Yes, I would very much appreciate knowing the price. Is there an entry fee? How much? How much is the monthly payments?
I would very much appreciate an answer :-)
I would very much appreciate an answer :-)
I went on Dr Bernstein's diet last year and I began at 206 lbs, I went down to 156 lbs. I have now gone back for the last bit of weight to lose and once again it is going nice and easy. I find that the only part I dislike is the needles seeing as I'm not a fan of needles, however I find that I've learned a lot more about food and found myself understanding what makes a balanced meal and what's been causing obesity with me to begin with. If you do the maintenance, they'll slowly reintroduce normal foods as well and see where the troubles are for you and make sure that you get an idea of what to eat in able to maintain your weight. I find this diet very successful. On the down low, your body is not equipped to properly deal with so much weight loss so fast so make absolutely sure that you're feeling 100% well on the diet. I had to stop because after having gotten jaw surgery, the medication messed around with my diet and I ended up with a blood pressure of 90/20 and I needed to stop in able to get back to a normal blood pressure and be able to intake more protein that I needed to recover from surgery.
I would strongly recommend it and I find it successful not just for myself but for so many other people as well that I personally know who have gone on it.
Good luck!
I would strongly recommend it and I find it successful not just for myself but for so many other people as well that I personally know who have gone on it.
Good luck!
You can't really believe you loose 16-20lbs per week, it is actually per month. The average weekly lose is 3-5 lbs. I would re-read the ad.
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I was thinking of trying the diet myself,but want all the information before I do.do you have a list of all allowed foods and forbidin foods with amounts. Thanks
I was thinking of trying the diet myself,but want all the information before I do.do you have a list of all allowed foods and forbidin foods with amounts. Thanks
:$ Well im curious about this DR.B Diet....no vegies?i thought they were good 4u?So just Meat & Veggies huh?What meat & veggies?how much water....only water?no juice,coffee,tea?obviously no sugar but really 800 cals a day?how healthy is that?I have a friend she had her stomach stapled and lost like 100 lbs that was 17yrs ago and is still small...she told me only 8oz off food @ least 6 times aday....i tried it...NO results so i dont understand this diet stuff...i need 2 loose like 135lbs :$I know thats hard 2 say but its true..Im a single mom workin in a healthcare field(shift work)so its hard 2 NOT eat when u can lol....Some one help lol...i feel like a tub of lardIm VERY sad with my 270lb body i look like c**p and feel like it 2........i have tried ALL the pills,diets and waisted thousands of dollars ...Cant afford it anymore....so plz im open 2 suggestions feel free 2 e-mail me if u feel u can help...... .....Thank u fellow fat busters.. :-)
in response to a few of these last I checked it was free to call the 800 number and get the price details, and it was 599 per month and they do have weekly options as well...
I have done this diet as well back in 2006 and lost about 50 pounds in 3 months never felt so fantastic!! i have gained some weight back however I did not take the maintenance program back in 2006 when i first did this diet and I was completely losing to lose weight... now I am looking to get healthy along with the loss of weight ( i guess you can say I learned from my last experience and am much mroe ready and mature ;-)) XD and am much moe ready to change forever so will be oging back to this diet however to comeplete it properly and when we gain the weight back only We are to blame really!! thanks
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I have done this diet as well back in 2006 and lost about 50 pounds in 3 months never felt so fantastic!! i have gained some weight back however I did not take the maintenance program back in 2006 when i first did this diet and I was completely losing to lose weight... now I am looking to get healthy along with the loss of weight ( i guess you can say I learned from my last experience and am much mroe ready and mature ;-)) XD and am much moe ready to change forever so will be oging back to this diet however to comeplete it properly and when we gain the weight back only We are to blame really!! thanks
for reading
I am doing this diet and I think it's a great thing. Lower blood pressure, lower hypertension, better energy, better sleep, reduced risk of diabetes... I read the whole 7 pages here wondering if I'd find out what's so bad about losing weight fast. I've thunk and thunk and it seems to me that the risks of being obese are worse than the risks of losing fast. Yes, maintenance will take discipline. For sure I plan to do the maintenance program for quite a while. I have two older relatives who lost huge amounts of weight on this years back and they both still feel great. I have tried SO HARD to lose weight since having my son, and despite exercise and healthy diet, it just stays on. After 2.5 weeks on the diet, my weight is lower than it's been in 6 years. FINALLY. I am so tired of people leaving me out of athletic things because they incorrectly perceive me as unfit because I have a few extra curves.
