I'll admit, I never thought I would be the kind of guy to give into an idea as dated and ineffective as 'fat camp', but then again, it wasn't entirely my idea. It wasn't a direct command from anyone else, either. Not really. Every time I came back home for a weekend my mom would mention how much her church group's sons and daughters had enjoyed it, and how much weight they'd all lost. She didn't spare any details, either - she was already passing photographs to me before the words had even fully left her mouth. One particularly shocking photo was of a boy who weighed close to 500 pounds before going to the camp - his "before" picture looked