{"id":15025,"date":"2012-07-11T11:49:55","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T18:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/?p=15025"},"modified":"2012-07-11T11:49:55","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T18:49:55","slug":"balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/?p=15025","title":{"rendered":"Balance."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/blog\/moneyjar.jpg\" alt=\"exercise jar\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you&#8217;re tired of starting over, stop giving up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I stole this <a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/179651472605850716\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">idea from Pinterest<\/a> to put a dollar in a jar every time you go to the gym as an incentive to work out more. I picked one up from Ikea a week and a half ago, and it&#8217;s still empty! Although now that I think about it, I should really put $5 in it for every hour I was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/?p=15005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hiking that god awful mountain<\/a> last Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>I feel like I&#8217;m always losing the same ten pounds, because I do really well for a good chunk of time (usually around <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/?p=9341\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">8 weeks<\/a> and when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/?p=9341\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$407<\/a> is at stake\u2014I&#8217;m just throwing random numbers out there). But soon after I remember how much I love food and hate exercising. I have yet to find a balance between the two.<\/p>\n<p>A friend once told me, &#8220;I don&#8217;t live to eat. I eat to live.&#8221; At least I think that&#8217;s what he said&#8230; I could barely hear him over the crunching in my mouth as I polished off my carne asada chips! Ha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re tired of starting over, stop giving up. I stole this idea from Pinterest to put a dollar in a jar every time you go to the gym as an incentive to work out more. I picked one up from Ikea a week and a half ago, and it&#8217;s still empty! Although now that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exercise","category-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}