Dr. Ashley Lucas
Appearances
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1038 | Jase Grapples with a Traumatic Memory of Granny’s Chickens & Tim Tebow Teaches Him a Lesson
Right.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1038 | Jase Grapples with a Traumatic Memory of Granny’s Chickens & Tim Tebow Teaches Him a Lesson
Yeah. That's true.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1038 | Jase Grapples with a Traumatic Memory of Granny’s Chickens & Tim Tebow Teaches Him a Lesson
Yep.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1038 | Jase Grapples with a Traumatic Memory of Granny’s Chickens & Tim Tebow Teaches Him a Lesson
Thanks, guys, for having me.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1038 | Jase Grapples with a Traumatic Memory of Granny’s Chickens & Tim Tebow Teaches Him a Lesson
Yeah.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1038 | Jase Grapples with a Traumatic Memory of Granny’s Chickens & Tim Tebow Teaches Him a Lesson
Yeah, the body changes for sure. So I think I was explaining to you, Al, about the belly fat and how the belly fat works against us. So my story, I was a professional ballet dancer. I know, Jace, I was ballet dancer. I saw that face.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1038 | Jase Grapples with a Traumatic Memory of Granny’s Chickens & Tim Tebow Teaches Him a Lesson
What?
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1038 | Jase Grapples with a Traumatic Memory of Granny’s Chickens & Tim Tebow Teaches Him a Lesson
We do. Yeah, and I always fought my body. I was never at the body weight that I needed to be to get the roles that I wanted, but I went to boarding school for it. I had a fairly successful career just because I'm so disciplined and I had a passion around it. But I was told that I was fat no matter what I did. I counted calories. I avoided red meat.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1038 | Jase Grapples with a Traumatic Memory of Granny’s Chickens & Tim Tebow Teaches Him a Lesson
I exercised after my eight-hour day of dancing and still was too fat for the sport. And I stepped away from dancing in my mid-20s. I landed in the ER. I was chosen to go perform in New York City, you know, every dancer's dream. And when I was up there, I thought I was having a heart attack. I had no idea what was going on. So I
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1038 | Jase Grapples with a Traumatic Memory of Granny’s Chickens & Tim Tebow Teaches Him a Lesson
They carted me off to the ER and told me that I was underfed and overexercised and I just couldn't do it anymore. And to me, that was 20 plus years of struggle and sacrifice. It was my identity. It was like Michael Phelps being ready to swim at the Olympics and being carted off to the ER saying, you can't swim again. So it was a huge deal for me.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1038 | Jase Grapples with a Traumatic Memory of Granny’s Chickens & Tim Tebow Teaches Him a Lesson
I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life, but I understood how significantly nutrition, I guess, impacted my own sport performance. So I decided I wanted to help other people so that they didn't have to have this chronic fight against their body.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1038 | Jase Grapples with a Traumatic Memory of Granny’s Chickens & Tim Tebow Teaches Him a Lesson
And I believe that there was a way for us to be able to drop weight and be fit and not have to have a constant struggle around it or have to take medications or do crazy things. I knew there was a way to... get our body back to its natural state and to operate the way that it was meant to do. So I went on and earned my PhD in sports nutrition and chronic disease. And I studied energy metabolism.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1038 | Jase Grapples with a Traumatic Memory of Granny’s Chickens & Tim Tebow Teaches Him a Lesson
I think 80% of any change comes from the mind. We have to focus on the mental, emotional, the habits, behaviors. And so I studied that. And then I went, after I finished my PhD, I thought, oh, I'm still not a true expert in the field of weight management. I need to become a registered dietitian. So I went back to school again to become a registered dietitian.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1038 | Jase Grapples with a Traumatic Memory of Granny’s Chickens & Tim Tebow Teaches Him a Lesson
But everything I learned there was so inaccurate. You know, they say, eat less, move more. Well, I did that. Didn't work. And I was disciplined. They said, don't eat red meat and eat six to 11 servings of grains a day. And it just made no sense to me. So I ended up flipping everything upside down that I learned during my dietetic internship. And I did exactly the opposite.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1038 | Jase Grapples with a Traumatic Memory of Granny’s Chickens & Tim Tebow Teaches Him a Lesson
took my research and created the PhD approach. I changed my life. And to date, we've served over 10,000 people. Collectively, we've dropped over 466,000 pounds nationwide. We reversed type 2 diabetes, chronic diseases. And I'm just so grateful for the struggles that I went through.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1038 | Jase Grapples with a Traumatic Memory of Granny’s Chickens & Tim Tebow Teaches Him a Lesson
I was listening to you guys speak before this and talking about our challenges and how they helped to develop us and to the people we are and find our gifts. And I truly believe that my gift is helping people heal and come back to their optimal level of health.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1038 | Jase Grapples with a Traumatic Memory of Granny’s Chickens & Tim Tebow Teaches Him a Lesson
Yes.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1038 | Jase Grapples with a Traumatic Memory of Granny’s Chickens & Tim Tebow Teaches Him a Lesson
Yeah. So basically our belly fat keeps us fat. So what happens in our lives, generally speaking, is we have these triggers and they change the way that we tolerate our food. So for men, often a trigger is like something stressful, like a marriage or a relationship shift or a job change.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1038 | Jase Grapples with a Traumatic Memory of Granny’s Chickens & Tim Tebow Teaches Him a Lesson
