The scales came out of Bettina Halloran’s bathroom in week one, which she describes as the most frightening thing anyone had asked her to do in a decade.
There was a plateau from about week twenty. Nothing was going wrong; the body had simply arrived somewhere and wanted to stay there for a while.
Medication was reviewed twice, and on both occasions the change was a reduction. That is not the usual direction of travel and nobody in the room pretended otherwise.
A daily weight is mostly noise. People make real decisions on noise, and the decisions are usually bad ones.
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Baseline took three weeks and no intervention at all. The team wanted a picture of an ordinary month before they changed anything about it.
“I weigh once a month now, at the clinic, and I don’t think about it in between. That’s the change. Not the number.”
