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

When it comes to overeating and emotional eating, many women who have so much confidence in other areas, begin to feel less capable. I’d like to help you get our sense of power back. Did you know that there are two ways you can approach changing your eating habits? One is empowering, the other leads to a vicious cycle.

In this episode, I’ll tell you the difference between the two approaches, help you identify which track you’ve been on, and why you might be caught in an approach that won’t ever work for you. I’ll also share four steps you can start taking to begin taking your confidence, your power, and your freedom from overeating back.

In this episode:

• My most awkward radio interview ever
• The two different foundations that will make changing your eating habits either challenging or easy
• How to stop battling to control your eating
• 4 questions to begin asking to empower yourself and to change emotional eating in a lasting way

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/from-emotional-eating-to-empowerment-freedom-without-deprivation-tmohp-episode-075/.

Ready to take your next step with emotional eating?

✨ Start here:
Discover what’s really driving emotional eating for you.
Take the free Hidden Hungers Quiz → https://toomuchonherplate.com/emotional-eating-quiz/

🧠 Want practical tools you can use right away?
Explore my programs for ending emotional eating and creating peace with food →
https://toomuchonherplate.com/shop/

🎧 New listener?
Download the free Podcast Roadmap to find the episodes that will help you most →
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📬 Stay connected:
Get updates on new episodes, free resources, and upcoming events →
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💬 Looking for deeper support?
Learn more about private 1:1 coaching for emotional eating (limited availability) →
https://toomuchonherplate.com/private-coaching-emotional-eating-coaching

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I’ve had multiple requests to address the problem of mindless eating or overeating on autopilot. How do you break the cycle? How do you prevent mindless eating? How can you interrupt an autopilot binge? Let’s talk about this.

In this episode:

• Mindless eating or eating on autopilot
• The antidote to mindless eating
• Strategies to break the mindless eating habit
• How to use discernment to eat less more easily

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/eating-on-autopilot-5-simple-strategies-to-break-the-cycle-of-mindless-eating-tmohp-episode-074/.

Ready to take your next step with emotional eating?

✨ Start here:
Discover what’s really driving emotional eating for you.
Take the free Hidden Hungers Quiz → https://toomuchonherplate.com/emotional-eating-quiz/

🧠 Want practical tools you can use right away?
Explore my programs for ending emotional eating and creating peace with food →
https://toomuchonherplate.com/shop/

🎧 New listener?
Download the free Podcast Roadmap to find the episodes that will help you most →
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📬 Stay connected:
Get updates on new episodes, free resources, and upcoming events →
https://toomuchonherplate.com/emotional-eating-help-mailing-list-signup/

💬 Looking for deeper support?
Learn more about private 1:1 coaching for emotional eating (limited availability) →
https://toomuchonherplate.com/private-coaching-emotional-eating-coaching

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Sometimes labels like stress eating are helpful because they lead to better understanding. And sometimes labels don’t add clarity. Sometimes labels like “stress eating” lead to what feels like a dead-end to our problem-solving abilities. And this can be extremely frustrating.

Figuring out how to take your power back from stress eating in the moment requires understanding what type of stress eating is happening. The most effective strategy depends on this.

In this episode:

• Is the term “stress eating” useful for you?
• Hidden Hungers and stress eating and why it’s so important to understand that they interact
• Why you want to know what type of stress eater you are
• Three key types of stress eating 

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/the-3-types-of-stress-eating-the-key-to-unlocking-your-personal-solution-tmohp-episode-073/.

Ready to take your next step with emotional eating?

✨ Start here:
Discover what’s really driving emotional eating for you.
Take the free Hidden Hungers Quiz → https://toomuchonherplate.com/emotional-eating-quiz/

🧠 Want practical tools you can use right away?
Explore my programs for ending emotional eating and creating peace with food →
https://toomuchonherplate.com/shop/

🎧 New listener?
Download the free Podcast Roadmap to find the episodes that will help you most →
https://toomuchonherplate.com/map/

📬 Stay connected:
Get updates on new episodes, free resources, and upcoming events →
https://toomuchonherplate.com/emotional-eating-help-mailing-list-signup/

💬 Looking for deeper support?
Learn more about private 1:1 coaching for emotional eating (limited availability) →
https://toomuchonherplate.com/private-coaching-emotional-eating-coaching

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Telling yourself to “stop overeating” is one of the least effective ways to change your eating habits. There are smarter, simpler strategies to break overeating cycles. Today I have a 24-hour challenge for you that you can use to reboot your relationship with food.

In this episode:

• A 24-hour challenge
• Why braking, or slowing down is so powerful
• How to break patterns of eating on autopilot
• More ways to slow down than you’ve probably previously imagined

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/how-to-put-the-brakes-on-overeating-tmohp-episode-072/.

Ready to take your next step with emotional eating?

