Eating more, deliberately

Rowena Blythe had spent three decades eating less, on advice, and arrived at seventy-eight considerably weaker than anybody had intended.

The diary runs for three weeks before any advice is given, because advice given to a guess is a guess with more confidence attached.

What the diary showed

Maintenance is treated as a distinct phase with its own skills rather than as a victory lap, and the service is explicit that it is the harder half.

Public messaging is aimed at fifty-year-olds. Eighty-year-olds are still following it, and it’s hurting them.

Ines Cardoso, dietetics

A year in

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

“I was told to eat more and it felt like being told to break a rule,” she says. “It took me two months to do it properly.”