This summer I am working at a health and fitness camp called Wellspring Wisconsin located in Kenosha, WI at Carthage College.  I am excited to be working here as a fitness counselor and certified personal trainer, helping overweight and obese adolescents lose weight and gain confidence.  I have worked for Wellspring for four summers now, but this is the first summer I will be working at the Wisconsin location and the first time I will be on the fitness staff.  I am hoping to help the kids I work with not only lose weight,  but also become more comfortable and confident in their own bodies.  I teach kickboxing and Pilates classes at the camp and in kickboxing I hope the help empower each of them in a healthy and positive way.  I am so lucky to have the chance to work with this population, and as a former camper and now weight-controller myself I feel I can help to motivate the campers through therapeutic exercise classes and personal experience.  Wellspring Camps are the top weight loss camps in the country and have satellite camps stationed everywhere from the U.K. to California to New York.  It's an organization I have been happy to work for and be a part of for the last 4 years and look forward to another summer helping to change the lives of teens in a new way.