Melissa McCreery
PhD, ACC
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Life Coach, Emotional Eating Expert, Speaker and Writer Expert
Melissa McCreery Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Emotional Eating, Overeating, Busy Women, Overwhelm, Self Care, Solopreneurs, Perfectionism
- Best Sellers
- The Emotional Eating Toolbox(TM) Program, Weight Loss Winner'sSmart Choices Success Circle(TM)
- Career Focus
- ICF Certified Life Coach and Psychologist, Writer, Speaker, Founder of Too Much On Her Plate
- Affiliation
- http://www.TooMuchOnHerPlate.com
Melissa McCreery, PhD, ACC, is a Psychologist, Internationally Certified Life Coach, and the founder of Too Much On Her Plate (http://www.TooMuchOnHerPlate.com), a company dedicated to helping women worldwide achieve their goals with health, weight and emotional eating. She specializes in helping smart savvy women who’ve found success in other areas, conquer that “last frontier”—making peace with their own eating and ending weight loss battles once and for all.
Dr. McCreery has specific expertise in emotional eating and overeating and creating effective, individualized approaches to long term weight loss. She is an expert at eliminating the shame, guilt, and self-blame that can sabotage us and keep us stuck, and at helping women enhance their self-care and create powerful change. Her entrepreneurial spirit has led her to pursue specialized training in coaching small business owners and others seeking to fulfill their professional or entrepreneurial dreams. Many of her clients are women business owners and professionals seeking better life balance.
Dr. McCreery is a featured columnist for WLS (Weight Loss Success) Lifestyles magazine where she is also a member of the editorial advisory board and is the Self-care expert at www.BestLifeDesign.com. Melissa offers individual coaching, and specialty programs and resources including the Emotional Eating Toolbox™, and the Smart Choices Success Circle™. She enjoys speaking and is a frequently featured on websites, blogs, teleseminars and radio shows addressing successful women, weight and health issues, and life balance and self care. Melissa enjoys presenting to groups and has provided a range of seminars and programs ranging from spa-based retreats to wellness presentations for a Fortune 500 company.
Dr McCreery’s work is rooted in the philosophy that we are capable of accomplishing tremendous things when we listen to ourselves, when we identify and engage our authentic strengths and individual style, and when we connect with what we truly need and crave. She strives to show her clients that powerful change absolutely can be accomplished within the limits of a busy life. Small, well chosen steps can take people much farther than they ever thought possible.
Dr. McCreery earned her Ph.D. degree in Clinical Psychology from Michigan State University and received her coaching education and international certification from Mentor Coach, and the International Coach Federation (ICF). She is a member of the American Psychological Association and the International Coach Federation.
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5 Easy Healthy Lifestyle Tips
Just thinking about shaping up, losing weight, or eating healthier makes many women exhausted. Changing habits is hard work, but sometimes we approach healthy lifestyle changes in the most difficult way possible. Instead of picking your biggest challenge, consider starting where you know you can be effective, where you can get some lasting bang for your buck, and where you can start growing motivation and momentum. Here are five relatively painless and struggle-free tips to help you create lasting healthy habits: 1. Get some zzzzzs.
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Women Entrepreneurs: Are Struggles With Overeating and Weight Keeping You From Your A-Game?
Overeating and difficulties maintaining healthy routines are common pitfalls for high achieving busy women with a lot going on.Stress, the multiple activities we juggle, the standards we set for ourselves, even our hardworking independent attitudes can sometimes get in our way. Do strong emotions or stress impact your eating? Do you reach for a snack when you are stressed or bored, tired, or anxious? Do you nibble mindlessly at your desk? If so, it’s a signal that emotional eating is a part of your weight battle.
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Are You Stress Eating to Calm Yourself? Three easy ways to start fixing the problem
Many busy women overeat when they are stressed, too busy, or overwhelmed. Eating as a way to calm down is a common form of emotional eating. On my website, I gave a list of three things to stop doing so that you could start taking control of this type of overeating. Now it’s time to fill in the gaps. Here are three things to start doing instead. 1. Do get into the habit of asking yourself how you are feeling before you eat. Create a ritual of checking in with yourself before you reach for a snack, stop by the vending machine, or serve up your plate.
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Spring Cleaning: Ready to dump the nonproductive habits that are holding you back?
Spring is a great time to reassess, reorganize, and refresh. This year, instead of tackling your closets, I suggest you think about a thorough spring airing and cleaning of your life. Too often, busy lives lead us to patterns where we are simply following the bread crumb trail of our to-do lists and not taking the time to step back, gain some perspective, and revamp or refocus.
