Maintenance is a separate skill

Bettina Halloran finished the first phase ahead of expectation, and was told, more or less immediately, that the difficult part had not started.

Nobody is discharged at the end of the programme. Contact steps down on a published schedule with a defined route back.

Two things, and no more

Nothing is weighed in front of anyone. Most of the group time is spent on what went badly, which is the part that generalises.

We celebrate the wrong milestone. The result at month six predicts almost nothing about month thirty.

Ines Cardoso, dietetics

Month five

Protein and total intake are the two levers that matter most in older adults, and both point in the opposite direction to most public messaging about eating.

“Nobody had ever taught me how to stay somewhere,” she says. “Only how to leave.”