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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, a ...
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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…
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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 work Pink elephants Your inner rebel Momentum, motivation, and energy Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well…
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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 h…
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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 famil…
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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 a…
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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, “flak…
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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 uncomfortable Perfectionism, numbing, overdoing, and overeating - and…
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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 reflection Slowing down for better results (a…
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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 …
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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 life Perfectionism kills momentum and motivation Guilt, shame, and perfectionism How perfectionism keeps you from learning what you need to…
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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 …
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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 th…
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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 mig…
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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 t…
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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 frus…
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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 d…
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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: d…
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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 …
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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 …
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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 focusi…
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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 r…
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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 disconnect…
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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 und…
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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 fe…
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I don’t believe that you can heal your relationship with food or permanently change your eating in positive ways if you don’t address the emotional baggage of shame. So let’s talk about how to break the cycle of guilt, shame, and overeating. You’d have to be superhuman not to have internalized some or all of these beliefs and influences. This episo…
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You’ve probably been there. You walk in the door and you head to the kitchen. You hit “end meeting” on a work call and you go for a snack. You finish up dinner and all that you want to do in the kitchen and then you circle back for one more little thing before you leave. I’ve talked about transitions before on the podcast. In this episode, I’m shar…
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Struggles with food and eating take up a lot of mental space. I frequently hear from women who desperately want to put an end to all the drama, the thinking about what and when to eat, and would give a lot to be able to create mental peace with food. If you want to understand what freedom from overeating really is, it’s important to understand cogn…
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Whether you choose to or not, it’s difficult to be a woman and not be continually exposed to the assumptions and stresses of diet mentality and deprivation thinking. Recently I experienced a few instances when I was surprised by diet thinking and beliefs and the stress that goes along with them. These experiences, that I’ll share with you, definite…
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There are a few things I’ve learned about managing stress eating that help a lot. In fact, these are life lessons that keep repeating themselves - and that I’ll probably be relearning and remembering for the rest of my life. Imperfectly. In this episode I’m sharing ten life lessons on managing stress eating that I never stop learning. In this episo…
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I’m covering what you can do to stop fighting with your inner critic and how to stop negative thoughts from triggering overeating. It’s a two-step process, and the steps I’m sharing probably aren’t the steps that you’ve been trying so hard to implement. In this episode: How your inner critic and negative thoughts sabotage your work to create freedo…
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In this episode I’m answering a question about how to be okay - and even motivated - by less than perfect progress. Spoiler alert: less than perfect (and sometimes gradual) progress is the only kind you’ll see if you’re making lasting changes to break overeating and emotional habits. So how do you stay motivated and feel satisfied? Tune in to this …
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Fiona has a great question: “How can I feel delighted with small portion sizes, rather than feeling robbed, disheartened, and treated badly.” Q&A episodes are some of my favorites, because there’s a lot to be learned from a question - and there’s a lot to unpack in this one. In this episode I’m answering Fiona’s question and also tackling some impo…
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Have you ever thought about your pattern of overeating or emotional eating and thought that it’s so entrenched or so tangled up that you’ll never be able to change it? In this episode I’m sharing one story that is actually the story for many, many women. Once you understand how trust is lost, you’ll also be clearer on how to begin to rebuild self-t…
