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

Difficult feelings and situations are a part of life. They’re a common reason that smart, busy women overeat, and they are often the things that throw a wrench into the best-laid intentions to make changes in how you eat or think about food.

What do you do with a feeling when you don’t know what to do (but you don’t want to eat everything in sight)? That’s the topic of this episode.

Tune in to this episode where I’m covering ten things you can do with a feeling. Ten things you can really do. There’s even a free cheat sheet!

What you’ll learn from this episode:

• The mindset mistake that contributes to emotional eating when things get difficult or life throws you unexpected challenges
• Why focusing on NOT eating may lead you to eat more
• What to do with a difficult feeling when you don’t know what to do with it and don’t want to resort to emotional eating
• How to feel effective, and even powerful, even when you can’t change a difficult situation or feeling

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at  https://toomuchonherplate.com/emotional-eating-and-difficult-feelings-tmohp-005/

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

We can’t talk about making real changes with your relationship with food without talking about self-compassion. Believe it or not, self-compassion is a lot more important than tough love if you want to leave overeating struggles behind.

Listen to this episode and discover the critical relationship between self-compassion, mindset, and your relationship with food.

What you’ll learn from this episode:

• The questions to ask to reconnect with real self-compassion
• Why there is no list of activities that are self-compassion and why it all begins with mindset
• What self-compassion has to do with overeating
• How to start generating more self-compassion
• The attitude of self-compassion and the power you can generate from it

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at  https://toomuchonherplate.com/self-compassion-and-overeating-tmohp-004/

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 of the heaviest parts of examining our struggles with food or with overeating can be the emotional baggage and the way we’ve been taught to approach thinking about and making changes. If you’ve been at this for a while, your plans to make changes may feel exhausting before you even embark on them. 

Listen to today’s episode to begin to rewire your brain to create a different approach. We’ll examine what this actually looks like in your life.

What you’ll learn from this episode:

• The first step to taking your power back from overeating and emotional eating (we’ll walk through this step by step)
• How get more clarity about what your path to peace with food and freedom from overeating  looks like
• A process to build real, lasting motivation for making the changes that you want to make with food and your eating habits

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at  https://toomuchonherplate.com/freedom-from-overeating-step-one-tmohp-003/

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 want to create freedom from overeating and peace with food, you have a puzzle to solve. Slapping on willpower doesn’t create lasting change - it only sets you up in a lasting battle to maintain self-control - and who wants to make this your lifetime mission?

Today I want to take a deep dive into a very common mindset issue for smart, busy women who overeat or who are stuck in patterns of emotional eating. Listen to the episode to get clear on what this is - and what to do about it.

What you’ll learn from this episode:

• Why it’s important to transform your mindset if you want to end habits of overeating or emotional eating
• What it means to divorce deprivation
• Signs that you are probably living in deprivation mode (and the consequences you’re probably experiencing)
• One reason you may be feeling unmotivated and burnt out and tired of trying to change your eating habits
• The power of creating transformation instead of relying on willpower and the difference between deprivation and transformation strategies

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at  https://toomuchonherplate.com/divorce-deprivation-tmohp-002/

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

Welcome to the first episode of the Too Much on Her Plate podcast! There’s a lot of ground to cover on this road to creating freedom from emotional eating and overeating, let’s start in the most important place - the reason you overeat.

What you’ll learn in this episode:

• Why overeating is so persistent and why it’s felt so hard to change your eating habits or your relationship with food
• The key to unlocking your overeating puzzle
• Five common reasons that women overeat and that food can have so much power over you
• How vicious cycles with food and weight get their power - and how to break free from them
• Hidden Hungers - what they are and why you need to know about them

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at  https://toomuchonherplate.com/the-reason-you-overeat-tmohp-001/

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

Are you a smart, busy woman who's ready to make peace with food and create freedom from overeating and emotional eating?
You're in the right place. On the Too Much on Her Plate podcast, psychologist, author, and creator of The Missing Peace program, Dr. Melissa McCreery explores the key components of ending struggles with food and the scale.
Emotional eating, mindless eating, stress eating, and comfort eating AREN’T signs that you’re lazy or need more willpower. Let’s talk about how to ditch the diet, rewire your thoughts and stories about food, eating, and what you’re capable of, lose the overwhelm, and end the vicious cycles. Life’s too short to spend it struggling with food.

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