Dr. Melissa McCreery's podcast addresses how to end struggles with emotional eating and overeating for good.
Are you a smart, busy woman who's ready to make peace with food and create freedom from overeating? Are you looking for help with ending emotional eating? You're in the right place.
Emotional eating, mindless eating, stress eating, and comfort eating aren't signs that you’re lazy or need more willpower. Let’s talk about how to ditch the diet, rewire your thoughts and stories about food, eating, and what you’re capable of, lose the overwhelm, and end the vicious cycles - for good. Life’s too short to spend it struggling with food.
Thank you for your podcast. It has helped me realize that there are so many other women out there like me. I thought that a lot of what I have felt and struggled with was singular to me but it clearly isn't.
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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 of telling yourself you won’t eat if you aren’t hungry. Women have been conditioned to believe that emotional eating and overeating result from a lack of willpower. That’s not true.Saying …
Overeating, emotional eating, and perfectionism have a close, complicated, and completely enmeshed relationship. It’s not helpful. Perfectionism also gets in the way most times we set a goal or set out to make a change. Before you blame yourself, it’s important to know that perfectionism is a very human thought pattern. Impossible to attain, but …
It won’t surprise you to learn that, as a psychologist, I’m very aware of how we underestimate the importance of using psychology to change overeating habits. Our thoughts and beliefs can empower us – or they can help us stay stuck in vicious cycles with emotional eating and overeating. As human beings we make thought …
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 Year’s resolution cycle and how your brain’s thought errors may be keeping you from seeing results.Human beings are lousy at realistically estimating what’s possible. We tend to overestimate what …
Self-care and overeating or emotional eating are intimately related. Weight gain, bingeing, mindless eating, stress eating, comfort eating – all happen when food becomes the band-aid for what we really need or crave. So why is it that sometimes we know what self-care looks like for us, but we don’t want to do it?I’m coming …
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 gimmicky weight loss and diet bandwagon is everywhere – and it’s probably going to get worse. Diets don’t work, but if your brain has marinated …