Too Much on Her Plate with Dr. Melissa McCreery

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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117: Throwing Out the Diet Rules and What To Do Instead

Too Much on Her Plate with Dr. Melissa McCreery

12/27/23 • 25 min

Throwing out the diet rules sounds good, but when you’ve lived your life in the shadow of the weight loss industry, it can be really confusing to think about what you’ll do if you don’t follow a program this January.

What you’ll learn in this episode:

Reasons diet mentality is so seductive
Clues to recognizing diet mentality and deprivation thinking
How to make food decisions that don’t make you want to rebel
Why focusing on a food plan is never the best first step (and the first step I recommend)
A pep talk for your brain when you start to slide into diet mentality and deprivation thinking

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/throwing-out-the-diet-rules-and-what-to-do-instead-tmohp-episode-117/.

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004: Self-compassion and Overeating

Too Much on Her Plate with Dr. Melissa McCreery

10/05/21 • 22 min

We can’t talk about making real changes with your relationship with food without talking about self-compassion. Believe it or not, self-compassion is a lot more important than tough love if you want to leave overeating struggles behind.

Listen to this episode and discover the critical relationship between self-compassion, mindset, and your relationship with food.

What you’ll learn from this episode:

The questions to ask to reconnect with real self-compassion
Why there is no list of activities that are self-compassion and why it all begins with mindset
What self-compassion has to do with overeating
How to start generating more self-compassion
The attitude of self-compassion and the power you can generate from it

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/self-compassion-and-overeating-tmohp-004/

112: Is Professional Success Making You Overeat?

Too Much on Her Plate with Dr. Melissa McCreery

11/15/23 • 22 min

In this episode, I want to talk about something a lot of high-achieving women experience, but feel alone with - overeating and success. Specifically, I’m going to shine a light on how professional success is sometimes a major factor in overeating and weight gain.
In this episode:

How professional success (or any success) can lead to overeating
How socialization can lead to overeating as a substitute for what we really need
Three specific traps that successful women fall prey to that lead to overeating
How to take your power back and make CEO moves that make a difference

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/is-professional-success-making-you-overeat-tmohp-episode-112/

149: What if I Don’t Want to Feel my Feelings and I Don’t Want to Overeat?

Too Much on Her Plate with Dr. Melissa McCreery

09/25/24 • 25 min

In this Q&A episode, I’m answering the question a listener submitted in my free Facebook group: “What if feeling my feelings is too uncomfortable? I know I’m an emotional eater, but I don’t want to feel my feelings, so how do I stop overeating?”

In this episode:

Myths about being uncomfortable
Perfectionism, numbing, overdoing, and overeating - and their link to discomfort
Why it’s valuable to feel uncomfortable sometimes, and how this helps you stop emotional eating and overeating
How to grow your capacity to be uncomfortable

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/what-if-i-dont-want-to-feel-my-feelings-and-i-dont-want-to-overeat-tmohp-episode-149/

080: Detoxing Bad Weight Loss Advice

Too Much on Her Plate with Dr. Melissa McCreery

04/05/23 • 20 min

If you’re a woman who’s tried to change her eating habits or her weight, you’ve probably heard more than your share of advice (including the unsolicited, unhelpful kind).

A key step for taking your power back - and creating a better relationship with food - is detoxing the bad weight loss advice. In this episode I’m sharing more about why a detox is so important, some of the confusing baggage you may have circulating in your brain, and how to begin clearing things out.

In this episode:

Why advice overload is a problem
What to do about unhelpful advice
Some of the worst advice we’ve received

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/detoxing-bad-weight-loss-advice-tmohp-episode-080/.

053: Overeating After the Thing

Too Much on Her Plate with Dr. Melissa McCreery

09/21/22 • 20 min

Overeating and emotional eating after something is over - whether it’s a fun thing like a vacation, or something stressful like winding up a big work project - is common. And it’s not something we pay enough attention to. Let’s fix that

In this episode:

What the after is and why it can feel unsettling
Why and how we can set ourselves up to not make great decisions in the “after”
Some transitions that you might not be recognizing
Power moves for getting what you need and taking care of yourself in the “after”

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/overeating-after-the-thing-tmohp-episode-053/.

