Research has shown that people who lose weight and keep it off have fewer TV’s in the home. The connection seems to be about making changes in the home. The fewer TV’s the less likely you are to sit down and watch it.
I’ve gone without TV for long periods of time, but I think when I wanted to relax I still sat down and read a book or watched a movie. And even though we only have one TV in the house, we have three or four computers and we can watch TV on all of them if we want to. I wonder if all the advertisements on TV for food gets people off track. I wonder if the real question isn’t how many TV’s you have, but how often you have them on, even if it’s just on in the background.
So how many TV’s do you have? How often do you watch TV? Would you be willing to challenge yourself to go one day, or one week, or one month without TV and see if it positively affected your lifestyle or weight?
Who has time & money for these surveys???? If we sit too long doing anything (knitting, talking, driving, writing, etc.), we don’t burn calories and therefore gain weight. Where’s my million dollars? LOL By the way, we have 3 TV’s which are generally not on during the day. Nah, don’t want to give it up. 🙂