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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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151: Breaking the Stress-Overeating Cycle Without...

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2024/10/09

As a high achiever who solves problems, your ability to jump into action is probably a strength, but it doesn’t serve you as well when you want to stop emotional eating or overeating. In this episode, I’ll explain why this is, how doing and taking action to stop overeating might be keeping you stuck in the same vicious cycle, and I’ll share a tip and a story of how one client stopped going in circles, stopped overeating, and began losing weight.In this episode:Being wired to doHow doing can be

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150: Q&A How Do I Stop Flaking Out On Myself?

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2024/10/02

If you feel like you keep letting yourself down by overeating; if you don’t have confidence that you’ll follow through on your next plan to change your eating habits; or if you don’t trust yourself to ever make changes with emotional eating or overeating, then this episode is for you.In this episode:The relationship between lost confidence, “flakiness”, and perfectionismHow to rebuild self-trustAre you rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic or are you building lasting change?Thoughts and beliefs

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149: What if I Don’t Want to Feel my Feelings and I...

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2024/09/25

In this Q&A episode, I’m answering the question a listener submitted in my free Facebook group: “What if feeling my feelings is too uncomfortable? I know I’m an emotional eater, but I don’t want to feel my feelings, so how do I stop overeating?”In this episode:Myths about being uncomfortablePerfectionism, numbing, overdoing, and overeating - and their link to discomfortWhy it’s valuable to feel uncomfortable sometimes, and how this helps you stop emotional eating and overeatingHow to grow your

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148: The Power of Slowing Down: How Taking Your Time...

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2024/09/11

In this episode, I’m exploring the power and transformation that happens when you slow down to overcome overeating and emotional eating. Your brain and your impatience want change to happen fast, but you might be surprised that slow is not only better but sometimes quicker. In this episode:The power of reflectionSlowing down for better results (and how your brain resists)Learning to be vs. doClient success stories: How embracing a slower approach helped clients achieve sustainable weight loss and

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147: Why You Should Do Less to Stop Overeating

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2024/09/04

This episode is about why small steps are the answer to breaking emotional eating habits, why they are so hard to take, and why your plan to end overeating cycles should focus on building consistency with do-able steps instead of big, dramatic lifestyle changes or diets (which we know don’t work). I polled my clients about how small steps have had big impacts on their lives and they came through with a variety of examples.In this episode:The benefits of small stepsRestoring your trust in

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146: How to Break the Link Between Perfectionism and...

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2024/08/28

In this episode I’m breaking down specific ways that perfectionism keeps you caught in overeating and emotional patterns and specific ways to break these patterns.In this episode:How perfectionism limits your lifePerfectionism kills momentum and motivationGuilt, shame, and perfectionismHow perfectionism keeps you from learning what you need to learn to stop overeating100% goalsHabit and Win trackingA question for your future selfFind links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete

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145: Procrastination vs. Permanent Results

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2024/08/14

It’s one thing to want to stop overeating or to want to lose weight. It’s another thing to figure out a way to make that happen. In between, it’s easy to get stuck in a pattern of starting food plans that aren’t sustainable, or of being frozen by overwhelm because of the distance between your current situation and your goal. In this episode I want to share with you how to avoid sitting in procrastination and fear (that perpetuates itself), and how to take action without creating another cycle of

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144: Overwhelm & Overeating: When Doing Your Best is...

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2024/08/07

You’re someone who’s used to giving your all - and more. It’s led to a great career and a fair amount of success, but it’s also the cause of stress, overwhelm, and overeating. There’s a reason you curl up with a bag of chips at the end of the day - it’s because you left it all out on the field and didn’t get much for yourself. In situations like this, overeating or bingeing or constant snacking can become the glue that holds your high-performing life together. So what’s a high-achiever to do? Do you

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143: Greatest Hits of Summer: Retraining Your Brain...

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2024/07/24

The reality is that you can break patterns of endlessly falling off track and "starting over" each time your eating doesn't go the way you'd hoped. You can also let go of the guilt and shame and the other emotional baggage that's often a part of these overeating cycles. I have a number of "what if" questions for you in today's episode that just might change your whole approach.In this episode:How to move out of cycles with shame, guilt, and self-blameWhy

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142: Summer Q&A: 3 Ways to End Overeating Habits

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2024/07/17

It's summer, and many of us are in a "do-less-and-relax-more" frame of mind. This week's episode can help. Believe it or not, you can unstick yourself from overeating habits without giving up on your summer vacation vibe. In fact, too many women are expending too much effort, and are still going in circles with overeating and emotional eating and their weight. In this episode, I’ve got some straight talk for you if what you’re doing isn’t working - about why this is, and what

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141: Wendy's Story Weight Loss, Self-Trust, and...

