Too Much on Her Plate with Dr. Melissa McCreery: Emotional Eating Help for Smart, High-Achieving Women

103: Q & A: Help Me Break My Nightly Comfort Eating Habit!

13 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This is the first of what I hope will be an ongoing series of episodes of the Too Much on Her Plate podcast dedicated to answering listener questions....

102: Straight Talk About What to Do When You’re Still Overeating

06 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today we’re getting right to the point. Because too many women are expending too much effort, and are still going in circles with overeating and emo...

101: How to Avoid Emotional Eating When You’re Busy

30 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How do you avoid emotional eating when you’re busy and have a lot going on? This episode is about getting practical. I have a handful of strategies ...

100: Solving Your Overeating Puzzle: Find Freedom Forever

23 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Freedom feels expansive. Freedom is something you can relax into. Freedom - the idea of it - probably doesn’t come with a time limit. When I talk to...

099: Ending Overeating: Creating Lasting Change and Emotional Freedom

16 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

“Being good” or “being on track” doesn’t build a strong, lasting, solid relationship between you and food. You deserve better - SO much bett...

098: Not Overeating: Deprivation vs. Constraint

09 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I don’t diet. I don’t restrict myself. A long time ago, I made a promise to myself: I can eat what I want, when I want. It’s been key to how I c...

097: 3 Doable Ways to Replace Emotional Eating with Self-care

02 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Self-care (or the lack of it) and overeating go hand in hand. Upgrading your self-care game doesn’t require a life overhaul or two weeks of vacation...

BONUS Join Me For a Free Freedom from Overeating Workshop

28 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus episode is designed to answer your questions about the free workshop series I’m offering. Please share this episode and this invitation w...

096: Hunger, Fullness, and How to Listen to Your Body Better

26 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Some of the most non-helpful advice for ending overeating is to “eat only when you’re hungry, and stop eating when you’re full.” It’s not he...

095: How to Get the Advice You Need from Your Self

19 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sometimes the advice we give ourselves in the midst of our day isn’t the most helpful. Neither is our self-talk or our tendency to react to the situ...

094: 10 Strategies to Stop Stress Eating

12 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Stress tends to trigger automatic responses and old patterns of thinking and behaving. It can be confusing to know how to begin rewiring these habits....

093: How to Have Peace with Food on Vacation

05 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

No one wants to feel restricted or deprived on vacation, but it can be discouraging to come back from an incredible trip feeling bloated, and like you...

092: Empowering Yourself to Create Freedom from Overeating

28 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Thoughts and beliefs are powerful and they don’t upgrade themselves. How do you determine if your thoughts and beliefs are stealing your power? How ...

091: Subtle Self-Sabotage: When Ending Overeating Feels Impossible

21 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When you’re breaking patterns of emotional eating or working to stop overeating, self-sabotage shows up in a variety of ways. Sometimes it’s incre...

090: A Client Story: Unlocking a CEO Mindset When You’re Off Track With Your Eating

14 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What do you do when life hits you a curve ball and you lose your footing? What’s the next step if you don’t feel motivated to do all the things yo...

089: This Could Reduce Your Emotional Eating by Fifty Percent (or more)

07 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Can you imagine what would change if you eliminated the pattern of “blowing it” and then throwing in the towel and overeating because “you’re ...

088: How to Use Self-sabotage to Stop Emotional Eating and Overeating

31 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In today’s episode I have a very different perspective on self-sabotage and how you can actually leverage your self-saboteur to create better, more ...

087: Overcome Overeating: Create Consistent Habits

24 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Losing weight is not the same as breaking overeating habits permanently. Most women know the yo-yo weight loss cycle all too well, and so many smart w...

086: Why You’re Not Seeing Results

17 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Are you frustrated and feeling like you aren't seeing results in your journey to overcome overeating and emotional eating? This episode is for yo...

085: Master Your Mindset to Overcome Emotional Eating

10 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Mindset and the idea of managing “it” have become ideas that get tossed around quite frequently. Who doesn’t want a “winning mindset” - espe...

084: Shifting from Self-Sabotage to Self-Motivation

03 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When you want to change emotional eating habits or stop overeating, motivation can feel like another difficult part of the equation - something you ha...

083: 10 Ways to Outsmart Your Food Cravings

26 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

There’s nothing wrong with a food craving. The difficulty comes when you’re in a cycle of emotional eating or overeating and it feels like craving...

