Each participant first ate a weight-stabilizing diet for 13 to 25 days.
Most participants reduced calories by 25 percent, but some cut back more and ate only 890 calories a day for several months.
The participants ate sandwiches, sipped wine and seemed happy.
On the second day, after another 10-hour fast, the participants returned to the lab and ate their assigned breakfasts.
During the two week run-in phase, all participants ate the high sodium control diet.
During the workshop period, participants are encouraged to camp and eat together to form a creative village.
Family tensions run so high the participants can barely even eat.
It apparently involved a full meal, with the participants bringing their own food but eating in a common room.
In some modern segaki, the participants then eat the food offering after the ritual is completed.
A few years ago a television station filmed a fat acceptance association event while participants were eating and set the scene to barn music.