Shelter

This makes with that the group has one meaning of support and shelter. It is evident you say in them of 4 (four) participant ones: ' ' In the group, it has some people with problem, the same objective the same, is an environment where the subject to emagrecer is priority and interest of todos' '. (S1) ' ' The group is important, because apia the other to continue, therefore it is difficult to emagrecer, to leave to eat some things that we like sufficiently. Here in the group all pass the same difficulties and one stimulates outro' '. (S2) ' ' Here I see that he has more people who are passing for the same thing that I and this of the will to continue. To see that others already conseguiram.' ' (S4) ' ' We hear histories of other people, who they also have the same difficulty that people, but are well important to see that all obtain, if not in one week, but in the other, this continuar&#039 is an incentive forever; '.

(S8) if it cannot leave to consider the importance of the participants of the group to perceive that the one existence is necessary limit for the orientation and support that they receive from the other, therefore so that they are assumen of the process of alimentary re-education, is primordial that they are the main agents of its proper change. As Vinogradow and Yalon (1992) are of great significance that the individual perceives itself as responsible for the modifications in its form of if feeding and in the relation with the food and its body. When observing the group process, was proven that the coordinator of the group strengthens to the participants the function of the group as support. The participants had been also questioned regarding the goal established for loss of weight and if the same one was being reached.