Best Weight Loss Spas Resorts and Retreats

25 Best Weight Loss Spas and Resorts

The first step in undertaking any goal of importance is simply taking a second step. When it comes to arriving at a healthy weight, knowing what you should do, need to do, and want to do, is not as hard as converting that knowledge to action. You’ve decided to enroll in a residential weight loss program at a destination spa or weight loss retreat — that’s taking action. Deciding which program is best for you can be challenging.

Here are our 2019 picks for the Best Weight Loss Spas, Resorts and Programs in the world.  Stay tuned for our updates in the post-Covid era — a new landscape for the entire world.

SKYTERRA WELLNESS RETREAT North Carolina - Weight Loss Spas and Retreats on Spa Index

Skyterra Wellness Retreat, NC

Skyterra Wellness Retreat offers a weight loss and fitness program in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains. Guests explore sustainable foundations of good health, sound nutrition and mindful well-being, and enjoy daily fitness, outdoor adventures, delicious cuisine, spa services, educational classes and more. All-inclusive rates include airport transportation, a private cottage or lodge room, chef-prepared meals, a functional movement assessment, daily activities and hikes, fitness classes and educational wellness seminars.

Hilton Head Health South Carolina

Hilton Head Health, SC

Hilton Head Health is an all-inclusive destination health resort in an elegant facility on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, surrounded by all the natural beauty of a Lowcountry island getaway.  The program guides you to achieving your weight loss, wellness and longevity goals with  programs focusing on fitness, nutrition and SELF (Stress management, Empowerment, Longevity, and Fulfillment).   Guests benefit from a community of supportive dieticians, psychologists, wellness educators, fitness trainers, chefs and spa therapists, and graduates continue their lifestyle change with the H3@Home program and receive continued support and structure at home.   

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The Ranch Malibu, California

The Ranch Malibu is one of California’s most acclaimed wellness resorts, and assists guests in recalibrating their mind, body and spirit through an intensive week long endurance, wellness and nutrition program. The results-oriented, no-options programs range from 7-day, 8-day, 9-day and multi-week luxury fitness retreats designed to promote weight loss, health and wellness, in beautiful surroundings 3 miles above the Pacific Ocean in the Santa Monica Mountains. The intimate setting features private accommodations and premium amenities, including an open-air kitchen and great room, organic farm, exercise pavilion, and more.

Each day includes 4 hours of morning mountain hiking, an afternoon fitness class and restorative yoga or meditation along with nap time and deep tissue massage. The rigorous daily program is complemented by a nutritionally dense, plant-based diet to sustain you during your stay.

 

Rancho La Puerta

Rancho La Puerta, Tecate, Mexico

Rancho La Puerta was founded nearly 70 years ago as the original destination fitness resort and spa.  The ranch offers an Executive Wellness program, natural wellness therapies, mindfulness sessions, and nutrition by a panel of expert practitioners. Follow up care is through the WellnessFX online program, which permits guests to access lifelong wellness from home before, during and after a visit to the Ranch.

Golden Door - Weight Loss Spas and Retreats on Spa Index

Golden Door, California

The Golden Door is a sanctuary modeled after ancient Japanese Honjin inns with koi ponds, lush gardens, and miles of scenic hiking trails.   This quiet retreat is enhanced by the latest fitness tools and techniques, combined with ancient relaxation therapies, and personalized counseling to promote a healthy lifestyle.  The 7 day program is limited to 40 guests who are cared for with a 4 to 1 staff to guest ratio, with daily massage, personal sessions with a trainer, fitness classes, evening programs and lectures, gourmet property-sourced cuisine, spa treatments, and a personalized take-home fitness plan.

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Red Mountain Resort, UT

Red Mountain Resort enjoys a spectacular setting in the red rocks surrounding St. George, Utah.   All-inclusive programs  include a wide variety of fitness assessments and tools to meet your health and wellness goals.   The Living Well Weight Loss Retreats, specifically, are customized for each guest and provides mental, emotional, physical and nutritional guidance from an experienced team of wellness and fitness specialists.

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The Chopra Health Retreat, AZ

The Chopra Health Retreat takes place at CIVANA Wellness Resort and Spa, a “playground of well-being” in Carefree, Arizona, the Sonoran Desert, and teaches the centuries-old healing method of Ayurveda.  The program includes a consultation with a physician trained to help with lifestyle and health, meditation and yoga, workshops, and more.

