Too Much on Her Plate with Dr. Melissa McCreery

This podcast episode is about a set of beliefs that might be floating around in your head and not only making it harder to change your eating - it’s likely contributing to overeating and emotional eating. We live in a culture that teaches you to blame yourself for your relationship with food - while at the same time encouraging you to use food as a solution to all your Hidden Hungers. This can lead to a sense of isolation, and even shame and guilt that keep smart, amazing women going in circles - for years. There’s a solution - one that I’m covering in this week’s episode.

In this episode:

• Why you might blame yourself and how it contributes to vicious cycles
• Getting acclimatized to shame and isolation
• How it can be easier

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/in-30-years-of-dieting-i-never-heard-this-tmohp-episode-155/

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Want to see more progress, reduce self-sabotage, and spend less time thinking and focusing on what to eat? Check out this podcast episode. It’ll make a difference.

In this episode:

• Deprivation thinking and why it doesn’t work
• Pink elephants
• Your inner rebel
• Momentum, motivation, and energy

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/stop-telling-yourself-no-tmohp-episode-154/

Join the 5-Day Freedom from Overeating Workshop for Smart, Busy Women: https://bit.ly/tmohpregister
Find out what's triggering emotional eating: https://bit.ly/takethefreequiz
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Rate and review the podcast: https://apple.co/3i2L8CH

How do you stop eating on autopilot? How do you break patterns of mindless eating (when you’re - quite literally - eating mindlessly)? What’s one skill that you definitely need if you want to stop overeating or numbing out with food? These questions are answered in today’s episode of the Too Much on Her Plate podcast.

In this episode:

• How you may have lost your power to make decisions about your eating
• How getting grounded can make faulty stories and beliefs less powerful and compelling
• Why you get triggered to overeat so easily if you’re not grounded
• Simple ways to get grounded instead of numbing out with food or eating mindlessly

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/simple-ways-to-get-grounded-instead-of-numbing-out-with-food-tmohp-episode-153/

Join the 5-Day Freedom from Overeating Workshop for Smart, Busy Women: https://bit.ly/tmohpregister
Find out what's triggering emotional eating: https://bit.ly/takethefreequiz
Get updates about upcoming events, free resources, & new episodes: https://bit.ly/tmohpupdates
Rate and review the podcast: https://apple.co/3i2L8CH

How can you be so smart and successful in multiple areas of your life and be going in circles with overeating and your weight? Why is it that you know how to solve so many problems, but every Monday you’re facing down the same old personal challenges with stress, or overwhelm, overeating, and the scale? It’s not just you. In what’s probably a familiar refrain from me, I’m here to tell you that one part of the problem is that you’ve been given a puzzle that’s missing some pieces. Because I believe it’s essential to fill in these blank spots, I’ve developed a new answer to the question, “What is it that you do?” In this episode, I’m going to share it with you.

In this episode:

• Executive coaching - what’s missing too much of the time
• Why wellness coaching might not work for you
• Cultural biases for seeking help in only certain areas
• Performing and being a leader for your wellness and well-being

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/executive-coaching-for-wellness-and-well-being-tmohp-episode-152/

Join the 5-Day Freedom from Overeating Workshop for Smart, Busy Women: https://bit.ly/tmohpregister
Find out what's triggering emotional eating: https://bit.ly/takethefreequiz
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Rate and review the podcast: https://apple.co/3i2L8CH

As a high achiever who solves problems, your ability to jump into action is probably a strength, but it doesn’t serve you as well when you want to stop emotional eating or overeating. In this episode, I’ll explain why this is, how doing and taking action to stop overeating might be keeping you stuck in the same vicious cycle, and I’ll share a tip and a story of how one client stopped going in circles, stopped overeating, and began losing weight.

