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.
Episodes
151 episodes
149: What if I Don’t Want to Feel my Feelings and I Don’t Want to Overeat?
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 ove...
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Episode 149
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25:52
148: The Power of Slowing Down: How Taking Your Time Can Transform Your Relationship with Food
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...
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Episode 148
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28:25
147: Why You Should Do Less to Stop Overeating
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 ...
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Episode 147
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27:28
146: How to Break the Link Between Perfectionism and Overeating
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...
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Episode 146
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25:59
145: Procrastination vs. Permanent Results
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 ...
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Episode 145
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22:46
144: Overwhelm & Overeating: When Doing Your Best is Burning You Out
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 d...
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Episode 144
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143: Greatest Hits of Summer: Retraining Your Brain Away from Shame
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...
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Episode 143
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142: Summer Q&A: 3 Ways to End Overeating Habits
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, t...
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Episode 142
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22:09
141: Wendy's Story Weight Loss, Self-Trust, and Lasting Results
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...
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Episode 141
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38:25
140: Greatest Hits of Summer: Declare Your Freedom From Diets and Overeating
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...
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Episode 140
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139: Greatest Hits of Summer: Peace with Food on Vacation
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...
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138: Transitions, Overeating, and Overwhelm - and Doing Things Differently
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 fro...
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Episode 138
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20:11
137: One Way to Lose Weight Without Dieting
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 w...
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Episode 137
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136: Is It Really Your Feelings That Are Triggering Emotional Eating.mp3
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 insi...
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Episode 136
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21:20
135: 10 Ways to Cultivate a Self-care Mindset
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:
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Episode 135
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24:18
134: When Changing Your Overeating Feels Hopeless
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...
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Episode 134
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22:15
133: How Curiosity Can Break Emotional Eating Habits
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 rega...
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Episode 133
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22:57
132: How to Interrupt Emotional Eating in 60 Seconds
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 eate...
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Episode 132
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23:03
131: How to Break the Cycle of Guilt, Shame, and Overeating
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.
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Episode 131
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20:19
130: When You’re Mindless Eating at the Same Time Every Day
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 lit...
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Episode 130
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18:51
129: Fighting Cravings: When You Don’t Want to Overeat and Yet You Do
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...
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Episode 129
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22:49
128: Diet Mentality Ick - A Rant
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 a...
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Episode 128
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127: A Few Lessons on Managing Stress Eating That I Never Stop Learning
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 thi...
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Episode 127
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24:16
126: How to Stop Negative Thoughts From Triggering Overeating
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 i...
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Episode 126
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23:26
125: Q&A How to Be Okay With Less Than Perfect Progress
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 t...
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Episode 125
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