Camp Shane

Pros: lifetime friendships, build support system, awesome activities, friendly staff, build muscle & lose fat
Cons: well it's a summer camp, so don't expect to be living at a spa.

Camp Shane is a great place to get a jump start on getting healthy. It's kind of like food & exercise rehab. If you can allow your body to live for a few months in a place where you eat good food and exercise you get used to living healthy. Camp Shane is a perfect place for this to happen. It's a place where everyone has a similar goal, and everyone supports each other in reaching it. Not only do you start feeling better physically, but you also have an opportunity to build bonds with people from all over the world.

Pros: structured! Open-minded!
Cons: I dont have any!

This past summer was one of the best experiences of my life. At first I was nervous about going to camp because I didn't know anyone but I was proven wrong! On my first day, I made amazing friends that are going to last a life! The staff at Camp Shane was so inviting as well as supportive! They helped me achieve what my goal truly was! I lost 15lbs in one summer and have kept it off for exactly one year this month! I went from a size 11 to a size 5/6!  I loved Camp Shane and can not wait for this summer's experience!

Pros: Excellent Weight loss, one of a kind social opportunities, unique activities, friendly staff
Cons: Strict Diet

After being a Camper for 6 years (95-00), I decided to return as staff for Summer of 2005. Camp Shane was even better than I remember.
Battling obesity throughout my life, "big guy" was probably the nicest thing I've ever been called. The only time I ever shed that label was during my summers at Shane:

I got to play point guard on the basketball team, was a leading character in one of the plays and learned there was more to a social life than sitting by the punch bowl at a dance.

Camp Shane gives you a head start and a heads up on a healthy life style. It sends you home thinner, healthier and with knowledge of how to maintain your weight loss.
Aside from the unique social setting it offers, it also sends you home with extra confidence.

I entered Camp this summer weighing 267lbs. I left camp at 248lbs and am now currently hovering around 235lbs.

Being healthy and keeping your weight down is an everyday struggle, but Camp Shane puts a step or two in the right direction.

Pros: The vive, People, Support, Weight Loss, Friendships, FUN FUN FUN, new experinces, EVERYTHING!!!
Cons: Camp is only 2 months out of the whole year!

When i went to camp this summer I figured I'd loose some weight and make some new friends. When I went to camp I didn't have to focus on loosing the weight, it came off by itself. All I had to do was participate. I think the best part of this camp is the vive you get from it. Before I came to camp i was very unhappy about myself. When I came to shane i felt like I could be myself and gained a confidence that I never had. I made so many amazing friends and I do not understand how I lived 14 years without them. I think it is amazing that so many young people can come together for one common goal. There are so many benifits to camp besides the weight loss. I belivie that if you give Camp Shane a chance, it WILL change your life for the better. So many opertunties and new experiences. I think the people who wrote negitive reviews about the camp do not have an open mind. Camp shane was the best experiance of my life and i will tell anyone and everyone that!

Pros: great fun, good people, color war
Cons: the fact that its only 9 weeks, the food on occasion

As a 8 year member of this fantabulous place, i just want to say that i LOVE spending my summers here. I meet the greatest counselors who are super caring and only want the best for their campers. It's my home away from home, and my spiritual calling with the fusion of nature and cleansing with health as the goal. It's so FUN!!

I Love Camp SHANE!

Pros: Outstanding weight loss, friendships, a boost in your self esteem
Cons: You must always work as hard as you can

I have attended Camp Shane for the last two summers and I am looking foward to my third summer this year. The past two summers have been the best two summers of my life. Each summer, thanks to the excellent staff and programs which are offered at Camp Shane, I have been able to reach my weightloss goal each year. Camp Shane offers many fun activities in where each member of group is important. At Camp Shane we are a Team( together everyone achieves more). The counslors and campers are really what make this camp and excellent experience. Both the counslors and campers really want you to succeed. Counslors provide constant motivation and they also become your friends. I have personally walked away with many friends including campers and counslors. Camp Shane has helped me to become a better person.

Pros: Meeting new people, losing weight, gaining self confidence
Cons: the summer is too short

I was a camper at Camp Shane two summers in a row and they were the best two summers of my life. I met people that I will be friends with forever and while I was there I felt like I was at home. The campers aren't the only people there who make the camp fun and exciting; the staff consists of people who truly care about each camper and how they progress through the summer and it's very comforting to know that everyone is rooting for you. Everything about camp shane is amazing. The activities are fun, the people are fun, the food is good, and the experience is unforgettable. What else could you ask for?

Pros: Healthy, friendly, caring , and awesome environment
Cons: leaving and having to miss your friends all year

I have worked at Camp Shane for two summers, and they have both been amazing. As staff i went to have a great time, work with kids, and loose some weight.. The feeling once you enter that camp is honestly something that words cant even describe. When children first walk in some of which return year after year, however there are many new faces too. The food is actually normal food, not diet food, and the nutrition classes are amazing, they teach you how to prepare all different types of meals, as well as tips of what to do when you arent sure if a food is health or not. As well it helps children react to food scenarios such as restaurant settings, and holiday situations in terms of what they can or cant eat. I met friends from all over the world, and cant wait to see them again!... i had the same bunk both summers, we kept in touch throughout the year, and i have such a great bond with them. I am hoping to go back again... truly an unforgettable summer... and great experience for kids and adults!

