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Clyde - Haywood Regional Medical Center is sponsoring a Lose Weight-Feel Great program, a 14-week program that will offer encouragement, health-related services and support to help people succeed with their long-term weight loss goals.
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The program is free for HRMC employees and the public. Contestants will compete for weekly prizes and a grand prize at the end of the program for the man and woman with the greatest percentage of weight loss.

"At Haywood Regional, we care about our employees and about the people in our community. We have services available to help people meet their weight loss goals and we realize that some people also need a little extra incentive to keep them on the right track for achieving those goals," said Mike Poore, CEO for Haywood Regional Medical Center.

Every participant of the Lose Weight-Feel Great program will be allowed to lose weight however he or she chooses. Haywood Regional will offer guidance for programs, nutritional advice and information about related services offered by the hospital during the initial weigh-in.

"What we think this program can achieve that other weight-loss programs often can't will be the ancillary services the hospital offers. For example, a person diagnosed with osteoporosis may need a special exercise regiment; or someone with diabetes will need to follow a special diet," said Scotty Setser, director of the Haywood Regional Health & Fitness Center.

"Most of the time, everyone makes fitness a New Years resolution, and by March they start dropping off," Setser said. "We wanted to help people continue their process of being healthy throughout the year."

Weekly male and female winners will be featured in The Mountaineer and Smoky Mountain News newspapers. All contestants will be posted on Haywood Regional Medical Center's Web page, along with the percentage of weight lost each week. Everyone who completes the Lose Weight-Feel Great will be listed in both newspapers at the end of the 14-week program.

Weigh-in and photographs will be done at the Haywood Regional Health & Fitness Center from 4 to 7 p.m. on March 24. The program will begin on April 7. Participants will be weighed weekly between the hours of 4 to 7 p.m. on Tuesdays at Haywood Regional Health & Fitness Center. Participants must be present on March 24 to enroll in the program. Participants must be 18 years old to participate.

Lose Weight-Feel Great is coinciding with Healthy Haywood's Fitness Challenge. Organizers of both events say the two programs will complement, not compete with each other.

"We hope that even after the Fitness Challenge, people will continue with Lose Weight-Feel Great," Setser said.