✨ Start here:
Discover what’s really driving emotional eating for you.
Take the free Hidden Hungers Quiz → https://toomuchonherplate.com/emotional-eating-quiz/

🧠 Want practical tools you can use right away?
Explore my programs for ending emotional eating and creating peace with food →
https://toomuchonherplate.com/shop/

🎧 New listener?
Download the free Podcast Roadmap to find the episodes that will help you most →
https://toomuchonherplate.com/map/

📬 Stay connected:
Get updates on new episodes, free resources, and upcoming events →
https://toomuchonherplate.com/emotional-eating-help-mailing-list-signup/

💬 Looking for deeper support?
Learn more about private 1:1 coaching for emotional eating (limited availability) →
https://toomuchonherplate.com/private-coaching-emotional-eating-coaching

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Let’s assume you’re determined to figure out how to stop emotional eating or overeating. Your first step is likely to be something along the lines of telling yourself you won’t eat if you aren’t hungry. Women have been conditioned to believe that emotional eating and overeating result from a lack of willpower. That’s not true.

In this episode:

• Your lack of willpower is a myth
• Why focusing on food doesn’t solve the problem
• A 7-step plan to end overeating and stop emotional eating - without relying on willpower

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/you-dont-need-more-willpower-ending-emotional-eating-tmohp-episode-071/.

Ready to take your next step with emotional eating?

✨ Start here:
Discover what’s really driving emotional eating for you.
Take the free Hidden Hungers Quiz → https://toomuchonherplate.com/emotional-eating-quiz/

🧠 Want practical tools you can use right away?
Explore my programs for ending emotional eating and creating peace with food →
https://toomuchonherplate.com/shop/

🎧 New listener?
Download the free Podcast Roadmap to find the episodes that will help you most →
https://toomuchonherplate.com/map/

📬 Stay connected:
Get updates on new episodes, free resources, and upcoming events →
https://toomuchonherplate.com/emotional-eating-help-mailing-list-signup/

💬 Looking for deeper support?
Learn more about private 1:1 coaching for emotional eating (limited availability) →
https://toomuchonherplate.com/private-coaching-emotional-eating-coaching

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Overeating, emotional eating, and perfectionism have a close, complicated, and completely enmeshed relationship. It’s not helpful. Perfectionism also gets in the way most times we set a goal or set out to make a change. Before you blame yourself, it’s important to know that perfectionism is a very human thought pattern. Impossible to attain, but so seductive to our brain.

In this episode:

• The links between perfectionism and overeating
• Why you’ll probably always have some perfectionism (and it’s okay)
• 9 reasons to allow more imperfection and tackle your perfectionism this year

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/breaking-the-link-between-overeating-and-perfectionism-tmohp-episode-070/.

Ready to take your next step with emotional eating?

✨ Start here:
Discover what’s really driving emotional eating for you.
Take the free Hidden Hungers Quiz → https://toomuchonherplate.com/emotional-eating-quiz/

🧠 Want practical tools you can use right away?
Explore my programs for ending emotional eating and creating peace with food →
https://toomuchonherplate.com/shop/

🎧 New listener?
Download the free Podcast Roadmap to find the episodes that will help you most →
https://toomuchonherplate.com/map/

📬 Stay connected:
Get updates on new episodes, free resources, and upcoming events →
https://toomuchonherplate.com/emotional-eating-help-mailing-list-signup/

💬 Looking for deeper support?
Learn more about private 1:1 coaching for emotional eating (limited availability) →
https://toomuchonherplate.com/private-coaching-emotional-eating-coaching

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Where is your greatest source of power?

How can you make ending overeating habits easier?

What are some of the most powerful (and empowering) small steps you can take in any moment when you have the urge to overeat?

THIS is what I'm covering in today’s episode.

In this episode:

• The psychology of overeating and the psychology of change why both are so important to understand
• The one thing you can control to change your overeating (and how your brain focuses everywhere else)
• Choices that empower you when you have the urge to overeat

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/how-to-end-overeating-habits-with-small-steps-tmohp-episode-069/.

Ready to take your next step with emotional eating?

✨ Start here:
Discover what’s really driving emotional eating for you.
Take the free Hidden Hungers Quiz → https://toomuchonherplate.com/emotional-eating-quiz/

🧠 Want practical tools you can use right away?
Explore my programs for ending emotional eating and creating peace with food →
https://toomuchonherplate.com/shop/

🎧 New listener?
Download the free Podcast Roadmap to find the episodes that will help you most →
https://toomuchonherplate.com/map/

📬 Stay connected:
Get updates on new episodes, free resources, and upcoming events →
https://toomuchonherplate.com/emotional-eating-help-mailing-list-signup/

💬 Looking for deeper support?
Learn more about private 1:1 coaching for emotional eating (limited availability) →
https://toomuchonherplate.com/private-coaching-emotional-eating-coaching

⭐ Enjoying the podcast?
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If you’re someone who wants to stop emotional eating, address your binge eating, lose weight, or just stop overeating we need to talk about the New Year’s resolution cycle and how your brain’s thought errors may be keeping you from seeing results.

