Dena, thank you! I agree that all the programs are somewhat similar, but I never heard of Lindora, and that sounds great, too. I love fruit and veggies and can live on salads with a little olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Wendy, you are so right, too, about the importance of heart-healthy eating these days. I'm going to be 50 in March. Since my surgery, if I wanted to wear a bikini, I could (I haven't in well over 10 years). I am also loving the way certain items of clothing are fitting me now because they lay on my body so nicely. I am still wearing elastic waistbands, and I don't know what I"m going to do when I go back to work next month, but hopefully by then some of the numbness I feel now will have started to go away and clothes won't feel as odd. I hope when all is said and done to be a 6 or an 8. I hate that my mom (Ollie/Nini) is smaller than I am. She works out on a regular basis and eats right far more often than I do, but I'm highly movitvated to change my life now that I've gone through what I went through.
Melinda