Too Much on Her Plate with Dr. Melissa McCreery
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.
Episodes
180 episodes
178: Why Willpower and GLP-1s Won’t Fix Emotional Eating
In this episode, I’m sharing five things every smart woman needs to know about emotional eating. If food still feels like a struggle even though you’ve tried all the things, a better understanding of emotional eating might help you understand w...
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Episode 178
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16:23
177: What to Do When You’re Tired of Starting Over Again
If you've ever said "I'll start over Monday," only to end up back in the same old loop, this episode is for you. Too many smart, high-achieving women are stuck in a cycle that goes something like this: try hard, lose steam, get off track, blame...
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Episode 177
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19:04
176: You Can’t Change Your Eating If You’re Not Here
If you’ve ever found yourself eating on autopilot, not tasting your food, or wondering how you got from “just a bite” to the bottom of the bag, you’re not alone. And you’re not broken. What’s likely happening is something I see all the time - y...
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Episode 176
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13:31
175: How Self-Compassion Can End Your Emotional Eating Cycle
If you've ever found yourself reaching for food when you're stressed, overwhelmed, or just plain exhausted, it might be time to explore a powerful but often overlooked tool for lasting change: self-compassion. In this episode, you’ll hear why s...
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Episode 175
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16:12
174: How to Break the Cycle of Overeating on Autopilot
I’m diving into what I call the “overeating boomerang”—a hidden mindset trap that keeps smart, capable women swinging between trying to be superhuman and using food to numb out. You’ll hear the real-life experiences (with names changed for priv...
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Episode 174
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16:58
173: Feeling Stuck? How to Recognize Real Progress with Overeating, Emotional Eating, and Food Freedom
If you're trying to stop emotional eating, overeating, or binge eating—but feel like nothing is changing—this episode is essential.The truth? Most women miss the real signs that they’re making progress with ending emotional eating and ov...
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Episode 173
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26:58
172: End Overeating by Shifting Your Focus
Lisa knew exactly how she wanted to eat. She’d researched, made a plan, and was fully committed—until real life got in the way. Vacations, stress, and long days at work would throw her off track every time. If you’ve ever wondered why you can’t...
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Episode 172
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26:32
171: Stop Postponing Yourself: How to Break Free from Overwhelm and Overeating
Tune in to hear how small, sustainable actions can create lasting change and why waiting for the “perfect time” is a trap.What You’ll Learn in This Episode:Why postponing your happiness contributes to overeating and em...
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Episode 171
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16:22
170: Curing Emotional Eating Habits vs Controlling Them
In this episode, I’m covering mindset shifts, hidden roadblocks, and powerful tools that can help you break free from deprivation thinking and finally cure your overeating habits. You’ll learn why self-compassion and the right support system ar...
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Episode 170
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25:45
169: How to Lose Your Stress Eating Habit by Uprooting It (Part 2)
In part two of How to Lose Your Stress Eating Habit, we shift from why traditional approaches fail to what actually works. Last episode, I explained why the advice most of us have heard about how to control stress eating keeps you stuc...
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Episode 169
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18:17
168 How to Lose Your Stress Eating Habit (Part 1): Why Traditional Advice Fails You
Are you tired of trying to control your stress eating, only to end up stuck in the same cycle? In this episode, I explain why the most common advice about stress eating—like trying to distract yourself, exercising more discipline, or simply say...
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Episode 168
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20:55
167: Breaking Free from Comfort Eating: Why Discomfort is the Key to Real Change
Comfort eating is showing up big-time these days. Of course, in the long run, comfort eating ISN'T comforting. The key to breaking the cycle lies in discomfort - but not the kind of making yourself uncomfortable or taking on difficult challenge...
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Episode 167
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17:55
166: Breaking Free from Overeating: The 4 Questions That Change Everything
Why do you overeat? What can you do instead of depriving yourself? In this greatest hits episode, I'm diving into four powerful questions that can shift your entire approach to food and emotional eating. If you’ve ever felt stuck in the cycle o...
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Episode 166
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32:52
165: Your Brain is a Drama Queen and It’s Keeping You Overeating
Creating freedom from overeating doesn’t require a major life overhaul or a series of giant, hard-to-take steps, even if your brain has been telling you this is what’s necessary. Tune in to today’s episode to learn more.What you’ll le...
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Episode 165
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12:51
164: How to Reset Instead of Overeating When Life Feels Out of Control
How do you reset, instead of overeating when life feels out of control or stressful? How do you focus on what you can control or what’s good for you when you feel overwhelmed - instead of heading straight for the chocolate? This episode of the ...
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Episode 164
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17:06
163: Reset Your Mindset to Break Overeating and Emotional Eating Habits
You may know about eating on autopilot or mindless overeating, but you probably don’t realize you’re doing something else mindlessly that leaves you more likely to overeat. It’s probably making changing your eating habits more challenging too. ...
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Episode 163
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28:01
162: Greatest Hits: How to Break the Cycle of Overeating and Perfectionism
There are huge advantages to seeing perfectionism as the unattainable set of expectations that it is - especially if you want to break overeating habits or emotional eating patterns, so let’s tackle the first step toward breaking the cycle of o...
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Episode 162
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16:21
161: How to Stop Stress Eating Without Willpower: Marie’s Story
In this episode of the Too Much on Her Plate podcast, I’m sharing the journey of “Marie” (not her real name), a smart, successful professional woman who struggled with overeating, stress eating, and feeling like food was controlling her (sound ...
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Episode 161
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23:01
160: How to Create a Clear Vision for Overcoming Emotional Eating and Living the Life You Want
Whether you’re tired of struggling or ready for a fresh approach to your relationship with food, this episode will guide you toward creating a roadmap that sets you up for lasting success.What You’ll Learn in This Episode:...
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Episode 160
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15:32
159: How To Get Help For Emotional Eating And Overeating
This episode of the Too Much on Her Plate podcast is about how to get emotional eating help (and overeating help) that is actually helpful.Join me while I share my thoughts on why it’s important to be clear on the kind of help and suppor...
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Episode 159
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39:02
158: When you don’t trust yourself to stop overeating
This week’s episode is an important one - especially this time of year when there’s so much hype about goals and resolutions. What do you do when your confidence is gone and how do you banish all the diet messages and learn to trust yourself wi...
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Episode 158
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24:50
157: A Message About Overeating You Need to Hear Now
There’s so much messaging out there about weight loss and overeating. It’s so constant, and our exposure to it starts so early, that it’s easy to forget that the themes and refrains aren’t necessarily truths or helpful and that the messaging do...
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Episode 157
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21:03
156 How to Stop Being Triggered to Overeat
In this episode of the Too Much on Her Plate podcast, you’ll learn about the role mindset plays in reinforcing or breaking patterns of being triggered to overeat. I’ll introduce you to the concept of a mindset reset, and show you a daily practi...
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Episode 156
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20:02
155: In 30 Years of Dieting I Never Heard This
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 t...
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Episode 155
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15:36