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, April 28, 2006

Puting Icing on Top of Problems

Today was a good day, I went to group and we had a good group. People helped me to see things more clearly and I figured something out. Many times when I see people just sitting back and not making any progress it hurts me and makes me feel disappointed. So when I say things to my friends about their programs it may come off a little rude because I'm so used to people just being straight up to me. I am glad that someone confronted me about it. I know now that I need to process the information longer and figure out how to put icing on the top before talking to my friends about it. Molly, my Behavioral coach, told me that everybody has something that they're working on; if not our souls are dead. To me that made so much sense.

So, today's subject is putting icing on top of problems. I was told when you tell people about an issue or confront them, you should first tell them a positive, then the negative, and then another positive. So for now on. I am going to be more focused on me and when I talk to people who I care about, I am going to use that format of talking. So I end now with part of a phrase from a card my behavioral coach has:

"I have always been proud of you. Sometimes I'm just more vocal about it than others."

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