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my name is gary hyatt i am the chair

person of the department of visual and

performing arts at coppin state

i teach theater

and i teach fundraising for the arts

at coppin state and

it’s quite a quite just a wonderful job

but i want to be healthy to continue

doing what i love

that’s why i’m here

he said that most people think you lose

weight to get healthy

he said that he believed that people

should get healthy to lose weight

and when i heard that i said wow that’s

different

and so

what they did from there is they set up

a plan for me

to address my body type

and it’s been great it’s been wonderful

i feel better

and i sleep better

so and i think my stress levels

are

more manageable now

i did the yo-yo diet thing i kind of

went on this diet and that diet and

and nothing seemed to really

work for me and

i would come off

and the real test was what if i if it

didn’t work out i would come off and

then i would always gain more weight

than i ever lost and it seemed like i

gained it back so quickly

that i said this this something is not

right so

what i loved about this plan is that

it’s a wellness plan and i’m on this

plan

for life this is just what i have to do

to be healthy to do what i love to do

well my other experiences

had been

a diet and medicines and all of these

kind of

get quick get fixed quick

gimmicks and i need something that’s a

i’m well-known i needed a wellness plan

and that’s what this has been for me

is that there are no gimmicks

you you know they’re things that you

know you should stay away from the

things that you can have

and all of the things that they tell me

to eat are the things that are good for

you

i was skeptical but i felt i had nothing

to lose

the real goal is getting healthy it’s

not losing the weight it’s getting

healthy to losing the weight i still

really believe and i now subscribe to

that mantra that that that is

that is what makes this special and

wonderful

the acupressure acupressure treatments

also are wonderful in terms of helping

you navigate your stress levels

for your work day usually i come here

for my appointment

every other week and

they do the acupressure

appointments with me and then i go to

work so it’s it’s it’s a very relaxing

beginning to my day i really appreciate

that

one thing i realized that didn’t realize

that stress had a correlation with

weight

and

so i know that i have to manage it

and that i have to sleep better

and this plan that i’m on is helping me

to do all of those things

so it’s it’s impacted me

i don’t wake up in the morning anymore

feeling tired