Losing fast -- maybe it dumps a lot of toxins in your system. That would make sense to me, since breastfeeding cleanses the body of toxins stored in fat and this may be a similar effect. So... drink water! Tons and tons and tons of water. That seems to be the best defense for liver and kidneys too.
I had one nasty nurse and I complained by e-mail immediately. I heard back from the manager by telephone and she addressed it. I explained I would not see that nurse any more and they gladly accommodated that, so far. The other nurses have been kind and encouraging.
If you're wondering if losing the weight is important, check this out, a Jamie Oliver show in 8 parts, with a lot of anatomical and real-life information:
The cost is $330 startup fee and $600 per month (2010). It's a huge amount of money, but as others have said, I am feeling at the moment like it is totally worth it.
I have learned that salt really packs the water pounds on! But when I drink enough water to get rid of the salts again, the weight peels off. It's awesome, and I'm feeling great, and I am a real Canadian woman and not an advertiser, I promise.
I have had some VERY hungry days on this diet. No doubt about it. And I have cheated. Teeny, tiny amounts -- and every cheat slowed the weight loss. So, I feel it's really experimental. Live and learn, take records, improve.
One issue I have with this diet is that I wish the food options focussed more on whole grains and healthy foods. Some of the choices are at odds with, for example, the GI index, or what I know about healthy eating in general. Getting AWAY from processed foods is something we should ALL do, but Dr. B. seems to encourage processed foods over fresh (mainly the carb options), which I do not appreciate. I find myself trying some Splenda, but I'm thinking that it would be much healthier to just detox all of that junk.
One thing I LOVE about this is I had a lot of tests done I'd never had done before. For example, I learned that I had great cholesterol levels. That was nice to hear.
Any carbs taste super, super sweet when your body is off them! I've discovered that. Somewhere somebody wrote on a forum that "everyone feels better at a different level of carbs" and I think that person hit a good nail on the head -- some of us DO seem to function a lot better with fewer carbs. Certainly without white flour and white sugar!
And finally, I wish Canada and the world would start putting warning labels, nicotine-style, on sugar products. For example, the healthy-sounding Starbucks cold drinks are just criminal. Kids and adults seem to have no idea of the damage they're doing by guzzling these suckers back. And surely sugars could be cut back across the board!!!! Jamie Oliver's program said there is DOUBLE the sugar in processed food these days than there was 30 years ago. Why are we allowing the food industry to do this to us? It's rotten.
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Losing fast -- maybe it dumps a lot of toxins in your system. That would make sense to me, since breastfeeding cleanses the body of toxins stored in fat and this may be a similar effect. So... drink water! Tons and tons and tons of water. That seems to be the best defense for liver and kidneys too.
I had one nasty nurse and I complained by e-mail immediately. I heard back from the manager by telephone and she addressed it. I explained I would not see that nurse any more and they gladly accommodated that, so far. The other nurses have been kind and encouraging.
If you're wondering if losing the weight is important, check this out, a Jamie Oliver show in 8 parts, with a lot of anatomical and real-life information:
The cost is $330 startup fee and $600 per month (2010). It's a huge amount of money, but as others have said, I am feeling at the moment like it is totally worth it.
I have learned that salt really packs the water pounds on! But when I drink enough water to get rid of the salts again, the weight peels off. It's awesome, and I'm feeling great, and I am a real Canadian woman and not an advertiser, I promise.
I have had some VERY hungry days on this diet. No doubt about it. And I have cheated. Teeny, tiny amounts -- and every cheat slowed the weight loss. So, I feel it's really experimental. Live and learn, take records, improve.
One issue I have with this diet is that I wish the food options focussed more on whole grains and healthy foods. Some of the choices are at odds with, for example, the GI index, or what I know about healthy eating in general. Getting AWAY from processed foods is something we should ALL do, but Dr. B. seems to encourage processed foods over fresh (mainly the carb options), which I do not appreciate. I find myself trying some Splenda, but I'm thinking that it would be much healthier to just detox all of that junk.
