Episode 7Nov 17, 2025· 30:02
From Food Coma Family Reunions to Breaking the Generational Curse | Rhonda's 120-Pound Transformation Part 1
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My Coworker Quit After Four Weeks. I Lost 120 Pounds. At 35, Rhonda stared down a future of diabetes, high blood pressure, and disability - the same fate that claimed many of the people in her family. Instead of accepting this genetic sentence, she walked into a 24-hour gym and decided to rewrite her story, losing 120 pounds and five dress sizes while proving that your DNA doesn't have to dictate your destiny.
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00:12
What's up, you guys? Famous Ashley Grant here,
00:14
and welcome to More Movement, Please, a podcast
00:16
where we talk about getting our bodies moving
00:18
and finding joy in the journey. Today, I am so
00:21
excited to bring you the first episode in a special
00:25
three -part series featuring my incredible fitness
00:28
instructor, Rhonda Goode. You guys, this woman
00:31
is fabulous. She's wonderful, she's beautiful,
00:34
and I'm honored to share her story with you.
00:39
In this first episode, we are diving into where
00:41
it all began for Rhonda, that pivotal moment
00:43
in 2011 when she walked into a gym at 35 years
00:47
old and made a decision that would change her
00:49
entire life and ultimately change the lives of
00:52
many other people. We're talking about the family
00:56
health history that scared her into action, the
00:58
generational patterns of diabetes and high blood
01:01
pressure that she was determined to break, and
01:03
how she was able to lose 120 pounds and five
01:08
dress sizes. by showing up for herself day after
01:11
day. Now listen, I'm going to give you all a
01:13
fair warning. Rhonda doesn't sugarcoat anything.
01:18
She's going to tell you exactly what it took,
01:20
including the hard truths about food addiction,
01:23
family dynamics, and why your Mountain Dew habit
01:25
might need to go. And yes, we're definitely getting
01:29
into her very specific salad requirements. Because,
01:32
apparently, not all lettuce is created equal.
01:35
So this is part one of three. Buckle up. And
01:39
let's get into it. I'm just excited that you're
01:40
here and welcome to the show. So we're just going
01:44
to kind of dive right in. You posted March 30th,
01:48
2018 about your gym anniversary. You had joined
01:50
on March 31st, 2011. And I'm curious as to what
01:54
was happening in your life at that time at 35
01:57
years old that made you join the gym. I was still
02:01
at a desk job and I felt horrible. I had come
02:05
out of working. probably 70 hours a week and
02:09
was slowing down. And so I had more time available
02:13
and thought, I really need to do something about
02:16
this before it gets out of control. Because I
02:19
watched my family and my mother and I thought,
02:22
and of course, a coworker is who talked me into
02:26
joining the gym. And she lasted about four weeks
02:30
before she left me. And I looked around and thought,
02:34
you know, I don't. notice anything physically
02:37
different yet, but mentally I feel better. I
02:42
feel better if I'm here. And so I just kept going.
02:46
And then when I wasn't sleeping in the middle
02:48
of the night, I was at a 24 hour gym at that
02:50
point. So at 2 AM, I'd still go back and I'd
02:53
walk on the treadmill and I just kept going.
02:57
And I thought, I'm going to do this. I'm going
03:00
to change the trajectory of my life. I'm going
03:03
to do this for nobody but me. whether there's
03:06
anyone next to me or not, I'm going to do this.
03:08
So a coworker talked you into it, but then you
03:11
kind of just fell in love with it. Well, I was
03:13
really determined not to be my mother. Okay.
03:16
And I tell everyone that there has to be a driving
03:19
force and it's usually not going to be necessarily
03:23
your partner or your best friend. It's usually
03:27
within you. And there has to be something that
03:29
says that. Whether you feel like self -esteem
03:33
and worth is worth it or not, that I'm going
03:36
to probably be here. And if I'm going to be here,
03:39
what condition am I going to be in? Yeah. And
03:45
another thing that you said led you to it was
03:47
the genetics factor. In multiple posts, you talked
03:50
about having really bad genes on both sides,
03:52
being headed in the same direction as your family.
