Fat Camps for Girls

It is widely recognized that weight issues continue to be a challenge for young women. In fact, 33 percent of preteen and teenage girls in the United States are overweight and face constant pressure from their peers and the media to lose weight. Weight loss camps can help girls to lose weight, achieve healthy bodies and improve their self-esteem.

Camp Pennbrook

• Camp Pennbrook, located at the Pennington School in New Jersey -- one hour away from Philadelphia and two hours away from New York City -- offers a weight loss program focusing on the fundamentals of health eating. Camp Pennbrook is exclusively for girls and its trained, dedicated staff is available to campers and their parents 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Accommodation is provided, two to a room, in private dormitories on a completely secure campus and activities include off-campus trips to Broadway shows, concerts and amusement parks. The camp offers sessions between two and seven weeks in duration, starting in late June.

  Camp Pennington

  Pennington School

  112 W Delaware Ave

  Pennington, NJ 08534

  800-442-7366

  212-354-2267

  camppennbrook.com

Camp Pocono Trails

• Camp Pocono Trails is a little further away from Philadelphia and New York City -- but still only 90 minutes away from either -- and is set in 350 acres of land, with its own private lakefront. There are completely separate facilities for boys and girls, including two, completely separate swimming pools. Camp Pocono Trails offers a comprehensive activity program, on land and water, including swimming, water polo, jet skiing, and aerobics, but the setting is peaceful, with scenic views over the lake for the quieter moments in the day. Girls between seven and 19 years are welcome at Camp Pocono Trails and there are typically 30 girls in each age group at the camp at any one time, with a ratio of four to one between weight loss counselors and campers.

  Camp Pocono Trails

  Akiba Road

  Reeders, PA 18532

  570-619-7761

  newimagecamp.com

Wellspring New York

• Wellspring New York, located on the campus of Union College in upstate New York, is another weight loss camp catering exclusively for young women. The camp welcomes girls between 12 and 24 years, who are divided, by age, into the so-called Lower, Middle and Upper Camps. The camp offers the opportunity to form healthy friendships with girls in the same age group as well as to lose weight in a safe, supported environment. In fact, support continues after the camp is over, with a three-month aftercare program. Wellspring New York claims that campers in 2009 lost 4.25 pounds a week, on average, and continued to lose weight at home as a result of the skills and strategies learned at the camp.

  Wellspring Camps

  42675 Road 44

  Reedley, CA 93654

  868-364-0808

  wellspringnewyork.com