Eating Healthier to Meet Summer Weight Loss Goals

You will eat delicious food and find new foods you love at camp, but if you don't learn how to eat heathly at home, you won't stay successful.  Our goal is to improve your health at summer weight loss camp and have you understand a personal plan for how to lose weight at home. 

Best Ways to Lose Weight This Summer 

Every week campers have FOUR nutrition & culinary classes plus the opportunity for electives if they want even more experience with how to eat well and still lose weight.  No other summer weight loss camp for children, teens, or young adults does this much to make learning what to eat and how to make it fun!  Your ME Plan lessons include:

• Fear Factor - we won't spoil it for when you come, but crickets are delicious.
• Mindful Eating - how to eat well and eat to lose weight.
• Restaurant Challenge - life includes eating away from home.  Every week we'll go off-campus and you'll practice small changes you can make.
• Farmer's Market Scavenger Hunt - fruits and veggies prepared with your flavor profile in mind can be delicious.  Go find them!
• Portion Distortion - too much!  too much!  We are all eating too much!
• How to Join the Party and Stay Healthy - don't be the odd ball but don't ruin your ME Plan either.
• It's Not a Diet, it's a Way of Living (and you'll like it) - that's the way, uh-huh, uh-huh, you'll like it.
• Iron Chef - show off your new culinary skills.
• Calorie King - last year staff member Dillon spent a day as Calorie King, ate unhealthy food all day, and committed to burning off those calories throughout the day.  Poor Dillon spent the entire day (literally) trying to burn off his unhealthy food.  See the pictures to the right.  He doesn't look happy, does he?  It takes close to two hour of walking to burn off a Big Mac.  Don't be a Calorie King!
• And much, much more

Let's say you love lasagna—cheese, cheese, and more cheese. Um, not healthy! Sorry, we’re not gonna lie. But there IS a way to make healthy lasagna that looks great and tastes even better. You can bring in your favorite lasagna recipe and we might choose it for our Food Challenge where we take the food campers love and figure out how to modify it. Our first attempt might be terrible. But together we’ll figure it out. And you’ll leave camp with a bunch of new recipes from the dining kitchen and from Nutrition & Culinary that you will love.

And then you’ll teach YOUR family how to make it!

Healthy, Low Calorie Food

One of the goals with the ME Plan is to identify as many foods as possible that are both delicious to you and that are low calorie. Together with your Health Coach you will identify foods that are safe to enjoy. In other words, these foods are those that you can maybe even over-indulge on a little bit.

Examples of “Safe for Me” foods commonly include:

• Fat free pretzels
• 100 Calorie Air Pop Popcorn
• 99% Fat free Yogurt
• Fat free Fig Bars
• Applesauce
• Watermelon
• Apples, Oranges, Pears

Familiar food. Delicious food. Nutritious food.