In this episode:

• Being wired to do
• How doing can be reactive
• The relationship between doing, over-doing, overwhelm, and overeating
• A tip to break out of the stress-overwhelm-overeating cycle

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/breaking-the-stress-overeating-cycle-without-doing-more-tmohp-episode-151/

Join the 5-Day Freedom from Overeating Workshop for Smart, Busy Women: https://bit.ly/tmohpregister
Find out what's triggering emotional eating: https://bit.ly/takethefreequiz
Get updates about upcoming events, free resources, & new episodes: https://bit.ly/tmohpupdates
Rate and review the podcast: https://apple.co/3i2L8CH

If you feel like you keep letting yourself down by overeating; if you don’t have confidence that you’ll follow through on your next plan to change your eating habits; or if you don’t trust yourself to ever make changes with emotional eating or overeating, then this episode is for you.

In this episode:

• The relationship between lost confidence, “flakiness”, and perfectionism
• How to rebuild self-trust
• Are you rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic or are you building lasting change?
• Thoughts and beliefs to attend to

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/qa-how-do-i-stop-flaking-out-on-myself-tmohp-episode-150/

Join the 5-Day Freedom from Overeating Workshop for Smart, Busy Women: https://bit.ly/tmohpregister
Find out what's triggering emotional eating: https://bit.ly/takethefreequiz
Get updates about upcoming events, free resources, & new episodes: https://bit.ly/tmohpupdates
Rate and review the podcast: https://apple.co/3i2L8CH

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 overeating?”

In this episode:

• Myths about being uncomfortable
• Perfectionism, numbing, overdoing, and overeating - and their link to discomfort
• Why it’s valuable to feel uncomfortable sometimes, and how this helps you stop emotional eating and overeating
• How to grow your capacity to be uncomfortable

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/what-if-i-dont-want-to-feel-my-feelings-and-i-dont-want-to-overeat-tmohp-episode-149/

Join the 5-Day Freedom from Overeating Workshop for Smart, Busy Women: https://bit.ly/tmohpregister
Find out what's triggering emotional eating: https://bit.ly/takethefreequiz
Get updates about upcoming events, free resources, & new episodes: https://bit.ly/tmohpupdates
Rate and review the podcast: https://apple.co/3i2L8CH

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 better but sometimes quicker. 

In this episode:

• The power of reflection
• Slowing down for better results (and how your brain resists)
• Learning to be vs. do
• Client success stories: How embracing a slower approach helped clients achieve sustainable weight loss and freedom from food-related anxieties.
• An invitation to slow down

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/the-power-of-slowing-down-how-taking-your-time-can-transform-your-relationship-with-food-tmohp-episode-148/

Join the 5-Day Freedom from Overeating Workshop for Smart, Busy Women: https://bit.ly/tmohpregister
Find out what's triggering emotional eating: https://bit.ly/takethefreequiz
Get updates about upcoming events, free resources, & new episodes: https://bit.ly/tmohpupdates
Rate and review the podcast: https://apple.co/3i2L8CH

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 lifestyle changes or diets (which we know don’t work). I polled my clients about how small steps have had big impacts on their lives and they came through with a variety of examples.

In this episode:

• The benefits of small steps
• Restoring your trust in yourself
• Fostering consistency for long-term change
• Real-life examples of small steps that led to 130+ pounds of weight loss

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/why-you-should-do-less-to-stop-overeating-tmohp-episode-147/

Join the 5-Day Freedom from Overeating Workshop for Smart, Busy Women: https://bit.ly/tmohpregister
Find out what's triggering emotional eating: https://bit.ly/takethefreequiz
Get updates about upcoming events, free resources, & new episodes: https://bit.ly/tmohpupdates
Rate and review the podcast: https://apple.co/3i2L8CH

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
• Perfectionism kills momentum and motivation
• Guilt, shame, and perfectionism
• How perfectionism keeps you from learning what you need to learn to stop overeating
• 100% goals
• Habit and Win tracking
• A question for your future self

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/how-to-break-the-link-between-perfectionism-and-overeating-tmohp-episode-146/

Join the 5-Day Freedom from Overeating Workshop for Smart, Busy Women: https://bit.ly/tmohpregister
Find out what's triggering emotional eating: https://bit.ly/takethefreequiz
Get updates about upcoming events, free resources, & new episodes: https://bit.ly/tmohpupdates
Rate and review the podcast: https://apple.co/3i2L8CH