Weight loss camp

A weight loss camp, weight loss resort, retreat, or holiday, is a type of residential program where people who are overweight or obese go to lose weight through exercise and lifestyle changes. In common parlance the term "fat camp" is also often used (either humorously or pejoratively) to refer to these programs. Weight loss camps typically provide nutrition classes, weekly weigh-ins, and a variety of classes and activities designed for weight loss.

The goal of the camps is to enhance the health of the campers, help them lose weight, raise their self-confidence and self-image, as well as teach them healthy life skills and choices. These camps provide weight-loss results of two to five pounds per week on average. In order to lose such pounds per week, participants must cut down the amount of calories they intake, taking food and beverages into account. However, the more overweight the camper, the more they generally lose in these programs. The effectiveness of these summer camps varies widely and usually depends on the quality of the individual program and biochemistry of the attending campers. Adolescents have joined programs over the years with many gaining self-confidence and satisfaction along the way.

Fat camp (disambiguation)

Fat camp may refer to:

Fat Camp (South Park)

"Fat Camp" is the fifteenth episode of the fourth season of the animated television series South Park, and the 63rd episode of the series overall. "Fat Camp" originally aired in the United States on December 6, 2000 on Comedy Central. This is also one of the few episodes before "Kenny Dies" in which Kenny does not actually die, though someone impersonating him does.

Plot

During a science class, the boys dare Kenny to eat a manatee's spleen, which Kenny does in exchange for money. He then commences to eat his own vomit for money, and expands outwards into all sorts of bizarre acts; this leads to him getting his own program, The Krazy Kenny Show, to showcase his disgusting acts, such as giving his grandfather a full body massage and washing his hair with battery acid. He also appears on Jesus 'n' Pals, the local talk show, where Jesus comments on this behavior by saying that Kenny is a prostitute for simply doing outrageous acts for money that require no real talent. The boys try to discover what the term means, by asking Chef. After initial reluctance to explain (as he assumes Stan and Kyle to be referring to the sexual connotations of being a prostitute), he sings "The Prostitute Song," with James Taylor in a parody of his song "Your Smiling Face".