Support System ; Thanks to a Two-Year Pilot Project, Employees in Four Maine School Districts Are Being Coached to Better Health and Fitness, with the Emphasis On Empathy and Encouragement, Not Hollering and Shaming.

Portland Press Herald › April 22, 2009

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Michael Estes has tried losing weight before, but nothing has ever seemed to work.

He's not into organized programs like Weight Watchers, and it's tough to do it on his own. His hours as a teacher and principal at West Harpswell Elementary School are long. Winters are hard because he can't get outside to exercise. He could join a gym, but he knows he wouldn't feel the least bit guilty about missing a workout.

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Support System ; Thanks to a Two-Year Pilot Project, Employees in Four Maine School Districts Are Being Coached to Better Health and Fitness, with the Emphasis On Empathy and Encouragement, Not Hollering and Shaming.

"I swear I was a thermometer in my last life," Estes said. "I go up and down. My job is so demanding of me that I don't have a lot of energy at the end of the day to go and exercise - and lack of exercise, of course, makes weight gain come on, and when I'm under a lot of pressure, I eat. So it's a...

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