03:54
Can you paint a picture for the listeners as
03:56
to what you were seeing in your family's health
03:58
that scared you? And how did you break that generational
04:00
curse? All of my mom's generation, not her parents,
04:07
but her generation and all of her cousins were
04:09
diabetic and high blood pressure. They were diagnosed
04:15
in probably their 30s, 40s with high blood pressure
04:20
first. Then came diabetes. And diabetes, of course,
04:24
is very common. And when people are diagnosed
04:27
with it, it's often looked as if it's not a big
04:29
deal because you're given plenty of medication
04:32
to manage it. And, you know, it's rare that people
04:35
have doctors that talk to them about. how to
04:38
address it without medication because everything
04:41
is handed to you in pill form first. And as long
04:44
as it's managed that way and you're supposed
04:47
to kind of watch your diet a little, it's good.
04:50
And then starts the insulin slide where all of
04:54
the oral meds aren't going to control it because
04:57
you also aren't addressing your diet or your
04:59
weight or anything else. So now you're moving
05:01
to needles. And then you're moving to needles
05:04
multiple times per day and then you're increasing
05:07
your dosage. And I mean, this was early on, you
05:10
know, for her in her 50s, but watching all of
05:14
them. And then I, too, was guilty because I would
05:17
go to family reunions and there were no family
05:21
reunions on my mother's side until after my grandmother
05:23
died, which I thought was kind of interesting.
05:25
It was almost like they looked and thought, oh,
05:28
people just die because it was sudden. And I
05:31
thought we should probably get together. And
05:33
so you would watch them, all of them, just pile
05:39
a plate as high as they could pile it. And it
05:42
was almost like a competition between the men,
05:44
especially sons and their fathers. And I would
05:50
watch them just go back and go back. And you
05:54
would be guilty of it too. Not that you were
05:56
competing, but it was just the environment you
05:58
were in. And so the photo that I post, kind of
06:03
here and there on social media of me is not just
06:07
a picture of me, like when I was bigger, but
06:10
is a picture at the reunion with my mother. And
06:13
we both look like we are just in a food coma
06:17
because we are, I mean, our eyes are like, we
06:20
look like we're on drugs. And, you know, and
06:23
when I look back at that picture, I mean, it
06:26
was like, wow. I mean, that's That's something.
06:30
I mean, I looked like I was drugged out. And
06:34
I'm sure that I had just consumed all that food.
06:37
And it was an after photo. And I was huge, you
06:41
know. And I was not that old, probably, let's
06:46
see, probably 23 at that point. And so. I mean,
06:53
I started gaining weight as soon as I got married,
06:55
which is very typical because of lifestyle changes
06:58
and lots of females go on birth control and that
07:01
doesn't help. And I did all of that too. So it
07:04
wasn't just that I also had a desk job, but just
07:07
looking at that. And then my father's side, same
07:10
thing, all high blood pressure, all diabetic.
07:14
His mom lost half of a leg to diabetes before
07:17
her ultimate death from cancer. My father died
07:21
from cancer, but had diabetes the entire time.
07:25
And so dying doesn't scare me, as I tell everyone.
07:30
Living like that does, where you just are not
07:35
in control of your life because everything is
07:39
built around all of the medicines you take. You
07:43
feel like garbage all the time. You're not physically
07:45
active and you have no energy. And it just. compounds
07:50
because i don't feel well so i don't feel like
07:53
moving well i'm not going to move because i don't
07:55
feel well and i haven't moved in oh 10 years
07:58
and it's just you know and you just get used
08:01
to it you get comfortable in it but watching
08:03
all of them was i'm an only child with no children
08:08
by choice and so for me i was like there's no
08:12
one to take care of me yeah and so i really need
08:15
to do something about this before it's too late
08:18
because it can get too late yeah Yeah. It is
08:21
interesting that you said that you look like
08:22
you were drugged out because, you know, they've
08:25
done studies and they've shown that sugar is
08:27
has the same things, some of the same effects
08:29
as cocaine. And yeah, that's it is a drug. It
08:35
is a drug. Yeah. Well, back in 2020, you said
08:37
that you were down 120 pounds and five dress
08:40
sizes. And you shared a photo from when you were
08:44
25, gaining weight every year with that best
08:46
job, working 10 hours a day. Walk us through
08:48
the transformation of what it was like to start
08:51
making those physical changes, not just physical
08:53
ones, but who you became as a person through
08:55
the process. You know, at first when you start,
08:59
well, I think for most people, I mean, and everyone
09:01
will tell you that physical activity is the easy
09:05
thing to start and do. And it is. I mean. You
09:08
have to start, though. But once you make it a
09:11
habit, that's easy. Addressing your diet and
09:14
other things, it's not easy. I mean, most of
09:18
us want things that are quick and simple. And
09:21
I always cooked, but I cooked simple meals and
09:24
still do. So it wasn't that I was necessarily
09:28
eating out a lot, but I ate out more. I mean,
09:32
when I would go to McDonald's at my biggest.
