Hello! Im posting this looking for advice on staying sober from phone addiction. The longest I’ve had a healthy phone use for was 2 weeks. I consider healthy phone use just using it for texts, weather, checking bank acct, emails, etcetera. I once again fell off and it happened so quickly where all of a sudden I was on my phone every chance I got. It’s led me to be so much more anxious and tired lately.
Any advice on the boundaries and recovery plan that may have worked for you?
In my early days of sobriety I switched to a flip phone. Just calls and old-fashioned SMS texts with the numeric phone keyboard. No media, nothing fancy, just an old school phone. (The phone plan is a lot cheaper too with non-smart-phones.)
It helped me. Over time I learned that my addiction was an internal problem and when I started working on that, the external stuff (including the tech I was using) didn’t worry me any more.
I am not sure exactly which APPS are bsst but I have heard of apps that act as a timer for phone use, and maybe this could be customized to certain apps? I have found deleting apps off my phone that dont serve me to be helpful too 
the phones are a hard one! Best of luck to you xo.
I was just going to mention that thread, Patty!
@Mauvaisminou, check it out. I signed up and so far it’s been great.
Oh gosh I feel like technology and eating disorders are so tough. So many other addictions- chemical and behavior- one can abstain. But technology and food, you HAVE to moderate. The question is, how the heck does one moderate an addiction? I think it comes to holding hard to healthy boundaries. Schedule and keep careful count of the time. Get some support and arm yourself with knowledge and definitely counseling 
Im trying to get rid of instagram and whatsapp addiction. I cant just delete the accounts because I need whatsapp to talk with people and colleagues (sms is not popular in my country) and in instagram I have just precious photos of my family.
So just locked a lot of conversations on whatsapp and let only half dozen REALLY IMPORTANT AND CLOSE people on the main screen.
I deleted the app of instagram and will make my best for not reinstalling it.
Turn off the notifications ages ago. Also I just read a tip here in ST to put the phone in black and white and changed to it. Today is day 1 lets see how it goes
Why not move the photos from Instagram back onto your phone via screenshots? Then back then up via a cloud service and then get rid of Instagram
because it lose resolution when screenshot is took. The definition is not so good if you want to print em later. Also I have backup of many of the pictures but not ALL. and I dont like using clouds Im a bit of old school and do backup on my pc but it takes time, I do it like every 6 months.
forgot to mention that I love taking photos since kid when you took yout film to be revealed on analogic photos. back in 2000 in my work we already had a digital camera. I was one of the first people kn my town to buy a digital camera. maybe thats why also I got more addicted to insta than fb or twitter. anyway I dont need to see that photos every day. want to have that as a time capsule. maybe adding a photo every anniversary or long trip as people kept their paper albums back then