082: Overcome Overeating: Own Your Overwhelm

19 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Overload, overwhelm, and overeating travel in a pack. In fact, they can become so tangled up it can be difficult to know how to extricate yourself. In...

081: Stop Comfort Eating at Night: 5 Steps to Regain Control

12 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

If you’re someone who wants to break the habit of comfort eating at night - or someone who partly wants to break the habit and partly doesn’t want...

080: Detoxing Bad Weight Loss Advice

05 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 uns...

079: What is Self-compassion if it isn't Dessert?

29 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What do I do when all those “self-compassion” suggestions require more time and energy than I have?In this episode, I’m unpacking self-compassio...

078: 5-Minute Self-Care Hacks to Break Free from Overeating and Numbing

22 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What do we do when we have just five spare minutes? Usually not much. It’s become a non-rewarding reflex action to pull out our phones, scroll for a...

077: Overcoming Psychological Barriers to Ending Overeating

15 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Psychological barriers will lead us to create more barriers (more doubt, more isolation, more difficulty). What we believe is possible has a dramatic ...

076: CEO Space and Taking Your Power Back from Overeating

08 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is about why you need to take up space to create freedom from overeating and why taking action to change your eating habits isn’t the s...

075: From Emotional Eating to Empowerment: Freedom without Deprivation

01 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When it comes to overeating and emotional eating, many women who have so much confidence in other areas, begin to feel less capable. I’d like to hel...

074: Eating on Autopilot: 5 Simple Strategies to Break the Cycle of Mindless Eating

22 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I’ve had multiple requests to address the problem of mindless eating or overeating on autopilot. How do you break the cycle? How do you prevent mind...

073: The 3 Types of Stress Eating: The Key to Unlocking Your Personal Solution

15 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sometimes labels like stress eating are helpful because they lead to better understanding. And sometimes labels don’t add clarity. Sometimes labels ...

072: How to Put the Brakes on Overeating

08 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Telling yourself to “stop overeating” is one of the least effective ways to change your eating habits. There are smarter, simpler strategies to br...

071: You Don't Need More Willpower- Ending Emotional Eating

01 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Let’s assume you’re determined to figure out how to stop emotional eating or overeating. Your first step is likely to be something along the lines...

070: Breaking the Link Between Overeating and Perfectionism

25 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Overeating, emotional eating, and perfectionism have a close, complicated, and completely enmeshed relationship. It’s not helpful. Perfectionism als...

069: How to End Overeating Habits with Small Steps

18 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Where is your greatest source of power?How can you make ending overeating habits easier?What are some of the most powerful (and empowering) small step...

068: The Resolution Overeating Hamster Wheel

11 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

If you’re someone who wants to stop emotional eating, address your binge eating, lose weight, or just stop overeating we need to talk about the New ...

067: When You'd Rather Overeat Than Try Self-care

04 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I’m coming out of an exhausting and stressful week and am freshly reminded of how powerful the urge is to not do the thing that would ultimately fee...

066: 25 Reasons Not to Start A Diet in January (Or Ever Again)

28 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In today’s episode I have for you: 25 reasons NOT to start a diet. The New Year is a season the diet industry loves! The marketing to jump on the gi...

065: Emotional Eating Help: Inside The Program

14 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What does it look like to be a success story with emotional eating? How does it feel to stop overeating or to lose weight without dieting? Is it reall...

064: How to Break the Holiday Overeating and Overwhelm Habit

07 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

There are common mistakes that smart women make all the time that lead to holiday overeating cycles that aren’t satisfying or even enjoyable. Breaki...

063: Overeating and Feeling Satisfied

30 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Diet mentality and deprivation mentality won’t help you feel satisfied or joyful about eating, but freedom mentality is a whole different ball game....

062: Independence On Overdrive: Mindset Self-sabotage

23 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today I’m calling out the thoughts and beliefs that you may have about your own independence. The beliefs that keep you stuck and that can even lead...

061: Work Comes First: Mindset Self-sabotage

16 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Women have a lot of conditioning and experience in prioritizing other people and things over themselves. You may also have thoughts and beliefs about ...

060: Go Big or Go Home: Mindset Self-sabotage

09 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The idea of big, fast, dramatic results is so sexy and so appealing, but it can create problems. In fact, when this is your way of making changes, you...

059: Just Do It: Mindset Self-sabotage

02 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This is the second in a series of episodes where I’m sharing five mindsets that might be keeping you stuck in cycles of overeating and emotional eat...

