“I said no twice,” Carmen Mbeki says. “Group things are not for me. I don’t share.” She attended all twelve.
Baseline took three weeks and no intervention at all. The team wanted a picture of an ordinary month before they changed anything about it.
Evenings were the problem, as they usually are. Not the food itself so much as the eight-hour gap that preceded it.
An open group restarts every week. A closed group gets to week six and starts telling the truth.
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The fortnightly group ran with the same nine people throughout. Nobody was weighed in front of anybody. Most of the time was spent on what had gone badly.
She trained as a peer facilitator in the autumn. “You don’t have to share. You just have to turn up nine times.”
