{"id":72,"date":"2007-05-21T08:08:20","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T13:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/angel\/blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2007-05-21T08:34:47","modified_gmt":"2007-05-21T13:34:47","slug":"greed-and-patience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Greed and Patience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"photo_h\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/photos\/2007\/05\/bubbles_19May2007.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"photo_h\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/photos\/2007\/05\/bubbles_19May2007_2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"photo_v\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/photos\/2007\/05\/bubbles_19May2007_3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"photo_v\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/photos\/2007\/05\/bubbles_19May2007_4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"photo_h\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/photos\/2007\/05\/bubbles_19May2007_5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"photo_h\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/photos\/2007\/05\/bubbles_19May2007_6.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nLily and Uncle Steve playing with bubbles<br \/>\nat Logan&#8217;s Birthday Party.<br \/>\n(All the pictures were so cute,<br \/>\nI had a hard time picking one.<br \/>\nSo I decided to post the whole sequence.)<br \/>\n19 May 2007<\/p>\n<p>So Matt and I have been going to the gym for a month and a half now.\u00c2\u00a0 Before we started going, we read all the information they gave us about how to work out effectively and what to expect.\u00c2\u00a0 In the Lifetime Fitness book &#8220;LeanSource,&#8221; it says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When starting an exercise program, it is extremely important to have realistic expectations.\u00c2\u00a0 Depending upon your initial fitness level, you should expect the following changes as you continue with your exercise program:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>From 1 to 8 Weeks &#8212; Look to feel better and have more energy.<\/li>\n<li>From 2 t0 6 Months &#8212; Lose size and inches while becoming leaner. Clothes begin to fit more loosely.\u00c2\u00a0 You are gaining muscle and losing fat.<\/li>\n<li>After 6 Months &#8212; Start losing weight quite rapidly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After reading this, my mind had been programmed.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;Okay.\u00c2\u00a0 Expect no physical changes for the first two months.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 It had taken me five years to get into such an unfit shape, so I was just happy that it would take only\u00c2\u00a0a year to get back into decent shape.\u00c2\u00a0 I thought it was going to take longer.\u00c2\u00a0 So the above timeline was already accelerated as far as I was concerned.<\/p>\n<p>But then Matt and I saw physical changes in just a month.\u00c2\u00a0 Nothing that other people would notice, just subtle things like our muscles\u00c2\u00a0were becoming more defined and our clothes were\u00c2\u00a0hanging from our bodies differently.<\/p>\n<p>We also definitely noticed the &#8220;feel better and\u00c2\u00a0have more energy&#8221; part.\u00c2\u00a0 It was so nice to not feel sluggish.\u00c2\u00a0 I have been sluggish for years, and it\u00c2\u00a0has been so pleasant to feel that wash off of me.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At first, I was still patient.\u00c2\u00a0 I enjoyed and appreciated the changes.\u00c2\u00a0 I was happy to see progress.\u00c2\u00a0 But then, as I saw more progress with each passing week, my patience became greed.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;I want more!\u00c2\u00a0 I want more and I want it <em>now<\/em>!\u00c2\u00a0 I want all the weight gone and I want to have all the energy in the world!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I was telling Matt about this shift in my thinking, and I asked him if he thought the same thing happened with\u00c2\u00a0money.\u00c2\u00a0 At first, you want money for reasonable things like a nice house and savings for retirement and the children&#8217;s educations.\u00c2\u00a0 But as more money comes your way, you become greedy, and now you think in your head that it&#8217;s okay to buy a $5000 dress &#8212; something that you never would have considered before.<\/p>\n<p>Greed is a weird thing.\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t consider myself a greedy person, but it came upon me quite naturally.\u00c2\u00a0 I became greedy simply because I had tasted something really pleasant, and I wanted more and more, and I wanted it immediately.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve calmed my mind down since this realization.\u00c2\u00a0 But whereas it took no effort to become greedy, it did take effort to make myself patient and content in the present again.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be fit in time, and in the meantime, I&#8217;ll enjoy the journey. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lily and Uncle Steve playing with bubbles at Logan&#8217;s Birthday Party. 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So I decided to post the whole sequence.) 19 May 2007 So Matt and I have been going to the gym for a month and a half now.\u00c2\u00a0 Before we started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}