050: If You Overeat When You’re Mad or Frustrated

Too Much on Her Plate with Dr. Melissa McCreery

08/31/22 • 21 min

If you’re flooded with feelings of anger or powerlessness, your brain (and your thinking) is likely to take you in the opposite direction. Once you understand this you can use the four steps I’m going to share with you today to take your power back from overeating and to chart a new course when you’re feeling mad or upset - one that doesn’t involve reflexively reaching for something to eat.

This is exactly what I’m covering in this episode.

In this episode::

4 steps to stop emotional eating when you’re mad or frustrated
Why it can be physiologically difficult to prevent emotional eating if you don’t know these steps
Why it’s so important to do the steps in order
What to do when you can’t control the situation (spoiler alert: this isn’t uncommon)

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/if-you-overeat-when-youre-mad-or-frustrated-tmohp-episode-050/.

048: Why Smart, Busy Women Overeat - The BEAST Cycle

Too Much on Her Plate with Dr. Melissa McCreery

08/17/22 • 26 min

Do you ever feel like you’re the only smart woman who hasn’t figured out how to break patterns of overeating and emotional eating. If you’re feeling this way, you’re not alone - so let’s bust this myth once and for all. The truth is, there are very common reasons that smart, busy women overeat. These reasons can create a self-perpetuating cycle that can keep you stuck even if you’re working hard to change overeating or emotional eating habits.

What I cover in this episode:

The isolation and false belief so many smart women have that they are alone in their overeating struggles
The self-reinforcing cycle that can keep you overeating
How to build a self-perpetuating pattern that takes your power back from overeating

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/why-smart-busy-women-overeat-the-beast-cycle-tmohp-episode-048/.

034: Hope, Guilt, and Ending Overeating

Too Much on Her Plate with Dr. Melissa McCreery

05/11/22 • 19 min

We really can’t talk about how to end overeating or break cycles of emotional eating without talking about guilt, self-blame, and hope.

Is the self-blame you’re dragging around helping or making things worse? (Spoiler alert: you already know it’s causing problems.)

What I cover in this episode:

How guilt and self-blame create vicious cycles
How you may have been shamed or guilted by “experts” you hired to help you and how they may have given you a false map of the change process
How to escape vicious cycles caused by guilt and self-blame
How to get clearer on what will work for you

This is important. Join me and I’ll share with you how guilt and self-blame may be weighing you down (literally and figuratively), and how to start believing in yourself again.

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/hope-guilt-and-ending-overeating-tmohp-episode-034/.

014: Can You Stop Emotional Eating When You're Busy?

Too Much on Her Plate with Dr. Melissa McCreery

12/15/21 • 24 min

How do you stop emotional eating when you’re busy? How do you make changes when you don’t feel like you have the time? When it feels like you’re overeating because life feels out of control?

In this episode, I’m covering how to address emotional eating when you’re busy, including simple things you really can do, that definitely make a difference.

What you’ll learn from this episode:

Spoiler alert - you can tackle emotional eating when you’re busy - without a major life overhaul
Simple things that even really busy women can do that will help you interrupt and even stop overeating and emotional eating patterns
Why you should change the way you create to-do lists (and how to do it)
Why and when you might not be eating enough

Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/can-you-stop-emotional-eating-when-youre-busy-tmohp-014/

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Too Much on Her Plate with Dr. Melissa McCreery currently has 157 episodes available.

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The podcast is about Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Podcasts, Self-Improvement and Education.

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The episode title '115: Why You Might Feel Alone with Overeating Challenges - High-Achiever Traps' is the most popular.

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The average episode length on Too Much on Her Plate with Dr. Melissa McCreery is 22 minutes.

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Episodes of Too Much on Her Plate with Dr. Melissa McCreery are typically released every 7 days.

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