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Self-employed? How to stop overeating when you are working from home
It’s a refrai I hear a lot: “I am SO busy – I just started a business/have a successful business/hate my job and want to start a business/times are tough at work and they just keep piling on the responsibilities and projects – there is so much to do – I can NEVER catch up – my email consumes me – I’m always working but I feel pulled in so many directions – I’m stuck and I don’t know where to begin – I don’t feel like I accomplish what I want to – I’m snacking all the time/overeating/bingeing in the evening – and I’m putting on weight – life feels out of control but I don’t know how to brea
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How to Fuel Your Spirit So You Can Be Your Best Self
Whether you are nurturing a business or career, a family, an intimate relationship, or a secret dream, your time and energy are the most valuable commodities you possess. No matter how wisely you spend them, the truth is that they are limited in supply and extremely precious. Another truth: productivity and energy both depend on fuel. Just like our cars, when we aren’t fueled and properly maintained, we don’t run well. When we don’t give ourselves the experiences and care that allow us to be at our best—we simply aren’t our best.
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Is Emotional Overeating Weighing You Down?
Are you: * eating when you aren’t really hungry? * struggling with stress or “nervous” eating? * circling the kitchen because you can’t find “the thing” that will satisfy you? * eating when you are bored, tired, frustrated, or procrastinating doing something else? * hungry all the time–no matter what or how much you eat?
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Is Being “Productive” Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Plan? A New Approach for Busy, Over-achieving Women
If you are an over-achiever in the area of health and weight loss, it could easily be preventing the very goals that you are trying to achieve. Women who are trapped in a cycle of constant activity and “always doing more” end up being exhausted and less productive. Looking for the “perfect” solution and struggling to make changes that don’t fit with your needs and your life can create stress and overwhelm and can even trigger more emotional eating and emotional eating. Are you ready to get off the diet roller coaster and create a blueprint for success with weight loss and peace with food?r
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Balancing Work, Life, and You: Are You Too Busy To Stop Overeating?
Do you have the time to stop overeating? To take control of emotional eating? To get on track with your healthy lifestyle goals? Lately I've been encountering many women who tell me they don't. I've been hearing from women who are incredibly frustrated with their eating habits, their weight gain, their lack of progress on important health goals. I've talked to women who fear their family history of diabetes or heart disease. I've talked to women who've even had weight loss surgery and are terrified because they are seeing the weight they've lost start to creep back.
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Emotional Eating and Coping With Overwhelm
Overwhelm is something that we can’t always avoid, and it can be a major trigger for emotional eating, overeating, or bingeing. While it’s great to have strategies for staying out of overwhelm, sometimes–no matter how skilled or proactive or positive we are–overwhelm just plain happens. A colleague sent me a gift recently. She sent me a timer. She didn’t have to explain what it was for, because I know her strategy. She’s about getting big things done by making them do-able. That is such an important key.
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4 Tips For Taking Control of Stress Before It Takes Control of You, Your Life, or Your Eating
We all know the stress of too much on our plates–too much to do, too much to think about, too many things and people and responsibilities to take care of. Whether you choose to have a lot on your plate or feel like there is no other option, stress and overwhelm may be a reality–and they take a toll. Stress and overwhelm prevent us from being and feeling and behaving as our best version of ourselves.
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What Is A Breakthrough With Food and Weight Anyway?
If you are like many women who’ve spent a lifetime (or what feels like one) struggling with weight and overeating, words like “breakthrough” may sound like unrealistic hype. For many women who are worn out with food and weight struggles, a breakthrough may feel impossible. Why? Their current mindset is one of “struggle.” This question came up recently as I was talking with a new client. Breakthroughs with food and weight aren’t hype and I’ll tell you why.
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"Life is not the dress rehearsal" Rose Tremain
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Other highlights
• Individual Coaching Services:
http://toomuchonherplate.com/programs-and-services/
• Teleseminars and Coaching Groups: Specialty groups for overcoming emotional eating and overeating. Specialized programs for women who have had bariatric surgery (weight loss surgery) and who want tornmaximize their success.
http://toomuchonherplate.com/programs-and-services/groups/
• Smart Choices Success Circle: A membership community that leverages the power of mastermind support, laser coaching, and the internet tornhelp women succeed with weight loss and healthy lifestyle goals.
http://www.smartchoicessuccesscircle.com
• The Emotional Eating Toolbox™ and other self-guided resources for success with food, weight and creating a life balance that works.
http://toomuchonherplate.com/products-resources/products/
• Private customized wellness and self care spa coaching retreats.
I am a featured columnist for WLS (Weight Loss Success) Lifestyles magazine where I am also a member of the editorial advisory board and am the Self-care expert at www.BestLifeDesign.com.
Specialties:
Emotionalr Eating, Stress Eating, Weight Loss That Lasts, Stress, Life Balance, Self Care, Maximizing Success After Bariatric Surgery, Wellness, Midlife Women’s Issues, Life Coaching, Wellness Coaching, Positiver Psychology and Health, Teleseminars, Spa-based Wellness Retreats.