Posers...

"The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, side-stepping responsibility, and pushing their luck!" - Author Unknown

Was thinking about this on my daily walks. I have noticed that I see people on a semi-regular basis around town walking as well. They have usually started when the weather got nice and will probably stop when the cold weather starts. I coined that as "fair weather fitness", unlike die-hards like myself that are out in all sorts of weather (except thunderstorms, learned my lesson on that one).

I remember a scene in the movie, "SLC Punk!" where Matthew Lillard's character goes on a diatribe about posers:

Stevo: There were quite a few punks in the SLC back in '85, but there were equally as many posers. Posers were kids who would dress and act like punks but they did it for fashion. They were fools! They'd say sh*t like...
Poser: Anarchy in the U.K.!
Stevo: See what I mean? Posers. "Anarchy in the U.K." What the f*ck's that? It was a Sex Pistols thing. That's where they were from, they were British! They were allowed to go on about anarchy in the U.K. but what does that mean to us in Utah, America? That's all you ever hear from these trendy f*cks like [in really bad British accent]
Stevo: "Did you hear the new Smiths album? It's f*ckin' terriff'!" Stupid posers walking around Utah saying "terriff'" with a stupid English twang. [Grabs a poser with Union Jack patch]
Stevo: See what I mean? What's up with the England bullsh*t. Union Jack is a FAG! I used to know this girl who would only have sex with a guy if he had a stupid f*ckin' accent. So these a*sholes... and there are plenty of a*sholes in this general area would get her drunk and then put on some stupid f*ckin' accent and go to her and say
Stevo: [in really bad English accent]
Stevo: "'Ello misstress! You fancy a shag?" And there she'd be, f*ckin knees in the sky. It was sad, it made me sad! Girl had no self respect!

At the end of the movie he reflected on his own life after his friend died of a drug overdose and came to the conclusion that maybe he himself was a poser.

I've been a poser in a lot of situations, pretending to be something I'm not. I've been a skater poser, a card collecting poser, a Magic: The Gathering card playing poser. None of it was in my heart, I rather wore those things as trendy clothing trying to be liked or admired. It wasn't the true me.

Are you a poser in your weight loss journey? Good intentions don't get you very far. You need to be committed and true in your heart that this is what you want to do.

Don't be a "fair weather" exerciser, doing the exercise when it is convenient. Get into a routine and stick with it! Be like the postal service, "rain, snow, sleet, dead of night..."


"To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice." - Confucius


Matty
www.iweighedmorethanjared.com