📣 Country artist and songwriter Ash Taylor shares how she went from living in her car in Nashville to quitting alcohol and losing 100 pounds on a meat-heavy keto way of eating. She talks about touring sober, disordered eating, and what changed after she and her husband started keto together.
📋 Ash Taylor grew up in Bakersfield, became homeless at 18, raised her two younger brothers, and sold everything she owned to move to Nashville with no job and no place to live. In this conversation, she walks through the years of fast food, touring stress, and daily drinking that came before keto, and what she noticed once she stopped. Ash is married to Chris DeLisle of Chris Cooking Nashville, a recent Ketobiography guest, so she also tells her side of how they met and how they started this together. She hosts the ASH-PHALT podcast about life on the road, and she is clear that she and Chris are musicians, not medical professionals.
🔑 What You'll Learn
• How Ash went from homelessness at 18 to moving to Nashville with nothing and building a songwriting career
• How alcohol, fast food, and touring stress led her to gain over 100 pounds in about three years
• What changed for her anxiety, brain fog, energy, and cycle after she started keto and quit drinking
• What a meat-heavy keto day looks like and how she handles green rooms, steakhouses, and venue food on tour
• Why she and Chris avoid diet labels and focus on encouraging people where they are
💡 Key Insight
"I think what you eat is so important, but it is not your identity." — Ash Taylor
🌐 Connect with Ash Taylor
Website: https://www.ashtaylor.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ashtaylorcountry
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AshTaylorcountry
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ashtaylorcountry/
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ASH-PHALT podcast: https://linktr.ee/Ashphaltpodcast
⚕️ This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and is not medical advice; always consult a qualified healthcare professional about your own health decisions.
⏳ Chapters
0:47 Introduction
2:02 Childhood, Homelessness, and Faith
4:06 Selling Everything to Move to Nashville
8:50 Disordered Eating and the Standard American Diet
11:53 Touring, Alcohol, and Gaining 100 Pounds
16:07 Meeting Chris Before Keto
22:47 Starting Keto, Quitting Alcohol, and Losing 100 Pounds
28:58 Chris Cooking Nashville and the Cookbook
35:13 What Meat-Heavy Keto Looks Like
37:31 Keto on Tour and Life on the Road
41:18 Food Pantries and Feeding People Well
45:24 Dropping Diet Labels and Building Community
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