09:35
And I was with my mother who would encourage
09:37
me to get more food because, honey, you're going
09:40
to be hungry if you don't. So I would get two
09:43
double cheeseburgers and a large fry and a soda
09:48
and consume all of it. And my mother would sit
09:52
there and look at me after she'd also eaten an
09:54
enormous amount of food and say, do we need to
09:57
go back through the drive -thru and get more?
10:00
I mean, it was just constant encouragement of.
10:04
You know, and I don't know if because my my parents
10:08
didn't live through the depression. So it wasn't
10:09
that it was just this mindset that they had.
10:14
So you kind of have to unlearn that, that, OK,
10:19
I may still eat some bad things, but I also know
10:22
that I should probably stop at a certain point
10:24
instead of just not stopping as I'm eating, you
10:28
know, because people don't really understand
10:30
for the most part when they're actually hungry.
10:34
Because it's, well, I eat at this time of day
10:36
every day, or I eat this much every time I eat,
10:39
or I always, I don't like leftovers or I don't
10:42
want to throw food out or whatever it is. And
10:45
so they just keep going back. So you got to have
10:47
to unlearn that too. And I think that's the first
10:52
step from normal people that aren't going to
10:55
get on these fad trains of doing all kinds of
10:58
crazy things is that when am I actually hungry?
11:02
So am I going to slow down and eating? Because
11:04
that's the other thing, too. People eating while
11:06
they're driving, people eating while they're
11:08
working at the desk, people eating all the time
11:10
because they don't realize it. Or while they're
11:12
watching TV. Or watching TV or whatever. Everything's
11:14
mindless, you know. So it's stopping and saying,
11:18
oh, I'm full. Yeah. I don't need any more, whether
11:22
that's potato chips or whatever. I mean, I'm
11:24
full. And then as you change your diet, I mean,
11:27
I stopped eating fast food completely. I didn't
11:30
give up soda for. probably the first year, just
11:33
because it was like, well, I'm definitely not
11:36
seeing the results I would like to see. And I
11:38
was a Mountain Dew drinker, which is common in
11:41
this state anyway. And, you know, I mean, as
11:46
far as like how many I consume today, I don't
11:48
know, but probably three, four. I've never been
11:52
someone who has to have liquid with me all the
11:53
time. So it's not as if I just drink, drink,
11:56
drink, because I didn't do that. I've never done
11:57
that. I don't do it with water. I just, I don't.
11:59
And there's a lot of times I don't drink with
12:01
a meal. Because I don't necessarily feel compelled
12:04
to drink. I drink when I'm thirsty. I drink when
12:06
I'm working out. But it was the small steps like
12:10
that. Because I've never taken any gigantic,
12:13
crazy steps with food. I mean, I still eat, you
12:16
know, carbs and chocolate, as I tell you, every
12:19
day. Now, yesterday, at the end of the day, I
12:22
was like, did I eat chocolate today? And sometimes
12:26
I have to think about it. And it's like, oh yes,
12:28
I did. Okay. Well, you've consumed your amount
12:30
that you should have today. So you've had to
12:33
think about it. You must feel like you need some
12:36
more, but you're not going to do that. But now
12:37
we all have bad days, whether that's emotional
12:41
or whatever. And there are some days when I go,
12:44
oh, I'm going to eat it again. Yeah. I don't
12:46
care. I'm going to eat it again. Yeah. You know,
12:48
or I'm going to go to Cold Stone and get the
12:50
biggest thing of ice cream in the chocolate dip
12:53
cone with chocolate, chocolate, chocolate. Because
12:55
I know I work out every day and I'm going to
12:57
eat it, you know, but I don't do that weekly
12:59
even. Yeah. So it's just a it's just a change
13:04
of I'm still going to have treats. I'm still
13:06
going to eat what I want, but I'm probably going
13:08
to manage it better and eat less of it and maybe
13:11
less often. Yeah. But, you know, so it's all
13:14
that that you have to. And then as your mindset
13:17
changes and you physically start seeing changes,
13:20
of course, you became more confident. I mean,
13:22
of course you do. Yeah. That's part of it. And
13:25
then as you become more confident, many times
13:27
the people around you get really threatened.