In this episode:

• Why we cram too much into a day and end up overwhelmed
• Our tendency to overdo and how it creates vicious cycles with overeating, binge eating, and emotional eating (and weight)
• How to avoid thought errors that keep us from achieving long-term results and happiness with our eating and our weight

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/the-resolution-overeating-hamster-wheel-tmohp-episode-068/.

Ready to take your next step with emotional eating?

✨ Start here:
Discover what’s really driving emotional eating for you.
Take the free Hidden Hungers Quiz → https://toomuchonherplate.com/emotional-eating-quiz/

🧠 Want practical tools you can use right away?
Explore my programs for ending emotional eating and creating peace with food →
https://toomuchonherplate.com/shop/

🎧 New listener?
Download the free Podcast Roadmap to find the episodes that will help you most →
https://toomuchonherplate.com/map/

📬 Stay connected:
Get updates on new episodes, free resources, and upcoming events →
https://toomuchonherplate.com/emotional-eating-help-mailing-list-signup/

💬 Looking for deeper support?
Learn more about private 1:1 coaching for emotional eating (limited availability) →
https://toomuchonherplate.com/private-coaching-emotional-eating-coaching

⭐ Enjoying the podcast?
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I’m coming out of an exhausting and stressful week and am freshly reminded of how powerful the urge is to not do the thing that would ultimately feel like self-care. Whether it’s fueled by exhaustion or stress or a rebellious reaction to the idea of one more thing to do the resistance to self-care (when I need it the most) is real. And it’s real for my clients and members of Your Missing Peace. So what’s a smart woman to do? In this episode, I’m sharing a quick tip that helped me do better (not perfectly) during a rough week.

In this episode:

• The human response to self-care: “I don’t want to.”
• The relationship between self-care, overeating, emotional eating, and bingeing
• Two questions that helped me get through a very difficult week without using food to cope

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/when-youd-rather-overeat-than-try-self-care-tmohp-episode-067/.

Ready to take your next step with emotional eating?

✨ Start here:
Discover what’s really driving emotional eating for you.
Take the free Hidden Hungers Quiz → https://toomuchonherplate.com/emotional-eating-quiz/

🧠 Want practical tools you can use right away?
Explore my programs for ending emotional eating and creating peace with food →
https://toomuchonherplate.com/shop/

🎧 New listener?
Download the free Podcast Roadmap to find the episodes that will help you most →
https://toomuchonherplate.com/map/

📬 Stay connected:
Get updates on new episodes, free resources, and upcoming events →
https://toomuchonherplate.com/emotional-eating-help-mailing-list-signup/

💬 Looking for deeper support?
Learn more about private 1:1 coaching for emotional eating (limited availability) →
https://toomuchonherplate.com/private-coaching-emotional-eating-coaching

⭐ Enjoying the podcast?
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In today’s episode I have for you: 25 reasons NOT to start a diet. The New Year is a season the diet industry loves! The marketing to jump on the gimmicky weight loss and diet bandwagon is everywhere - and it’s probably going to get worse. Diets don’t work, but if your brain has marinated in diet mentality, it’s tempting to think, “This time might be different.” I have your back.

Use this episode to get clarity. Use this episode to remind your brain why going on a diet is not the answer. Use this episode as your mantra this season of over-the-top-diet-mentality-marketing. AND, since we all learn and reinforce our learning in different ways, I created a cheat sheet for you. So you can keep the 25 reasons not to diet in front of your face for whenever you need them. Click the link below to get the cheat sheet.  :-)

In this episode:

• Your forever way of eating that doesn’t include deprivation
• The diet cycle that erodes your hope.
• How diet mentality actually sets you up for more emotional eating.

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/25-reasons-not-to-start-a-diet-in-january-or-ever-again-tmohp-episode-066/.

Ready to take your next step with emotional eating?

✨ Start here:
Discover what’s really driving emotional eating for you.
Take the free Hidden Hungers Quiz → https://toomuchonherplate.com/emotional-eating-quiz/

🧠 Want practical tools you can use right away?
Explore my programs for ending emotional eating and creating peace with food →
https://toomuchonherplate.com/shop/

🎧 New listener?
Download the free Podcast Roadmap to find the episodes that will help you most →
https://toomuchonherplate.com/map/

📬 Stay connected:
Get updates on new episodes, free resources, and upcoming events →
https://toomuchonherplate.com/emotional-eating-help-mailing-list-signup/

💬 Looking for deeper support?
Learn more about private 1:1 coaching for emotional eating (limited availability) →
https://toomuchonherplate.com/private-coaching-emotional-eating-coaching

⭐ Enjoying the podcast?
Rate and review here → https://apple.co/3i2L8CH