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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Transitions, Overeating, and Overwhelm - and Doing Things Differently
In this episode, I’m sharing what I discovered about how I handle (and don’t handle) transitions before and after a vacation, the unnecessary drama and stress I have created in the past, and what I’m experimenting with to take my power back from overwhelm and to break automatic habits that often lead to overeating.In this episode:Why transitions are often a major time for overeating, emotions eating, and mindless eatingMy brain drama (that you might share or relate to)Why not managing a trans...
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One Way to Lose Weight Without Dieting
While there’s no magic “how to lose weight without dieting” formula, there are some easy steps that can help you move away from diet mentality and diet behavior. In this episode of the Too Much on Her Plate podcast, I’m sharing a conversation with a client that helped her make a massive shift that makes overeating less powerful and less of a focus in her life.In this episode:Understanding your weight loss goal from a non-diet perspectiveWhy food was my client’s main source of pleasure Ho...
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Is It Really Your Feelings That Are Triggering Emotional Eating.mp3
Let’s suppose that you know you’re an emotional eater. You’ve learned about emotional eating. You’ve spent time exploring your feelings. You can clearly see and describe the situations and feelings that trigger you to overeat. And all that insight hasn’t changed your eating habits at all.How do you break out of an emotional eating loop when focusing on your feelings hasn’t helped?In this episode:It’s not you, it’s that you’re missing some necessary steps for ending emotional eatingThe value o...
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10 Ways to Cultivate a Self-care Mindset
I propose that we work on cultivating a self-care mindset instead of a long self-care to-do list. In this episode, you’ll also find some self-caring ways to help make true self-care easier and more intuitive.In this episode:Understanding real self-care: the distinction between faux self-care and real self-care.Practical self-care strategies: a range of actionable suggestions to cultivate a self-care mindset, including untethering from external agendas, sprinkling joy into daily life, valuing ...
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When Changing Your Overeating Feels Hopeless
In this episode, I’m shining a light on how powerful myths contribute to guilt, self-blame, and a loss of hope in your ability to make lasting changes. I’m also sharing three key points for regaining hope and confidence and creating the changes you desire.In this episode:How diet mentality perpetuates a cycle of self-blame and may have disconnected you from your hope and confidence.Peace with food creates happiness and happiness creates peace with food.Should you just be happy with the way th...
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How Curiosity Can Break Emotional Eating Habits
Let’s tackle the challenge of emotional eating head-on. In this episode, I’m offering a specific plan centered around the powerful strategy of curiosity. I’ll explore how understanding the reasons behind emotional eating can empower you to regain control over your eating habits. By fostering curiosity rather than self-blame, you can uncover the underlying needs driving overeating and emotional eating and develop tailored strategies for healthier eating patterns. Through prompts and exercises,...
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”.