BOB - Screen Time Manager - Manage Your TV Time

One of the key ideas in YDD is Weight Proofing your life by creating Safe Zones. TV is a five star danger zone because it's so easy just to sit in front of the TV and do nothing except eat. And that's the danger of TV watching. You aren't burning calories and you are eating excess calories at the same time. A deadly combination for you and your family.

So the idea is to create an environment around you in which you have a better chance of succeeding at controlling your weight. To do that you need to limit your (and that of your partner, kids, pets, etc) TV viewing.

One way to limit your TV viewing is a device like BOB: BOB helps parents monitor and manage the time their children spend using in-home media. BOB is an easy to use, small device that sits next to a TV, video-game system or computer.

Set a limit and the TV will automatically turn off. Nobody has to remember to do it. And nobody has to be the bad guy for turning off the TV because BOB did it. And when you aren't waching TV you'll probably Be Less Inactive which will help you burn more calories and control your weight. 

Choosing to install a device like BOB (or somehing similar) now is an example of using your rational mind when you are strongest to a prevent a problem later when you are weakest. When you are watching TV the chances are you won't stop. It's just smart and creative thinking to install a mechanism when you are strongest to stop watching TV when you are at your weakest. This is the core of creating Safe Zones. It's not weakness. It's just realizing how we humans work and then using our strengths to overcome our weaknesses.

If BOB isn't for you then try to come up with another createative strategy for controlling the amount of TV you watch.