Chicken and Broccoli Penne

Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 20 min
Serves: 4-6

1pkg (13.25oz) Mueller's 100% Whole Grain Penne
2 Tbsp salt
1 lb broccoli florets, coarsely chopped
1 lb boneless, skinless chicken breast, cubed
1/4 cup olive oil
5 cloves of chopped garlic or 5 tsp minced garlic
1/2 cup Parmesan cheese
salt & crushed red pepper flakes to taste

Directions:
1) In large pot, bring 6 quarts of water to a boil. Add 2 Tbsp salt to water.
2) Add pasta and broccoli and cook for 9 to 11 minutes. Before draining retain 2 cups of the pasta cooking water.
3) Meanwhile, in a medium skillet, heat olive oil over medium heat and add chicken, garlic, salt and red pepper flakes. Saute until chicken is browned. Remove from heat.
4) In a large bowl, mix together drained pasta and broccoli, pasta cooking water, the browned chicken, and Parmesan cheese. Serve immediately.

Tuna Buns Recipe

This is a plan ahead menu option
Makes 8

2 small (6 oz) cans tuna fish in water
1/4 lb processed cheese, diced
3 hard boiled eggs, diced
1 Tbsp chopped green pepper
2 Tbsp chopped onion
2 Tbsp pickle relish
2 Tbsp chopped stuffed olive, optional
1/2 cup thousand island salad dressing
1 pkg (8 count) potato hamburger buns
Aluminum foil

DIRECTIONS
1- hard boil eggs, cool, then dice
2- sautee onions and green peppers
3- mix all ingredients in a bowl
4- put mix on hamburger buns
5- wrap in aluminum foil
6- bake in moderate over for 15 minutes
Best served after chilled in refrigerator.

Eat whatever? Not happening!!

Progress has been slow. Sometimes frustratingly slow. I'm still losing weight, eating right most of the time, and exercising all the time. Over the course of the last three months I have only spent $50 in gas. How you ask? I bicycle just about EVERYWHERE!

I have lost 38 pounds as of now. Ideally I only have another 20 pounds left to lose!

There's no secret, but believe me its tough saying no to foods I really like. So instead I'll just take a much smaller portion with a bottle if water.

SOMETIMES HUNGER IS REALLY YOUR BODY SAYING YOU ARE DEHYDRATED!!

I'm at the 30lb lost mark.

I can't believe it! Its so exciting! I lost all of what I put on this past year and now I'm losing even more!

For the last eight weeks of school a group of us got together every Wednesday and weighed in and talked about what stuff was good and what stuff was bad, what's working, what isn't, etc. Our Wellness Center at work had been striving to get everyone on the road to good health for a while now. In that group I had lost the most, but I had started my diet before they started their meetings.

Even though I have lost 30lbs I still have another 30 to go to get to my first goal and 15-20 after that to get to where I really want to be.

My other goal is to get my daughter on the losing team.

Look both ways before proceeding

Before letting your vehicle roll over the sidewalk look again to be sure there isn't a pedestrian or bicyclist coming from your right. Too many times I see drivers coming out of gas stations or parking lots or even side streets and they look to the left for oncoming cars but never look to the right at where they are headed and many times nearly hit bicyclists or pedestrians, including myself.

My son was riding his bike to school yesterday and was hit by a car doing exactly that: not paying attention!. Fortunately my son did not have broken bones or major injuries. He has only suffered abrasions and bruises but all of it could have been avoided had the driver been paying attention and turned his head before letting the vehicle roll.

As I had said before welcome to West Palm Beach, the world of IDIOT drivers!
This saddens me so much.

I have included a site for Florida bicycle laws:
http://www.floridabicycle.org/rules/bikelaw.html 

Progress is slow but it's going good.

It took several weeks for my new diet to catch on. I've been tracking what I eat faithfully so I'm starting to figure out what foods I should avoid what foods I need a whole lot less of and foods that I need a lot more of. It's work, but it's work that is having a positive outcome.
I'm also biking to work and back home. That means 5 days out of the week I'm biking a total of 14 miles in the day. I'm working on speeding up, but in the evenings it's kind of hard since I'm upwind and it slows me down.
The combination of diet and exercise has led me to lose,  as of now, 12 pounds. My goal is to lose another 50+ pounds. I want to lose it slow enough that it will STAY OFF.

How to Install and Program Bell Wireless Cyclocomputer with Calorie Counter

As you can see by the pictures I scanned the instruction book. I looked online at http://www.bellbikestuff.com/pdfs/111741WirelessManual.pdf but that manual is for a different cyclocomputer and not very informative. I'm not sure if scanning these pages is a violation of some copyright law or not but I needed a way to remember all the details and not lose the little book.