TAL #068 ASHLEY PARDO

TOPICS OF NOTE:

  • Ways to make it through the holiday food fests

  • Mindful eating: What it is and how to practice it

  • Women, shame, and food

  • Where Ashley’s passion for eating + living well comes from

  • Why the food isn’t the issue when you have issues with food

  • Why restricting food creates obsession

  • How to break the diet cycle + never struggle with food again

  • The shiny object syndrome of diets

  • What living in Italy + working on a farm taught her

  • Food as an agent of connection + nostalgia

  • Pleasure + why women don’t always focus on it

  • How to navigate the 1 pm lunchtime family holiday “dinner”

  • How to handle the obnoxious comments by family over your food choices

  • Ideas on healthy dishes to bring to the party

  • Ashley’s one non-negotiable for her health

  • Small changes she encourages us to make

  • The one thing she’d put on everyone’s New Year’s resolution list

During After Thoughts, Colleen, inspired by the mindfulness of Ashley and last week’s guest, Cass McCrory, explains why the podcast is pausing until 2019.

QUOTES OF NOTE:

“Love what you eat.”
— Ashley Pardo
“Quantity and enjoyment are actually not related.”
— Ashley Pardo
“Focus on making your life simpler rather than making it more complicated.”
— Ashley Pardo

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