Too Much on Her Plate with Dr. Melissa McCreery

Melissa McCreery
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Too Much on Her Plate with Dr. Melissa McCreery

Too Much on Her Plate is a podcast for smart, busy women who want to stop emotional eating and overeating. Psychologist and emotional eating expert Dr. Melissa McCreery explores why diets don’t work and what to do instead. Discover how emotional eating, mindless eating, stress eating, and comfort eating can teach you how to address your non-food Hidden Hungers, and how to implement smart strategies to ditch diet mentality, rewire your thoughts and beliefs about food, eating, and the scale, and end vicious cycles with overeating and weight.

  1. 3D AGO

    168 How to Lose Your Stress Eating Habit (Part 1): Why Traditional Advice Fails You

    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 lear...

    20 min

  2. MAR 12

    167: Breaking Free from Comfort Eating: Why Discomfort is the Key to Real Change

    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 c...

    17 min

  3. MAR 5

    166: Breaking Free from Overeating: The 4 Questions That Change Everything

    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 – U...

    32 min

  4. FEB 26

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

    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 &...

    12 min

  5. FEB 12

    164: How to Reset Instead of Overeating When Life Feels Out of Control

    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 Stati...

    17 min

  6. FEB 5

    163: Reset Your Mindset to Break Overeating and Emotional Eating Habits

    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 ...

    27 min

  7. JAN 29

    162: Greatest Hits: How to Break the Cycle of Overeating and Perfectionism

    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 every...

    16 min

  8. JAN 15

    161: How to Stop Stress Eating Without Willpower: Marie’s Story

    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 requi...

    22 min
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Too Much on Her Plate is a podcast for smart, busy women who want to stop emotional eating and overeating. Psychologist and emotional eating expert Dr. Melissa McCreery explores why diets don’t work and what to do instead. Discover how emotional eating, mindless eating, stress eating, and comfort eating can teach you how to address your non-food Hidden Hungers, and how to implement smart strategies to ditch diet mentality, rewire your thoughts and beliefs about food, eating, and the scale, and end vicious cycles with overeating and weight.

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