Too Much on Her Plate with Dr. Melissa McCreery Melissa McCreery
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- Health & Fitness
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Too Much on Her Plate is a podcast for smart, busy women who want to stop emotional eating and overeating. Psychologist and emotional eating expert Dr. Melissa McCreery explores why diets don’t work and what to do instead. Discover how emotional eating, mindless eating, stress eating, and comfort eating can teach you how to address your non-food Hidden Hungers, and how to implement smart strategies to ditch diet mentality, rewire your thoughts and beliefs about food, eating, and the scale, and end vicious cycles with overeating and weight.
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Diet Mentality Ick - A Rant
Whether you choose to or not, it’s difficult to be a woman and not be continually exposed to the assumptions and stresses of diet mentality and deprivation thinking. Recently I experienced a few instances when I was surprised by diet thinking and beliefs and the stress that goes along with them. These experiences, that I’ll share with you, definitely highlight the difference between pursuing freedom from overeating vs. working to get “in control” of it. This episode also covers the difference between advice and support and the way that requests for support might be eliciting the opposite of what you need to end struggles with overeating.
In this episode:
Going out to lunch with someone - and the stories they were telling themselves about meWhen weight loss “support” completely misses the markAdvice vs. supportThe role of compassion in healing that so many experts missFind links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/diet-mentality-ick-a-rant-tmohp-episode-128/
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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A Few Lessons on Managing Stress Eating That I Never Stop Learning
There are a few things I’ve learned about managing stress eating that help a lot. In fact, these are life lessons that keep repeating themselves - and that I’ll probably be relearning and remembering for the rest of my life. Imperfectly. In this episode I’m sharing ten life lessons on managing stress eating that I never stop learning.
In this episode:
How to get more help when you don’t know how anyone can help youWhere you are probably tackling someone else’s to-do list most days (and maybe even before you look at your own)The obvious choice between being happy and right that can be incredibly difficult to makeWhere taking more time can give you more time, less stress, and help you be more productiveThe question that works magic when I remember to ask it in the morningFind links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/a-few-lessons-on-managing-stress-eating-that-i-never-stop-learning-tmohp-episode-127/
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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How to Stop Negative Thoughts From Triggering Overeating
I’m covering what you can do to stop fighting with your inner critic and how to stop negative thoughts from triggering overeating. It’s a two-step process, and the steps I’m sharing probably aren’t the steps that you’ve been trying so hard to implement.
In this episode:
How your inner critic and negative thoughts sabotage your work to create freedom from overeatingThe two steps to take to stop fighting with your inner criticWhat your inner critic and a door-to-door salesperson have in commonA simple way to feel more confidentFind links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/how-to-stop-negative-thoughts-from-triggering-overeating-tmohp-episode-126/
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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Q&A How to Be Okay With Less Than Perfect Progress
In this episode I’m answering a question about how to be okay - and even motivated - by less than perfect progress. Spoiler alert: less than perfect (and sometimes gradual) progress is the only kind you’ll see if you’re making lasting changes to break overeating and emotional habits. So how do you stay motivated and feel satisfied? Tune in to this week’s episode.
In this episode:
Why making “some” progress can feel discouragingThe progress we miss or disregard and how to capture itCapturing winsWhat to focus on to feel more satisfied and motivated to keep goingFind links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/qa-how-to-be-okay-with-less-than-perfect-progress-tmohp-episode-125/
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
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Q&A Can You Be “Delighted” By Small Portion Sizes?
Fiona has a great question: “How can I feel delighted with small portion sizes, rather than feeling robbed, disheartened, and treated badly.” Q&A episodes are some of my favorites, because there’s a lot to be learned from a question - and there’s a lot to unpack in this one. In this episode I’m answering Fiona’s question and also tackling some important aspects of making changes to the way that you eat - whether you are adjusting your portions or trying something else.
In this episode:
Is choosing “small portions” helpful at all?Why any change you make to your eating is going to require an adjustment period.What to pay attention to before you even begin to change portions.How to create more delight - whatever change you’re making to your eating.Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/qa-can-you-be-delighted-by-small-portion-sizes-tmohp-episode-124/
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
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How to Trust Yourself with Food, Eating, and Hunger
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 headWhen you don’t know how to trust yourself to make decisions about how much or what to eat anymoreHow you stop trusting yourself with food, eating, and hunger and how to start growing your self-trust and confidence againFind 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/
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
Customer Reviews
Exactly what I needed
I stumbled across this podcast and weirdly it is precisely what I needed to hear and delivered in the exact way I needed to hear it. Thank you for sharing this transformational information with warmth and calmness. I am so grateful!
This is the real deal.
The weekly podcast episodes are so applicable to my thoughts and feelings, it’s almost scary! I love to listen to the episodes more than once, letting it all sink in… absorbing something new each time while useless tidbits of deprivation thinking drift away. ⛵️⛵️⛵️
Soothing and Interesting
I’ve really been enjoying this Podcast. Melissa’s voice is very soothing and calming. I don’t feel like she’s condescending or patronizing and she understands the crushing desperation that some of us have faced with this disorder, especially since it’s not “glamorous”.