Ashley Pardo

Ashley Pardo 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!

05/01/2026

Remember this as you’re setting goals for the coming year. When you identify the thing you really want to feel, you stop operating from urgency + desperation and can finally find the consistent flow that will get you to where you want to go.

If you need help finding what that flow is, stay tuned for 1:1 coaching programs opening tomorrow. 🔮✨

05/01/2026

During fear mongering prime time, you’re not the anomaly and the basics will always apply. The more you argue about it, the more you’ll delay your progress. The basics WORK if you work them!

Tomorrow, January 1:1 coaching options open. If you want coaching will structure that works with any obstacle, I can help you. 🔮✨

01/01/2026

I’ve been doing this end of year practice since 2016 and it’s helped me quit alcohol, my sugar addiction, become a better business owner, a better partner, friend, and generally just live a life that is authentic to me.

I get overwhelmed by resolutions, long lists, and questions, so this practice is extremely clarifying, honest, and effective.

Simply get out a piece of paper or your notes app with two columns.

One on side, list out what makes you feel better.

On the other, list out what makes you feel worse.

For the next year, do more of what makes you feel better and less of what makes you feel worse.

I guarantee the next year will be different.

Seeing things listed out so honestly eliminates the waffling and dabbling, and puts you on the hook to do the things that make you feel better, which always require discomfort and effort.

I don’t make the rules, but having this kind of relationship to reality + the truth creates a better life and more happiness.

I share my word of the year towards the end of the video. 🥰

Cheers to an amazing 2026! What are your biggest goals, or word for the year? Tell me below 💜

I also can’t wait to open coaching for 2026 this coming Monday. Stay tuned 💖

31/12/2025

Sometimes your meals just aren’t gonna be glamorous or fun - they’ll just need to get the job done.

Problem solving, a solution oriented mindset, and flexibility are what create consistency, not perfection or rigidity.

You can always make it work!

I’m at a hotel right now, and every afternoon + night has more indulgent + fun foods, so
the morning needs to be on point: protein + fiber filled.

Here’s how i made it work.

With the correct framework, you can bust through any obstacle. And with enough practice, it can just be what you do.

This is what i teach in 1:1 coaching. Applications open 1/5! 🔮✨

30/12/2025

Most women think permanent weight loss means becoming a different person.

It doesn’t.

Especially if you’re a sensitive, neurodivergent, impatient, impulsive, lazy or you love food.. like me.

These things aren’t a life sentence to a destiny of never getting results. They’re the exact reason you need more structure than you think.

Building systems that work with your appetite, motivation, urges, and life is how you actually keep the weight off for life.

I lost the weight for the last time over a decade ago, not because cravings or my personality disappeared, but because they stopped running my decisions.

Sustainable results come from skill, structure, a ton of practice, and time… not perfection.

And when structure replaces urgency, results stop feeling fragile and instantly become attainable.

This is the work I do inside 1:1 coaching.

Applications open this coming Monday, January 5! 💜✨

Full year of maintenance in 2025 // This was the first year I spent without intentionally dieting or trying to lose weig...
29/12/2025

Full year of maintenance in 2025 // This was the first year I spent without intentionally dieting or trying to lose weight.⁣

And I got a better body comp, performance, peace, + mindset.⁣

Most of us think maintenance is a waste of time. Especially those of us who have a lot of weight to lose.⁣

If someone had told me to intentionally maintain when I was 200+lb I would have run FAST.⁣

I learned the hard way for most of my life.⁣

But if you want to:⁣

〰️ Have a lean, defined look⁣
〰️ Build muscle⁣
〰️ Get stronger or perform well in anything⁣
〰️ Build a strong metabolism that allows you to eat more⁣
〰️ Increase your calories (and eat more than 1400)⁣
〰️ Have healthy hormones, hair, skin, nails, libido⁣
〰️ Feel normal around food⁣
〰️ Participate in your life⁣
〰️ Actually keep the weight off for more than a fleeting second⁣

Then maintenance is a non-negotiable, period, full stop. It’s also where you should be living… forever, and has it’s own set of skills that are built through the adherence of a deficit.⁣

Dieting is a psychological and physiological stressor. When you don’t give your body enough food, it will pull on fat reserves (so the only way to lose fat is being in a calorie deficit) so you will lose weight.⁣

But dieting must be strategic and temporary. It is not the state we live in. If you’re trying to diet and you can’t stick to it no matter how hard you try, it’s time to reevaluate what you’re doing.⁣

Every 12-20 weeks of a deficit warrants a 2-20+ week maintenance period. If that makes you uncomfortable, I’d say you need it more than you think, especially if you haven’t intentionally done one.⁣

