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Weight Loss Camp

A weight loss camp is a term for a type of sleepaway or overnight summer camp program where overweight and obese children and teenagers are sent during the summer to lose weight. The effectiveness of these overnight summer camps varies widely and usually depends on the quality of the individual program and biochemistry of the attending campers.

Day by day more overnight summer weight loss camps are opening, few have been around for more than a decade. Camp Kingsmont is the oldest sleepaway or overnight weight loss camp owned by a former camper. For example the focus is on a comprehensive "lifestyle change" allowing greater success after camp. Also see on this website:  Overnight Summer Camp - Weight Loss Camps


Weight Loss Camps Recent History


Fornerly called "fat camp", it is more gently referred to now as a fitness and weight-loss camp. The environment allows a comfortability that often does not exist outside of the camp. These provide weight-loss results of two to six pounds per week on average. What sets apart a weight loss camp from any other ordinary camp is that it typically provides nutrition classes, weekly weigh-ins, and many more aerobic-based classes.

More recent programs, such as Wellspring Camps and Camp Balanza are scientifically-based and clinical. They help participants change their behavior so weight loss will continue at home. Behavioral change is accomplished through training and cognitive-behavioral therapy, for which insurance reimbursement is possible.

Weight Loss Camps In Pop Culture


There have been a number of recent mainstream media pieces regarding sleepaway or overnight summer weight loss camp:

Several fictional television shows, such as The Simpsons and South Park, have an episode relating to weight loss camp. Several weight loss camps have been featured on reality television.In 1995, a film called Heavyweights was released, starring Ben Stiller, about a summer adventure at a sleepaway or overnight summer weight loss camp. There are several books that deal with weight loss camp as a theme. There are a handful of bands called Fat Camp.


 

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