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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4 Questions to Ask Before You Try to Lose Weight—Again
If you are an emotional eater, an overeater, a compulsive eater or a constant snacker, you’re probably also an expert dieter. Most women don’t just struggle to lose weight once. We struggle to lose weight, to keep it off, to maintain hard-ea ed healthy habits, and—too often—we struggle to lose the weight all over again because we’ve regained it. If you want to avoid the weight loss roller coaster—and the emotional turmoil that can accompany it, ask yourself the following four questions before you start moving forward with your weight loss resolutions. 1.
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The Beauty of Living a Grateful Life
Are you looking for more ease in your life? Do you wish things flowed better? I don’t have a magic solution for you, but I do know a simple tool that, when leveraged, makes life smoother and more pleasant—and it’s free and at your fingertips. How about serving up a bit more gratitude? We all know that gratitude is a good thing. By gratitude, I’m talking about that deep peaceful sense of appreciation and thankfulness we feel for certain realities and people in our lives. Liberally and authentically applied, gratitude has the ability to work wonders.
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How To Make Time For Fitness
"How do I create a fitness program that will last-whe I'm time crunched, stressed, and overwhelmed?" This is a questio I'm asked all the time: "How can I fit it all in? I know I should exercise regularly but I just don't have the time/motivation/resources/energy to do it." Consistent exercise is a big challenge for many women. Whether you are a busy professional, a solopreneur working from home, or you are home juggling the needs of small children, consistent exercise can be a difficult habit to start AND a challenge to maintain.
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Emotional Eating Help: Finding Things to do INSTEAD of Eating
If you struggle with emotional eating: stress eating, boredom eating, comfort eating, frustration eating, or any type of eating designed to help you cope with or avoid your feelings, you know that it can be a difficult habit to break. It’s one thing to identify that you struggle with emotional eating, but even after you have identified the feelings and situations that trigger you, it may be difficult to figure out what to do instead of eating when these situations arise.r
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5 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.
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Opportunity, Possibility, and Living Your Best Life
Recently, someone told me about an opportunity she almost missed because it had never occurred to her that the thing she wanted to do was possible. Her story was a good reminder that sometimes, if we are not looking carefully for the opportunity, we miss it entirely. When we are busy and trying to get a lot done, it’s easy to fall into a mindset that limits our outcome and our opportunities before we even begin. Far too many times we set our expectations by thinking about what we’d be “okay with” instead of by thinking about what we really truly want.
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The Number One Weight Loss Mistake
The number one weight loss mistake that dieters and emotional overeaters make has nothing to do with food--but it flavors everything. The number one mistake people make when they are trying to gain control of emotional overeating is that they get mad at themselves and beat themselves up emotionally when things don't go as planned, when they have a slip,or when they overeat.
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Take Better Care of Yourself: Have Some Pie
A questio I am asked all the time is, "How can I possibly take better care of myself when there is so much else I have to do?" My busy clients tell me all the time that they have too much going on to exercise or eat right or to take time to relax or pursue their passion. They are operating from the belief that they will be unable to take better care of themselves until their life calms down or stops requiring so much from them. They ARE busy, but that isn't what's stopping them. What's stopping them is their mindset.
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Is Perfectionism Sabotaging Your Weight Loss?
Is perfectionism sabotaging your weight loss or your relationship with food? It might be. Trying to get it "perfect" can actually make emotional eating much worse--not to mention the negative impact it has on self esteem.
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Emotional Eating and Asking For What You Want
There are lots of possible triggers for overeating and emotional eating. Many people turn to food when they feel dissatisfied or trapped or unhappy—when life isn’t working the way they want it to. An important and related skill that many people could work on enhancing is asking for what you want or need or dream of. When people explain to me that they can’t get what they want, I usually ask them if they’ve asked for it. It’s amazing to me how often they haven’t. Sometimes there explanation goes like this: “No, I haven’t asked. What’s the point?
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Taking Better Care of Yourself: Making Time for Self Care
New Year's resolutions tend to fizzle out sometime in the first six weeks of the year and attempts to make healthy lifestyle changes often die on the vine. One of the biggest stumbling blocks for many busy women who want to make changes is finding the time to actually make them. Here’s a questio I was asked in an interview recently: “How do we justify taking time out for a workout or a healthy lunch or to work on that novel we want to write when our to-do lists are still a mile long? This question is really getting at the mindset we have about taking the time for these things.
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Emotional Eating: Creating Changes That Last
I’ve spent a lot of time in airports lately. That means that I’ve spent a lot of time at the news stand, scanning the covers of magazines, looking for some nice relaxing reading material.
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"Life is not the dress rehearsal" Rose Tremain
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How to get started
Find out more: http://www.toomuchonherplate.com
or email me directly to schedule a complimentary consultation.
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.