Plus, if you have been dieting to no end and still don’t have the look you want, it’s due to a lack of muscle which comes from progressive overload paired with maintenance + surplus eating and TIMEEE.⁣

It’s about looking in the long-term rather than hitting your short term dopamine, but when you can make the shift, and get the body, look, and eating style and PEACE you’ve always wanted… I you’ll never look back.⁣

If you need help, this is what I do in 1:1 coaching. Spots will open in a week, on January 5. Hope to see you there. 💜

This was the year I put my money where my mouth was and started + finished things I’d been telling myself I’d do… for ye...
28/12/2025

This was the year I put my money where my mouth was and started + finished things I’d been telling myself I’d do… for years.

The last few years before this were survival based lol. I was just trying to keep my head above water, but this year gave me space, ruthless honesty, and consistent action.

Funnily enough, I didn’t start out with any resolutions. I didn’t have many “goals”, but more things happened than in the last 5 years combined.

I simply set out to take a little action towards what I wanted every day, and it all accumulated a lot.

No intensity, no grand gestures… just head-down, old fashioned, uncomfortable (yet tolerable) work.

I learned to focus + tolerate discomfort through fitness and restraint. Through each rep, I found a way to dig a little deeper, and realized that I felt better when I did than when I quit, said “oh it’s fine”, and put off my goals for another year… yet again.

I faced a lot of fears and realized they have nothing on me, and are 100% worse in my head, 100% of the time.

I learned makeup, style, and flowers (after saying I would for 5 years), dyed my hair, became a CPT (I bought the course in 2018 💀), PRed my 5k (a goal since 2008!), and dealt with health things (a brain MRI + skin check I’d been dreading).

It felt good.

2025 was a lot of recalibration, questioning stories, and creating new ones - I feel fortified again going into 2026 and of course I’ll share all of them here with you.

Stay tuned for new coaching packages for 2026, they’ll open here on 1/5. 💜

28/12/2025

It’s so much easier if you focus on what’s in front of you - the next minute, day, week, pound.

I know the gap between where you are right now and where you want to be is huge, but it doesn’t get smaller by staying stuck.

It moves faster once you begin to move, build momentum, and focus on what’s in your current vision.

One day you’ll look up and you’ll be where you want to be, and I bet it’ll be a whole lot more enjoyable than you think. 💜

Coaching opens again on January 5 - stay tuned for what’s to come. ✨🔮

If you’ve ever been personally victimized by dieting, this post is for you. As we reflect on the last year and what we w...
26/12/2025

If you’ve ever been personally victimized by dieting, this post is for you. As we reflect on the last year and what we want to bring into the next, let 2026 create the person you’re meant to be. 💜

2026 coaching options opening on January 5, to start January 12!! Can’t wait to share. 🔮✨🪩

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays 💚❤️💚 wishing you a beautiful + relaxed end of the year with lots of good food with th...
26/12/2025

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays 💚❤️💚 wishing you a beautiful + relaxed end of the year with lots of good food with the people you love. And to anyone out there missing a loved one, I see you and am thinking of you. ✨

The difference wasn’t effort.It was doing something I enjoyed, that could work with my life, that would push me with str...
21/12/2025

The difference wasn’t effort.

It was doing something I enjoyed, that could work with my life, that would push me with structure + flexibility. I do not do well being a “soft girl” lol.

I share my story because like you, I tried a lot of things before anything actually stuck.

Not because I wasn’t trying hard enough, but because everything I tried relied on force + tons of pressure.

〰️ Short timelines
〰️ Temptation for more restriction when things stalled + felt uncertain
〰️ 〰️ Trying to override my personality
Starting over every time life got hard

What finally helped me change was:

〰️ Longer timelines
〰️ Structure without rigidity
〰️ Strength training I could sustain from home, in a way that I loved
〰️ Nutrition that worked with real life
〰️ Habits that withstood stress + discomfort

The goal was never just weight loss, even though I was obsessedddd with losing weight.

It was becoming someone who could stay consistent and tolerate discomfort without burning out or starting over.

That’s the difference between temporary results
and change that actually lasts.

Funnily enough, I lost the most weight, and changed my body most, when I was the most relaxed about it.

And you can feel relaxed when you do a proven system that creates wins + moves you closer to your goals every single day.

This is what I do inside GlowFit, my 6-month training + nutrition mentorship, and today is the LAST day to save 25% and get early bird pricing. It will enroll again beginning January 5 at regular pricing, and I have space for THREE women right now.

LIB to get the info page, or DM me “glow” for more.

We start January 12. ✨

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