13:31
And it's very common. And I tell people a lot
13:34
that, you know, do not be surprised when your
13:37
family who isn't willing to do the work. Because
13:40
my mother, up until she died, you're doing too
13:43
much. You're going to burn your body out. You're
13:46
working too hard. You're doing too much. You
13:48
know, and I always used to tell her, well. It's
13:50
going to wear out. So I can either wear it out
13:53
working it out or I can wear it out sitting like
13:55
you're sitting 25 hours a day. Like, I'll take
13:59
this. It is better. It feels better. So, you
14:03
know, so but it's just and it's very interesting
14:06
because most people deal with body dysmorphia
14:08
when you start and you are always going to see
14:12
yourself as the big person. And even now in the
14:16
mirror, when I look at myself, when I see my
14:19
shadow. Like in the sun. I mean, I'll never forget
14:22
the first time I really noticed my shadow in
14:23
the sun. I was like, who is that? Because you
14:28
just don't believe that you're that size. So
14:31
when you go clothes shopping, you go a size or
14:33
two too big. And some people are just more comfortable
14:35
in bigger clothes. I mean, you know, I don't
14:39
necessarily want a tight shirt for a lot of things,
14:42
but there's also just going in a dressing room
14:45
and going, oh, I can wear a medium. Or, oh, a
14:51
small fit. Wow. You know, wow. Because, you know,
14:56
you never really think that you'll get back to
14:57
that. But that's also part of the realization,
15:01
too, is that if you're starting in your 30s or
15:04
your 40s or your 50s, that you're not going to
15:06
have the body you had when you were 18 and 19.
15:09
It's not going to happen. And that's OK, because
15:13
you really don't want to have anything back from
15:15
18 or 19 because you were usually really young
15:17
and stupid. You know, so it's just what can how
15:22
can I be the best version of this age? And what
15:26
does this age look like for me when you look
15:29
around you and see other people that are your
15:32
age and younger and how horribly they live? Yeah,
15:38
they're all like in pain. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So
15:42
you've been adamantly consistent about one thing
15:44
across everything that you've ever posted. No
15:46
pills, no patches, no shakes, no surgery. And
15:49
you even mentioned that watching your mother,
15:51
your outlook became eat less, move more, stay
15:54
away from pharma. So since you're so opposed
15:56
to quick fixes, what do you say to people that
15:59
want the easy way? There's always a side effect.
16:04
Always. May not be soon. You may not notice it
16:09
immediately. But ultimately, there are always
16:12
going to be downfalls from taking the quick route.
16:17
It's going to affect you physically in some way.
16:19
I mean, I have not known one person before Ozempic
16:23
and all the shots. I've not known one person
16:25
that had any kind of weight loss surgery that
16:26
didn't have lifelong side effects from it. Not
16:30
one. And some are severe where they've got to
16:34
go back and have more surgeries. Some is just
16:36
constant stomach problems, constant. You know,
16:40
but I've never known one. And so, you know, all
16:43
the quick fixes and all the, I mean, you remember
16:45
back in the day when it was legal speed, like,
16:48
I forget, it started with a D, but there was
16:51
a diet pill that was on the market for years.
16:53
And then there was FinFin. But all these things
16:56
were pulled after they realized that, oh, this
16:58
is really causing heart attacks in people, you
17:01
know, because it's legal speed. And so, again,
17:04
I mean, if we're trying to get healthy. then
17:09
I mean, if you're, if you're going to just let
17:11
your heart explode, then just let it explode
17:13
from being fat and eating whatever you want.