Pros: You lose weight
Cons: bad facilities, poor pay, uncaring head staff, weight comes back

I was a counselor at Camp Shane in 2001. The reason I applied was I love kids, I had many fond memories of camps from when I was a child, and had just recently lost a lot of weight myself, and I wanted to help bring that joy to kids who struggled with obesity. I flew out to New York, and took a bus to the nightmare that would be my summer.
I was going to write a longer review but I think that the review "Nightmare Experience! Please Read!" sums it up perfectly. If you plan on attending Camp Shane. Read that review first.

Pros: making amazing friends, losing weight, and lasting relationships
Cons: rainy days (but who can help that?)

I better summer... impossible! Camp Shane was an amazing experience, not only a fun, easy way to lose weight, but memorable at that. I made a tremendous amount of friends with whom I still talk to daily, and love! Granted, it could be strict at times, but only because the counselors are very goal oriented, and want the campers to really reach their highest potentials. Now, six years after my first summer at Shane, I still count down the days until I can return to my second home. The weather is fantastic, grounds are clean and beautiful, and best of all, the overall experience is unforgettable and life changing. I really can't stress enough how much fun I had as a camper at Shane for four whole summers.

Pros: Amazing staff, amazing results, amazing activities, ALL GREAT!
Cons: I couldn't stay longer

Some of these reviews are super bogus!! I am a 14 year old girl who returned from camp shane in August 2005. I was 45 pounds over weight and lost 35!! It was really fun and the counslors are amazingly cool. It's true that the food ain't too great but, come on for 35 pounds it is totally worth it! The bunks/cabins are totally what I expected them to be, and just because your children may be spoiled rotten (like me) they can survive 3-9 weeks without a/c. Trust me your child or you will have the time of your life! They allow the boys and girls to get together and have dances with professional dj's and they are always tons of fun. GO CAMP SHANE FOR LIFE BABY!! WOOHOO

Pros: kind of fun.
Cons: expense, facilities, disorganization.

I attended Camp Shane in the summer of 2005 at 17 years old.
I went to Camp Shane not expecting anything more than a normal camp.
However, the camp was incredibly unorganized...
meals were late, and plumbing was broken.
We were forced to use other cabin's bathrooms, invading their personal space.
There was also an awful stench, from the bubbling waste in the yard.
I left after three days because I couldn't take the disorganization, and I got no money back.
Also, I weigh only 170 pounds, and I was one of the heaviest girls there... not helping me feel any better about myself.

Pros: amazing weightloss, lifetime friends, great facilities, staff members who truly care, great weather
Cons: missing junk food, working out harder than some are used to, saying goodbye

Camp shane has become so much more than just a summer weightloss camp! It's become an entire world for people to go in the summer to recharge their entire lifestyles, to revamp the old....and to start over with the new! Right away everyone there seemed so excited and confident....even if everyone shares the same or different insecurities....none of that mattered. The staff members were so welcoming and caring and kind. Kids don't just get fat--it happens over time, and by talking about our bodies and how we know we have the capability to change ourselves for the better, helped us work through why we were bigger in the first place. . I am not going to lie and say that overnight you completely transform-- I had to make the extra effort by running during my free time, and by taking extra work out classes but the truth is as anything else in life is: you get out what you put into it! I totally ended up seeing results!! . I lost 21 lbs my first summer at Shane in 9 weeks I couldn't have been prouder.

Pros: Everything listed above.
Cons: Kids tend to get homesick but "Camp Mom" is conveniently there to help all campers.

If I had to sum up Camp Shane in one sentence, it would be, Camp Shane has changed my life and will forever be a part of me. I can only thank Camp Shane for the transformation in myself. Going from being the overweight girl who felt lost and alone in the world, to becoming a confident, healthy, young woman has made me realize that every young person in that situation has a light at the end of the tunnel. Not only have I made friendships unlike any other, but I am now able to look at a person and see so much more than what is on the outside. My Camp Shane family knows my struggles and knows what the pain and tears feel like. They are able to see what I have gone through and help me through present and future struggles. I decided that I needed to make a change in my life to become a healthier, better me. What I didn’t know was that I would take away so much more than that. Without Camp Shane, I would not be the person I am today. Thank you Camp Shane

Pros: Everything from weight loss to more confidence and much more excercise, amazing nursing staff
Cons: Many pairs of socks missing

What can I say about this camp. My son arrived there being overweight but left 36lbs lighter 6 weeks later. With a much better attitude about life and much more self esteem. The staff for the most part was amazing. The Owner David Ettenburg is one of the most kind and caring man that I have ever met. My son made such good friends he talks to a few of them on a weekly basis via telephone, writes to another that lives in Colorado, and talks to various others on the internet. Quite frankly I can not believe people could say such horrible things about this amazing camp

-Rosalie Meisler Miranti