Or we work with a lot of like ex-collegiate athletes who are used to working out at a certain level and eating a lot of food. And then they stop that and they're like, oh, my gosh, the weight is just packing on. So we have these changes. And if we continue to eat the way we did before, we then go through this trigger. And now this food starts to accumulate as fat on the body.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1038 | Jase Grapples with a Traumatic Memory of Granny’s Chickens & Tim Tebow Teaches Him a Lesson
And we think, what the heck's going on? I haven't done anything different. I haven't made a shift in my way of eating. It's not making sense. So what happens over time is we start to accumulate this belly fat. That's the visceral fat you were talking about. And this belly fat fills up the organs in our belly area, like our liver, our kidneys, all of them. But let's talk about the liver.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1038 | Jase Grapples with a Traumatic Memory of Granny’s Chickens & Tim Tebow Teaches Him a Lesson
To the point where if we took a slice of your liver, if you're carrying this belly fat, it looks like a Kobe beefsteak. the marbling and that thick white stuff around it. And over time, it grows its own blood vessels. It gets its own oxygen supply and starts to secrete its own hormones. And all it wants to do is get fatter as fast as possible. So your belly fat acts like a tumor almost.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1038 | Jase Grapples with a Traumatic Memory of Granny’s Chickens & Tim Tebow Teaches Him a Lesson
And all it wants to do is grow and get bigger. So it makes you have cravings and urges and
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1038 | Jase Grapples with a Traumatic Memory of Granny’s Chickens & Tim Tebow Teaches Him a Lesson
slows your metabolism and it and it makes you lazy because the last thing this thing wants to do is have you get up off the couch and go expend a ton of calories so jace you're in a total different metabolic situation than al than zach so like you can eat more than they can he's he's made that abundantly well it sounds like to me that i'm not stressed i'm just i just don't get stressed out you know wow it's yeah i haven't been stressed in probably 30 years
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1038 | Jase Grapples with a Traumatic Memory of Granny’s Chickens & Tim Tebow Teaches Him a Lesson
Yes. Well, so the first thing is we have to figure out where your unique body needs to be to get rid of the belly fat. Because if you only drop or lose a portion of this excess fat weight, it's just a matter of time until it eats its way back up again. It's like shaving the top off of a weed and leaving the root. It's just a matter of time until it comes back.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1038 | Jase Grapples with a Traumatic Memory of Granny’s Chickens & Tim Tebow Teaches Him a Lesson
So that's the first step, figuring out that sweet spot where the metabolism is more fast and efficient. Then we create a customized meal plan for each individual, guiding them on exactly what, when, how much to eat. It's super precise, super simple, and very specific. Most men drop about three to three and a half pounds a week on average.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1038 | Jase Grapples with a Traumatic Memory of Granny’s Chickens & Tim Tebow Teaches Him a Lesson
Most women, about two to two and a half pounds a week following this plan. We provide a lot of the food at no additional cost. If people want to use it, they can. We ship it to you, no cost. It's just there as a tool because I find that when we have all of the meal planning on you right at the beginning, it's overwhelming. I'm all into little baby steps to make something actually feasible.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1038 | Jase Grapples with a Traumatic Memory of Granny’s Chickens & Tim Tebow Teaches Him a Lesson
Breakfast, most of lunch, some of your snacks can come from us, but the dinner meal is your responsibility from the beginning because it's all about becoming self-sufficient. We do it one meal at a time. Practicing dinner and not eating the king cake for dinner. And then we go and we practice lunch and then breakfast.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1038 | Jase Grapples with a Traumatic Memory of Granny’s Chickens & Tim Tebow Teaches Him a Lesson
So by the time someone fully collapses that excess fat weight, they understand what they're eating, why they're doing it. We do a lot of education because I do think it's important to understand why your body's working this way and what's happening and why we're having you eat. Because we do have you eat differently than what you've been told. We don't count calories.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1038 | Jase Grapples with a Traumatic Memory of Granny’s Chickens & Tim Tebow Teaches Him a Lesson
I look at exercise as a good wellness tool, but not a weight loss tool. So we are reframing your mindset about what you thought was right about nutrition and diet because it's completely different. The mindset piece. For a lot of people, weight loss is an addiction recovery process. So we can't just focus on what and when to eat.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1038 | Jase Grapples with a Traumatic Memory of Granny’s Chickens & Tim Tebow Teaches Him a Lesson
We also have to focus on you as a person and why you eat and the thoughts and the habits, all of these things. So every week we have one-on-one coaching to work through this and to tweak your meal plan so you see continued success.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1038 | Jase Grapples with a Traumatic Memory of Granny’s Chickens & Tim Tebow Teaches Him a Lesson
And then once we get the body where it needs to be, we enter into phase two, which is kind of like the lifestyle integration where we integrate everything you've learned. and sustain the success that you've seen.