Football & the Weight-Loss Journey

It's football time again! Two-a-day workouts, sweat, and sun. This year we have a great class of seniors playing for the Friona Chieftains.

These young men come to work every day with a great attitude and provide great leadership for our team.

Our coaching staff is doing great things with the boys, and it's fun to work with them each day.

As I looked at the picture I felt I needed to lock back and see where I was at this time last year. I started my weight loss journey in mid-January 2013. I've lost in the 80 lb area, and the picture below shows a good comparison. Top left is October 2012 (455-460 lbs). Top right is August 2012 (not sure). Bottom is August 2013, not sure of weight. I haven't weighed in about a month, I was getting obsessed with the weight loss and had to chill. I was at 385 in early June 2013, and I'm slimmer now, clothes fit better, etc. Anyway, it's getting better every day. Never give up, never surrender!

EDLD 5301, Week 4 - The Revision

We are charged with blogging about any revisions in our ARP in this week's post. Well, Monday morning at 6:00 AM, I dropped my wife, the district Director of Technology, off at central office where she and all other district administrators took off for a C-Scope conference (WOW, so sad I missed that 8^)...), then I drove to the locker room to set out agility 1's for the first day of two-a-day football practice. Needless to say, this week has been busy! Also, my site supervisor is my campus principal and she was in San Antonio, at the C-Scope gathering. I have talked to a number of fellow teachers about my ARP, and none have suggested changes. One of our assistant coaches is on my team, and he felt that things look great, as did three other team members. 

I appreciate all of the comments that I received on my ARP! The one suggestion that I had for change was implemented: "regular education students" was changed to "students not in any extracurricular activities".  I'm excited for my study, and happy that I have such a great cohort to work with.