Ashley Pardo

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Healing your relationship with food, forever. The Grizzly Kitchen is a blog run by Ashley Pardo, a private chef, wellness coach, and speaker in Miami, FL.

The blog guarantees delicious recipes, cooking advice, and life musings. Follow along!

10/14/2026

Some people need more time, a better strategy, a pause, and more refinement when it comes to weight loss. Others tell themselves stories that don’t serve them, and this video is for the latter. 🖤

10/12/2026

I’m only able to stay super consistent + disciplined, imperfectly lol, because I KNOW what the other side feels like.  And until I REALLYYYY accepted that, and realized that things are always hard either before or in the aftermath of a choice, was I able to get real with myself, start putting my money where my mouth was, and DO the things I’d been saying I wanted to do for years.  Now, discipline is easier than staying stuck. Only because I know what it feels like to be there - and it sucks 100x more to know you’re not in alignment with the things you lie in bed awake at night thinking about.  The last 20lb. The food comfort habit. The strength training PDFs you have on your computer. The food scale.
 The discomfort you avoid eventually becomes your life. And the more you face it, and get BETTER at slaying it, the better your life becomes.  THE BODY LAB has TWO spots for October. If you want to finally make these changes, DM me or head to the l i n k in my bio. 🖤

10/11/2026

Tell me what you did instead of being on your phone this week, as i post + make this from my phone 😆💜

10/09/2026

My favorite month - September! Mostly excited that we’re moving into Fall + feeling the spooky vibes. The month was packed! 
👑 Celebrated my 41st birthday with a run, baking a funfetti cake from scratch and going to my favorite restaurant 🌳 Went to North Carolina to spend time with my family + celebrate my grandma’s 95th birthday
☕️ Became a mini Barista bc of my new coffee maker 🖤 Welcomed clients into The Body Lab
🍪 Cooked + baked a ton! 🏝️ Went to Key West
💕 Spent lots of time with friends + family 💪🏼 Tons of walking outside + training 📚 Back into my reading groove (finished Five Star Weekend + Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo + Broken Country + started The Wedding People + Yesteryear)
🤓 Planning lots of stuff for my biz for the rest of the year   What was your favorite part of September?! 💜

10/08/2026

The way I see it now is that I can either do what I want in the moment and feel crappy later.  Or I can do what needs to be done now and feel better later.  That’s really it - and getting enough of those reps doing things RIGHT is what helps you lose fat and keep it off.  Changing how you eat forever is what keeps the weight off forever. 🖤

10/07/2026

You eating how you want to eat while you’re losing weight IS what will eventually make weight maintenance easy and REAL.⁣
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Maybe for the first time ever.⁣
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And I know it’s not what you want to hear.⁣
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Every diet makes you think that you need to do a massive overhaul, that it needs to be wildly different than what you’re doing right now, that it needs to be clean and healthy.⁣
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That’s what rigid control is: food lists, yes/no foods, perfection.⁣
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That can only exist in the long-term in a silo, and not in reality.⁣
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Which is why it can only work for a short time. But that’s the problem, it is effective… temporarily.⁣
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And yet most of us keep coming back to it, because we don’t know any other way, and we return to it in a time of desperation when we need to lose weight NOW.⁣
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We see a number on the scale that makes us want to jump off a cliff.⁣
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We see a picture someone posted that makes us want to die of horror.⁣
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We catch a glimpse of an angle in the mirror and think “wait is that really me?! How did I get so far from myself?”⁣
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So we go back to what we’re used to because it works quickly, and the weight comes back even faster.⁣
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We resist doing it a different way that would actually work long term because it seems slower and harder.⁣
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But flexible control is your ticket out of this, and it’s what Intuitive Macros is based off of.⁣
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Dieting keeps you dysregulated, emotionally small, incapable, and dependent.⁣
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Flexibility with parameters opens up your world, gives you back your power, and calms down your nervous system, maybe for the first time ever.⁣
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Which is why I make pasta with cheese melted into it and can eat cake in the afternoon on a random day while staying in the best shape of my life.⁣

When I’ve been my heaviest, I was the most restricted. At my lightest, I eat everything.
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Maybe it’s not you - it’s the diet, and you can learn to get out of the trap and actually enjoy the things you eat.⁣
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This is what I do 1:1 in The Body Lab, which has one spot open for October. LIB or DM me to apply. 🖤

10/06/2026

Looking fit is a lot simpler than we think.

Doesn’t mean it’s easy - which is why it seems elusive + not everyone “gets there”.  Simple because there really are three things to pay attention to: calorie level, protein/carbs, and progressive overload.  The harder thing is to adhere to it, to the customized levels that YOU need.  Because the thing is - I’ve been doing the same things for probably 15 years.  But I’ve only gotten the results I’ve always wanted in the last 3-4.  Eating healthy + having whole foods/fiber. Prioritizing protein. Lifting. Walking. Doing some cardio.
 So it was crazy to me when 5 years ago, I gained 15lb lifting super heavy doing bodybuilding workouts for 2 hours/dayand giving so much effort to the process.  I felt even crazier when 15 years ago, I was eating low carb + working out for 3 hours/day and couldn’t recognize myself in the mirror.  Sometimes working harder isn’t the answer, even if it’s so well intentioned bc we want it SO BAD.
 Working with precision, ie having your calorie levels/macros + lifting plan tailored to you, and giving the process time + consistency without quitting, is what gives us the results we want.

But it’s always a lot harder to keep going, and to keep your head in the game, when it feels like nothing is changing.  Which is why most of us tell ourselves we’ll make the changes next year, or when life is easier - but it still nags at you every day, every time you look in the mirror, every time you show up to your workout.  Things won’t change unless something really changes for a long period of time.  And when I wrapped my head around that, I was finally able to lose 30lb and look + feel the way I’d always wanted to.  I began eating more precisely, with more flexibility. I got super consistent with working out from home, while following progressive overload without lifting heavy. I walked a LOT.  And because I saw changes quickly, I just never stopped - and got fitter than ever.  If you’re ready to make these changes NOW, there’s one spot open for The Body Lab for October. L i n k to apply is in my b i o, or yo

10/05/2026

Typical overeating advice doesn’t work - and it’s actually designed to fail. Here’s what does though 😊

And if this skill felt helpful, it’s what i do in my 1:1 program, The Body Lab. 🖤

10/04/2026

Feeling just like this 💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻

10/03/2026

It’s literally the secret. start with what you’ve got. make bearable leaps - and just keep going. it doesn’t get easier, but you become more capable of handling it. it’s always worse in your head, don’t let it run things 💜

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