17:16
I mean, so I, you know, I just, I don't believe
17:19
in pharma at all. So, you know, so I would, I'm
17:23
like, stay far, far away from it. And there are
17:26
always going to be people who say, well, I've
17:28
had no side effect. They're always, and I'm sure
17:29
there probably are. Yeah. There's always a small.
17:33
percentage of you know and lucky them yeah lucky
17:36
them yeah i mean i don't know if you know this
17:38
or not i think i did tell you but i'm not sure
17:40
12 years ago i did try the shots and pills i
17:44
was uh you know doing those Phenermine pills
17:47
and all the crap. And I lost 80 pounds. And then
17:50
I gained it right back the second I stopped.
17:52
Oh, yeah. And I remember getting an EKG and the
17:55
doctor literally saying to me, your heart seems
17:57
like it's going to stop. Like, what is happening?
17:59
What are you doing? And they were like, you should
18:01
not be doing what you're doing. Yeah. But yeah,
18:04
I gained it all back. And it sucked. Yeah. I
18:07
mean, that's the thing with almost all quick
18:09
fixes and all fad dieting, which is why I don't
18:11
prescribe any of it, including keto. I know sugar's
18:14
bad for you. I mean, I know that I'm not stupid,
18:17
but I also think it's unrealistic for the majority
18:21
of the population to say, I'm not going to eat
18:22
sugar. And I understand too, that it's a withdrawal
18:26
thing. Yeah. I mean, if you really stuck to it
18:29
and took it out of your diet for at least a month,
18:32
I'm sure you'd feel much better. I'm sure I'd
18:35
feel much better, but it's just not a bridge
18:37
I'm willing to cross. Not right now. Maybe I
18:39
will someday, but you know, right now it's not
18:43
going to happen. Got to have a chocolate. Got
18:45
to have happy foods. Yeah. Well, let's talk about
18:48
consistency over motivation. You posted motivation
18:51
subsides over time. Discipline is required to
18:53
keep going, keep showing up and working out even
18:56
when you don't feel like it. Those who quit lack
18:58
discipline. That was pretty direct of you. So
19:00
talk to me about the difference between motivation
19:02
and discipline. Well, everyone is motivated when
19:05
you start because you're motivated when anything
19:07
is new, whether that's a new job, exercise, a
19:11
new relationship. Everything's fun when it's
19:13
new. And then everything loses its luster over
19:17
time. So then you have to make a choice. And
19:21
all of my folks will tell you when they drag
19:25
themselves into the gym, they don't feel well.
19:27
They always feel better when they leave. They
19:29
may not feel great. I mean, they may be getting
19:32
sick. They may have had a bad day. They may be
19:35
exhausted, but they still feel better when they
19:37
walk out the door than when they walked in the
19:38
door, period. And that's just the way of worse.
19:42
Yeah. Yeah. But I mean, that's the way it works.
19:44
Well, how do you show up on the days you don't
19:46
feel like it? Well, that just probably comes
19:50
from work ethic more than anything else. I mean,
19:53
I never called into work on my desk job until
19:56
the very end in the last few years when I really,
20:01
really, really hated it. And then I started using
20:03
up some some time because I was like. Oh, boy,
20:07
because I never took vacations or anything else.
20:09
And so I started taking some time off then. But
20:13
I'm a hard worker and I always have been since
20:16
I was 17. I mean, I started working full time
20:19
at 17. So it's just what's in me. And I know
20:24
that regardless of how I feel, I show up because
20:28
they show up and they always show up, period.
20:32
At least a few do. Yeah. Yeah. Get a get a rotating
20:36
revolving door of people. Yeah. Yeah. So, you
20:39
know, and if you don't show consistency, I mean,
20:42
most people are looking for consistency, period,
20:45
in all aspects of their life. And so they know
20:49
they're going to get it with me. They know that
20:52
I'm never going to cancel a class or call a sub.
20:56
And so I'm there. They don't want to come see
20:59
me. That's fine. But they always know I'm going
21:01
to be there. And so. I wouldn't, I don't even
21:04
consider no matter how bad I feel, no matter
21:06
how tired I am, I still drive myself in. Yeah.
