Owen Castellan wanted a plan on day one. What he got was a notebook and an instruction not to change anything for three weeks.
Nobody is discharged at the end of the programme. Contact steps down on a published schedule with a defined route back.
Nothing is weighed in front of anyone. Most of the group time is spent on what went badly, which is the part that generalises.
Most plans are built on a description of an average week that nobody has ever actually had.
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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.
“The pattern was obvious once it was on paper,” he says. “It just wasn’t the pattern I’d have described.”