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2024/07/10

In this episode you’ll hear a conversation about what it really looks like to develop a healthier relationship with food without dieting through the Missing Peace program. Wendy, a former participant in the program, discusses what it’s like for her one year after finishing Your Missing Peace. We talk about how she overcame the battle of food’s frustrating influence in her life. Wendy shares how mindfulness, self-awareness, and self-care changed her eating and led to lasting changes. She shares her

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140: Greatest Hits of Summer: Declare Your Freedom...

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2024/07/03

Freedom from overeating isn’t just a catchy phrase or a diet in disguise. Freedom is the feeling that most women I talk to are craving. Freedom from feeling haunted by cravings. By sugar. By the scale. Freedom from having four sizes of pants in their closet. Freedom from waking up every morning wondering if it’s going to be a “good day” or a “bad day” with food and their weight. Freedom from having thoughts about food, about eating, about losing weight, and about “being good” taking up SO much room

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Greatest Hits of Summer: Peace with Food on Vacation

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2024/06/26

This episode was originally published as Episode 44. I’m bringing it back because I get SO many questions about how to plan for eating (and not overeating) on vacation.I’m a huge believer in vacations, but you shouldn’t have to take a vacation from your relationship with food. Unfortunately, many smart, busy women feel like they do. The culprit: diet mentality, and thoughts and beliefs you might not even know you have.What I cover in this episode:How diet mentality makes your thoughts about vacation

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Transitions, Overeating, and Overwhelm - and Doing...

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2024/06/12

In this episode, I’m sharing what I discovered about how I handle (and don’t handle) transitions before and after a vacation, the unnecessary drama and stress I have created in the past, and what I’m experimenting with to take my power back from overwhelm and to break automatic habits that often lead to overeating.In this episode:Why transitions are often a major time for overeating, emotions eating, and mindless eatingMy brain drama (that you might share or relate to)Why not managing a transition

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One Way to Lose Weight Without Dieting

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2024/06/05

While there’s no magic “how to lose weight without dieting” formula, there are some easy steps that can help you move away from diet mentality and diet behavior. In this episode of the Too Much on Her Plate podcast, I’m sharing a conversation with a client that helped her make a massive shift that makes overeating less powerful and less of a focus in her life.In this episode:Understanding your weight loss goal from a non-diet perspectiveWhy food was my client’s main source of pleasure How diet

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Is It Really Your Feelings That Are Triggering...

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2024/05/22

Let’s suppose that you know you’re an emotional eater. You’ve learned about emotional eating. You’ve spent time exploring your feelings. You can clearly see and describe the situations and feelings that trigger you to overeat. And all that insight hasn’t changed your eating habits at all.How do you break out of an emotional eating loop when focusing on your feelings hasn’t helped?In this episode:It’s not you, it’s that you’re missing some necessary steps for ending emotional eatingThe value of

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10 Ways to Cultivate a Self-care Mindset

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2024/05/08

I propose that we work on cultivating a self-care mindset instead of a long self-care to-do list. In this episode, you’ll also find some self-caring ways to help make true self-care easier and more intuitive.In this episode:Understanding real self-care: the distinction between faux self-care and real self-care.Practical self-care strategies: a range of actionable suggestions to cultivate a self-care mindset, including untethering from external agendas, sprinkling joy into daily life, valuing

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21:09

When Changing Your Overeating Feels Hopeless

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2024/05/01

In this episode, I’m shining a light on how powerful myths contribute to guilt, self-blame, and a loss of hope in your ability to make lasting changes. I’m also sharing three key points for regaining hope and confidence and creating the changes you desire.In this episode:How diet mentality perpetuates a cycle of self-blame and may have disconnected you from your hope and confidence.Peace with food creates happiness and happiness creates peace with food.Should you just be happy with the way things

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21:52

How Curiosity Can Break Emotional Eating Habits

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2024/04/24

Let’s tackle the challenge of emotional eating head-on. In this episode, I’m offering a specific plan centered around the powerful strategy of curiosity. I’ll explore how understanding the reasons behind emotional eating can empower you to regain control over your eating habits. By fostering curiosity rather than self-blame, you can uncover the underlying needs driving overeating and emotional eating and develop tailored strategies for healthier eating patterns. Through prompts and exercises, this

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How to Interrupt Emotional Eating in 60 Seconds

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2024/04/08

This week’s podcast episode is about a breathing technique that you can use to interrupt emotional eating, overeating, and even a binge. What does breathing have to do with ending overeating? A lot. If you’re an emotional eater or a stress eater or someone who overeats on autopilot, you know how frustrating it can be to try to change habits that feel deeply ingrained - even automatic. You’ve likely had experiences where, despite your best efforts or intentions, overeating habits have kicked in

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