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Nutrition And Culinary Skills For Lifelong Weight Control
Wellspring’s goal is to send your child home with all the skills necessary to maintain or continue weight loss at home. This includes both the ability to choose and prepare healthy meals and snacks. Our Culinary and Nutrition Programs were designed with exactly this goal in mind.
Hands-On Culinary Education
An essential component of any healthy lifestyle is the ability to prepare healthy meals. At Wellspring, campers attend weekly culinary classes where they learn how to prepare a wide variety of new and healthy dishes. They also become experts at modifying less healthful recipes in a way that increases their nutritional value and decreases their caloric density. This instruction is not only enjoyable, it’s highly beneficial, as campers return home prepared to take a more active role in the kitchen.
“Culinary and nutrition were my favorite parts of camp. I had an awesome time making and learning new recipes to use at home.”
Wellspring’s Culinary Program is highly informative and interactive. Topics covered in the curriculum include, but are not limited to:
- Basic Knife Skills
- Healthy Cooking Methods (baking, boiling, grilling, dry sautéing, etc.)
- Preparing healthy breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and snacks
- Adding flavor with herbs, spices, and low calorie sauces
- Modifying ingredients and cooking method to increase recipe nutritional value
“I already had tried and attempted the sets-you-up-for-failure fad diets like the cabbage soup diet, slim fast, and other programs like Weight Watchers that never really made a lasting impression. It was time for something completely different and Wellspring was it. I truly can say that Wellspring is the best decision I ever made.”
Cassie lost 70 pounds over two summers with Wellspring
Integrated Nutrition Education
Most campers arrive at Wellspring having already sat through nutrition classes, met with dietitians, and followed various fad diets-and yet are still unclear as to what constitutes a healthy diet that promotes sustainable weight loss. The reason for this is due to the fact that nutrition education often does not focus on strategies that you can use in your everyday life.
The Wellspring Nutrition Curriculum, on the other hand, focuses on skill development and hands-on learning experiences. Campers not only learn valuable skills such as how to identify pertinent information on a food label and to order a healthy dish off a restaurant menu, they actually visit a grocery store and a restaurant in order to put those skills to the test in real-life.
Other topics covered in Wellspring’s nutrition education program include:
- The role of carbohydrate (fiber), fat, and protein in a healthy diet.
- How to keep an accurate food diary and utilize the information it contains to make informed food decisions.
- Scientific research regarding successful long-term weight control.
- Dissecting fad diets and identifying how the Wellspring Plan differs.
- Identifying situations that make weight control difficult and brainstorming solutions.
- Creating a meal plan and grocery shopping list.