I’m in love with Pirates of the Caribbean
If you’re familiar with the Pirates of the Caribbean series then you know who Captain Jack Sparrow is. You might be confused about my title however, since Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) does not need to lose any weight – far from it!
However after spending hours (hehehe!) watching all 3 movies again and thoroughly loving every minute of it, I thought about how Captain Jack Sparrow would go about losing weight if he needed to. Here’s what I came up with:
- Know What You Want Most – Captain Jack has a compass that will give him the exact direction to take to get whatever it is that he wants most in life – well, whatever he wants at that particular moment. When it comes to weight loss, you’ve got to want it more than you want to use food. Your desire to lose weight and get fit must be greater than your desire to emotionally eat or to drown yourself in sugar addiction. Once you have the desire then you can move on and…
- Get Committed – You can’t argue the fact that Captain Jack Sparrow is committed to his goal whether that’s getting back The Black Pearl, running from that horrible beastie, or selling out other people to get what he wants (hey, he is a pirate after all). Once you know you truly want to lose weight and get fit then you need to commit – to yourself. Commit to yourself that you’re going to do it and then…
- Take Action – If there’s anything that Captain Jack is all about, it’s action. He’s not one to sit around and think about things but instead he figures out what he wants and goes for it – he takes action and gets moving. How does this apply to weight loss? It’s got everything to do with weight loss! (you already knew that 😉 ). You’ll need to take action to buy those whole foods at the store (or grow them) so you can eat clean, action is needed to drink your clean water each day, and action is certainly needed to get moving and get in some exercise. Yes, there is a lot of action involved in weight loss after you get your mind in gear and commit.
Something else that truly inspired me about the Pirates series were the behind the scenes clips. The director of At World’s End
If you haven’t watched the Pirates of the Caribbean series yet then this post won’t make a whole lot of sense to you, but if you have and you love it as much as I do then I hope you enjoyed reading this half as much as I enjoyed writing it!
Also, ‘always keep moving’ like Cap’n Jack. He never stays still for a minute. Even when he’s trying to figure out what action to take, he’s weaving 😉
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hehehe, you’re so right Merry – even though he’s weavin’ he’s still amovin’! LOL, thanks for adding that. 😀
love it! Oh and he is so freakin hot, how could anyone not follow his wisdom?!
Hey you forgot to mention point Nr.3: Be a little crazy and weird, just like Jack.
First I wanted to say that he looks like he is on drugs the entire time, but I thought that was not fitting too well with weight loss, at least the healthy kind.
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“When it comes to weight loss, you’ve got to want it more than you want to use food. Your desire to lose weight and get fit must be greater than your desire to emotionally eat or to drown yourself in sugar addiction.”
Ah, so true. I often wonder if I REALLY want it, or if I just think I SHOULD want it. Because it seems like if I wanted to be fit and healthy, I would be. I think it’s one of those “fake it til you make it” things for me–I need to ACT AS IF I’m totally committed to a healthy lifestyle, and eventually, I will be. Does that make sense?
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But I dontwanna look like Jack Sparrow
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Alexa, LOL, I guess he did look like he’s on drugs….hey, that’s NOT a part of healthy weight loss! 😉 ….I just thought he was a little “off” – luv how Depp played him. 🙂 LOL
Hi Jen, Yes, that makes total sense, I’ve gone through exactly the same thing and am still working through bits of it.
Yeah, I’m not a perfect specimen yet, but I can honestly say that I’m learning about my conflicting interests with the Shrink Yourself program (my emotional eating series).
Hang in there, once you figure out the reasons you want to lose weight and the reasons you don’t want to then you can see if your reasons not to are reasonable or not. And you can always do Shrink Yourself if you don’t come to a conclusion on your own. 🙂
Suzie, you made me laugh so hard when I read your comment, hehehehehehe!!! Yeah, I think he has bad hygiene, too (the character, not Depp) LOL! 😀
Thank you Suzie, love your comment!!
makes ALL KINDS OS SENSE to me 🙂
my husband and I adore this movie and half our conversations are simply quotes 🙂
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Love the analogy. Movies are great too (although I’m partial to the first one.)
Plus, Jack Sparrow is constantly running into “trouble,” he doesn’t have time to eat a lot!
(That and being on a topsy-turvy boat would NOT make me want to eat!) 😉
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ohhh — I love me some Johnny Depp! : ]
I’m a big fan of the movies!
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@M, yep, fun!
@Susan, yeah, if you get sea sick it wouldn’t be easy to eat much! (LOL)
@Jenna, isn’t he great? And in general he’s taken on so many cool, off-beat roles. 🙂