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 27, 2007

Preparing to Stand on My Own

As a long-suffering Bay Area sports fan, I have been in pretty good spirits as of late. The Sharks are in the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The Warriors are in the playoffs for the first time in 13 years. The NFL draft is tomorrow, and the San Francisco Giants have won 8 games in a row. All is well in the sports world.

This sports news is not much of a segway to my topic for my ninth weight loss blog, but I wanted to mention it anyway. Today I find myself preparing to leave AOS in a little over a month. I just returned from an OCC where I drove around the Bay Area with my mother looking for businesses where I might want to work during the summer. I guess it was kind of a wake-up call, seeing how soon I would actually be in the real world doing this weight control thing all on my own. It is a frightening thought, and I realize that I really need to buckle down. So until next time, I will be working with a higher sense of urgency to leave in June with LTWC skills in good shape.

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Thursday, April 19, 2007

Bouncing Back

Here at AOS, we learn about the three stages of weight control. They are honeymoon, frustration, and acceptance. The honeymoon stage coincides with the commitment to make long term weight controlling your own. For a while everything seems easy. It feels good to be losing weight, and being in control. But for many, this honeymoon stage does not last. After a while, the weight controller begins to get burnt out. It is not as easy as it was to practice good weight controlling skills. I am currently in the frustration phase of weight control. For some time now, I have had difficulties sticking to my program. I have to figure out how to get myself out of this stage.

To be honest, I am not 100% sure how to do it. For the moment, all I can do is not give up on myself or my program, and keep chugging along on the long road to being a long term weight controller.

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