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- Quick Stress Reduction Strategies for Busy Women: The Power of Rituals and Rest - by Submitted on Feb 05, 2011 from Melissa McCreeryIf 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 ...
Views: 1118 - Quick Stress Reduction Strategies for Busy Women: Download Your Brain and Get Grounded - by Submitted on Feb 05, 2011 from Melissa McCreeryIf your head is spinning with all you have to do and the feeling of too much on your plate, here’s one of my favorite quick stress relief tips. Download your brain and get grounded. Holiday stress, worries about money, the pressures of work or running your own business, managing schedules, and ...
Views: 1180 - Emotional Eating Help: Finding Things to do INSTEAD of Eating - by Submitted on Jan 19, 2011 from Melissa McCreeryIf 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 ...
Views: 1718(1 vote) - Emotional Eating Help—How NOT to Eat Your Feelings: Identify the Cause - by Submitted on Jan 10, 2011 from Melissa McCreeryIf 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 ...
Views: 1349 - Quick Stress Reduction Strategies for Busy Women: Be In Your Body - by Submitted on Dec 13, 2010 from Melissa McCreeryWhen 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 ...
Views: 1091 - Quick Stress Reduction Strategies for Busy Women: Nourish Yourself - by Submitted on Dec 07, 2010 from Melissa McCreeryFor 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, ...
Views: 1203(1 vote) - Quick Stress Reduction Strategies for Busy Women: Learn to Pause - by Submitted on Nov 29, 2010 from Melissa McCreeryBusy, high achieving women tend to be hard workers who expect a lot of themselves. Stress, a crowded schedule, and a never-ending to-do list, are common side effects. Overload, worry, and too much to do can lead to stress eating and emotional overeating, weight gain, insomnia and sleep ...
Views: 1108 - Quick Stress Reduction Strategies for Busy Women: Express Gratitude and Find Your Happy Spot - by Submitted on Nov 22, 2010 from Melissa McCreeryWhen you are in a vicious cycle of too much stress, too many demands, and too much on your plate, the most effective stress busting tips are the ones that you’ll actually be able to implement and that can create a shift in how you feel—quickly. This strategy is one of my favorites. It’s simple, ...
Views: 1175(1 vote) - Stress Reduction Strategies for Busy Women: Quick Stress Relief Tip: Take Ten - by Submitted on Nov 22, 2010 from Melissa McCreeryWhen 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, ...
Views: 1264(2 votes) - Is Being “Productive” Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Plan? A New Approach for Busy, Over-achieving Women - by Submitted on Jun 10, 2010 from Melissa McCreeryIf 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” ...
Views: 1179 - Is Emotional Overeating Weighing You Down? - by Submitted on Jun 04, 2010 from Melissa McCreeryAre 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 ...
Views: 1163(1 vote) - How to Fuel Your Spirit So You Can Be Your Best Self - by Submitted on May 27, 2010 from Melissa McCreeryWhether 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: ...
Views: 2278(2 votes) - Self-employed? How to stop overeating when you are working from home - by Submitted on May 20, 2010 from Melissa McCreeryIt’s a refrain 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 ...
Views: 1640(1 vote) - Spring Cleaning: Ready to dump the nonproductive habits that are holding you back? - by Submitted on May 18, 2010 from Melissa McCreerySpring 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 ...
Views: 1130(1 vote) - Are You Stress Eating to Calm Yourself? Three easy ways to start fixing the problem - by Submitted on May 12, 2010 from Melissa McCreeryMany 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 ...
Views: 1653(2 votes) - Women Entrepreneurs: Are Struggles With Overeating and Weight Keeping You From Your A-Game? - by Submitted on Mar 12, 2010 from Melissa McCreeryOvereating 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 ...
Views: 1375(1 vote) - 5 Easy Healthy Lifestyle Tips - by Submitted on Mar 12, 2010 from Melissa McCreeryJust 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 ...
Views: 1202(2 votes) - Business Owners: Four steps to help you truly make time for yourself...and how that benefits your business AND your life - by Submitted on Feb 20, 2010 from Melissa McCreerySelf- care and me-time are simply not indispensable. In fact, making time for yourself is actually an essential ingredient if you want to thrive in your life and your business. Here are four steps to creating time for yourself and the benefits they can lead to in your business and your ...
Views: 1111(3 votes) - Taking Better Care of Yourself: Making Time for Self Care - by Submitted on Feb 12, 2010 from Melissa McCreeryNew 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 ...
