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Body for Life Started

Todd — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:57:18 +0000

Melissa and I have decided to try and get healthy this year. We have participated in the 12 week, “Body for Life” program. We had tremendous success when we did this a few years ago. The plan includes an eating plan, exercise plan and the important, FREE DAY. We lost several pounds and gained muscle mass, toned up and most importantly, became much healthier, slept better, had more energy and had an overall better outlook on life. Here are the basics

You eat six meals a day made up of a protein and carbohydrate
You exercise six times a week
- 3 times on cardio
- 3 times on upper body one week and lower body the next week
You get one “Free” day each week to rest and eat and drink as you please

We loved the program and wonder why we didn’t maintain it, but we did and are now back on the wagon. Part of the program is to take a before and after picture. We are, but not sure if we want to post anything as of yet, we might at the end of it.

Today is day one in the program. We are running today (cardio) and have had an orange protein shake, turkey sandwich on whole wheat pita bread and am looking forward to a protein bar this afternoon, chicken enchilada soup, another protein shake and some snack later tonight. You are never really hungry, that is for sure. Here is the book that contains great recipes. If you wonder what kind of foods you can eat, this is the chart that can help you decide what to stock your pantry with while on the program.

And finally, here is a list of exercises and the book to get you started, good luck and let me know if you decide to give it a try, you won’t be sorry.

It’s A Wonderful Life

Todd — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 15:42:07 +0000

Paul Harvey Christmas Story

Todd — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 15:27:01 +0000

Merry Christmas from The Freese’s

Todd — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 14:33:29 +0000

Merry Christmas,
To all of our dear friends and family who love these cheesy Christmas letters, I have undertaken to write yet one more. Not sure why, but it just seems like the thing to do, like the one time a year I go to the mall, I write one Christmas letter to all, enjoy or gag, your choice.
As usual we have had another busy year. Don’t you wish just once that someone would write one of these letters and say, “Well, this will be a short letter, ‘cause nothing happened, Merry Christmas.” But I cannot write that because stuff happened at our house.
We had the regular school stuff, and kid stuff and work stuff and all kinds of other stuff, but we did have some unique things occur. My sweet little girl, Taylor, graduated from high school this past June. She is attending our local community college and finding the rigor there much more difficult than the rigor in our public schools. She is in the pre-nursing program, A & P is tough, but she is slugging her way through it. Todd Jr. is continuing with his studies at Midland College, not sure what he wants to do, not sure he is either, but he is seeking, as they say.
Trenton Kenneth is a freshman in High School, hard to believe he is that old already, but he is. He is finding High School more difficult than Junior High, but he too is slogging his way through. He did have an unfortunate event this summer. We were having a lock-in at church and he and his older brother forgot a video game they wanted for later in the evening. So I let them go home to get the game and before they were around the corner they were hit by a drunk driver (I knew video games were no good).
Todd’s truck was totaled. He was T-Boned and TK narrowly escaped being seriously injured. The woman driving the car was arrested for having a blood alcohol content of .18, with Meth in her system and two little kids in her car, ages 9 and 6. We received a settlement for the car, but TK had damage to his knee and was forced to miss his freshman football and now basketball seasons. The insurance company has been less than helpful. I never thought I would sue anyone, but I am. Thankfully TK has been in rehab and will be fine, but the damage has already been done.
Since TK can’t play basketball he has decided to get a job at the place of preference for Freese children: Chick-fil-a. His sister is his boss, makes me laugh, he actually HAS to be respectful to his sister, funny if you ask me. Todd Jr. has moved onto Best Buy (which is great for me because I get discounts on electronics at Best Buy and chicken sandwiches at Chick-fil-a, I knew my kids would pay off someday). So far I only have one child who is not gainfully employed: Tori.
I don’t want to hear any excuses that she can’t work, oh sure she may be in Kindergarten, but there has to be something she can do. Until we find what that may be, she is going to school, playing soccer and going to here second favorite place on earth, church (her house is her favorite according to her). She makes me laugh daily. She came home from school the second day of the year and told me her teacher wasn’t very good. I asked why and she said, “Dad, it is the second day of school and she hasn’t even taught me to read yet.” Well she is eager.
Melissa is doing well, she is teaching with me at San Jacinto Junior High and putting up with apathy, indifference, incompetence and poor attitudes, and that is just from the administration. The students are even tougher. Some days we wonder why we teach. She has had a rather difficult year teaching the lowest performing kids. They say they want their “best” teachers teaching the most challenging kids. Sounds like a punishment to me, that is why I choose to be a “bad” teacher so I can teach the GT (gifted and talented) kids. Much easier. They say things like: thank you, please, no sir, yes sir and my favorite: I need to know when my assignment is due so I can finish it, what a novel concept.
Missy went to school again this summer, teaching and writing new math curriculum at Texas State in San Marcos. They love her and she is such a good teacher, it is great for her to get away for two weeks and just do her own thing. We went down in our camper and visited for a few days. We floated the river and just hung out, it was great. No Hong Kong trip for her this year as she did last year.
We both are youth directors at our church and find ourselves very busy with that. We undertook a cool project this year: redoing our youth rooms. Go to www.stpaulsmidlandyouth.com and check out what we have done, it is pretty cool. We have big plans for the upcoming year, but getting our rooms done was fantastic. We are blessed to be part of a great church.
Much of my year was spent at church as well, being the youth leader takes time, but we enjoy it. I also umpired quite a few college baseball games, but I think this was my last year. Time to move on to the things I really enjoy. I plan to work on some stuff I have wanted to do for some time, I will keep you posted. Of course teaching is a full-time job and then some, but this year I have seemed to be even busier than in the past, tough times and tough kids. Enough about me if you need to kill some time, check out my blog, www.toddbfreese.com I have fun with it and if you do visit, please leave a comment.
We hope your Christmas and New Year are filled with the blessing of God and the joy of family. If you get to Midland we would love to see you, stop by for visit or a stay. Until then, be well and be blessed!

With Love,

The Texas’ Freeses

Candlelight Service

Todd — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:54:22 +0000

Come to our Candlelight Service on Saturday, December 24 at 6:00 pm. Check out this video for a preview of why you should attend.

The True Meaning of Christmas

Todd — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:46:22 +0000

The Skit Guys are able to capture why we should give, check it out and comment on the meaning of Christmas to you!

CFS

Todd — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 12:19:50 +0000

Chain of Love

Todd — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 02:44:00 +0000

Clay Walker – The Chain Of Love by Warner-Music

The Bible – Who is an Expert?

Todd — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 22:15:02 +0000

Our kids at church are doing this skit on Sunday, October 30.

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-01-17

Todd — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 03:10:00 +0000

Just completed a 2.83 mi run – Back running after slight injury. http://t.co/yfaUtUWV #RunKeeper #
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