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Jenny Craig & our Soldiers

Jenny Craig goes Military

It seems like a natural combination , once you think about it. Not all weight can be controled by exercise alone. The proper diet is critical to any maintenance program.

Having consumed M.R.E.’s (meals-ready-to-eat), I can honestly say that they are great, especially when you realize that they are ‘field rations.’ They beat the old style K-ration fruit cake by a mile! However, they are meant as ‘survival’ foods and high in nutritional… and caloric… content. I especially like the buttery pound cake… unfortunately, a mega caloric ‘butt builder’. It’s always fun to see women rave about it until they read and discover the caloric content.

Over time, I have noticed local soldiers enter our local  Jenny Craig  and I understand this is not a unique phenomenon. Kristin tells me that in Hawaii, many soldiers use the Jenny Plan to augment their heavy exercise load in order to ‘make weight’.

Kristin sent a photo of her “Jenny” dinner… noodles and chicken on the left and veggies on the right. yummy

The family that Jenny Craig’s together…

Roger Freberg

 

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Web cams are a peek into their world

keeping an eye on Cape Town, South Africa

One of the most interesting phenomenon of our modern world is the proliferation of web cams in many of the cities in the world. I seem to remember seeing hundreds in London alone. For fathers, having a web cam in a city in which one of your adult offspring is living makes the distance feel closer. Obviously, it tells you so much more than a picture… the weather, the crowds or lack of people are all there to view in real time.

It is for this reason that I have  web cams of Cape town, South Africa  (the pictures above are of Table Moutain and a beach in Cape town) and  Hawaii  on  my desktop… oh yes, the girls would not allow radio controlled collars or subcutaneous transponders… for some reason?

Cape town looks very beautiful today.

 Roger Freberg

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Jenny Craig is Working!

Here are things that weigh 70 lbs! This is what I have lost!

Well, the weigh in today was extra special for several reasons. First I have now lost over 70 lbs and secondly, I dropped to 250 lbs. even for the first time.. well… let’s just say, in a very long time.

Pictured above are a few things that weigh what I have lost: a large mackerel , a female mule deer, a pair of wrestlers in the 70 lb. weight class, a large sea bass and a horse shoe anvil! Of course on me, the weight wasn’t as appealing.

I still have a ways to go until  feel like I have made as much progress as I needed to… and the real pain is that Laura lost a lot more than I did this week… but as we guys all know… it is easier for women to lose weight.

Roger Freberg

 

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Names for Your Baby

Powerful names for accomplished young women

Well, if you’re going to have a boy, you might like to stay away from some of them down home names like… Sue, Sherrill or Pearl. I knew a Sherrill once and he had lots of trouble. Here’s a true story:

(Phone Rings)

Sherrill: “Hello”
Caller: “May I talk to Sherrill LaPorte?”
Sherrill: “Go ahead”
Caller: “er, I mean, the lady of the house, Sherrill LaPorte?”
Sherrill: “got ’em,  what do you want?”
Caller: “Sorry, Ma’am, you have such a … nice… low voice.”

(CLICK – expletives deleted)

However, for girls, a slightly masculine name or ‘handle’ works out just fine. I never thought that General “Muffy” was a good idea. In choosing a name for your daughter… it really does make a difference and it really does matter… so says this latest study.

In  “Baby Name report card”,  Dr. Albert Mahrabian  says:

“…Names like Katherine, James or Alexander, convey images of success to these names; in contrast, names like Fifi, Didi, Brandy or Trixie evoke images of a hat check girl or a cocktail waitress.”

Laura and I gave our daughters names a lot of thought and here are a few things we agreed:

1) We wanted to give them a reasonable middle name as a ‘back up”

2) One of the names (middle names) should come from a female family member

3) The first name should be warm, positive, strong and should sound nice if preceeded by “General” or “President” or “Mom”.

So, take some time to think about how it would be to grow up with any name….

Roger Freberg

 

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Plant Adoptions are Easy

Who will look after their plants when they are gone? dad!

I do understand when daughters move away to pursue their lives that sometimes things get left behind. So while Karen is in South Africa having a wonderful time, we’re helping her towards her final move to Tennessee (to work on a Ph.D) by getting her stuff in moving condition.   

One item that won’t make it on the move is “Arnold, Jr.” , named after our California Govenor. He — the green plant — will be the only thing staying with us. This is really not a problem. Far too many parents I have met along life’s path have been saddled with unwanted cats, pups, kittens, dogs, fish and an occasional assortment of grandchildren while their offspring go out and ‘find themselves.’ Hmmmm… a plant is a beautiful thing when it comes alone.

Although, I do miss my girls.

Roger