Too Much on Her Plate with Dr. Melissa McCreery

By: Melissa McCreery
  • Summary

  • 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.
    © 2025 Melissa McCreery, PhD LLC
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Episodes
  • 171: Stop Postponing Yourself: How to Break Free from Overwhelm and Overeating
    Apr 16 2025

    Tune in to hear how small, sustainable actions can create lasting change and why waiting for the “perfect time” is a trap.

    What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

    • Why postponing your happiness contributes to overeating and emotional eating
    • The Hidden Hungers that drive cravings and how to address them
    • The all-or-nothing mindset that keeps high-achievers stuck in overwhelm
    • How dreaming big can actually make your goals more achievable
    • Small, doable actions that lead to real, lasting progress

    Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/stop-postponing-yourself-how-to-break-free-from-overwhelm-and-overeating-tmohp-episode-171/

    Join the 5-Day Freedom from Overeating Workshop for Smart, Busy Women: https://bit.ly/tmohpregister
    Find out what's triggering emotional eating: https://bit.ly/takethefreequiz
    Get updates about upcoming events, free resources, & new episodes: https://bit.ly/tmohpupdates
    Rate and review the podcast: https://apple.co/3i2L8CH

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    16 mins
  • 170: Curing Emotional Eating Habits vs Controlling Them
    Apr 9 2025

    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/

    Join the 5-Day Freedom from Overeating Workshop for Smart, Busy Women: https://bit.ly/tmohpregister
    Find out what's triggering emotional eating: https://bit.ly/takethefreequiz
    Get updates about upcoming events, free resources, & new episodes: https://bit.ly/tmohpupdates
    Rate and review the podcast: https://apple.co/3i2L8CH

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    25 mins
  • 169: How to Lose Your Stress Eating Habit by Uprooting It (Part 2)
    Apr 2 2025

    In part two of How to Lose Your Stress Eating Habit, we shift from why traditional approaches fail to what actually works. Last episode, I explained why the advice most of us have heard about how to control stress eating keeps you stuck in an exhausting cycle. Today, I want to introduce you to my signature framework—the approach my clients use to completely uproot their stress eating habits instead of just managing or controlling them.

    You'll learn:

    • The key difference between controlling stress eating and curing it
    • Why true freedom from stress eating isn’t about willpower or vigilance
    • How shifting to a model of satisfaction, confidence, and consistency changes everything
    • Why you can trust yourself with food again—and how to start

    Find links to everything we mention in this episode as well as complete show notes & transcript at https://toomuchonherplate.com/how-to-lose-your-stress-eating-habit-by-uprooting-it-part-2-tmohp-episode-169/

    Join the 5-Day Freedom from Overeating Workshop for Smart, Busy Women: https://bit.ly/tmohpregister
    Find out what's triggering emotional eating: https://bit.ly/takethefreequiz
    Get updates about upcoming events, free resources, & new episodes: https://bit.ly/tmohpupdates
    Rate and review the podcast: https://apple.co/3i2L8CH

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    18 mins
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