As superintendent, the author works diligently to meet the demands by the West Virginia legislature, catalyzed by the aggressive role of West Virginia's First Lady Gayle Manchin, to fight child obesity. Recently, the state department of education agreed to enter the fight to curb the serious obesity and health problems among the children in the mountainous state. Recognizing the author's own unhealthy eating habits brings new vigor to Grant County School District's pursuit of student health. She then becomes a role model for promoting wellness in her 2,000-student school system in West Virginia.