21:08
I remember even the day after your mom passed
21:10
you or you were there and I was shocked that
21:12
you showed up. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you're switching
21:17
gears. You say the scale is a liar. You said
21:20
you always tell people to measure when you start
21:22
and the scale moves very slowly and will disappoint
21:25
you every time. So if not the scale, what should
21:28
people be tracking? Definitely measurements and
21:31
then how their clothes fit. Obviously, everyone
21:34
has their favorite pants or their favorite shirts
21:38
or whatever the case may be. So as you start
21:42
working out and your body changes, you'll notice
21:45
that not only do you lose inches, but your body
21:48
just shifts. Things just shift. That's just how
21:50
it goes. And then for a very long time, like
21:54
every six months, I would notice shifting because
21:57
it was like. Hmm. I can't point it out, but this
22:02
shirt fits different than it did, you know? And
22:04
so it's definitely not. And people talk about
22:07
non -scale victories all the time. And, and those
22:09
are definitely something to take note of. I mean,
22:12
if you can't climb a flight of stairs without
22:15
losing your breath and then you can clearly that's
22:18
a victory. But when it comes to you and looking
22:22
at your body every day, because none of us are
22:25
happy with what we see. I mean, that's just human
22:26
nature. um, you know, you have to, you have to
22:30
really track like measurements and how things
22:33
fit that you have been wearing for the last two
22:36
years. You know, every time you grab that pair
22:38
of pants and then they start getting too loose
22:41
or the butt sagging or they're falling off. And
22:42
then it's like, Oh, so something really is happening.
22:45
Yeah. Well, it's like, even today I'm wearing
22:47
a shirt that I haven't been able to wear in 10
22:49
years. Yeah. There you go. Um, and I remember
22:52
one of the posts that you did, there was a picture
22:54
that you had posted and you said that, uh, When
22:57
you were filling out your retirement paperwork,
22:59
you were wearing an extra large and the shirt
23:01
you were wearing that day was like a small, I
23:02
think it was. And I was just like, yeah, that's
23:04
what I want. Yeah. So you've repeatedly said
23:08
eat chocolate and carbs every day that you do
23:10
that. But you also said I do not endorse no carbs
23:14
and no happy foods. But how do you balance what
23:16
you're eating and enjoy it while you're still
23:19
seeing results? Like what's your approach to
23:20
food that doesn't feel like deprivation? Um,
23:24
I try to manage things. So, um, I mean, I still
23:27
am. Pasta is my favorite thing in the world.
23:29
I could live on pasta. Uh, and so I used to,
23:33
what I used to do is, um, and I would always
23:35
justify it is I would get those nor, uh, little
23:39
bags of pasta. Yeah. 600 calories. Okay. So I
23:45
would eat that for lunch and be like, this is
23:47
600 calories. Everybody eats 600 calories at
23:51
lunch. I mean, 600 calories. So, you know, I
23:54
would have that for lunch and then I would fix
23:56
dinner and fix meat and vegetable and then more
23:58
rice -a -roni or whatever, you know. And it was
24:03
like, yeah, well, you know, whatever. So now
24:06
if I'm going to have pasta for dinner, which
24:09
I do, not daily, but I mean, I do, you know,
24:14
as my main course kind of thing. I mean, I'll
24:16
throw in some meat and veggies on it with it,
24:18
whatever. But at lunch, I'll have a salad, which
24:22
I have every single day. And yes, I'd never get
24:25
tired of my salads. And I know people think,
24:27
how can you eat the same thing every day? And
24:29
I think that a lot of people say that it's like,
24:32
well, when you're going to fast food restaurants,
24:34
you don't think about the fact that you're eating
24:36
the same crap like a burger from here or a burger
24:39
from there or, you know, or fried chicken. I
24:41
mean, it's really like all the it's all the same.
24:43
Like, you know, so I mean, people don't really
24:46
think about that. So. I stick with my salad every
24:49
single day. It's the same. I may vary what I
24:52
put on it slightly. And no protein. I do not.
24:57
And I don't eat heavy during the day because
24:58
I work out again at night. So my heaviest is
25:01
at night. And I don't eat at, I usually don't
25:06
eat until 8 o 'clock. And no, I don't go to bed
25:07
at 9 or 10. So, I mean, I have that conversation
25:11
with people all the time too. You shouldn't eat
25:12
that late. And I'm like, well, what time do you
25:14
eat dinner and what time do you go to bed? Yeah.
