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Why Wellspring

Welcome to beautiful, sunny Wellspring Camp La Jolla, the most effective, most fun weight loss program in California.  If you’re looking for a fun-in-the-sun summer at the beach, Wellspring Camp La Jolla is the place for you.

If you’re looking for a fun-in-the-sun summer at the beach, Wellspring California is the place for you.

Why Wellspring instead of another weight loss camp?

Wellspring Camp La Jolla is NOT a traditional weight loss camp or “fat camp.” Rather, all Wellspring Camps are among the most fun, most effective and most popular summer programs for weight loss. Wellspring Campers have a fantastic time, enjoying exciting activities, losing weight, and improving confidence and self-esteem in an emotionally-safe environment.

Unlike traditional weight loss camps or fat camps, Wellspring Camps continue to WORK when campers go home.  Traditional weight loss camps, or fat camps, focus on restricting food and forcing exercise—a practice that works for short-term weight loss, but most often leads to weight gain quickly once the camper returns home.

There are many factors that differentiate Wellspring Camps from less effective weight loss camps—superior facilities, food that campers love, expert staff, a scientifically-proven program based on decades of weight loss research, and a camp experience that leads to long-term behavioral change. When a child, teen or adult is in a controlled environment for a period of weeks or months, short-term weight loss is the easy part. Without true behavioral change, the weight will come right back.

This is why Wellspring Camp La Jolla organizes its program around changing behavior over the long-term. Sports, activities and diet are all part of an overall clinical design to teach new behaviors and habits. Cognitive-behavioral therapy is a core element of the Life Coaching program. And because it is unlikely that a person’s behavior can change completely over the course of a summer, Wellspring provides an after-camp Continuing Care program, checking in with campers and their families. We also invite families to attend a two-day Family Workshop as part of the camp experience so that they can be better prepared to help their child upon the return home.  Indeed, many parents see significant weight loss and health improvements themselves following their Wellspring experience.

Every aspect of the Wellspring Plan is designed for campers to gain the skills and strength they need to continue to lose weight at the end of camp.  We teach them how to read nutrition labels correctly; how to avoid temptation; how to order in restaurants and also how to make exercise a fun and positive experience.