Body image, eating disorders, and the slow work back to peace with food.
A clinician-built library for the full arc — from the structured early-recovery work of CBT-E and exposure-based ED treatment, through body image stabilization, into Intuitive Eating's longer-term reconnection with hunger, fullness, satisfaction, and a body you can live in.
Hunger & Fullness Scale
Re-learn the body's signals on a 0–10 scale
A printable hunger/fullness ruler with a daily check-in grid. Builds shared language between client and clinician — and rebuilds the interoceptive cues eating disorders erase.
Regular Eating Plan
CBT-E — three meals, two-to-three snacks, every day, on time
The foundational CBT-E intervention. A 7-day grid for six eating slots a day, with reflection prompts on what helped and where the pattern broke. Mechanical eating now, intuitive eating later.
Binge Episode Chain Analysis
Map one binge link by link to find the earliest changeable step
Adapts DBT chain analysis to binge eating. Walks the client from vulnerability factors through prompting event, thoughts, feelings, urges, the binge itself, and consequences — ending with the earliest link they could change next time.
Body Image Mirror Exposure
Neutral, factual mirror work to reduce body-image distress
A structured mirror-exposure log. SUDS ratings before, peak, and after; a guided neutral description; a check on avoidance and checking behaviors; and a function-not-appearance reflection.
Challenging Food Rules
List the rules, predict the catastrophe, run the experiment
A worksheet for surfacing eating-disorder rules ('no carbs after 6pm', 'only eat if I've exercised'), what each rule promises, what it actually costs, and a specific small experiment to test it this week.
Fear Food Hierarchy
A 12-rung ladder for reintroducing avoided foods
Structured exposure for ED-related food avoidance. Rate fear 0–10, climb the ladder in order, repeat each food until fear drops by half. Includes a post-exposure log with SUDS at first bite and 30 minutes later.
Intuitive Eating — Ten Principles Self-Assessment
Score where you are across Tribole & Resch's ten principles
Rate yourself 0–10 on each of the ten Intuitive Eating principles (reject the diet mentality, honor your hunger, make peace with food, challenge the food police, satisfaction factor, feel your fullness, cope with emotions, respect your body, movement, gentle nutrition). The lowest-scoring principle is usually where the next piece of work lives.
Body Neutrality Practice
The middle path between body hatred and forced body love
A reflective worksheet that shifts focus from how the body looks to what it does and what it's been through. Includes a 'what I would say to someone I love' standard, a daily mental-energy rating, and a neutral-language reframe of one common judgment thought.
Body Checking & Avoidance Log
Make the behavior visible — then pick one to change
A 7-day log for body checking (weighing, pinching, mirror scans, comparing, reassurance seeking) and body avoidance (baggy clothes, no mirrors, no photos). Tracks count, type, trigger, and post-behavior distress, then identifies one check to drop and one avoidance to break.
Make Peace With Food
Unconditional permission, one food at a time
Structured around Intuitive Eating Principle 3. A 6-step food-permission ladder for one currently 'forbidden' or 'scary' food, plus a non-judgmental after-meal reflection that tracks taste, hunger-fullness change, and the food-police voice.
Body Dysmorphia (BDD) Workbook
Name the feature, map the rituals, drop one safety behavior
A CBT-for-BDD worksheet: name the preoccupying feature, quantify time spent, list safety behaviors (mirror checks, camouflage, reassurance) and avoided situations, then pick one ritual to drop and one avoided situation to re-enter this week.
Urge Surfing for Binges & Purges
Ride the 30-minute wave without obeying the urge
Tracks an ED urge across 45 minutes — the trigger, vulnerability factors, the rise and fall of intensity — alongside delay tactics and recovery-aligned alternative actions. Built for binge, purge, restriction, compulsive exercise, and weighing urges.
Compulsive Exercise Check
Is this movement, or is it the eating disorder wearing trainers?
An honest audit of exercise quantity, intensity, and function — with a checklist of compulsive markers, a rest-day exposure plan, and a clear split between punishment / atonement movement and joyful, attuned movement.