25:16
So to me, it's just like I don't get home until
25:18
after seven. So I eat at eight, but I also don't
25:21
go to bed until twelve or one. Yeah. So it's
25:23
about the same, you know. So I don't really think
25:26
it's detrimental because to me, it's apples and
25:29
apples. Like you're up four hours, you're up
25:31
four hours after you eat dinner, whatever the
25:33
case is. So I just try to manage like if I'm
25:36
going to eat pasta, you know, at night, then
25:39
maybe I'm definitely not going to have a baked
25:42
potato with the salad. that day maybe I'll have
25:45
soup a lot of times these days I'm just eating
25:48
the salad it's all I'm eating in the middle of
25:50
the day and having a protein drink like a muscle
25:54
milk in the morning if I'm really really hungry
25:56
I'll throw a bagel or something into the mornings
25:58
but I'm back on the muscle milk train right now
26:01
so I didn't know this well yeah so I've been
26:04
doing that most mornings and salad and then I
26:06
eat dinner at night and then usually I have the
26:08
chocolate after the salad usually. I always have
26:12
a salad first and it's like, oh, it's time for
26:13
chocolate. Yeah. So what's your go -to fixings
26:16
for the salad? What do you put on it? Has to
26:19
be a spring mix. I prefer a 50 -50 blend. I don't
26:23
mind spinach, but I have to have some colorful
26:25
lettuce. So here I am at the grocery store every
26:28
week and I vary between two stores that I shop
26:31
at all the time, but I get the big plastic bin
26:34
of salad. So here I am looking at it. To see
26:37
if it's colorful enough for me and if it's also
26:39
not wet. Because in the plastic bins, they last
26:43
all week if it's not wet. So this week I couldn't
26:47
find any that was sufficient that I liked. So
26:50
I went with my spring next, but it was too much
26:53
greens. So then I went and bought some artisan
26:56
lettuce and some purples to add to it. So that's
27:00
first. It's got to be colorful. I do not want
27:02
any iceberg lettuce in my salad. I think that's
27:04
just a cardinal sin. There's no nutrients in
27:07
that anyway. So it just tastes like water. Yeah.
27:11
And it's usually wet. I like a dry salad. So
27:15
cherry tomatoes, they got to be cherub or sweet
27:21
tomatoes. I don't like just any tomato. The ruby
27:24
reds, private selection, are the best. Cherub
27:28
tomatoes, cucumbers, sugar snap peas, feta, always
27:35
feta. throw on some croutons they got to be the
27:39
fat ones though like puffy fat they can't be
27:43
those cheap looking square ones that are hard
27:47
they got to be like the texas roadhouse crunchy
27:49
spongy ones so i get those and garlic butter
27:53
throw a few of those on and some ranch but i
27:55
don't drown my salad and dressing like some people
27:58
like i put a good amount but not you know how
28:01
some people are just so anyway So yeah, that's
28:06
it. That's the go -to every time. Wow, you guys,
28:11
I don't know about you, but hearing Rhonda talk
28:13
about looking at that photo of herself and her
28:15
mother in a food coma at a family reunion, it
28:18
just hits different, doesn't it? It really does.
28:22
It really makes you think about every single
28:23
thing you have done and consumed and the lifestyle
28:27
patterns that you're in and the ones you can
28:30
change. In the next episode, things are going
28:34
to get even more real as Rhonda opens up about
28:37
watching her mother's health decline in those
28:38
final years and how that experience shaped not
28:41
just her fitness goals, but her entire philosophy
28:45
about aging and what she wants her future to
28:49
look like. We'll also hear about how she became
28:52
a fitness instructor and built the loyal community
28:54
that shows up for her classes day after day,
28:57
even after a 12 -hour shift. If today's episode
29:03
resonated with you, I would love to hear about
29:05
it. You can find me on social media pretty much
29:07
everywhere at Famous Ashley Grant. And if you
29:09
can't find me at that handle, just search Famous
29:11
Ashley Grant and I'm sure I'll come up. And hey,
29:15
if nothing else, I hope this episode inspired
29:17
you to take a look at your own health history.
29:21
I want you to ask yourself, what trajectory am
29:24
I on? Is it time for things to change? Onwards
29:28
and upwards, my friends. Have you worked out
29:29
today?
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