You will be amazed at the changes. In only a few short months, students change their lives-losing weight, getting healthy, improving academically, and gaining self confidence.

Be our next success story.

Welcome to Wellspring Academies

Wellspring Academies are among the world's most effective programs for weight loss. Designed for children, teens, and young adults ages 11-24, students at our Academies demonstrate among the best documented outcomes of any non-surgical weight loss program for any age group.

Students at Wellspring Academies (formerly Academy of the Sierras) learn and live the Wellspring Plan, a proven scientific approach to weight loss. Wellspring promotes a healthy lifestyle with simple, scientific, and sustainable behavioral changes:

• Eat a low-fat diet
• Take 10,000 steps per day
• Self-monitor food and activity

At our campuses in California and the Carolinas, Wellspring Academies have helped hundreds of students combat childhood obesity by transforming their bodies and lives.

Wellspring Academies are residential weight loss schools for overweight teens and young adults ages 11 - 24. Students reside on campus and change their lifestyle, while continuing their middle school, high school, or college education. While Wellspring is a clinically-proven weight loss treatment program, it is important to understand what Wellspring Academies (formerly Academy of the Sierras) do not promote:

Wellspring Academies are not fat camps or weight loss boot camps. Studies show that traditional weight loss camps for teens (often called fat camps or boot camps), lead to short-term weight loss, but in the long run, the vast majority of students regain weight or gain even more weight than before attending the weight loss camp or boot camp. At Wellspring Academies and Wellspring Camps, we train students to transform their bodies through teen diet, activity and behavioral change, so they become long-term weight controllers.

Wellspring is not obesity surgery or bariatric surgery. For many, the idea of their child undergoing an expensive, invasive, and elective surgical intervention is frightening. Wellspring Academies provide more than children and teen weight loss results-the therapeutic and immersive environment help change the way students think about diet and activity. Wellspring's approach to teen weight loss includes comprehensive training in stress management and frustration tolerance-skills that help improve self-esteem and confidence in all areas of students' lives.

Don't wait to make a change. Wellspring can help.

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