Powerful Responses When Someone Makes a Comment About Your Body

A list of responses that can be used when someone makes a comment about your body, food choices, or endlessly gushes about triggering topics:
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•My body isn’t a topic of discussion.
•My body is my business.
•It is important to me that I’m protective of my mental health so I would prefer if we didn’t have conversations about my body.
•I’m interested in having a conversation that allows us to connect on a deeper level and frankly discussions about our bodies or diets doesn’t facilitate that connection.
•These conversations aren’t helpful for our relationship.
•Cool, thank you.
•I didn’t ask for your unsolicited advice on how I should move and show up in the world in this body.
•Yeah, I look in the mirror every day, thank you for telling me what I already know.
•I’m fat, so what?
•Right now I‘m trying to build a healthier relationship and language around food and this conversation isn’t helping that process. Let’s shift and talk about something else?
•Could we talk about _____ instead? I don’t want to talk about bodies or diets because it’s not important and honestly, vapid.
•I’m not interested in having this conversation.
•Let’s talk about more interesting things, please.
•Instead of worrying about what I’m doing, maybe you should spend more time thinking about why what I choose to do triggers you so much.
•I don’t want to engage in diet talk.
•I don’t feel comfortable talking about this.
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