Sinead Okafor had been avoiding eleven food groups when she arrived, on the basis of advice she had assembled herself over four years.
Phase one changes two things and nothing else. Most participants find this insulting for about three weeks and survivable thereafter.
The diary runs for three weeks before any advice is given, because advice given to a guess is a guess with more confidence attached.
A restricted diet held indefinitely solves one problem and builds another. The end date is part of the prescription.
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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.
She now avoids two things instead of eleven. “Nine of them were never the problem,” she says.