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Canyon Ranch, Tucson, AZ

The Canyon Ranch weight loss program is also available in Tucson.   Like Lenox, an all-inclusive program is offered, and you’ll meet one-on-one with caring professionals – including physicians, life management therapists, nutritionists, exercise physiologists and more. Together you’ll develop a personalized plan for long-term, sustainable weight loss, better health and a more balanced and fulfilling life, which is a bit different from other weight loss resorts.

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Canyon Ranch, Lenox, MA

The Lenox Health Resort Weight Loss Program at Canyon Ranch eschews what it calls “tedious, cookie-cutter weight-loss directives and dreary menus” and instead offers guests a whole-person program with access to top experts in nutrition, exercise physiology, life management, and lifestyle medicine – all working to tailor the best weight loss plan for each guest. Stays range from 1 week and longer, with an all-inclusive no-tipping plan with meals and lodging.

Clinique La Prairie Switzerland

Clinique La Prairie, Switzerland

Clinique La Prairie is the merging of a spa, hospital and hotel. The Clinique La Prairie Weight Management Program offers a multidisciplinary approach with the assistance of a nutritionist, dietician, personal fitness trainer, psychologist, massage therapist and aesthetician.   The programs includes extensive medical and wellness services, lodging and meals, spa services, and more, in a region of unparalleled beauty. Clinique’s medical doctors and team of dieticians treat  obesity, eating disorders or dietary deficiencies with accompanying endocrinology-diabetology, psychiatry-psychology and physical education services.

Absolute Sanctuary Thailand

Absolute Sanctuary, Thailand

Absolute Sanctuary Thailand fitness and weight management retreats range from 7-10-14 days,  and include meeting with a panel of medical experts for consultations and analysis, fitness assessments, nutritionally balanced spa cuisine from the resort’s Love Kitchen (providing whole foods, vegetarian and raw cuisine), nutritional supplements, group yoga and fitness classes,  cardio bootcamp and aquarobics, personalized fitness, herbal steam rooms and infrared sauna sessions, spa treatments and more.

Adler Spa Resort Thermae Italy Tuscany

Adler Spa Resort, Italy

The ADLER Spa Resort Thermae in Tuscany is not just a place for “taking the waters.”   While long been famed for its thermal waters, Ayurvedic and vinotherapy spa services, the resort has also built a reputation for its Adler Med Services, including medical consultations with onsite laboratory testing and outpatient services.  More than 40 doctors, therapists and beauticians focus on weight loss, nutrition, detox, stress management, orthopaedics, disease prevention, and aesthetic medicine.

Capri Palace Naples

Capri Palace, Naples, Italy

Capri Palace is a beautifully equipped luxury hotel in Naples, Italy with a fully equipped luxury wellness spa with personalized programs and treatments.  The Mediterranean Diet program at Capri Palace was developed by an MD specialist in food science, immunology and aesthetic medicine. Participants in this program undergo clinical tests for ideal physical activity and personalized diet as well as integrated treatments that aid weight loss, detox, anti-aging and stress management.

Thermia Palace Slovakia

Thermia Palace, Slovakia

Thermia Palace (formerly the Danubius Health Spa Resort and Grand Spa Hotel) in Piešťany is renowned for its healing treatments offered to Europeans and visitors for more than 100 years.  The resort’s weight loss programs and packages include accommodations, meals, physician consults and exams, fitness evaluation, laboratory tests, medical reports upon departure, and more.  The location is entirely devoted to health spa services, in a unique, large spa complex with ten different thermal springs. 

Euphoria Retreat Sparta

Euphoria Retreat, Sparta, Greece

Euphoria Retreat’s Αadvanced Weight Management Program seeks to boost metabolic efficiency to both lose weight and change your body’s metabolism for long term results. This Program does not focus on cutting calories, but rather on your body’s fuel needs, and energetic activity assessed using diagnostic techniques.  Your food, exercise, and treatments are designed for your own optimum results. The 7 to 21 day programs also include relaxation treatments and follow up consultations by phone and email.

SHA Wellness Clinic Spain

SHA Wellness Clinic, Spain

SHA Wellness Clinic is a weight-Loss program focused on restoring health and improving quality of life. This 7-14 day program starts with a medical examination and laboratory tests to determine the best course, consultations with an expert on nutrition and natural therapy, a custom nutrition plan, Traditional Chinese Medicine treatments (acupuncture or moxibustion), a custom health plan to follow after your stay, and much more.

