The Digital Detox Diet theory is by reducing the amount of time you spend with technology you can focus on doing good things for your health. These good things you do for your health can increase your physical, mental/emotional, financial and social health.

By doing good things such as cooking from a new recipe, take a walk around your neighborhood, 10 minutes of easy going yoga, or sit down at dinner and have a conversation with your family. By putting your phone down (or turning off your tv, laptop, etc), you will find that you have loads of time to do good things for your health. These things do not involve surfing the internet (which is the opposite of doing something for your health… more on that later). All of these good things will add up to better overall health.

This approach to health by spending less time with technology is called the Digital Detox Diet.  This diet aims to have the same benefits and more of what someone would call a traditional diet. However, with the Digital Detox Diet, we go beyond just physical benefits but also look into mental/emotional, social and financial benefits (read on in our How We Detox and look for the $ sign for ways detoxing from technology can also save money).

The second Digital Detox Diet theory is keeping track of all your healthy activities.  All the little things you do for your health adds up and increases your health bank. What is your health bank? Your health bank is a hypothetical depository where you deposit all your healthy activities.  The more you deposit the healthier you become.  For example, if you don’t think you have time to go to the health club (or you don’t enjoy going to the gym), why not go for a 20-minute easy walk?  Just think of all the healthy benefits that will add up on your walk.  You will not only burn calories, but you will enjoy taking in the sights and sounds, noticed things you haven’t noticed before, have ideas pop up in your head, and so on.  You don’t have to carve out an hour or two to go to the gym every day. If you have a busy schedule you can find the time to do something for your health by limiting your screen time (lots of time spent looking at a screen has become a habit of so many of us). Also in the idea of the health bank is the idea that once you start accumulating more healthy habits, your health in other areas of life starts to improve and you discover even more healthy habits (snowball effect). Such as if you make that 20 minute walk a habit then you might start cooking a healthy breakfast each day and much more.

The third theory of the Digital Detox Diet, it is not difficult at all! Some people think of a diet as a hard and unpleasant process. The Digital Detox Diet is not a quick fix diet but with so many people addicted to technology that by doing this diet it will decrease the amount of time we spend online and find other easy and enjoyable things to do for our health that will add up over time.

So read on but don’t spend too much time here. Go out and live your life, be present. We will keep in touch and make this a community to share ideas but then to go out and act on those ideas.

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