Weight Loss Camp in Lake Tahoe for Ages 11 - 18
Welcome to Wellspring Adventure Lake Tahoe! We’re gearing up for an amazing summer loaded with improved fitness, friendships, and lots of fun. Our camp accepts boys and girls ages 11-18 for a summer of life-changing weight loss in beautiful Lake Tahoe.
Wellspring Adventure Lake Tahoe is located at Sierra Nevada College, a campus surrounded by national forests and just three blocks from the lake. This location allows us to take advantage of all that this world-famous recreation area offers.
Wellspring has helped thousands of children around the world lose weight and keep it off long-term. Through our extensive weight loss studies (which are published yearly in peer-reviewed research journals), we know that 70% of our campers maintain or continue their weight loss back at home. These results are virtually unprecedented among weight loss programs for any age group.
The Wellspring Plan
The weight loss our campers achieve at camp is just the beginning of their journey. We’re dedicated to giving your child practical skills they can use for life. This is the backbone of the Wellspring Plan, a comprehensive and integrated weight loss program that was developed by leading obesity researchers to teach kids how to successfully lose weight.
The Wellspring Plan includes:
Activity Management: Our Lake Tahoe camp is all about adventure-exploring the beautiful setting through activities like hiking, paddle boarding, rock climbing, canoeing, biking and swimming. On campus we keep busy with group sports, traditional camp activities, fitness classes, and personal training. It’s our goal to use camp as an opportunity to teach your child how fun and rewarding physical activity can be.
Diet Management: Kids love the food at Wellspring because it’s delicious, filling and familiar. Meals and snacks at Wellspring Adventure Lake Tahoe will be kid-friendly and easy for your child to incorporate into their eating plan back home. In addition, we teach all campers to cook Wellspring-friendly meals, shop for healthy choices at grocery stores, and order low-fat options at restaurants.
Family Involvement: Families are an important part of a long-term plan for weight loss success. That’s why we include families in our long-term plan as well, so that campers can make a smooth transition from camp to home. We offer free Family Workshops during camp to teach you how the Wellspring plan works. And because we believe so strongly in family involvement, we offer a $300 Family Workshop Award for sending at least one family member.
Behavioral Change: While campers have fun with their friends at camp, the magic of Wellspring happens when your child attends cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) sessions. With a Masters-or Doctorate-level behavior coach working directly with your child in four weekly CBT sessions (2 group and 2 individual), we help campers with goal setting, stress management, and overcoming barriers to weight loss.
Continuing Care: Once camp is finished, we help and support our campers through our comprehensive Continuing Care Program through June 1, 2013. Through online communication with our behavior coaches, campers review lessons in self-monitoring and gain support from the Wellspring community. These tools mean continued success for your child. And to help campers retain the habits learned at camp, we offer a $700 Continuing Care Award for successfully completing 3-months of Continuing Care.
We invite you to explore our site, check out the Wellspring Adventure Lake Tahoe campus, read camper success stories, and find out what a typical day at camp is like.
We are excited to welcome you to Wellspring Adventure Lake Tahoe this summer!
