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

You’re probably doing something “without even thinking” about it that makes overeating more tempting and makes changing your eating habits more difficult.

It’s human nature to have a soundtrack in your head that constantly feeds you thoughts and beliefs and stories - about you, about what you’re capable of, about food and eating and cravings, and about the possibility (or impossibility) of change.

Let’s talk about thoughts and feelings and where they lead. Let’s explore whether it’s time to feed your brain a better diet.

What you’ll learn from this episode:

• Why jumping into action to change your eating isn’t always a good idea
• Why and how your thoughts will help you change your eating
• How thoughts and feelings can shape your action (or lack of it)
• How to determine whether your thought and beliefs are sabotaging your eating

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/feed-your-brain-a-better-diet-tmohp-episode-025/

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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Why is it so hard to make a new eating habit stick?

The idea of changing your eating habits sounds straightforward. So why is it so easy to fall off track? Why does this one area of your life work differently than all the other places where you can easily solve problems?

Let’s talk about why new eating habits don’t stick and what you can do to change this.

What you’ll learn from this episode:

• Why the “right” eating habits might not be sticking
• The importance of your habitual thoughts
• How you can get stuck with conflicting habits that make it really hard to change your eating
• Where to look for missing habits or plans
• How changing your eating habits can be easier

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/why-new-eating-habits-dont-stick-tmohp-episode-024/

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

Comfort eating is a term almost everyone uses, and it’s something we all do. I’m sure you can easily make a list of your “comfort foods.” There’s nothing wrong with comfort eating - unless it feels like it’s taking up too much space in your life. Or unless the eating you’re doing doesn’t feel comfortable or comforting (beyond the 30 minutes after it happens)

Take a deep breath, take a listen, and let’s get uncomfortable.

What you’ll learn from this episode:

• Why discomfort is important and what it can do for you
• Why getting uncomfortable doesn’t start with pushing yourself to do hard things
• Why your mind might go blank when you’re trying to figure out how to change your eating without a diet
• The kind of discomfort that creates freedom from overeating - and the kind that doesn’t

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/comfort-eating-and-discomfort-tmohp-episode-023/

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

Emotional eating is a label that gets thrown around a lot. I’ve talked to women over the years who:

• Felt like emotional eating was normal - and something everyone did
• Felt great shame around their emotional eating and believed it meant there was something deeply wrong with them
• Felt like emotional eating was a “cop-out” and that it “should be easy to give up.”
• Felt like they understood their overeating triggers and the emotions that led to overeating but didn’t find this understanding helpful at all

Let’s talk about some basics about emotional eating and how you can use this concept to make it helpful for you.

What you’ll learn from this episode:

• Why it might be helpful to identify emotional eating, or why it may leave you feeling helpless
• The helpful question you need to ask after you realize emotional eating is happening
• Why I believe emotional eating is more common for people who identify as or were socialized as women
• The one way to really know if emotional eating is a problem for you

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/why-is-emotional-eating-happening-tmohp-episode-022/ 

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

If you can’t figure out how to stop overeating and emotional eating - despite your efforts, or if you can’t motivate yourself to try to change your eating habits because nothing seems to work, this episode is exactly what you need to hear.

In this episode, I want to show you how you can coach yourself to do things differently. It’s time to ditch your inner-drill sergeant and discover what tough love really looks and feels like.

What you’ll learn from this episode:

• How to recalibrate if you’re trying to stop overeating and it isn’t working
• Why self-compassion may be your missing piece of the puzzle
• Mistakes you might be making about what self-compassion is and isn’t
• How to start strengthening your self-compassion muscle even if you don’t think you have one (and why you should)

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at  https://toomuchonherplate.com/tough-love-for-emotional-eating-tmohp-episode-021/

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

One place that even smart high-achievers get stuck with emotional eating - and with comfort eating, stress eating or eating to numb or overeating because you’re so busy - or any kind of overeating really, is by missing an important connection. And that’s the connection between your boundaries and your relationship with food.

There are reasons that focusing on boundaries might make you uncomfortable (I’ll cover this), and some of the connections between boundaries and emotional eating and overeating might surprise you. You need to hear this.

So let’s talk about it.

What you’ll learn from this episode:

• How certain boundaries can actually create overwhelm and overeating
• You may know more than you think about how to change your eating - boundaries can help you discover this
• Why boundaries are so much more than saying no

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at  https://toomuchonherplate.com/emotional-eating-is-it-your-boundaries-tmohp-episode-020/

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

How can you feel hopeful about getting help for emotional eating or overeating when it feels like your past attempts to get help haven’t been … helpful?

Join me while I share my thoughts on why it’s important to be clear on the kind of help and support that will meet your needs and be helpful to you - and how to let go of the “help” that isn’t helpful at all.

What you’ll learn from this episode:

• How help and support can reinforce old habits, or help you break them
• The importance of clarifying what you want to be helped WITH
• How you can use help to reinforce, repeat, and remind you as you create a relationship with food that works for you
• Ways to recognize support that isn’t helping and may be making things harder for you

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at  https://toomuchonherplate.com/how-to-get-help-for-emotional-eating-and-overeating-tmohp-019/

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

Comfort eating is one of the most challenging types of overeating. It can be a difficult habit to break, in part because our need for comfort tends to show up most strongly when we’re feeling down or tired or vulnerable in some way.

Check out this episode of the podcast to learn specifically what you can start doing today to deflate the pull of comfort eating in your life.

I’ve also got a free cheat sheet for you in the show notes - don’t forget to download it!

What you’ll learn from this episode:

• Why your beliefs about comfort eating are so powerful
• How to use your beliefs to break cycles with comfort eating
• The “Widening the Lens” technique for challenging beliefs that aren’t serving you

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes, cheat sheet, & transcript at  https://toomuchonherplate.com/comfort-eating-change-the-habit-by-changing-your-beliefs-tmohp-018/

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

Everyone eats emotionally from time to time, but actual struggles with emotional eating are a different beast. If you’re caught in a power struggle with emotional eating and overeating you know how exhausting this can be.

It takes a new approach to create freedom from emotional eating and it all begins with a very different step. Check out this episode if you’re ready to let go of struggles for control, lose that feeling of falling off track, and if you’re done with plans to change your eating that exhaust you before you even get started.

What you’ll learn from this episode:

• How to know if emotional eating is a problem
• Why “maintenance” isn’t a goal I would choose
• How to avoid setting yourself up to struggle forever with emotional eating - and how to break up with the cycle of always needing to be in control of your eating
• The four tenets of creating real freedom from emotional eating
• Where (and how) to start a new approach to ending emotional eating

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at  https://toomuchonherplate.com/emotional-eating-can-it-really-disappear-tmohp-017/

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

It’s the season of goal-setting and resolutions. When it comes to tackling emotional eating and overeating, we tend to sell ourselves short (because of a lack of belief in what’s really possible). It’s also far too common to set goals or resolutions that will set you up for failure, or self-blame, or one more pass through a vicious cycle with overeating and the scale.

You CAN step off the diet and deprivation hamster wheel while at the same time creating more powerful results that actually feel good while you’re creating them. This episode will get you started.

What you’ll learn from this episode:

• How to break the cycle of setting goals with overeating and emotional eating that you never achieve
• What to consider if you want to create a relationship with food that feels good
• How smart women limit themselves with their thinking and their beliefs and what’s really possible
• How to challenge yourself differently when/if you set goals or intentions for your eating this year

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at  https://toomuchonherplate.com/emotional-eating-help-how-to-avoid-goal-setting-traps-tmohp-016/

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