JoeBailey.ORG » no more tv http://www.joebailey.org Giving the wheel. What do I pass to my family so they don't make the same mistakes I made. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:06:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Breaking the TV habit http://www.joebailey.org/tv/breaking-the-tv-habit/ http://www.joebailey.org/tv/breaking-the-tv-habit/#comments Tue, 06 May 2008 01:20:45 +0000 admin http://www.joebailey.org/tv/breaking-the-tv-habit/ After finding out how much television I was watching (10-15 hours a week), I had to break the habit. Even though I knew it was a bad habit, I would fight it every night. I found myself struggling with the idea of relaxing to tv or working. Working again after a full day just didn’t sound like fun. In addition to watching tv, I picked up the habit of snacking on foods. So, this was a double edged habit. Once I broke the tv habit, the snacking habit disappeared as well. Not sure how much weight I’ll lose because of it.

How did I break the habit? Well, I had to distance myself from the tv. I chose a room in the house without a television and created a mini office. This is day 2 in my “man pit,” and I must say, I’m starting to enjoy it. It’s perfectly quiet and I have nothing else to do in this room but work. So, I found tv abstinence to be the best policy.

Other techniques I’ve heard of, good and bad:
-Put the tv’s away. This I found almost impossible with a family. A lot of push back there.
-Turn the tv’s off and read a book. This was actually actually a lot easier than I thought. Now, the kids like to sit down and read a book.
-Fake that the cable is out. I tried this, it doesn’t go over well with the family. I ended up becoming the roadblock or issue in fixing the tv.

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