It's been a very successful program. We have had around 250 members go through it and more than half lost 10 to 20 pounds. This pertains to the individuals and if they want to make the changes.

Even though tobacco is an addiction, it is also a habit. We look at things like taking a different route to work and avoiding the stop light where you usually light up a cigarette to help kill the habit.

Muscle weighs more than fat so some people find their clothes are looser even if they haven't lost weight.

Alligators are not endangered in Texas. In looking at the resource concerns, we are not that concerned about them outside the core counties where they are a daily part of life. Alligators in the marginal counties take an extraordinary amount of time and expense for the department.

Someday I'd like to do some real traveling. I'm obsessed with Brazil and I've always had this dream of backpacking through South America.

I did gymnastics when I was growing up and to this day I can still do the splits.