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What if I told you that sometimes trusting your intuition won’t help you break overeating habits? In fact, there are ways that your brain as well as your thoughts and beliefs will actually mislead you - even when you’re determined to stop emotional eating or end a habit of eating too much junk food or using food for self-care. You can retrain your …
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When you’re trying to stop emotional eating, your brain’s default strategy is to focus on “not doing it” or coming up with an alternative to-do list - things to do instead of eating. While this can be helpful, it’s important to remember that sometimes your urge to go have a snack is triggered by already having too many things to do! In this episode…
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In this week’s podcast episode I’m sharing ten questions that can help you lose the urge to overeat. Lose the urge - not control it or temper it or distract yourself from it. When you lose the urge to use food as a coping mechanism, so much gets easier. Covered in this episode: The importance of getting to the root of your overeating. How to discov…
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Years of dieting, fighting with the scale, obsessing about the scale and feeling like success always came down to the daily weigh-in. That’s where Chris was, and her decision to pursue private coaching and work with me to change her overeating wasn’t one she made lightly. “I had tried everything… all of the traditional things that women do… it wasn…
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Before you jump into January goal setting mode or dive into another plan to change overeating habits or end emotional eating, it’s always helpful to reflect on what you already know, what works for you, and what you’ve learned from attempts to stop overeating that haven’t worked. As I reflect on last year, there were definitely some lessons learned…
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Throwing out the diet rules sounds good, but when you’ve lived your life in the shadow of the weight loss industry, it can be really confusing to think about what you’ll do if you don’t follow a program this January. What you’ll learn in this episode: Reasons diet mentality is so seductive Clues to recognizing diet mentality and deprivation thinkin…
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In this episode, I’m sharing what you need to know about perfectionism and all or nothing thinking so you can avoid the yo-yo cycles, enjoy your holidays more, and set yourself up on a path that feels and works better. Use this episode to inoculate yourself against over-the-top-diet-mentality-marketing. Download the free cheat sheet to empower you …
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There’s a mindset trap that we don’t talk about enough that keeps smart women overeating. This episode is about how high-achieving women get stuck in thoughts and beliefs that isolate them or prevent them from asking for help. Not asking help can lead to overwhelm and increased Hidden Hungers (which lead to more overeating). In this episode: Belief…
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In the latest Q&A episode, Christina asks, “Why does the desire to overeat never go away in the brain? Even if you curb it, control it, suffer it, in my experience it never truly goes away.” Does the desire to overeat ever go away? It absolutely can - and in this episode I’m sharing the steps that help this to happen. In this episode: How condition…
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Grab yourself a warm mug of your favorite cozy beverage and settle in and let’s talk about how to avoid holiday overeating without feeling deprived. In this episode: 10 common mistakes that lead to overeating, guilt, and unhappiness during the holidays (and how to avoid making them) - plus a bonus Consistency vs. perfection Why you should stop work…
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In this episode, I want to talk about something a lot of high-achieving women experience, but feel alone with - overeating and success. Specifically, I’m going to shine a light on how professional success is sometimes a major factor in overeating and weight gain. In this episode: How professional success (or any success) can lead to overeating How …
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Most smart women who struggle with emotional eating (stress eating, comfort eating, or eating to avoid or cope with other feelings) make a strategic mistake. They use up all their energy and discipline focusing on the wrong thing – food. Breaking free of emotional eating cycles happens when you look beyond the food and start addressing the reasons …
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How do you break the cycle of overeating when you’re frustrated? How do you stop emotional eating when you feel powerless? Can you stop using food to push down feelings of anger? In this week’s podcast episode, I’m going to share four steps to stop emotional eating and overeating when you’re angry. In this episode: Breaking the cycle of guilt, sham…
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In this episode I’m going to walk you through a step-by-step process for mindful eating. One that’s do-able, simple, and that you can use to learn more about what you need to create freedom from overeating and emotional eating. In this episode: When was the last time you were fully present when you ate? How to eat a mindful meal (or a mindful piece…
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In this episode let’s talk about what’s realistic, what’s helpful, what’s do-able, and why you probably want to make some changes if you multitask when you eat. In this episode: The problem with multitasking when you eat - and why you probably don’t need or want to give it up completely Why mindful eating is not an all-or-nothing proposition How mi…
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Overeating and emotional eating are issues that can be complex, but changing these habits doesn’t have to be as complicated as our minds often make it. In this episode I want to share with you some ways to NOT overcomplicate the process of changing your overeating habits. I’m also sharing some simple things that have been happening inside the progr…
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When you’re at capacity, when you’re already stressed, and when your bandwidth is all used up is NOT the time to try to implement a brand new ten-step plan. Simple is best, and so is trying one or two tactics to implement - imperfectly. In this episode of the Too Much on Her Plate podcast I have a variety of doable tactics to help set you up to avo…
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