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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.

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162: Greatest Hits: How to Break the Cycle of Overeating and Perfectionism

January 29, 2025 • Melissa McCreery • Episode 162

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 overeating and perfectionism.

In this episode:

The links between perfectionism and overeating
Why you’ll probably always have some perfectionism (and it’s okay)
9 reasons to allow more imperfection and tackle your perfectionism this year

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/how-to-break-the-cycle-of-overeating-and-perfectionism-tmohp-episode-162/

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