Peers are Problematic

The title of this post should have been Peers CAN BE Problematic. That's what most rational people would say, leaving room for the supposed vast number of us who have wonderfully supportive friends. That may be true. But when it comes to working out, eating right and supplementing, I strongly disagree. There are few of us who have a supportive peer group.

If we did have these types of people on our side, it would be much easier to make it to the club every day, stay on a low fat low carb diet, and keep on a powerful set of supplements. The truth is that we do not. We are continually getting harassed by those closest to us over all of the time that we waste at the club, all of the goodies we refuse to eat on holidays, all of the money on pills we pee away anyway. That's what the bulk of the population believes. And you are nuts for thinking otherwise (for being a Health Nut as they say).

In my book "Think and Grow Fit" I have put these peer type people in the same category as your family and next door neighbors. That's because they all think alike and feel as if their feet are on solid ground for doing so. I have therefore called them the Normal Majority and I have identified them as one of the primary causes for the nation looking as unfit as it does.

They have this clout about them, which comes from years of living presumably. it is a common sense which they dare to call wisdom, as they expect you to fall in line. Not doing so gets you treated badly, snubbed sometimes, always laughed at if you dare to live like a champion. This they feel is something you should have outgrown in high school.

Bucking the system, their system, causes trouble. In its own way that is the same as disturbing the peace. When you do, they will tell you to act your age or in some extreme cases they will suggest that you see a therapist. The justification is that you are presumably going through your second childhood and this, of course will cause trouble for you. None of them can say exactly what kind of trouble, however.

If you have friends like this, as I'm sure you do, you need some different ones, and you need them now. You need ones who want to stay "FitForever" just like you. You need to do everything that you can to keep things right with these new folks. When you do, you simply won't have time for your old (and dumpy) critics.