Let's Chat with Will & Tony
Let's Chat with Will & Tony
SEG 4 of 4 - Jelousy - Final Chapter - Embracing Self-Awareness: Tackling Technology Addiction and Emotional Eating for Stronger Family Bonds
Unlock the power of self-awareness and forge stronger family bonds with us, Will Kesley and Tony Patek, as we tackle the pressing issues of technology overuse and emotional eating. These modern-day vices are more than just bad habits; they're symptomatic of deeper emotional voids and stressors that we all face. With stories from listeners like you, we shed light on the transformative effects of taking control of digital habits – imagine your phone turned off at 6 pm, ushering in an era of engagement and presence with your loved ones. It's not a myth; it's a reality for some of our audience members, and it could be for you too.
In tandem with digital discipline, we explore the pitfalls of emotional eating and how it's not just a matter of willpower, but a complex weave of coping mechanisms. Sharing insights from one of our listeners struggling with overeating, we offer a fresh perspective on the benefits of intermittent fasting. Picture it as 'technology fasting' for your body, a reset button that aids in reclaiming control over impulses and establishing healthier patterns. Stay tuned as we tease an upcoming focus on intermittent fasting with expert guests who are set to revolutionize the way we think about food and health. Join us for a journey to wellness where control and conscious choices lead the way.
Common Sense Advice for Life helping with self-awareness, family and relationships in a complex world. Now here's Will Kesley and Tony Patek. All right, welcome back Segment four. Segment four let's chat with Will and Tony, where we talk about this common things of life, this common sense stuff yeah, things that help you out in your life. Hopefully we can help. So we got a handful of people that wrote us over the last couple of episodes. We talked about technology yeah, the other one and all of them said we talk about that a lot. Yeah, we do, because it's a huge problem. Right, by the way, you want to start a divorce?
Speaker 2:Just be on your phone too much. Yeah, what Became number one your phone If YouTube's number one? Your relationship's on its way to bad state.
Speaker 1:All of us are saying thank you, Will and Tony. It's one in particular. Just thank you so much for saving us. We've been having this debate on and on for years now about how we spend our time on the internet. We are now dialoguing about it openly and we now have some tools to work from. Thank you for telling us to turn the phones off at 6 pm.
Speaker 2:I like it Boom Talk a lot about it.
Speaker 1:Boom, I'm a good person. All our work is justified. We get a handful of those. It's one of the things, Tony, I like to recommend when it comes to getting back control of technology is knowing when to turn it off and you being in control of technology when technology, when you go to your technology because you're lonely, hungry angry, tired all these things about emotions. That's a problem. You're going to the wrong source to get that information.
Speaker 2:You should only be going to your technology if you want to do something specific with it. I like how to change the oil in my Corolla man it's a great place to go. Okay, it's a great place to go. Get on YouTube and find it right.
Speaker 1:So one of the things we're talking about about eating. We got a listener that wrote in and said look, I'm having troubles with eating, I'm eating way too much, I'm gaining a bunch of weight and my family says it's because I'm lazy. How to help me? I want to deal with this in a second. I want to tag this back a little bit to just what we're talking about getting control over things that emotionally control us. The emotional Right.
Speaker 1:And so you look, what happens is I have my cell phone and I use it to emotionally feed. People do the same thing with. We have a pain in life and we solve it through chemicals, we overdose and drugs, and we do. Eating is the same thing. Right, eating is the same thing. It is a pleasure to the body, it's a natural pleasure to the body, and so what we do is we supplement these anxieties with just eating. And so what I would say to her is, in this case, getting some help is super, super important. It's not something we can talk about on the radio show, it's much deeper than that, but it's very common that we often feel voids in our lives by eating and like taking a break, by the way, from like technology, I call it fasting.
Speaker 2:Right, we're seeing great research coming out on intermittent fasting. Intermittent fasting is a huge thing. We should do a whole show one of these days on intermittent fasting tests. You know.
Speaker 1:I've got a couple of doctors I'm going to call and have on the show that would talk about specifically intermittent fasting. It's a big problem. It's something about getting your body also to get in control. Where you don't eat under certain circumstances, I go for a fast for a period of time and then I eat and it helps reset the body. Same thing with technology is if we give ourselves that fast every day and say, look, there's a block of time, I don't do technology, take back that ownership.
Speaker 2:It'll tell your brain that, hey, that's not where I go. I can't go there, right. Exactly it resets the brain Right and I think that's a great advice.
Speaker 1:When we talk about habits and bad habits, they say it takes a good 30 days to stop something before it gets out of being a habit. I have to agree with that, but one of the ways to do that is to take chunks of time, whatever that habit might be, if it's hunting, fishing, golfing, eating.
Speaker 1:TV, eating, eating eating, eating, eating, eating, eating everyday. Take a fast from it. When I say a fast, it just means give yourself a period of time that religiously set in stone. You will not go. I will not touch my phone after 7PM at night unless it's something that's emergency. I will not, whatever the case may be, and make that where you have control and you'll see your body will crave it. Don't give into that. Give yourself a little window of time. The more you do it, the easier you get empowered, to where it never takes you back over again.
Speaker 2:And it's a great way to get to control and it's proven.
Speaker 1:proven, yeah, so just a couple of ideas, but for her that wrote in about. If you're having bulimia issues, if you're just indulging too heavily, bless your heart. You've got some pain in your heart You're trying to solve through the comfort of food and getting yourself some great help would be super, super bright Forward way of you want to be around yeah you got a bright future ahead of you. Just got to get yourself over this hump, and it's not uncommon.
Speaker 2:Alright, good to see you, my friend. Oh, it's been a great show. We'll talk to you next week. Do it again, all right.