What Is A "Fat Camp"?

Camp La Jolla Is Not A Traditional Fat camp

According to the dictionary, “fat camp” is the slang word for: “a residential camp that helps attendees lose weight.”

However, these days, when one thinks of fat camps, one can picture a child being forced by their parents to stay at a camp that starves children and forces them to workout doing boring activities. Fat camps force the pounds off, only to be put on once the camper returns home.

Fat Camp: What makes Camp La Jolla different than a “fat camp”

Camp La Jolla’s focus is on building self-esteem, having fun, creating lifelong friendships, and becoming the healthiest, happiest person that you can be.

• Unlike fat camps, our campers are not forced to do activities they do not wish to do. On a weekly basis, campers view the activities being offered and they choose what best fits their goals, their personality, and their level of fitness. Campers enjoy working out with other campers who feel the way they do – they share their goals, their challenges and their successes.
  
  
• Our campers enjoy 3 meals and 2 snacks each day. The food is delicious and plentiful. Campers are taught about correct portion sizes and learn to moderate portion size through the combination of “controlled” and “uncontrolled” food options.
  
  
• Fat camps are a temporary fix. Wellspring Camp La Jolla is a lifestyle change. We give our campers the tools they need for when they return home. Whether it is our Nutrition Classes, or our Behavior Modification Classes, or our Fitness Activities campers will leave camp knowing exactly what they have to do to continue their healthy life. Campers also receive workout DVDs and a Continuing Success Book filled with all our Summer Tips and Recipes.
  
  
• We continue caring for our campers for a full year through our Continuing Care Program. At a fat camp, campers are on their own once they leave.  But at Wellspring Camp La Jolla, campers receive all of the support and assistance they need to continue their weight loss success.  
  
  
• Family Workshops are offered free of charge twice during the summer so that parents can learn how best to support their camper at home.
  
  
• Fat camps are solely based around losing weight. This is summertime - we want our campers to have FUN! Wellspring Camp La Jolla’s extensive activities and Field Trips to such places as Disneyland and SeaWorld, Color Wars, plus our Evening Program, which includes Theatre Arts, Dance, and Arts and Crafts, are just a few of the ways we have FUN!
  
  
• We are not a Fat camp. We are a Self-Esteem Camp, a Fun Camp, a Fitness Camp, a Nutrition Camp, a Success Camp and a Friendship Camp all combined into one.