058: All or Nothing Mindset Self-sabotage

26 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Wouldn't you want to know if the things you’re telling yourself in the hopes of being stronger, more powerful, and more successful were actuall...

057: We Need to Talk About Your Results

19 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

If you’re someone who wants to stop bingeing or stop eating all the chocolate before bed, or if you want to lose 25 pounds without dieting, you’d ...

056: Making Sure You’re Nourished

12 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Unfortunately, nourishment is too often equated with a long list of things you “should” eat (and not eat). That’s not the place to start. Today ...

055: When What You Tried Didn’t Work

05 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Weight-loss culture endlessly reinforces the belief that any failed plan to end overeating is on us. It’s our fault, and the solution is - to work h...

054: Self-Love Purgatory

28 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We need to have a conversation about self-love and self-acceptance and how we treat ourselves. Diet mentality often includes a belief that you aren’...

053: Overeating After the Thing

21 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 wor...

052: Bunnies and Seeing Better Results

14 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today I’d like to tell you a story about a quirky habit and how it relates to the neuroscience of happiness. We’re also going to cover how you can...

051: Should Emotional Eating Be Your Focus?

07 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today I want to address something very important - and that’s how to determine whether or not you should be focusing on emotional eating and whether...

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

31 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

049: When Rebellion is Sabotaging You

24 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How do we juggle all the moving parts? How do we listen to ourselves, acknowledge that feeling of “I don’t want to” and not feel like we’re he...

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

17 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 fee...

047: Magical Thinking is Keeping You Stuck

10 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Most of us know that there is no magic pill that stops overeating or causes instant weight loss - but a part of your brain is very likely hoping that ...

046: Snowballing, Overeating, and Emotional Eating

03 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today I want to talk with you about a pattern you’ll probably recognize. Have you ever felt like you were just getting in the groove with eating in ...

045: Will This Work For Me?

27 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Should you really invest hope in the possibility of creating freedom from overeating? What’s standing in the way of finding something that works? Th...

044: Vacation Eating and Peace with Food

20 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I’m a huge believer in vacations, but you shouldn’t have to take a vacation from your relationship with food. Unfortunately, many smart, busy wome...

043: How to Use Psychology to Stop Overeating - The Missing Pieces of the Overeating Puzzle: Part 3

13 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode I’m sharing the four pillars you’ll need to solve your own overeating puzzle. They are worlds away from what diet mentality and di...

042: How to Use Psychology to Stop Overeating - Freedom Mentality: Part 2

06 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

There’s a trap that keeps a lot of smart women overeating and it’s often unrecognized. It springs from the way that diet mentality teaches us to t...

041: How to Use Psychology to Stop Overeating: Part One

29 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today I’m inviting you inside a 3-part series I taught last month on how to use psychology to stop overeating.  If you want to stop overeating, emo...

040: Nourishment and Overeating

22 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The truth is, if you’re not getting what you need, it’s easy to fill that gap with food, and the more you ignore or numb or push down what you’r...

039: Changing Overeating Habits With Your Future Self

15 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The future is usually top of mind for people who are trying to change the way they eat. “When I stop overeating/lose the weight/give up sugar…I wi...

038: If You're Eating To Numb

08 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When’s the last time you went for something to eat because you wanted to escape? Or numb out? When’s the last time you wandered into the kitchen t...

037: If Overwhelm is Leading to Overeating

01 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

There’s a lot going on in the world these days and if you’re feeling overwhelmed, you’re not alone. Not all overwhelm is something we create our...

036: Stop the Hidden Perfectionist Overeating Loop

25 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, I’m looking at the perfectionism trap and the way it can sabotage your efforts to change your eating and I’m sharing simple steps...

035: Is Emotional Eating Isolation Keeping You Stuck?

18 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Do your feelings about your eating, your weight, or your body ever keep you at a distance from others? Do you have thoughts about why your relationshi...

034: Hope, Guilt, and Ending Overeating

11 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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...

033: How to Stop Stress Eating

04 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Stress eating can feel like such a trap, especially if the stress you’re experiencing isn’t immediately within your control. There’s a lot of (b...

032: What To Do When You’re Not Seeing Results

27 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

There’s nothing more deflating than making efforts to change patterns of overeating and emotional eating and hearing that voice in your head whisper...

031: Mindset Shifts That Help Stop Overeating

20 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

If you believe you can’t do something, or if you endlessly tell yourself how difficult or unpleasant it’s going to be … well, chances are you’...

