The Wellspring Plan: Scientific Weight Loss That Works
Wellspring Vancouver’s approach to fitness and weight loss is based on decades of scientific research and the expertise of those dedicated to understanding what works for long-term weight control. Thanks to this scientific understanding, Wellspring actually works to produce dramatic weight loss results.
The approach to teen healthy living, called the Wellspring Plan, is not a fad diet or a magical pill. And unlike traditional weight loss camps, diet camps, fat camps or boot camps, Wellspring proves its effectiveness every year. The rapid weight loss at camp (averaging approximately 4 lbs. of weight loss per week) and long-term results (continued weight loss after camp) of Wellspring campers has been presented and praised at scientific conferences, in professional journals, and in the media. The Wellspring Plan is based on simple, scientific, and sustainable changes, including:
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Low-Fat, Low-Density Diet: Satisfying hunger while fighting the biological and environment factors that inhibit success, campers learn to enjoy a nutritious and delicious low-fat, low-density diet. The diet combines “controlled” and unlimited amounts of “uncontrolled” foods to ensure a healthy diet that doesn’t leave campers hungry. This teen diet is very simple, easy to follow, and keeps the control in the teens’ hands, rather than requiring parents to be the “food police.” Campers learn to cook the same foods they eat at camp, to shop for these foods in grocery stores, and to order these foods in restaurants.
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Activity Management: Wellspring campers achieve their goal of 10,000 steps per day, often greatly exceeding this goal. Wellspring campers engage in easy activities such as walks and hikes, weight training, and aerobics, and are exposed to a wide range of activities campers can continue at home.
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Lifestyle Change: Unlike traditional weight loss camps or fat camps in Canada, Wellspring Vancouver employs therapists trained in cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) to help campers make permanent changes in diet and activity. Wellspring Vancouver’s CBT sessions help campers learn stress management skills, enhance frustration tolerance, and allow campers to work through issues contributing to weight gain. This intensive and effective training on changing behaviours enables campers to learn skills and gain motivation to continue success at home. Trained Master’s and Doctoral-level therapists called Behavioural Coaches work with each camper in this central part of the Wellspring Plan.
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Family Involvement: Families lose weight together at Wellspring Vancouver! We strongly encourage families to join us for a two-day Family Workshop where the entire family learns how to live a healthy lifestyle. Parents learn the best strategies for maximizing support for their new weight controller in both good times and when their child struggles.
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Continuing Care: Achievement and success in weight loss do not end when camp is over. Campers participate in a ONE YEAR Continuing Care program lasting until June 2011. Campers continue to work with their Behavioural Coach from camp, self-monitoring, and communicating with fellow campers online.
Every facet of the Wellspring Vancouver program -- diet, activities, behavioural therapy, family involvement, and continuing care — is based on decades of experience and research on what works for initial and sustained weight loss.
As you can see, Wellspring Vancouver is not a traditional weight loss camp, diet camp, boot camp, or fat camp, but rather the most effective option available to help your child return to a healthy weight, and a transformative experience your child will remember and treasure.
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