Too Much on Her Plate with Dr. Melissa McCreery: Emotional Eating Help for Smart, High-Achieving Women
Tired of feeling out of control around food - even though you’re successful everywhere else?
Too Much on Her Plate is the podcast for high-achieving women who are done with diets, shame, and trying to “just be more disciplined.” If you struggle with emotional eating, stress eating, or overeating at night, this is your space to finally identify how to break the cycle.
Hosted by psychologist and emotional eating expert Dr. Melissa McCreery, each episode offers practical strategies, mindset shifts, and compassionate coaching to help you end the cycle - without deprivation or willpower.
You’ll learn how to:
• Stop emotional eating and stress eating at the root
• Rewire beliefs that lead to guilt, perfectionism, and self-sabotage
• Ditch diet mentality and take your power back from food
• Create lasting freedom and confidence with eating - and in your life
Melissa’s unique approach has helped thousands of smart women break free from food struggles and feel at home in their bodies again. Ready to find out what’s really driving your overeating? Take the free Hidden Hungers Quiz or explore group and private coaching at TooMuchonHerPlate.com.
You don’t need another diet. You need a new approach - one that fits you.
Episodes
194 episodes
192: How to Stop Eating Halloween Candy on Autopilot
Tired of eating Halloween candy without even realizing it? In this “Best Of” episode, Dr. Melissa McCreery walks you through a powerful mindful eating experiment you can try with candy (or any food) to stop autopilot eating, reduce emotional ea...
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Episode 192
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14:42
191: How to Stop Overeating with Simplicity and Small, Imperfect Steps
When it comes to ending the struggle with food, most smart women overcomplicate things. We tell ourselves we need more willpower, more control, or the perfect plan - and then we either never quite get started, or end up in cycles of not hitting...
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Episode 191
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19:03
190: How Hormones Drive Your Cravings, Energy Crashes & Emotional Eating
Ever wondered why your efforts don’t bring results - even when you eat “clean” and stick to all the rules? This episode with Dr. Beth Westie digs into the relationship between hormones and cravings, energy slumps, and emotional eating. Beth bre...
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Episode 190
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43:12
189: What Finally Clicked After Decades of Fixing Emotional Eating
Tina had done the therapy, the journaling, the inner work – she even wrote a book about her transformation. But food still held power over her.In this powerful conversation, Tina shares what worked after decades of working to fix emotion...
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Episode 189
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42:41
188: When perfectionism fuels overeating (and you don’t even realize it)
You make a plan, get motivated, and expect yourself to follow through perfectly. But when things go off track, the cycle starts again.In this episode, we’re looking at how hidden perfectionism fuels overeating - and what actually helps y...
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Episode 188
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18:41
187: What Smart Women Get Wrong About Food, Motivation, and Happiness – with Dr. Laurie Santos
Why do smart, successful women struggle with food, motivation, and happiness? Yale psychologist Dr. Laurie Santos joins Dr. Melissa McCreery to unpack the real reasons behind emotional eating, self-sabotage, and toxic motivation. Tune in to lea...
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Episode 187
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38:02
186: When your brain says “screw it”: How to break the cycle of stress eating
After a stressful day, do you ever find yourself saying “screw it” and heading straight for the snacks? You’re not alone – and it’s not about lack of willpower. In this episode, we’ll unpack the real reasons behind that snap, why food ...
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Episode 186
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19:31
185: Stop Weekend Overeating: Why It Happens and How to Fix It
Do your weekends leave you feeling like you’re starting over every Monday? In this episode, I unpack why weekend overeating happens, what role diet mentality plays, and how to shift into a food relationship that works every day of the week. It’...
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Episode 185
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21:00
184: Why You Struggle with Nighttime Eating Even After a Great Day
You make great choices all day. You stick to your plan. You avoid the breakroom snacks. But when the evening hits, all bets are off. You sit down, the TV goes on, and the snacks come out.If you keep blowing it at night and wondering what...
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Episode 184
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16:27
183: Somatic eating, food trauma, and why willpower won’t heal your relationship with food
Is it really about willpower? Or is your body trying to tell you something?In this powerful conversation, Stephanie Mara Fox shares how somatic eating helps you decode your cravings, make peace with food, and heal from binge and emotiona...
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Episode 183
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50:11
182: Q&A Why You're Mindlessly Eating Through Zoom Calls (and What to Do Instead)
Mindlessly snacking through Zoom calls? You’re not alone. In this week’s episode, I answer a listener’s question about why it’s so easy to graze through meetings without even tasting the food - and what to do instead.You’ll learn h...
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Episode 182
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14:01
181: Tired of Grazing After Work? Try This Simple Shift
You walk in the door after work—not hungry, but somehow you end up in the fridge.If this after-work grazing habit feels all too familiar, this episode is for you. I'm answering a listener’s question that gets to the heart of why we eat w...
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Episode 181
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15:26
180: When Wine Becomes Your Stress Relief: Breaking the Cycle of Overdrinking
Overdrinking and emotional eating often go hand-in-hand, but rarely do we talk openly about alcohol as a coping mechanism—especially for high-achieving women. In this episode, Dr. Sherry Price joins me to discuss how she broke free from a wine ...
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Episode 180
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37:43
179: Q&A: Breaking Up with Nighttime Eating on the Couch
If you’ve ever felt stuck in a loop of nighttime overeating or bingeing, this episode might help you direct your efforts at change in more effective directions. I’m not talking about willpower. I’m not shaming food (or hunger). I am talking abo...
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Episode 179
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12:31
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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13:49
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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16:30
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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10:56
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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13:38
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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14:24
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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24:23
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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23:57
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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13:47
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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23:11
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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15:42
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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18:21