Documentary following a group of obese teenagers who attend Wellspring UK in the Lake District, the UK’s first teen weight loss camp, in a last ditch attempt to lose weight and end years of feeling like outsiders.

Fat Teens in Love is all about the emotional effect that being overweight has on increasing numbers of young people today.

These teens are desperate to lose weight but, like most young people, it’s not just their health that’s their only concern,” says executive producer Emma Morgan. “They are fed up of feeling excluded from normal teenage life and being left standing at the side of the school disco, these are teenagers looking for a chance of a normal adolescence.”

“What the film reveals is that Summer Camp works - in an environment where they are the same as everyone else, these overweight teens suddenly start to feel the confidence to behave like ‘normal’ teenagers.” 

The cameras follow the group doing everything from outward bounds activities and overnight camping trips to how  to take control of their diet. All the teenagers also participate in counseling sessions aimed at helping them address the root causes of their over-eating and improving their self-confidence. And best of all, they are – for the time being at least – among a peer group who are not ridiculing them. When fat is the norm, there’s a level playing field for behaving like every other teenager.

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