030: A Guided Visualization to Help With Emotional Eating

13 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Your overeating or emotional eating habits sit on a foundation of automatic thoughts and decisions. Changing the way you think about food or generatin...

029: Change Your Thinking to Change Your Eating

06 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

You probably have a lot of thoughts about food, overeating, and maybe your weight. We judge our eating, we judge our “results,” and our weight, an...

028: When You Don’t Feel Hopeful About Losing Weight

30 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Overeating and emotional eating can become habits that feel hard to escape, and, after a while, this can take a toll on your sense of hope. It’s eas...

027: How to Stop Overeating at Night

23 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Overeating at night is probably the struggle clients ask about most often. Overeating, emotional eating, and bingeing are all most common at the end o...

026: Should I Keep a Food Journal?

16 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Food journals or food diaries or journaling your eating - odds are you’ve either tried these things or told yourself you “should". But are th...

025: Feed Your Brain a Better Diet

09 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

You’re probably doing something “without even thinking” about it that makes overeating more tempting and makes changing your eating habits more ...

024: Why New Eating Habits Don't Stick

02 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Why is it so hard to make a new eating habit stick?The idea of changing your eating habits sounds straightforward. So why is it so easy to fall off tr...

023: Comfort Eating and Discomfort

23 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Comfort eating is a term almost everyone uses, and it’s something we all do. I’m sure you can easily make a list of your “comfort foods.” Ther...

022: Why is Emotional Eating Happening?

16 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Emotional eating is a label that gets thrown around a lot. I’ve talked to women over the years who:Felt like emotional eating was normal - and somet...

021: Tough Love for Emotional Eating

09 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

If you can’t figure out how to stop overeating and emotional eating - despite your efforts, or if you can’t motivate yourself to try to change you...

020: Emotional Eating - Is It Your Boundaries?

02 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

One place that even smart high-achievers get stuck with emotional eating - and with comfort eating, stress eating or eating to numb or overeating beca...

019: How To Get Help For Emotional Eating And Overeating

26 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How can you feel hopeful about getting help for emotional eating or overeating when it feels like your past attempts to get help haven’t been … he...

018: Comfort Eating | Change the Habit By Changing Your Beliefs

19 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Comfort eating is one of the most challenging types of overeating. It can be a difficult habit to break, in part because our need for comfort tends to...

017: Emotional Eating: Can It Really Disappear?

12 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Everyone eats emotionally from time to time, but actual struggles with emotional eating are a different beast. If you’re caught in a power struggle ...

016: Emotional Eating Help | How to Avoid Goal Setting Traps

05 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It’s the season of goal-setting and resolutions. When it comes to tackling emotional eating and overeating, we tend to sell ourselves short (because...

015: Emotional Eating Help | Ask the Right Questions

29 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It’s entirely normal to say you want to create freedom from emotional eating and then create a plan that moves you in the opposite direction. Years ...

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

15 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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...

013: Take Your Power Back From Hidden Hungers (Instead of Overeating)

08 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Do you ever feel frustrated because you know the reasons that you’re overeating, but the knowledge doesn’t seem to make a difference?You’re not ...

012: Stop Emotional Eating - New Game, New Rules

01 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Do you have a lot of rules about food and eating and weight taking up space in your brain? Are you sometimes both exhausted by them and scared to give...

011: Is Perfectionism Secretly Triggering Your Emotional Eating?

24 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

When you find perfectionism hiding in your blind spot, it opens the door for the possibility of real change. And that is exactly what this episode is ...

010: Shame, Blowing It, and Starting Over

17 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Let's talk vicious cycles with overeating and emotional eating - and what to do about them. You can break patterns of endlessly falling off track...

009: Strengthening Your Self-care Muscle

09 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

When’s the last time you felt really, truly nourished - like your tank was full, and your spirit had been fed? If your goal today was to take care o...

008: How to Change Stress Eating Habits

02 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

If you’re a stress eater, you’ve probably felt frustration at what a difficult habit this can be to change. In this episode, I’ve got some stra...

007: Breaking Automatic Overeating Habits | Transitions (Part Two)

26 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Knowing the value of something and then being able to implement it can be two very different things. This is especially true when it comes to making c...

006: Breaking Automatic Overeating Habits | Transitions (Part One)

19 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever wished life came with a pause button? Take a moment and consider - if you had a pause button - would you allow yourself to use it? If yo...

005: Emotional Eating and Difficult Feelings

12 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Difficult feelings and situations are a part of life. They’re a common reason that smart, busy women overeat, and they are often the things that thr...