For my LA brethren and sisteren (and I know Marsha doesn't need this advice), if you are shoveling, do your back a favor and push the snow. Don't shovel it except where you have to. Even the light, fluffy stuff will wear on you after a while, and the wetter, heavy stuff is no joke. Best thing to do is cut a small path first to shovel enough to give yourself a clear pathway and then push everything from there.
For example, I have a rectangular driveway that ends at my garage. I start at one corner and cut a path to the street down one of the long sides. Next, I come back up and clear enough from in front of my garage to get to bare concrete. I then start at the intersection of the bare spots and go side to side with the shovel width about 1/4 to 1/2 way into the shovel. Push from there with the shovel slightly tilted toward the snow and you'll pick up enough snow to fill the shovel. You'll figure out pretty quickly how far to start the shovel to wind up with it full enough. Rinse and repeat. So much easier than trying to fill the shovel and throw it.
Side note, when you get to the edges after pushing, you may have to lift it a bit to get it all off the driveway. No big deal - just break it down into a couple of shovels and you'll be good. Just don't try to throw it.