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Too Much on Her Plate with Dr. Melissa McCreery: Emotional Eating Help for Smart, High-Achieving Women

Dr. Melissa McCreery, Psychologist & Emotional Eating Coach for Smart, Busy Women

Tired of feeling out of control around food - even though you’re successful everywhere else? Too Much on Her Plate is the podcast for high-achieving women who are done with diets, shame, and trying to “just be more disciplined.” If you struggle with emotional eating, stress eating, or overeating at night, this is your space to finally identify how to break the cycle.Hosted by psychologist and emotional eating expert Dr. Melissa McCreery, each episode offers practical strategies, mindset shifts, and

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171: Stop Postponing Yourself: How to Break Free from...

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2025/04/16

Tune in to hear how small, sustainable actions can create lasting change and why waiting for the “perfect time” is a trap.What You’ll Learn in This Episode:Why postponing your happiness contributes to overeating and emotional eatingThe Hidden Hungers that drive cravings and how to address themThe all-or-nothing mindset that keeps high-achievers stuck in overwhelmHow dreaming big can actually make your goals more achievableSmall, doable actions that lead to real, lasting progressFind links to

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170: Curing Emotional Eating Habits vs Controlling Them

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2025/04/09

In this episode, I’m covering mindset shifts, hidden roadblocks, and powerful tools that can help you break free from deprivation thinking and finally cure your overeating habits. You’ll learn why self-compassion and the right support system are essential, what you need to know about blind spots that can keep you stuck, and what you can do to rewire your brain for freedom instead of restriction.What You’ll Learn in This Episode:Why diet culture and deprivation-based approaches feel so familiar—even

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17:44

169: How to Lose Your Stress Eating Habit by...

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2025/04/02

In part two of How to Lose Your Stress Eating Habit, we shift from why traditional approaches fail to what actually works. Last episode, I explained why the advice most of us have heard about how to control stress eating keeps you stuck in an exhausting cycle. Today, I want to introduce you to my signature framework—the approach my clients use to completely uproot their stress eating habits instead of just managing or controlling them.You'll learn:The key difference between controlling stress

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168 How to Lose Your Stress Eating Habit (Part 1):...

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2025/03/26

Are you tired of trying to control your stress eating, only to end up stuck in the same cycle? In this episode, I explain why the most common advice about stress eating—like trying to distract yourself, exercising more discipline, or simply saying no—doesn’t work. More importantly, you’ll learn why it's not your fault that these approaches have failed you. Get ready to see stress eating in a completely new light and take the first step toward real, lasting change.In this episode, you'll

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167: Breaking Free from Comfort Eating: Why...

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2025/03/12

Comfort eating is showing up big-time these days. Of course, in the long run, comfort eating ISN'T comforting. The key to breaking the cycle lies in discomfort - but not the kind of making yourself uncomfortable or taking on difficult challenges that diet mentality may have taught you is necessary. In this greatest hits episode, I explore how stepping into the helpful type of discomfort—rather than avoiding it—can be the game-changer in your relationship with food. You’ll learn how to

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166: Breaking Free from Overeating: The 4 Questions...

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2025/03/05

Why do you overeat? What can you do instead of depriving yourself? In this greatest hits episode, I'm diving into four powerful questions that can shift your entire approach to food and emotional eating. If you’ve ever felt stuck in the cycle of willpower, deprivation, and frustration, these questions will help you break free and create real, lasting change—without dieting. Plus, hear how these shifts transformed Maryanne’s life in ways she never expected.In this episode:Why You Overeat –

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165: Your Brain is a Drama Queen and It’s Keeping You...

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2025/02/26

Creating freedom from overeating doesn’t require a major life overhaul or a series of giant, hard-to-take steps, even if your brain has been telling you this is what’s necessary. Tune in to today’s episode to learn more.What you’ll learn in this episode:Understanding your brain’s dramaThe power of small stepsPractical small steps for changeHow your brain overwhelms you into overeating and what to do about itFind links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes &

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164: How to Reset Instead of Overeating When Life...

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2025/02/12

How do you reset, instead of overeating when life feels out of control or stressful? How do you focus on what you can control or what’s good for you when you feel overwhelmed - instead of heading straight for the chocolate? This episode of the Too Much on Her Plate podcast is designed to help.In this episode:Mindset Reset: Focusing on What You Can ControlThe Importance of Sleep for Mental ClarityPracticing the Pause: A Tool for Self-CareSetting Daily Goals for RejuvenationChanging the Station:

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27:29

163: Reset Your Mindset to Break Overeating and...

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2025/02/05

You may know about eating on autopilot or mindless overeating, but you probably don’t realize you’re doing something else mindlessly that leaves you more likely to overeat. It’s probably making changing your eating habits more challenging too. It’s almost impossible to break emotional eating and overeating habits without addressing your mindset and without exploring the thoughts or the mental soundtrack in your head.In this episode I’m exploring the power of mindset, and how it can make all the

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15:48

162: Greatest Hits: How to Break the Cycle of...

