Lasting Fitness and Weight Loss Results
Has your child been struggling with weight gain? Most Wellspring Florida campers have tried diets, nutritionists, personal trainers, and other weight loss methods. These may have yielded temporary results, but not the long-term change you were hoping for. Weight gain can happen quickly, and before you know it, clothes aren’t fitting and it’s no longer easy to take part in family activities that used to be fun. More importantly, your child’s mood and confidence start to suffer. Wellspring Florida staff members understand where campers are coming from and are experts on giving them the tools they need to lose weight.
Weight control is a multifaceted challenge and Wellspring Florida weight loss camp provides the best comprehensive approach to put your child on the path to lasting success. Since Wellspring Camps are the only scientifically based summer weight loss programs, they are unlike fat camps, traditional weight loss camps, or other weight management methods.
Wellspring programs are comprehensive and intensive. They are comprehensive because they include diet management, activity management, nutrition and culinary education, training on core self-regulatory behaviors required for successful long-term weight control, and – most important – cognitive behavioral therapy to help change the way campers think about their diet and activity choices. Wellspring Camps are intensive because each of these elements is built into the program each and every day.
Wellspring Florida is Wellspring’s premier campus-based program in the Southeast. Wellspring Florida weight loss camp provides campers with the skills and motivation needed for long-term weight control in a resort-style setting, amidst the Gulf’s balmy breezes. Although there are plenty of other summer camps in Florida and the Southeast, none can offer the transformative and memorable summer experience that Wellspring Florida provides.
In February 2007, the publication Consumers Digest reviewed weight loss camps and profiled Wellspring programs. Consumers Digest concluded that Wellspring Camps are more effective than traditional weight loss programs.
10 Questions to Ask When Choosing a Camp
If you are considering a traditional weight loss camp or fat camp, here are some questions you may want to ask to make sure it is more than just a fat camp::
1. What was last year’s average weekly weight loss at Camp?
2. What are the camp’s long-term results? What percentage of campers maintain or continue weight loss at home?
3. Who designed the weight loss program? What are their credentials? Is the program design scientifically based? Or is it simply a diet camp or fat camp?
4. Is counseling or behavior modification offered? By credentialed therapists?
5. If so, do the therapists work full time at the camp during the summer? Does each camper have an individual therapist assigned to him or her? Do therapists continue to work with campers after campers return home?
6. How are families involved?
7. How many campers return each year? Did they regain weight? Will new campers feel left out because of cliques from prior years?
8. How large is the Camp? Is it a manageable size where the Camp Directorknows each and every camper? Or is it simply a large diet camp or fat camp? Wellspring Florida accommodates only 50 campers each summer so each camper receives the individual attention he or she requires.
9. Can we talk to several families of campers who have maintained or continued weight loss from last summer?
10. Does the camp demonstrate improvements in self-esteem and overall well-being?
