WELLSPRING WEIGHT LOSS CAMP california

Wellspring Weight Loss Camp Location & Information

  • Wellspring is the nation’s premier scientifically based fitness and weight loss camp.
  • Located on the campus of University of California, San Diego.
  • Open to boys and girls, ages 10-26.
  • The campus offers an incredible range of activities, beautiful weather, and excellent facilities.
  • If you’re looking for a summer of dramatic weight loss, fun on the beach, incredible adventures, and access to amazing fitness facilities, then Wellspring California is the place for you.
  • Fun trips to southern California’s world famous theme parks, mountain biking and hiking adventures, and on-campus games and activities round out the ultimate camp experience.
  • Professional and highly qualified staff promotes long-term weight control.
  • Airport pickup and drop-off at San Diego International Airport (SAN) on start and end dates.

Fat Camp Experience

Why Wellspring?

  • Nation’s Leading Fitness & Weight Loss Camp
  • Long Term Weight Management Solution
  • Life Changing Experience

Our Process/Method

  • Based On Decades Of Studies From Leading Researchers
  • Scientifically Supported Program & Results
  • Clinical Program Creates Lasting Behavioral Change

Weight Loss Plan

  • Simple, Scientific, & Sustainable
  • Customized For Individual
  • Builds Confidence & Motivation

A Day In The Life

  • Fun Activities & Adventures
  • Healthy & Delicious Food
  • Positive Environment With Supportive Friends

Customize Your Experience

  • Adventure Track
  • Personal Training Track
  • Culinary Track

Success Stories

  • How Wellspring Changes Lives
  • Inspiring Alumni Videos
  • Proud Parents Share Their Experiences

The Summer Of A Lifetime

Dates & Pricing

Wellspring California has camps that last 8 weeks, 6 weeks, and 4 weeks. The best overall value is the 9-Week full summer camp, but we understand that your family might not be able to make a full summer commitment, which is why we offer a variety of options to make sure you get the best possible camp experience and results.

For Ages Ranging 10 – 26
Sessions starting June 25, July 9, and July 23. Ending August 19, 2017.
Sessions run 4, 6, and 8 weeks

Length of Camp

Camp Experience

8 weeks

$13,750

6 weeks

$11,750

4 weeks

$9,000

The Summer Of A Lifetime

Dates & Pricing

Wellspring California has camps that last 8 weeks, 6 weeks, and 4 weeks. The best overall value is the 9-Week full summer camp, but we understand that your family might not be able to make a full summer commitment, which is why we offer a variety of options to make sure you get the best possible camp experience and results.

For Ages Ranging 10 – 26
Sessions starting June 25, July 9, and July 23. Ending August 19, 2017.
Sessions run 4, 6, and 8 weeks

World Class Facilities

Comfortable Rooms On A Beautiful Campus

Wellspring California campers reside in college suite-style rooms which include a private lounge and bathroom. All of our rooms are professionally cleaned on a regularly scheduled basis. Laundry facilities are conveniently located within the building.

Safe and Supervised

Wellspring California is safe and supervised, with dorms occupied only by Wellspring staff and campers. Counselors live in adjacent dorm rooms, within earshot of campers, and a security patrol ensures that our campus remains a completely safe venue where we can focus on having fun, losing weight and creating life-long, enduring change for campers.

Positive Environment and Understanding Peers

Surrounded by peers who understand their weight loss struggle, Wellspring California provides a beautiful and inspiring setting for campers to get a huge boost in confidence, make new friends, improve their health, and truly experience a life changing summer.

Positive Environment and Understanding Peers

Surrounded by peers who understand their weight loss struggle, Wellspring California provides a beautiful and inspiring setting for campers to get a huge boost in confidence, make new friends, improve their health, and truly experience a life changing summer.

World Class Facilities

Comfortable Rooms On A Beautiful Campus

Wellspring California campers reside in college suite-style rooms which include a private lounge and bathroom. All of our rooms are professionally cleaned on a regularly scheduled basis. Laundry facilities are conveniently located within the building.

Safe and Supervised

Wellspring California is safe and supervised, with dorms occupied only by Wellspring staff and campers. Counselors live in adjacent dorm rooms, within earshot of campers, and a security patrol ensures that our campus remains a completely safe venue where we can focus on having fun, losing weight and creating life-long, enduring change for campers.

Positive Environment and Understanding Peers

Surrounded by peers who understand their weight loss struggle, Wellspring California provides a beautiful and inspiring setting for campers to get a huge boost in confidence, make new friends, improve their health, and truly experience a life changing summer.

Positive Environment and Understanding Peers

Surrounded by peers who understand their weight loss struggle, Wellspring California provides a beautiful and inspiring setting for campers to get a huge boost in confidence, make new friends, improve their health, and truly experience a life changing summer.

Meet The Camp Director

Ben Freeman
Wellspring Florida Camp Director

Ben is self-proclaimed guru of summer camp and is very excited to join the Wellspring family. Before joining Wellspring, he supervised several camps with the YMCA and assisted the American Camp Association (ACA) with training summer camp directors and their staff.

He also served as the Athletic Director for a private sports club in NYC where he also started a club volleyball program and coached one of the teams. Ben has been a NASM certified personal trainer and CrossFit coach since 2014. He loves to share his love for fitness, healthy eating and always staying active. You can expect to see him this summer motivating the campers and staff to do their best and supporting them in achieving their goals.