Views: 1314(1 vote) - 4 Questions to Ask Before You Try to Lose Weight—Again - by Submitted on Feb 05, 2010 from Melissa McCreeryIf 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-earned healthy habits, and—too often—we struggle to lose ...
Views: 1431(5 votes) - The Beauty of Living a Grateful Life - by Submitted on Dec 18, 2009 from Melissa McCreeryAre 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 ...
Views: 1106(3 votes) - How to Stay on Track with Healthy Eating and Weight Over the Holidays - by Submitted on Dec 09, 2009 from Melissa McCreery‘Tis the season for overindulging and weight gain. In fact, Americans gain more weight during November and December than during any other time of year. Want to stay on track with healthy eating and weight loss (or avoid weight gain) over the holidays? Here are six quick tips: 1. Don’t ...
Views: 1171(2 votes) - How to Have a Healthy Lifestyle Breakthrough - by Submitted on Nov 13, 2009 from Melissa McCreeryIt sounds so simple. If you want to create change (i.e. achieve something you don’t currently have) you MUST do things differently. Yet so many women I work with come to me determined to create lasting healthy changes by forcing themselves to “succeed” at a plan that has failed them time and ...
Views: 1387(3 votes) - What Is A Breakthrough With Food and Weight Anyway? - by Submitted on Nov 13, 2009 from Melissa McCreeryIf 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 ...
Views: 1008(3 votes) - 4 Tips For Taking Control of Stress Before It Takes Control of You, Your Life, or Your Eating - by Submitted on Nov 13, 2009 from Melissa McCreeryWe 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 ...
Views: 1194(5 votes) - Emotional Eating and Coping With Overwhelm - by Submitted on Oct 18, 2009 from Melissa McCreeryOverwhelm 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 ...
Views: 1023 - Balancing Work, Life, and You: Are You Too Busy To Stop Overeating? - by Submitted on Sep 29, 2009 from Melissa McCreeryDo 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 ...
Views: 1092 - How to Avoid Stress Eating At Your Desk - by Submitted on Sep 29, 2009 from Melissa McCreeryDo 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. ...
Views: 1200 - How To Make Time For Fitness - by Submitted on Sep 29, 2009 from Melissa McCreery"How do I create a fitness program that will last-when I'm time crunched, stressed, and overwhelmed?" This is a question 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 ...
Views: 1233 - Are Weight and Food Struggles Interfering With Your Professional Success? - by Submitted on Sep 25, 2009 from Melissa McCreeryStruggles with emotional eating, overeating, and weight take a tremendous amount of energy. For women business owners and professionals, these struggles can also take a major toll on their success. * A prospective client (and business owner) tells me she is avoiding public speaking ...
Views: 1092(1 vote) - Is Martyrdom Fueling Your Overeating - by Submitted on Sep 08, 2009 from Melissa McCreeryDo you overeat when you are stressed or tired or overwhelmed? Do you flop down exhausted at the end of the day feeling like there is never enough time for you? Despite your best intentions, do you never seem to get to that exercise plan, that journal that you want to write in, or that fun ...
Views: 1303(1 vote) - How To Implement All Those "Best Life" Tips - by Submitted on Aug 17, 2009 from Melissa McCreeryThere 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 ...
Views: 1037(1 vote) - Getting What You Want and Need: More Tips On Asking - by Submitted on Aug 04, 2009 from Melissa McCreeryThere 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 ...
Views: 1082 - Emotional Eating and Asking For What You Want - by Submitted on Jul 27, 2009 from Melissa McCreeryThere 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 ...
Views: 1131 - Are you busy reinventing the wheel when you could be enjoying success? - by Submitted on Jul 31, 2009 from Melissa McCreeryYou have a lot on your plate and a lot of things that are important to you. You've decided that you want to make health or lifestyle changes and spend more of your valuable energy on yourself. You want to feel better and be more of the person you know you can be. The question is, "How do you ...
Views: 1300 - Take Better Care of Yourself: Have Some Pie - by Submitted on Jul 31, 2009 from Melissa McCreeryA question 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 ...
Views: 1409 - Why Smart Successful Women Struggle with Food, Weight, and Emotional Eating - by Submitted on Jul 21, 2009 from Melissa McCreeryAs we all know, Oprah Winfrey isn't the only smart successful woman who struggles with food, weight, and emotional eating. I work with many clients who have accomplished tremendous things but who see food as the one place in their lives where they can't seem to take control. Frustration, ...
