Weight Loss
Summer Camps for Teens
Whether you are an overweight teen or you are the parent of an overweight teen, there are many ways to help get you or your loved one's weight back into a healthy range. One way would be to go to a camp where there are other teens just like you, looking to make a healthy change in their lives. Summer camps around the United States that are geared towards teaching healthy habits that lead to weight loss.
Wellspring Camps
Wellspring Camps are located around the United States and all run programs scientifically based to help teens lose weight. Not only are the goals of these camps to help teens lose weight, they are also dedicated to improving teen fitness and lifelong healthy habits. They even have classes that teach campers cook healthy meals for themselves. Programs at Wellspring Camps are well-rounded plans that include eating right, exercising and progress tracking.
New Image Camps
New Image Camps focus on weight loss and on the self-esteem of teens who are in their programs. Just like many teen weight-loss camps, New Image creates individual weight loss plans for their campers. They encourage campers to not only lose weight, but to make friends trying to do the same. The camp feels that these relationships will help each individual to more successfully lose weight and keep it off.
Camp LaJolla
Camp LaJolla boasts that it is a wonderful place to take a healthy vacation. This is a place where the word diet is never used; it is all about learning create a healthy lifestyle. Because of this goal, the LaJolla program focuses on individual education. While most teen weight loss programs find themselves set in the piney woods in a true camp-like settings, LaJolla is located just minutes from the beach at the University of California, San Diego. Also, LaJolla has a 2-year follow-up program to ensure that the methods that campers learn while at camp are still a part of their everyday lives, ensuring their lifelong success.
Surrounding Yourself with People Who Make Positive Choices
The main success that all these campers seem to have, no matter what camps they attend, is they all focus on the team experience. Alone, weight loss can be challenging. But, if you surround yourself with others trying to accomplish the same things you are, it seems more successful. If you are trying to meet a goal, such as weight loss, it can be helpful to have people to talk to and to cheer you on as you go. Plus, surrounding yourselves with good role models can only help to encourage your success.
Average Cost of Attendance
Wellspring Camps cost around $5,000 for one week, but to increase your time to four weeks costs just $1,200 more.
Unlike Wellspring Camps, New Image Camps does not offer camping sessions for any less than a two-week period. For two weeks at New Image Camp, the cost will be around $3,000. For a four-week camp, the cost is just a little over $5,000.
At Camp LaJolla, they also do not offer a one-week session. The shortest session is two weeks long and costs a little more than $4,000. Four weeks at LaJolla will costs you a little under $8,000.
Although these health and wellness weight loss camps can be a bit pricey, many testimonials on all of these camp's websites seem to show that the experience is worth the price.
