Episode 222: How Busy Parents Can Get Healthy & Stay Healthy

My guest this week is Dr. Anthony Balduzzi. 

In this episode, Dr. Anthony and I discuss practical and tangible tips to make health stick. It’s tough raising children, and our health as parents typically gets shoved to the way-side and it’s not serving us or our children. When we feel good, we show up as better parents and humans. With the rates of chronic and physical mental illness issues on a steep rise, one of the ways we start turning those stats around is by taking stock of our own health and how it's impacting not only us, but our families. As a young child, Dr. Anthony lost his hardworking father to cancer, and thus has committed his life’s work to helping busy parents across the world get healthy and stay healthy so they can live vivaciously alongside their children.  He shares many of his strategies to make nutrition simple and sustainable, movement more enjoyable and doable, and how to build and maintain a realistic mindset even when you are in the eye of the storm of the chaos of being a busy parent with an aging body and aging metabolism.

Dr. Anthony Balduzzi is a health and weight loss expert and the founder of the The Fit Father Project and The Fit Mother Project. These are leading health and weight loss programs for busy fathers, 40+ and mothers 35+, which most of you fit in those categories. Dr. Balduzzi holds dual degrees in nutrition and neuroscience, has a doctorate in naturopathic medicine, and is a former national champion bodybuilder.  He has helped 40,000+ families in 100+ countries lose weight and get healthy through his Fit Father and Fit Mother programs.

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Episode Takeaways

Episode Intro … 00:00:30

Introduction to Dr. Anthony Balduzzi … 00:01:35

Focusing on Our Health to Benefit Our Kids … 00:07:50

Health is Intertwined in How We Show Up … 00:12:16

Importance of Adult Modeling to Children … 00:16:18

3 Best Areas to “Invest” in Your Health … 00:19:07

Tips for Sleep for Kids and Parents … 00:22:36

Nutrition, Start with When to Eat, Not What to Eat … 00:26:20

Morning Hydration First! … 00:31:52

What Are Your Healthy Go-To’s? … 00:33:45

Make The Plan Fit Your Life & Situation … 35:51

How to Build a Perfect Plate & Picky Eaters … 00:37:18 

Proactive Vs Reactive, Planning Ahead!… 00:42:42 

Struggling with Health & Skeptical of Change … 00:46:29

Helpful Resources & Episode Wrap Up … 00:48:15

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