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.
Too Much on Her Plate with Dr. Melissa McCreery
170: Curing Emotional Eating Habits vs Controlling Them
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Melissa McCreery
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Episode 170
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 are essential, what you need to know about blind spots that can keep you stuck, and what you can do to rewire your brain for freedom instead of restriction.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
- Why diet culture and deprivation-based approaches feel so familiar—even when they don’t work
- The real reason high achievers struggle to break free from stress eating patterns
- How confirmation bias keeps you trapped in old patterns and how to shift your perspective.
- The surprising power of community and support and why doing this alone makes lasting change harder
- Simple ways to start rewiring your brain to work for you instead of against you.
Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/curing-emotional-eating-habits-vs-controlling-them-tmohp-episode-170/
- Watch the free, on-demand masterclass: The 3 Keys to Ending Emotional Eating and Overeating (Without Deprivation, Vicious Cycles, or Superhuman Amounts of Willpower: https://toomuchonherplate.com/registration-page/
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