Weight Loss Blog

The Weight Loss Blog offers news and information about nutrition and fitness as well as actual weight loss success stories as told by students at Wellspring Academies, formerly Academy of the Sierras, the first boarding school for overweight teens. WSA is part of Wellspring, which also runs Wellspring weight loss camps.

The Blog started with entries by 15-year-old Jahcobie who graduated from WSA after losing 176 pounds in seven months. Then Brooke, a 17-year-old from Prescott, Arizona, took over. Our latest student blogger was Melissa, a 17-year-old from Orange County, California. Melissa recently graduated and we wish her success and she continues down her path as a "long-term weight controller."

Andy D. a 17-year-old student at Wellspring Academy spent a few months sharing his adventures in weight loss, healthy eating, and fitness fun with us before he graduated the program in June.

Now we'll continue to update you with news and information about weight lose, healthy living, and childhood obesity. We'll have a new WSA student share their stories with us beginning in the Fall.

Wellspring programs are the most effective weight loss solutions for teens available today. But don't let us tell you. Let Andy, Melissa, Brooke, and Jahcobie tell you. Read about their journeys toward successful weight management in their own words.

Friday, March 17, 2006

Self Validation

Well, today went pretty good I'm really happy. I went to the hospital to get x-rays and blood work. So that was pretty cool, I can't complain. I also got up on the fitness challenge board 2 more times, that means 2 more times and I get an elite crew shirt! YEAH!

Today some one came up to me crying, asking for my advice on what they should do about there ascender application. I told her that it isn't that you've proved to me that you can do this, its that you proved to yourself that you have done it and will continue to do it. Which brings me to today's subject…. Self Validation! To validate means to test out and prove right.

How many times a day do you ask yourself, is what I'm doing the right thing? If you're like me: many times. So I have to tell myself that what I'm feeling is the right thing for me in that frame of mind. I like to take pride now on the decisions I make instead of feeling bad. Second guessing ourselves has been too accepted today, leaving no time to think about tomorrow. So I like to tell myself that I am right no matter how many times I want to second guess myself. So I end today will a simple phrase Gandhi said:

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
Mahatma Gandhi

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