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Learning To Cook and Dine Out

Wellspring’s Nutrition Program

The Wellspring Hawaii Nutrition Program focuses on what matters for long-term weight loss -- gaining the knowledge and skills proven by research for success in becoming a long-term weight controller. Wellspring is not a diet or a teen diet.  The curriculum was developed by researchers and exceptional students at Wellspring Academies, our revolutionary boarding schools that focus on weight loss and healthy living.  In other words, our nutrition program is based on the knowledge and experience of weight loss experts and those who have successfully lived the Wellspring Plan.

An overview of topics covered displays the useful nature of this program:

• Comprehending weight gain and biological factors
• Why fad diets do not work
• Barriers to weight loss and how to overcome them
• Figuring out the scientific basis of diets, and identifying fad diets from credible programs
• Distinguishing scientific credentials from marketing ploys
• Becoming familiar with what science has proven about weight loss
• Strategizing ways to stay satisfied while eating low-fat and low-calorie
• Realizing the health benefits of an active and low-fat lifestyle
• Learning how to master the grocery store aisles and read food labels for what really matters
• Restaurant Training – what and how to order while successfully losing and maintaining

Wellspring’s Culinary Education

Unfortunately, Wellspring Hawaii cannot last forever and campers must return home with the skills necessary to face everyday challenges.

A major tool for success is Wellspring Hawaii’s Culinary Program. Armed with the basic skills to cook low-fat favorites, campers return home ready to transform their kitchens into low-calorie, delicious havens.

Many of our alumni parents and siblings have also shed pounds and benefited from this aspect of the Wellspring Plan.  In fact, 90% of families reported in surveys that they, too, had lost weight.  This is due both to the camper’s new culinary input at home, as well as Wellspring’s unique Family Workshop program.

Wellspring Hawaii campers learn to cook a range of very low-fat, low calorie-density foods – exactly the kind of food we eat at camp.  For a sampling of Wellspring recipes, click here.
The combination of nutrition and culinary training ensures that campers go home ready to order, shop for and prepare foods that support permanent weight control.