Views: 1369(1 vote) - How to Recover from a Bad Day - by Submitted on Jul 31, 2009 from Melissa McCreeryBad 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 ...
Views: 1987 - Comfort Strategies to Replace Emotional Eating - by Submitted on Jul 31, 2009 from Melissa McCreeryA client just asked: “I know I use food for comfort and to soothe myself. What can I do instead?” That is such a common question—and one that can be so difficult to answer--especially in the moment. When we want comfort, food can seem like such a quick, easy, accessible fix. I recommend that ...
Views: 4718(1 vote) - Do You Overeat When Life Feels “Out of Control?” - by Submitted on Jul 31, 2009 from Melissa McCreeryDo you overeat when you feel like your life is out of control, when you feel overwhelmed, or when you feel stressed out? Examining the way you approach the issue of control in your life can have a tremendous impact on how you feel—and on your eating. One of my biggest rules for stress ...
Views: 1495 - Opportunity, Possibility, and Living Your Best Life - by Submitted on Jul 31, 2009 from Melissa McCreeryRecently, 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 ...
Views: 1142 - Creating Your Best Life: Remember to Stretch - by Submitted on Jul 31, 2009 from Melissa McCreeryAs my body ages, I grow more aware of the power and importance of stretching. At some point, it became a necessary part of any workout. In my twenties, I could dash-and-go, but now, if I skip the post-exercise stretch, I notice it. I lose flexibility, I don't feel as good, and my workouts ...
Views: 1276 - Fallen off Your Horse? 5 Tips for Getting Back On - by Submitted on Jul 31, 2009 from Melissa McCreeryFor many, January has a special magic to it. It's the fresh start of a new year--a beginning. The calendar is blank and many embrace the idea of commencing the year with shiny goals, resolutions or intentions. February doesn't usually feel quite so fresh or exciting. If you've started ...
Views: 1534 - Could Playing More Help You Eat and Stress Less? - by Submitted on Jul 31, 2009 from Melissa McCreeryEmotional eating is a signal that life is out of balance. Emotional eating and overeating happen when we use food to try to help us manage our feelings. The triggers for emotional eating vary–we might eat to cope with loneliness, unhappiness, stress or boredom. Sometimes we eat for ...
Views: 1060 - Oprah and Emotional Eating - by Submitted on Jul 31, 2009 from Melissa McCreeryIf you haven't heard yet, you will soon--it's everywhere in the media. Oprah has disclosed that she has regained weight she worked so hard to lose and that she now weighs 200lbs. My heart goes out to Oprah,as well as to the millions of women who struggle just like her. Today, on a morning news ...
Views: 1964 - How NOT to eat emotionally: Ten things to do with a feeling when you really don't know what to do with it - by Submitted on Jul 31, 2009 from Melissa McCreeryHow 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 ...
Views: 1941 - Three Steps You Can Take To Avoid Stress Eating - by Submitted on Aug 12, 2009 from Melissa McCreeryDo you turn to food when you feel stressed or overwhelmed? Does a bad day at work send you off track with your eating or exercise plan? Does an out-of-control to-do list leave you craving chocolate? There are ways to avoid the stress eating/emotional eating trap. Here are three ...
Views: 1113 - 10 Tips for Increasing Your Effectiveness (No Matter What You're Trying to Do) - by Submitted on Jul 31, 2009 from Melissa McCreeryNo matter how big our dreams, our time and resources are limited. Moving forward effectively is key. Once you've committed to accomplishing something and putting in the effort, you'll want to get the biggest return on your investment that you can, in the most efficient way. Here are ten of my ...
Views: 1192 - Accepting Gifts - by Submitted on Jul 31, 2009 from Melissa McCreeryWe're approaching a season of giving--an appropriate time of year to examine how well you allow yourself to be given to. Yes, receiving--the ability to fully accept gifts and enjoy and appreciate being given to--is an essential part of the human relationship equation. It is the complement of ...
Views: 2912 - Life Coaching 101: 3 Steps To Moving Forward and Getting Where You Really Want To Go - by Submitted on Jul 31, 2009 from Melissa McCreeryAs a Life Coach, I help people get where they want to go and do what they’ve always dreamed of doing. Over and over again I've seen people achieve tremendous goals and create enormous change—the kind of progress that tends to make other people say, "Oh, I could never do ...
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