Thanks, Zonecoach, for your advice. Have switched to almonds, dropped one carb and added one fat, given up fruit after noon, and limited it elsewhere. Will try to increase walking speed, though it's hard to get my heartrate up high enough without stressing the injured foot on which I'm having the surgery in a few weeks (I'm lucky to be able to do any fitness walking on it at all). Will see if I can get heartrate up on exercise bike though I'll have to build some new leg muscles to do it. Because I am relatively fit, my heart rate doesn't rise without my having to do quite a bit. And I will try to get to the weight training, but I anticipate a lot of difficulty fitting it into the schedule. I'm going to do my best because it was one of my goals for the summer. I just got derailed by the foot injury and a back injury.

I feel that HulaHula's thread has been taken over by my concerns. Hula, I'm sorry----if you're still with us. How are you doing? Really didn't mean to drive you away!