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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

How to Avoid Stress Eating At Your Desk

Do you find yourself stress eating, comfort eating or even boredom eating during your workday? That's emotional eating. Emotional eating is the eating that happens when you're procrastinating tackling a difficult project, struggling with writer's block, or avoiding a difficult conversation. Emotional eating also happens when we're trying to transform our feelings-like munching mindlessly in the late afte oon in an attempt to perk up or re-motivate. Emotional eating is a major cause of weight gain, weight loss difficulties, and weight re-gain after weight loss.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

How To Implement All Those "Best Life" Tips

There are so many good tips and tools and strategies that can help us live a fuller, more authentic and meaningful life. Tips that can lower our stress, help us lose weight, prevent overwhelm and improve our relationships. But learning about these tools and ideas and strategies just isn’t enough. These gems are only helpful to us if we are able to figure out how to implement them and allow them to be useful in our lives. . There is an ingredient that is essential for metabolizing good information. It’s necessary for creating a plan for implementation.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Are Weight and Food Struggles Interfering With Your Professional Success?

Struggles with emotional eating, overeating, and weight take a tremendous amount of energy.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Getting What You Want and Need: More Tips On Asking

There is a big difference between knowing what you want and asking for it. There is also an important distinction between asking and hinting. Unfortunately, many of us were raised in a culture that encouraged us to be less than direct about what it is we’d like to occur. I talk with many women who aren’t getting what they need or want and aren’t quite sure how to ask for it. Interestingly, many women are able to be direct and assertive in their professional lives but find they stumble and feel uncomfortable when asking to have their personal needs met.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

How to Recover from a Bad Day

Bad days are a part of life. We all have them. No matter how many yoga classes you attend or how smoothly your life runs, you’ll run up against one sooner or later. The secret to thriving is learning how to move forward in spite of bad days, not aiming to never have one (although minimizing their frequency is a good thing). Here are some tips for dusting yourself off and getting back on track after a bad day happens. Do you have permission to have a bad day? Make sure that your inner-perfectionist (the one who requires all-or-nothing success) isn’t running your show.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

How NOT to eat emotionally: Ten things to do with a feeling when you really don't know what to do with it

How many times have you started at diet or weight loss plan, a fresh new day of healthy eating, only to feel completely derailed by an unexpected bad day, an awful experience or strong emotions—hurt, anger, disappointment, even boredom—that seemed to magnetically pull you to the refrigerator? We’ve been talking about that in my Coaching Club program and it inspired this post. Ten things to do with a feeling when you DON’T KNOW what to do with it: 1. Breathe Sit tight. Breathe in, breathe out. Feelings come in waves.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Emotional Eating Recovery Guide - Three Things to do Instead of Eating M&Ms

Emotional eating is eating that is a response to our feelings and needs-eating that is not related to a physical need for fuel but to a hunger that we feel when we are feeling something else. It might be eating because we are bored, stressed, worried, angry or feeling helpless. Some of us even get hungry when we're really happy. Emotional eating can be a major problem and a huge barrier to maximizing your success with weight loss. The "M&Ms question" is one of the most common questions I hear.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Life After Weight Loss Surgery - Don't Let Shame and Self-blame Weigh You Down

A huge mistake that people make as they work to lose weight and/or maintain weight loss after weight loss surgery involves getting stuck in self-blame. Self-blame and self-criticism can seriously undermine weight loss efforts. Here are some of the reasons why they can create a trap that you want to avoid: 1. Self-blame breeds shame. Shame is the most isolating emotion that there is. When we feel shame, we feel bad and we want to be invisible. We don't want anyone to see either our shame or ourselves and we start to feel incapable of connecting with others. We want to disappear.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Emotional Eating - How To Take Charge

Are you sick of yo-yo dieting? Do you weigh yourself more than once a week? Do you spend more time thinking about food and diet then you spend thinking about your life? For many women (and men, but especially women), making peace with food is a crucial step in getting on with their life and creating the life they want to live. Many successful, intelligent, highly talented people tell me that food/weight/diet is the one area of their life in which they feel incapable. Diet's don't work--they just keep people dieting (and gaining and losing and binging and miserable).

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Five Things You Can Do Now To Change Your Life

We’re all short on time and we want to spend it wisely. Here are five simple things you can do right NOW that really will make a difference in your life. 1. Set Goals You hear a lot about goals from me because they really are the foundation for change. Set tangible 30, 90 and one-year goals. Write them down and review them every month. Make sure that they are achievable and when and if you feel stuck, do something--anything--that will take you one baby-step closer to your goal. You don't have to know exactly how you'll achieve it when you set a goal.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Weight Loss Surgery and Emotional Eating - Tips for Breaking the Emotional Overeating Cycle

Weight loss surgery patients are often surprised to find old habits with food creeping back into their lives. While the path back to emotional over-eating can be somewhat different depending on what weight loss surgery procedure you had, here's the hard truth: habits related to food, especially the habits of using food to care for our emotional needs, are hard to break. Here are important steps to follow if you recognize emotional over-eating after weight loss surgery: 1. Identify it Name it for what it is.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Emotional Eating Help—How NOT to Eat Your Feelings: Identify the Cause

If you are an emotional eater, you are not alone. Emotional eating is one of the major causes of overeating for women and one of the biggest reasons for weight regain. If you are seeing to avoid emotional eating, you’ve probably already figured out that willpower alone isn’t enough. To effectively stop overeating, it’s important to have a plan for what to do instead of eating or turning to food.r

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Quick Stress Reduction Strategies for Busy Women: Be In Your Body

When you are under stress and feeling like you have too much on your plate, identifying how to start making a change can feel daunting. Whether its stress related to work, finances, the holidays, or the people in your life, just thinking about it can leave your brain feeling so full that it’s difficult to problem solve. Guess what? For this quick stress relief tip, you don’t have too.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Quick Stress Reduction Strategies for Busy Women: The Power of Rituals and Rest

If you are a busy woman with too much on her plate, you may also be sleep deprived. Whether you are burning the midnight oil, having a hard time shutting down your mind at the end of the day, or staying up late to grab some quiet time (this never really works well by the way), once you are short on sleep, things tend to go downhill. Inadequate sleep impacts your energy and concentration. Did you know that it also leads to overeating and weight gain? If you are sleep deprived, you won’t be at your best. Period. That’s no help when you’re trying to get on top of stress and your goals.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Quick Stress Reduction Strategies for Busy Women: Nourish Yourself

For women who are busy, one of the biggest challenges can be figuring out how to keep their personal needs and priorities, including healthy eating and fitness routines, on their agendas when schedules get crowded. While skimping on self-care may seem like a time saver in the short run, ultimately, it can lead to decreased effectiveness and energy. We know that eating well and exercising help us manage stress more effectively, but knowing and doing are two very different things.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Melissa McCreeryRecently published1 topic

Stress Reduction Strategies for Busy Women: Quick Stress Relief Tip: Take Ten

When you are under stress and feeling overloaded, figuring out how to make a change can feel overwhelming. Whether its holiday stress, work stress, financial worries, or simply having too much on your plate, stress can set off a vicious cycle that feels impossible to break. Overload, worry, and too much to do can lead to stress eating and emotional overeating, weight gain, insomnia and sleep difficulties, and neglecting the healthy habits and routines that help you fight stress in the first place.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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