Who you stay close to makes all the difference.
If all your friends are big gamblers, eventually you will fancy your luck yourself and give it a go, and sometimes It can get out of control.
If all your friends are big drinkers, then you are likely to spend a lot of your life in the pub, and it will become increasingly unlikely you will have much control of your drinking.
If all your friends are ANTI-exercise, they all rely on an endless array of tablets to feel better and never eat well, they aren’t going to be too happy at you eating healthy, working out regular, and having no health problems, because you will showing them up and they will try their best to put you off going to the gym, they will want to pull you back down to their level.
Moderation is great in most things, and the more healthy friends you have who take action most days to move and workout more, take an interest in eating healthy eating, and the more friends who take action on their mental health, who are positive around you and encourage you, then the better off you will in the short and long term.
These friends are not “boring” either, they may well like a drink occasionally, may like to eat what they want occasionally too but overall they want to live a high quality of life and they know that a healthy lifestyle is the quickest way and most tried and tested way to achieve that.
