Dr. Ashley Lucas - CEO of PHD Weight Loss & Nutrition

Dr. Ashley Lucas is the owner, founder and advisory consultant for PHD Weight Loss and Nutrition. She has over 15 years of education in the field of nutrition and metabolism. In her mid 20s, she retired from her professional ballet career. While understanding the importance nutrition played on her own sport performance, she went on to earn her PhD in Sports Nutrition and Chronic Disease from Virginia Tech. Her research throughout her six-year post-graduate doctoral training, focused on energy metabolism and the Female Athlete Triad. She was awarded the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Scholarship and completed her dietetic internship at The Ohio State University. She passed the national examination registering her as a dietitian offering expert food, wellness and nutrition services. Dr. Lucas is a nationally renowned speaker, columnist, and leading expert in the field of weight management and behavior change.

Episode Transcript

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iHeartMedia's CEOs you should know today talkingwith doctor Ashley Lucas of PhD Weight Loss
and Nutrition, and it encompasses severalthings, health, wellbeing and weight loss.
Our whole mission is to help peoplestep up, better their lives and
become self sufficient. That's the ultimategoals. I want people to be able
to travel, live, do whateverthat they want to do, and understand

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what they need to fuel their uniquebody. So what you need to eat
is going to be different than whatI need to eat. And most of
us are given a cookie cutter foundationand we're told that we need to do
everything the same. And that's whyI visit to myphdweightloss dot Com will customize
it specifically for you. And alsothere's a lot more that goes into this
besides just losing the weight and eatinghealthier. We understand that weight loss is

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an addiction recovery process for a lotof people, so we have to break
the ties to the foods you sayyou love that don't love you back.
So it's a lot of mental andemotional work. It's not just the science
of when and what you're eating,so we incorporate both. We have maintenance
support. It's one thing to dropthe weight, but it's a whole nother
thing to keep the weight off forgood. And we're there to support our

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clients doing that as well. Andwith PhD weight loss, you're helping real
people get real results and that hasto be rewarding. One of my leaders
just emailed me last week and thesubject line was forwarded from one of our
clients and it said PhD saved mylife. And I mean every time I
get one of those, just talkingabout it, I get goosebumps. Well,
it's proven success with PhD weight loss. Doctor Ashley Lucas on iHeartMedia's CEOs

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