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
195: The Real Reason You Lose Control Around Food (It’s Not Discipline)
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Why do you lose control around food even when you know better?
It’s not about willpower. And it’s not about discipline.
In this episode, I’m walking you through:
- The shortcut your brain has learned (and how to unlearn it)
- Why “just try harder” always fails
- What the urge to eat is really about
- A question that can change everything
This is the first in a series spotlighting Peace with Food: The Emotional Eating Toolbox - my new 30-day program to help you build real, lasting peace with food.
Listen in, and start replacing guilt with insight - one curious pause at a time.
Learn more: https://toomuchonherplate.com/peacewithfood
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Take the Hidden Hungers Quiz: https://toomuchonherplate.com/hiddenhungers-quiz
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Full show notes and transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/lose-control-around-food-ep-195/
Ready to take your next step with emotional eating?
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