There are weight loss camps for tweens and teens. There are summer camps that parents attend with their children. Now there’s a weight control camp for families.

Wellspring Family Camp in the upper peninsula of Michigan is the first and only program that parents or grandparents can attend with an overweight child (or children). It is the only weight control camp for children as young as five. This summer marks Wellspring Family Camp’s second year. However, the staff plans very few changes because the first year was so successful, according to Rachel Yudin, camp director. The only major change are new one-week sessions for families who cannot participate in the two-week sessions.

December marks another anniversary of my quest to lose weight. I am happy…. no…. I am ecstatic to report that within the last three years I have successfully lost 68 pounds and maintained it!

When I first started on this quest I weighed 185 pounds. It was hard taking the first baby steps in getting into a lifestyle change, but with the help of Health A to Z diet journal, I was able to take it day by day. I was also on a strict Atkins meal program and exercised four times a week.