Formosa Fitness

The answer is simple: don't be ordinary.

I see this a lot -- a fitness guru does something that seems unusual and the peanut gallery snickers behind their hands. Yeah, look at that silly stuff he/she says works. Now ask yourself why the guru gets the results they get and the peanut gallery remains the peanut gallery every year. Who's laughing now?

If you want to be high level at anything, then you MUST stop doing what everyone else is doing. You have to be willing to have friends or family say, "What the hell are you doing?" In fact, if they don't then you're probably not doing things right.

The masses are mediocre and tend to act like crabs in a barrel. Try to crawl out and they pull you back down.

If everyone around you is extremely overweight and you really try to lose your weight, expect a backlash. You'll be told, "Who do you think you are? Do you think you're better than everyone else?" Your answer should be, "You bet I do. And I'm going to prove." Then do it.

I don't much care for being elite, so don't misunderstand. I'm not a world champion at anything, but I can make a pretty mean tub of popcorn. But I also feel exactly ZERO inclination to do what others around me are doing. In fact, a pretty good formula for success is to look around at what everyone else is doing (notice how seldom they get results?) and do the EXACT OPPOSITE.

It's harsh and it's cruel and it's not politically correct. So what? But the fact of the matter is that successful people are willing to do the things unsuccessful people are not. The sooner you realize that this applies to fitness and dieting as much as anything else in life, the sooner you'll start making progress.

I'll step down from the podium now. :)