Ben is the oldest of 4 boys and proud to be a native Floridian. When not at camp, he is always looking for new ways to physically challenge himself and hopes to do a race on every continent.

Meet The Director

Campers at Wellspring California will spend lots of time enjoying beach-sand volleyball, boogie boarding, snorkeling, and evening bonfires.

Enjoy special trips to southern California’s world famous theme parks, mountain biking and hiking adventures, and on-campus games and activities round out the ultimate camp experience.

Our food is created to taste a lot like the food you’re probably used to eating so that you can transition easily into a healthy, low sugar high fiber diet.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do we contact our child? Can campers keep their cell phones?

Being at Wellspring Weight loss Camp California means having a break from daily distractions and immersing yourself in a healthy lifestyle. While cell phones are an everyday part of life now, they can also be distracting and decrease participation in activities. For this reason, we do not permit phone use for the first week of camp for under 18 campers. Thereafter, campers are allowed access to their phones for self-monitoring and communication during specific time periods. Over 18 year old campers may have phone access, but we ask it be only during appropriate times as explained during orientation. The longer campers are enrolled and the more progress they make at camp, the more access they will have. If you have an emergency, please call the Weight loss Camp Office and we will reach your child immediately. For privacy reasons, all campers will be asked to refrain from posting photos and other camp details on Facebook without the permission of all campers in their group.

We have two visiting weekends over the summer (which coincide with the end of the Family Workshops). If you are unable to visit, do not worry, as campers will be kept busy having fun with our staff and we find that the lost art of letter writing can be a wonderful way for campers and parents to keep in touch. We also strongly encourage you to attend a Family Workshop during the summer so that you will be able to learn how best to support your camper at home.

What happens if a camper gets sick? What medical facilities are available?

The rooms at UCSD are arranged in suites. Suite setups vary, but most participants will have a single or double room and share a suite bathroom with a few other participants. There will be a member of staff housed in each suite.

Suites are arranged so that campers of the same sex, similar age and similar length of enrollment live together. We carefully read the information you provide and the answers your child gives to the camper questionnaire in the enrollment packet and match up campers of similar interests and backgrounds.

Campers spend very little time in their rooms and very rarely do we have conflicts with roommates and those are always resolved immediately. More often than not camp roommates form close friendships that last long after camp has finished.

What happens if a camper gets sick? What medical facilities are available?

All staff are trained in basic First Aid and CPR with either the American, British or Canadian Red Cross. Senior staff have extensive first aid training and we also have our camp nurses and EMTs. In addition, the campus police at UCSD are trained to deal with emergency first aid and we have access to the local hospital and emergency response units.

Camp staff and nurses deal with all minor first aid issues and non-emergency situations. For anything more serious, campers are transported immediately to the local emergency room or urgent care clinic and parent/guardians are notified.

How do you deal with homesickness?

Homesickness is inevitable at some point at camp and may last 5 minutes or 5 days. It affects old and young alike. We find that keeping the campers happy and busy is the best cure for homesickness and we also ask that parents maintain an upbeat and positive attitude when talking with their child. While no doubt you are missing your child greatly, focusing on the positive aspects of being at camp – making friends, having fun, becoming healthier – helps greatly in enabling your child to readjust to camp life. The ironic thing is that campers are always “campsick” when they return home!

How do you screen and select your staff?

We take a great deal of care when selecting and interviewing our camp staff. All our staff are over 21 years of age and the majority have expertise in nutrition, fitness and health. We always take extensive references from former employers and also screen our staff for criminal activity. We require our staff to have clean driving records and further test them ourselves. All staff complete our mandatory staff training and we do not hesitate to dismiss a member of staff who does not meet our high standards. Our staff are role models to the campers and many return year after year for one of the most rewarding jobs in the world.

What if my child does not want to participate in an activity?

At Wellspring California the campers participate in a wide range of weight loss activities, so it is rare they don’t find something they enjoy. Furthermore, we never ask a camper to do an activity that has not already been done on many occasions by our own staff. Our staff fully participate in everything from basketball to rock climbing and we always adhere to the strictest safety codes. If a camper is scared to try something new, like kayaking or boogie boarding, then we will provide extra support and enable them to participate as much as they can. We rarely have campers refuse to participate because they simply don’t want to. We make sure that we make the activities as fun as possible and work with the campers to ensure that we do more of the activities they like.

How do you track success?

We keep careful track of how the campers are progressing in not just their weight loss, but also their fitness and overall well being. We weigh each camper upon arrival and then each week of camp so they can see their progress and understand the fluctuations. Campers can choose to know their weight or not, but we also have scales around camp for campers to use in private should they wish (in case of private area extra fat for example). We stay in touch throughout your camper’s stay with tips, updates, and suggestions for maintaining momentum after camp.

We also have extensive post-camp studies of our campers’ progress, and we always love to hear from you. In addition, every camper has Continuing Care support from our professional staff throughout the year so that we can continue to track camper success and help with any struggles along the way.

How do I know if my child needs to lose weight?

We understand that BMI calculations are not always perfect, so call one of our Admissions Counselors at 1.866.277.0145 to get more information and a thorough explanation of your results.