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.
Too Much on Her Plate with Dr. Melissa McCreery: Emotional Eating Help for Smart, High-Achieving Women
161: How to Stop Stress Eating Without Willpower: Marie’s Story
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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 familiar?).
Marie’s story is a perfect example of how deeply ingrained deprivation thinking and diet culture can keep us stuck in a frustrating cycle of overeating, self-blame, and defeat. Like so many women, Marie believed that success with food required willpower, motivation, and discipline—but none of it was working.
Here’s what you’ll learn in this episode:
- Why Marie’s overeating wasn’t about food at all—and why yours might not be either.
- The role stress plays in driving overeating and why ignoring this connection keeps you stuck.
- The first essential question to ask yourself to start creating freedom from overeating.
- How Marie shifted from relying on food for stress relief and reward to addressing her Hidden Hungers.
- Why ditching the all-or-nothing mindset and taking small, consistent steps can create dramatic results.
Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/how-to-stop-stress-eating-without-willpower-maries-story-tmohp-161/
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