 Here's your fitness tip today. TV is making you fat. Mmm. What do you think about that? New news? Yeah, I don't know. The way you said it was kind of weird. No, seriously though, this has been, and it wasn't, it didn't happen until later, one of the single best pieces of advice that I gave clients that were trying to lose weight without putting them on diet restrictions, right? Without saying, hey, you have to do this or cut these cowards. Just simply saying, here's one rule I want you to live by for the next month and just see what happens is don't eat in front of the television or your phone. Like just, non-distracted eating. And it blew my mind how many people became so much more aware. It's very similar to the advice that before social media became so popular. So that the advice we used to give where I tell someone just to track, like just becoming aware. Yeah. Automatically makes you start to make better decisions because many times we're so unaware of what we're even doing. And I think today's time we're distracted more than we've ever been. So instead of giving a client these crazy restrictions and saying you can't do this, can't do that, or follow this meal plan, just saying, hey, let's first do this. Let's cut out some of these bad habits that don't allow you to be aware of your body's natural signals that are trying to tell you. Isn't it hilarious that you have to actually visually watch the food go into your mouth and that'll make a massive impact? Yeah. I like to watch it when you read it. I know. Really, when they do studies on this, they find people reduce their calories by 10 to 15% just by not being distracted. Yeah. Just because they're, and what it is, yeah, it's definitely awareness, but really what's the way they explain it is you get signals from hormones that your body releases like ghrelin and, you know, as your stomach stretches, your brain will get signals. But if you're focused on something else, it doesn't register as quickly. And you end up eating, and some of them might think, oh, 10% more calories. What is that? Well, if you eat 400 calories, it's 40 more calories, and you add it up throughout the day. Yeah. And if you always- It's two, 300 calories a day. And if you always eat in front of the TV, which a lot of people- Or in front of your phone. And I'm guilty. By the way, I'm guilty of this. I think I'm driving their car. Advice like this, I think what ends up happening is, you know, I see it in my own behaviors. And I think, okay, I'm a fitness professional. I'm aware of these things. I slip up on this, so my clients have got to. Because they're not thinking about fitness like I'm thinking about it 24-7. And if this gets me caught up, you got to think the average person who's not thinking about fitness all day. It's not their career. This probably happens a lot. Yeah. You want to know what's funny is now I'm thinking back, right? My oldest son was, he wasn't the best eater when he was a kid. And, you know, in my culture, like, that's a bad, that's not good, right? So you got to make sure he eats more. And when they would, when my son would get fed by his- Both either one of his grandmas, what they would do to get him to eat more is they would distract him with television. And then he'd watch the TV and then the spoon would go in front of his mouth and he'd just open it and eat the food. So it was like, and I mean, looking back now, it's clear what was happening is we were, they were, he was being distracted so we could feed him. It's funny that you just said that because what made, like I told the guys today, like, oh, I have the fitness tip. What made me think about this and why this was on my mind was exactly that. I'm guilty of this. So I'm guilty of using the iPad to kind of distract Max to get him to like just sit still and eat. And it's, and I've used that as a tool so many times that so last night Katrina and I were like, oh, the house, we've got a lot of everything done. We're kind of relaxing. Well, we're all going to have dinner together. And, you know, instead of, because what happens right now is we normally feed Max and then Katrina and I have our dinner afterwards by ourselves. And instead we're like, oh, let's have dinner as a family today. And obviously for having dinner as a family, there's no reason to have iPad on the table or anything like that. And so it disrupted that normal pattern that we do with him. And he wasn't having it. And I was like, oh, fuck, look what I did. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Look at, look at I just did is I've allowed us to make that a kind of a ritual for when he's eating so he could sit down there and watch his cartoons and eat his food. And anybody that's done that with their kid, they know that it's like nice because it gets them to settle down and sit still and they're not. Well, so food manufacturers, I don't know whether they did this on purpose or you know, maybe on accident. I don't know, but they started to, because remember TV didn't exist up until, well, widespread up until probably what the 60s and 70s. When do you think TV started becoming kind of commonplace in American homes? Would you say it's probably the 70s and 60s? When did you stop listening to the radio for your entertainment? You got to remember I grew up with no TV. Oh, that's right. So I'm the wrong person to ask. Yeah. But I mean, I think the TV first came out in the 50s, right? It did, but it really didn't become commonplace like 70s. When was it? Because like now the average home has like 2.3 or so. There's more televisions than children in homes, right? That's the average. Maybe you could have looked at it. I'm going to look this up because I don't know the answer. Yeah. But so what happened was TV became, it was this new thing, right? It's like, oh my gosh, you got movies in your house and then there's all this broadcasting, what's going on. And they started to design and create foods. TV dinners. TV dinners became a thing. You remember that, right? They don't really make those. Hungry man and all that kind of stuff. They don't really, go ahead, Doug. And the TV trays. Yeah, so it was only around 9% of Americans owned TVs in the 1950s. But by 1960, that figure had jumped to over 80%. There you go. And so, and then you started? You said by the 80s that we said? No, 1960s. 60s. Yeah, 1960. Yeah, very fast. And then today would be a neat stat to look up is what the average, how many TVs are in the average American home now? Like there's now it's not, it went from very rare for someone to have it to most 80% of Americans have it to now most people have multiple TVs. Okay, do you remember that famous part of Back to the Future? Yeah. When he goes back in time and he's in the 50s or late 50s and he goes, oh yeah, we have two TVs in the house and they're like, get out of here. Nobody's got two TVs. No one's that rich. No one's that rich, right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, the average is 2.5 TVs per household. Yes, that wild. And 31% have four or more. Yeah, so there's foods now that are created around that culture or have been for a long time. So snack foods were big. So think about this. Imagine if this was before TVs were invented, right? And so all meals were pretty much around a table with people. How many snack foods would be consumed if that was the case? You'd get up and leave. You'd be like, I don't want to sit here and eat a bag of chips. I'm done eating. Let me get out of here. But if I'm watching this TV show, it's nice to snack on some or whatever. Was the microwave, did that come out like simultaneously with the television or was that like... 70s. TV did it a little bit later. Because I know that that had a major impact as well in terms of just being able to heat something up relatively quickly and then watch TV. I mean, obviously, we don't remember from experience, but have you guys seen ads? Like, I wonder what the ads look like, Doug, for... A microwave? Yeah, a microwave. I wonder how they pitched it. Nuclear technology or something. I bet they pitched it like supporting the mom. Of course. Yeah, supporting the mom in the house. So she doesn't have to spend, save hours and hours in the kitchen or whatever. So I looked this up a long time ago. There were whole cookbooks when the microwave came out. Around cooking about microwaves. So it was like this whole meal with the microwave and they taught you how to cook a steak in a microwave and obviously it's gross. You don't want to do that. I've had that before. You know that? You had a microwave. So my grandmother, remember when I moved to the Bay Area? Wait, you mean like a raw steak? Yes, potatoes. My grandmother only did the microwave. So what, and TV dinners, she had the little fold-out. So she's that generation that actually watched the evolution of... TV and set in the microwave. So when I moved in with her, she was, by the way, she lived by herself for many, many years. Like she had a very young age. She was divorced and then basically, and she was a two-job, swing shift, crazy work, save all her money, didn't spend anything on herself, lived in this little condo, two-bedroom apartment in San Jose. I moved over here when I originally thought I was going to finish my degree in kines, moved in with her basically just to like focus and buckle down on school. And this is how I fell into training. Well, she, I mean, I ate with her and so, and I didn't know this until I moved in with her and everything was microwaved. And like my grandmother made me like Salisbury steak and fucking the microwave. Like, oh dude, it was so bad, bro, so bad. I had eggs, you know, cooked in there and just like, oh my god. She would do canned vegetables that had been in there for like months, pour it in a bowl, put it in the microwave, that was dinner. Oh yeah, yeah, bro, it was so bad. So you know what's funny? You can look at, you can find... Still like that. You can find... Oh my god, dude. It's pretty bad. Hey, if you enjoyed that clip, you can find the full episode here or you can find other clips over here. And be sure to subscribe.