Running For Weight Loss

Wyoming inmate weight loss program wins national award

CHEYENNE — For John Bates, the big incentive to lose weight was his high blood pressure.

Bates, 67, is an inmate at the Wyoming Honor Conservation Camp. He has dropped 12 pounds since March and 9 inches around his hips, waist and chest.

At 5-foot-8, he once weighed 232 pounds.

His blood pressure is now normal. His goal is to get down to 180 pounds and off his high blood pressure medicine.

“I’m 67 years old. I’d like to outlive my father who lived until 93,” Bates said Friday in a phone interview.

Bates is a member of the conservation program in the prison camp weight loss simply called "The Group".

The easy weight loss program from Newcastle recently won an award from the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC).

The award is presented annually to one facility selected from 500 jails, prisons and juvenile detention and confinement facilities. Camp Wyoming Honor Conservation will receive the award Oct. 17 in Baltimore at the conference NCCHC.

Wyoming volunteer program offers information on nutrition and diet, and support.

Bates attends class, does an intense workout and walks 2 1 / 2 miles a day.

The diet is a challenge.

"I am the baker of the camp. I bake all the breads. I stopped eating all the bread, "said Bates.

Its diet consists mainly of new nonprocessed foods, vegetables and fruits and nuts.

He said continuing to work as camp cook is hard.

"The smell is overwhelming sometimes," said Bates.

He has arthritis, he says, and hates to start exercising, but once he does, he feels better.

Schwabauer Lucas, 31, weighed 283 pounds at 6 feet 1 inch when he started the program in January.

He has since lost 22 pounds and has more self-confidence and energy.

Schwabauer said the weekly health class helps him and the others understand nutrition and make better choices about what to eat.

Before eating a bag of chips, for example, the class members have learned to find out what’s in the bag of chips, he said.

“That’s one thing I’ve always had trouble with is choosing unhealthy food over healthy food because it tastes better,” Schwabauer said.

He also takes part in the evening high-impact exercise classes. The class uses a DVD set called the “Insanity” program.

The weight-loss program formally started in July 2010 with educational meetings with the inmates, said Tracy Rose, recreational activities specialist.

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