Tips for sustaining a healthy weight

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Tips for sustaining a healthy weight

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Well Spring provides immersion treatments for overweight and obese young people, as well as adults, actually. People do wonder, how do you maintain that, after someone leaves? Let's say they are at a camp for six weeks or a boarding school for six months, even. The world is a very different place. These are very ideal, weight controlling environments with incredibly supportive staff, with programming specifically targeting the way to help them with this problem, like every minute of the day. That's so different. So you've got to wonder, okay, put that person back into our obesogenic world, what's going to happen? When they go back into the obesogenic culture, what can happen is we build in certain support structures to help keep them focused. We have an online support system that helps. We have a self-help groups that are called "Well Spring Journey" that are available. Even something like Weight Watchers, other types of support programs. You don't just go out there and think everything is going to be fine. You build in certain support systems that you can have in your life that will keep you focused. That's the message we give to the kids. That's the message we give to the kids. We bring the parents into Well Spring for several days, toward the end of the child's stay with us and we do workshops that are very intensive. These are ways to help your child. Here is what you have to do if you are looking for the best outcomes for your child.

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Daniel S. Kirschenbaum, PhD

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Daniel S. Kirschenbaum, PhD, ABPP, is the President of Wellspring. He was Director of the Eating Disorders Program at Northwestern University Medical School, where he is Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Kirschenbaum is a Fellow and Diplomate in Clinical Health Psychology in the American Psychological Association and former president of its Division of Exercise and Sport Psychology. Dr. Kirschenbaum has provided invited addresses at many professional conferences world-wide, received numerous grants for research, and published 10 books and 150 journal articles on weight loss, sport psychology, and related topics. His books include: the first book published for professionals on the treatment of pediatric obesity - Treatment of Childhood and Adolescent ObesityWeight Loss Through PersistenceThe Sierras Weight Loss Solution for Teens and Kids (2007); and, The Wellspring Weight Loss Plan. Dr. Kirschenbaum’s research on sport psychology won the top prize for research on the mental game of golf from the World Scientific Congress on Golf (St. Andrews, Scotland) and Golf Magazine; in 2000, the American Council on Exercise and its Board of Directors unanimously endorsed his book, The 9 Truths About Weight Loss, as "the best book ever written for the public on how to lose weight and keep it off."

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