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

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-trust and ultimately, how to feel confident and powerful with your eating again.

In this episode:

• When you have a diet program running constantly in your head
• When you don’t know how to trust yourself to make decisions about how much or what to eat anymore
• How you stop trusting yourself with food, eating, and hunger and how to start growing your self-trust and confidence again

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/how-to-trust-yourself-with-food-eating-and-hunger-tmohp-episode-123/

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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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 brain. You can build new habits. You CAN create peace with food and freedom from overeating. Sometimes it requires counterintuitive steps and approaches. In this episode I’m sharing some unexpected advice on how to make ending overeating easier and how to create new habits that last with some counterintuitive advice.

In this episode:

• Focusing beyond what to eat and when
• Starting small
• How your brain resists what works (and why)
• The problem with habit stacking
• Accountability isn’t always helpful
• Avoiding fake positivity

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/counterintuitive-advice-to-stop-overeating-tmohp-episode-122/

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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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 of the Too Much on Her Plate podcast, I’m covering tactics that go beyond doing more things or relying on willpower or distraction. The strategies in this episode will help shift you, your brain, and your behaviors toward what you really need to take your power back from food.

In this episode:

• 5 smart things to do instead of emotional eating
• Why your brain will resist these tactics
• How to become more anchored and present so you can make better decisions about eating and taking care of yourself
• The brave step of seeking support

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/short-circuit-emotional-eating-with-these-smart-tactics-tmohp-episode-121/

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

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 discover why you want to eat and simple strategies to change this
• Ways to increase your power over cravings, urges to binge, and pulls to zone out and eat mindlessly
• 10 questions that can change your urges to overeat

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/10-questions-that-can-help-you-lose-the-urge-to-overeat-tmohp-episode-120/

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

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’t working.” In this episode we have a candid conversation about her experience with working with me. What coaching for emotional eating help was like, the parts that were dissatisfying, her growth and wins, and where she is now.

What you’ll learn in this episode:

• Why it took years before Chris made the decision to work with me
• The dissatisfying answer I gave Chris after our second session that had her rolling her eyes and when things started changing
• When things started changing
• Weight loss results and the growth that happened
• Why Chris felt like she was always letting herself down with food even though everyone else thought she was incredibly trustworthy and how she built her trust and confidence back

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/getting-emotional-eating-help-how-chris-ditched-diets-and-lost-weight-tmohp-episode-119/

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

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. In this episode, I’m sharing a few of them, including what helped me through when nothing was working and life went sideways.

In this episode:

• Satsumas, cuticle oil, and bare minimum expectations
• Why journaling is such a powerful weapon - and why you might want to try it even if you think you don’t like it
• What your default should be when nothing is working
• How I discovered a bunch of mindless eating
• Wanting to hide and what helps

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/what-i-learned-when-nothing-was-working-and-when-life-went-sideways-tmohp-episode-118/

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

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 thinking
• How to make food decisions that don’t make you want to rebel
• Why focusing on a food plan is never the best first step (and the first step I recommend)
• A pep talk for your brain when you start to slide into diet mentality and deprivation thinking

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/throwing-out-the-diet-rules-and-what-to-do-instead-tmohp-episode-117/.

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

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 (the link is in the show notes). And share this episode with a friend. We all need help and support and reminders that we deserve better than diet mentality.

In this episode:

• Your forever way of eating that doesn’t include deprivation
• Avoiding the diet cycle that erodes your hope
• How diet mentality actually sets you up for more emotional eating and how to avoid the priming for a diet that can happen in December

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/break-the-dieting-cycle-25-reasons-not-to-start-a-diet-in-january-tmohp-episode-116/

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

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:

• Beliefs and common thoughts that lead to isolation (which keeps women overeating)
• Four reasons you may not be getting the help and support you need to stop overeating or emotional eating
• The key to dissolving shame
• A strategy for when you don’t know what kind of help to ask for
• The benefits of support, help, and connection

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/why-you-might-feel-alone-with-overeating-challenges-high-achiever-traps-tmohp-episode-115/

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

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 conditioning and socialization can keep you stuck in patterns of overeating
• The first step to losing your overeating habits and cravings
• What to do about automatic habits and thoughts

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/qa-does-the-desire-to-overeat-ever-go-away-tmohp-episode-114/

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