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Why Choose Wellspring Over Another Weight Loss Program?

Wellspring Camps are not diet camps, fat camps or even traditional weight loss camps.  Wellspring Camps are simply among the most effective, successful summer programs for weight loss in America, or anywhere in the world.

If you’re like most families, you may wonder why you should send your child to camp for help with weight issues.  Ask yourself the following questions:

• Has your child tried to lose weight in the past?
• What methods have been tried? Diets? Joining a gym?  A teen fitness program?  A personal trainer?
• Did your child gain or lose weight last summer?

Most families who send their child to Wellspring have tried many approaches to weight loss but have seen little, if any, success. Scientific research reveals why: most approaches to weight loss are not comprehensive or intense enough to produce long-term results, given the complex biological, environmental and behavioral challenge of overweight and obesity.

Wellspring programs are the most comprehensive and intensive summer programs. 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. After a few weeks at Wellspring, campers really begin to think and feel differently. Families are typically amazed at their child’s physical transformation.

Wellspring Camps are most successful because they are based on decades of scientific research into what really works for rapid weight loss and long-term weight control. Wellspring's Clinical Director and Scientific Advisory Board members include many of the leading researchers.

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If you are considering a traditional weight loss camp in addition to Wellspring, here are some questions you may want to ask:

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 a diet camp or fat camp?

4. Is counseling or behavior modification offered?

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? Do 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 Director knows each and every camper? Or is it simply a large diet camp or fat camp?  Wellspring Wisconsin 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?