Helen Pye spent 21 weeks at one camp in the hope of addressing her binge eating disorder ✍️ Here, she writes about the dark side of Britain’s weight-loss bootcamps
. The result of this was an explosion in retreats known as “fat camps” that promised extreme, rapid weight loss in return for your hard-earned money.sold Britons the idea that Vanessa Feltz and Alison Hammond enduring weeks of tough military fitness was not a dangerous form of entertainment, but instead an aspirational answer to all our yo-yo dieting prayers.
Lunch and dinner were flavourful, if very small, affairs. Everything was rounded off with low-intensity walks in the beautiful countryside to remind you there is a world outside of the sodden field you spend 80 per cent of your day in. At the end of each week, your weight is taken and your inches are measured.
I was, I suppose, eventually a “success story”. I lost my excess weight, I could deadlift 100kg, I was running 5k . But as soon as I left, the real world hit me like a barbell. Like many who attend, nothing I did, no matter how healthily I ate or how much I worked out, could keep the weight off. Within a year, I was seeking treatment for bulimia. I’m not saying the camps were entirely to blame but my experience of relapse is far from an unusual story.
“I wish I hadn’t been sucked in by the false promises made when I first went there. I was told by the owner that she was invested in helping change my life. Instead, my time [there] was overwhelming, difficult and caused a rapid decline in my mental and physical health. They didn’t have the professional training to fix what was going on in my head.”
“In the end, I had gastric sleeve surgery and made positive lifestyle changes through the help of a qualified psychologist. I only wish I’d done it earlier.” The “temporary feelings of accomplishment and euphoria” she got from the weight loss during her time at camp were replaced with “harsh, shame-laced internal thoughts and feelings of hopelessness” when she returned home. It led to a more entrenched cycle of binge eating.
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The dark story of Britain’s weight-loss bootcamps: 'I spent £20,000 in four years'Helen Pye spent 21 weeks at one camp in the hope of addressing her binge eating disorder but the restrictive diets and excessive exercise were never sustainable in the real world
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