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2025/01/29

There are huge advantages to seeing perfectionism as the unattainable set of expectations that it is - especially if you want to break overeating habits or emotional eating patterns, so let’s tackle the first step toward breaking the cycle of overeating and perfectionism.In this episode:The links between perfectionism and overeatingWhy you’ll probably always have some perfectionism (and it’s okay)9 reasons to allow more imperfection and tackle your perfectionism this yearFind links to everything we

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161: How to Stop Stress Eating Without Willpower:...

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2025/01/15

In this episode of the Too Much on Her Plate podcast, I’m sharing the journey of “Marie” (not her real name), a smart, successful professional woman who struggled with overeating, stress eating, and feeling like food was controlling her (sound familiar?).Marie’s story is a perfect example of how deeply ingrained deprivation thinking and diet culture can keep us stuck in a frustrating cycle of overeating, self-blame, and defeat. Like so many women, Marie believed that success with food required

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16:02

160: How to Create a Clear Vision for Overcoming...

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2025/01/08

Whether you’re tired of struggling or ready for a fresh approach to your relationship with food, this episode will guide you toward creating a roadmap that sets you up for lasting success.What You’ll Learn in This Episode:Why having a clear vision of success is essential to overcoming emotional eating.The common pitfalls of focusing only on outcomes (like weight or eating habits) without considering how you want to feel.The role of feelings like freedom and peace in achieving sustainable change.How

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159: How To Get Help For Emotional Eating And Overeating

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2025/01/01

This episode of the Too Much on Her Plate podcast is about how to get emotional eating help (and overeating help) that is actually helpful.Join me while I share my thoughts on why it’s important to be clear on the kind of help and support that will meet your needs and be helpful to you - and how to let go of the “help” that isn’t helpful at all.What you’ll learn in this episode:How help and support can reinforce old habits, or help you break themThe importance of clarifying what you want to be

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158: When you don’t trust yourself to stop overeating

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2024/12/18

This week’s episode is an important one - especially this time of year when there’s so much hype about goals and resolutions. What do you do when your confidence is gone and how do you banish all the diet messages and learn to trust yourself with food, with eating, and with hunger?In this episode:You’re not alone if you’re tired of all the healthy eating or weight loss chatter taking up space in your brainHow you can become someone who doesn’t trust herself to make decisions about how much or what

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157: A Message About Overeating You Need to Hear Now

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2024/12/11

There’s so much messaging out there about weight loss and overeating. It’s so constant, and our exposure to it starts so early, that it’s easy to forget that the themes and refrains aren’t necessarily truths or helpful and that the messaging doesn’t address the complete overeating puzzle. Marketing from the weight loss industry promotes quick fixes, with the idea that if you do things right - if you get right - those fixes will be permanent. And yet, we wouldn’t be here if this was the case.In this

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156 How to Stop Being Triggered to Overeat

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2024/11/27

In this episode of the Too Much on Her Plate podcast, you’ll learn about the role mindset plays in reinforcing or breaking patterns of being triggered to overeat. I’ll introduce you to the concept of a mindset reset, and show you a daily practice that you can use to rewire your brain and break patterns of being triggered.In this episode:What a trigger to overeat really isTriggers vs. decisionsA mindset reset and how to break the link between the trigger and the urge to overeatFind links to

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14:35

155: In 30 Years of Dieting I Never Heard This

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2024/11/13

This podcast episode is about a set of beliefs that might be floating around in your head and not only making it harder to change your eating - it’s likely contributing to overeating and emotional eating. We live in a culture that teaches you to blame yourself for your relationship with food - while at the same time encouraging you to use food as a solution to all your Hidden Hungers. This can lead to a sense of isolation, and even shame and guilt that keep smart, amazing women going in circles -

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154: Stop Telling Yourself No

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2024/11/06

Want to see more progress, reduce self-sabotage, and spend less time thinking and focusing on what to eat? Check out this podcast episode. It’ll make a difference.In this episode:Deprivation thinking and why it doesn’t workPink elephantsYour inner rebelMomentum, motivation, and energyFind links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/stop-telling-yourself-no-tmohp-episode-154/ Join the 5-Day Freedom from Overeating

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153: Simple Ways to Get Grounded Instead of Numbing...

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2024/10/30

How do you stop eating on autopilot? How do you break patterns of mindless eating (when you’re - quite literally - eating mindlessly)? What’s one skill that you definitely need if you want to stop overeating or numbing out with food? These questions are answered in today’s episode of the Too Much on Her Plate podcast.In this episode:How you may have lost your power to make decisions about your eatingHow getting grounded can make faulty stories and beliefs less powerful and compellingWhy you get

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16:51

152: Executive Coaching for Wellness and Well-being

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2024/10/16

How can you be so smart and successful in multiple areas of your life and be going in circles with overeating and your weight? Why is it that you know how to solve so many problems, but every Monday you’re facing down the same old personal challenges with stress, or overwhelm, overeating, and the scale? It’s not just you. In what’s probably a familiar refrain from me, I’m here to tell you that one part of the problem is that you’ve been given a puzzle that’s missing some pieces. Because I believe

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