Eating Disorder Relapse Prevention Plan
Yellow lights, non-negotiables, support team, slip script
A full ED relapse prevention plan written while well: vision of recovery, early warning signs, high-risk situations, recovery non-negotiables, named support team (initials only), and a specific script for what to do after a slip.
ARFID Food Expansion Ladder
Sensory-neighbor exposures, not fear-of-fat exposures
Built specifically for ARFID rather than restriction-based EDs. Maps safe foods, the sensory profile that makes them safe, and an 8-rung ladder of food neighbors with graded steps (look / smell / lick / bite / chew / swallow) and predicted-vs-actual fear ratings.
Diet Mentality & Food Police Thought Record
Catch the food-police voice — and rehearse the other three
Adapts the CBT thought record to diet-culture cognition. Identifies common diet-mentality thoughts, captures one eating moment in detail, and walks through Tribole & Resch's four voices — Food Police, Food Anthropologist, Nurturer, and Intuitive Eater — to rewrite the original thought.
Weight Set-Point & Body Respect
Weight-neutral psychoeducation plus a values clarification
Psychoeducation on the set-point range and the symptoms of weight suppression, paired with a values clarification: what a respected body would actually get (food, rest, fitting clothes, weight-neutral medical care) and the fear underneath letting the body settle.
Self-Compassion for Eating Disorder Recovery
Neff's three components for the moment shame wants to take over
Applies Kristin Neff's mindfulness / common humanity / self-kindness model to the specific moments ED recovery is hardest — a binge, a purge, a missed meal, a body comment, a mirror, a slip. Includes a before/after self-criticism rating and a self-compassionate response written in the client's own voice.
Three overlapping bodies of work
Eating disorder treatment, body image work, and Intuitive Eating share a goal — a person who can feed themselves, occupy their body, and stop spending most of their cognitive bandwidth on either — but they enter from different doors. CBT-E and exposure-based ED protocols start with structure: regular eating, fear-food hierarchies, mirror exposure, and dismantling the rules. Body image work targets the specific distortions, the checking and avoidance loops, and the relationship to a body the client has often spent years at war with. Intuitive Eating, in the longer arc, is the rebuild — interoception, satisfaction, unconditional permission, and gentle nutrition.
Most clients need pieces of all three at different points in treatment. The worksheets here are sequenced to match: early-recovery structure first, body image stabilization in the middle, Intuitive Eating principles as the work gets less acute.
A typical sequence
Early in treatment, use the Regular Eating Plan and Hunger & Fullness Scale to rebuild the basic rhythm and interoception. Layer in the Fear Food Hierarchy and Challenging Food Rules to start dismantling restriction. For body image, the Body Checking & Avoidance Log makes the ritualized behaviors visible before the Body Image Mirror Exposure (clinician-guided) targets the avoidance directly. As the acute phase resolves, the Intuitive Eating Ten Principles Self-Assessment and the Make Peace With Food permission ladder take over — and the Body Neutrality Practice gives clients a livable middle path between body hatred and the impossible demand to 'love your body'.
Pair this category with the Self-Esteem worksheets (core beliefs, self-compassion, shame resilience) when shame is the primary maintaining factor, and with the Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents worksheet when the eating disorder grew up alongside a parent who managed the client's body, food, or appearance.
A note on Intuitive Eating
Intuitive Eating (Tribole & Resch, 1995) is not a weight-loss method, an 'eat what you want' license, or a stage one intervention for someone in acute restriction. It's a long-arc framework for re-establishing an attuned, non-adversarial relationship with food and the body — and it works best after the basics of regular eating and adequacy are in place. Used at the right moment, it's one of the more durable interventions for the binge/restrict cycle and chronic dieting.
Free for clinicians
Every worksheet here is free to download, print, and send to clients via secure link. No watermarks. Built for therapists, dietitians, and clinical teams who want the printable to feel like real clinical material — not a Pinterest infographic.