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Sante Wellness Retreat, South Africa

Sante Wellness Retreat sits in the Western Cape Winelands, the perfect spot for a wellness sanctuary.  The Retreat offers a menu of health and wellbeing packages for Detox, Healthy Aging, and Weight Management.   The programs incorporate services from the world-class day spa, a fitness center, Bio-Energy Center, and the Health Optimizing Clinic.  The concept for this clinic involves using sound nutrition and modern technologies to address physical, biochemical, energetic, emotional, and lifestyle-related issues.

Ananda in the Himalayas

Ananda in the Himalayas, India

Ananda Spa in the Himalayas is located in the region that gave birth to Ayurveda, the science of identifying and correcting the imbalance in  bio energies of the body. The Weight Management Program addresses the physical and emotional challenges associated with weight loss and weight maintenance and is based on the best of both Western and Ayurvedic treatments.

Elysia Wellness

Elysia Wellness Retreat, Australia

Located in Australia’s beautiful NSW Hunter Valley, Elysia Wellness Retreat (formerly Golden Door Australia) offers magnificent views of vineyards and the Brokenback mountain range.  This exceptional property was purpose-built as a Destination Health Retreat for all-inclusive health, fitness, nutrition, well-being, clarity and and focus.

VIVAMAYER-ALTAUSSEE

Vivamayr, Altaussee, Austria

The VIVAMAYR Health Concept employs the traditional findings of F. X. Mayr and its foremost principles of holistic diagnosis and treatments, personalized health and dietary goals, Modern Mayr Medicine, innovative medical technology,  nutrition, movement and mental strength, plus lifelong support. This location is 1 hour from Salzburg and offers a spacious complex surrounded by breathtaking countryside with a lake and  mountain scenery, saltwater swimming, and more.

VIVAMAYR Maria Wörth

Vivamayr, Maria Wörth, Austria

The VIVAMAYR Health Concept employs the traditional findings of F. X. Mayr and its foremost principles of holistic diagnosis and treatments, personalized health and dietary goals, Modern Mayr Medicine, innovative medical technology,  nutrition, movement and mental strength, plus lifelong support. This location at Lake Wörthersee is near Klagenfurt and offers a lakeside location with private beach, pools, sauna,  46 rooms and suites, apartments, a villa, and more.

Lifehouse Spa

Lifehouse, Essex, UK

Lifehouse Spa & Hotel focuses on alternative health care with laboratory analysis to identify issues contributing to weight concerns, including nutritional deficits and food intolerance. Treatments range from naturopathy and kinesiology to acupuncture and meditation. Programs focus on healthy aging, juice cleansing, a “Fast and Lean” program for a quick start on a wellness commitment, structured Detox Retreats, as well as bespoke retreats to target specific goals.

Sianji Wellbeing Resort, Turkey

Sianji Wellbeing Resort, Turkey

Inspired by the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and built in the style of a relaxed Mediterranean seaside village, Sianji Wellbeing Resort is the perfect setting to embrace a new and healthy lifestyle.  The programs focus on a total wellness experience, combining physical, spiritual and mental aspects, including nutrition, medical exams, fitness and sports activities, soothing spa treatments, and lifestyle seminars and classes.

Weight Loss Retreats and Spas

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Weight Loss Spas and Retreats conduct programs for guests who are seeking a vacation or away-from-home experience to jump start a healthier life.  These organized programs and retreats can vary from medically oriented, to luxurious vacations, to no-frills boot-camps.  No matter what “style” suits your interests and needs, any weight loss spa and retreat should include counseling and coaching on health and wellness, exercise and fitness, and nutritional guidelines.

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12 thoughts on “Best Weight Loss Spas Resorts and Retreats

  1. Linda says:

    Check out (name omitted) in (location omitted), a great option in a beautiful area.

    • Spa Index says:

      Regrettably, this program did not respond to our calendar year 2019 attempts to learn more about this program, interview the principals and participants, and evaluate it for inclusion on either our Weight Loss Retreats directory or in our editorial “2019 Best Weight Loss Retreats” article, above. Perhaps we’ll get another chance to evaluate when wellness travel returns to somewhat normal levels and we can update both our directory and our “Best Of” list for 2021 and beyond.

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