:13 – Putting weight loss on the “back burner” explained
25:00 – Intrinsic motivators vs. extrinsic motivators (research insights)
28:58 – Free guide: 2 coaching scripts you can use today
30:26 – Join the Non-Diet Coaching Certification waitlist