One thing I LOVE about this is I had a lot of tests done I'd never had done before. For example, I learned that I had great cholesterol levels. That was nice to hear.
Any carbs taste super, super sweet when your body is off them! I've discovered that. Somewhere somebody wrote on a forum that "everyone feels better at a different level of carbs" and I think that person hit a good nail on the head -- some of us DO seem to function a lot better with fewer carbs. Certainly without white flour and white sugar!
And finally, I wish Canada and the world would start putting warning labels, nicotine-style, on sugar products. For example, the healthy-sounding Starbucks cold drinks are just criminal. Kids and adults seem to have no idea of the damage they're doing by guzzling these suckers back. And surely sugars could be cut back across the board!!!! Jamie Oliver's program said there is DOUBLE the sugar in processed food these days than there was 30 years ago. Why are we allowing the food industry to do this to us? It's rotten.
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I have also tried many diets that were available to me but found that Dr. B's diet works best for me. This is my second time around, I lost the 30 pounds I initially needed to lose 5 years ago but did not do the maintainance. My bad habits made the 30 pounds+ come back. I am back with a vengence and will not divert from this diet. I don't want to throw away my money.
I found the nurses to be very helpful and pleasant. They were nothing but professional to me. I wish everyone had such good experiences. Good luck to all on their journey.
I found the nurses to be very helpful and pleasant. They were nothing but professional to me. I wish everyone had such good experiences. Good luck to all on their journey.
I was on Bernstein for about 9.5 months and lost 170 pounds, and quite frankly I would recommend it to anyone, however, there are one or two provisos to that recommendation. The fact is, the diet is *really* hard going and you have to realize that going in. This is not for the faint-hearted or those of middling resolve. Seriously.
Sticking to the diet absolutely is a really good strategy not just for losing weight but for fending off hunger.
I adhered to the diet religiously out of pure desperation to lose weight and that uncompromising attitude served me well. The hunger was wretchedly bad for the first three days but settled down after that; the cravings and intense fantasies about peanut butter and chocolate lasted longer, not subsiding til I was about 3 weeks in. Apparently both of these things are normal. Thereafter I was more likely to feel bored and constrained, BUT NOT HUNGRY, which is also normal. A side effect of ketosis is that you cease to be hungry, so it benefits you to be ketotic at all times, and of course the diet induces ketosis. So sticking to the diet will result in not feeling hungry.
Like I said there are provisos to my praise: I had hellish problems with constipation -- also normal for Bernstein patients -- and the laxatives they recommend had me on the floor in an agony of cramps. I found myself napping during the day, apparently due to the lack of nutrition; once or twice I fainted; at about the hundred pound mark my hair started falling out. (Also, once I had lost about 70 pounds loose skin seemed to appear on every square inch of me. Clearly this is not due to the Bernstein diet as such, but rather to the fact that I had just lost a shedload of weight. According to one of the doctors the skin just rebounds over time without surgery.) There was also an entire month in which I lost NOTHING despite maintaining my uncompromising adherence to the diet. According to the nurses it just happens sometimes, something to do with my fat cells filling up with fluid. It was pretty galling.
As to the money, I have a couple of suggestions: at times I stretched the injections a bit, and only had 1-2 a week, thus making two payments stretch over a whole month, and still maintained a pretty good average (4 pounds a week). One of the nurses gave me a great tip: get some "sub-lingual" (that is, taken by being dissolved under the tongue) vitamin B12 tablets from the drugstore and take them daily AS A SUBSTITUTE for the injections. Those two techniques combined should cut costs down quite a bit.
In terms of hunger and so on, I suggest checking out the recipes in the cookbook. The lentil soup recipe was a revelation. It's hearty, warm, filling (!), easy to make, cheap and YUMMY! I use it as a staple of my day-to-day eating even off the diet. I'd recommend having the bran muffins for breakfast too as they sort of approach being a normalish breakfast (vs. those lovely protein powder sachets) and help you, er... go to the bathroom. Another key recommendation I would make is to NOT tell people you're on a diet if you're out for dinner or something. One way or another people will try to get you to "cheat" -- as if it's some kind of treat you're granting yourself -- and it's so much easier just to not have that conversation in the first place. Just order your green salad or whatever without making a big deal of why, and if anyone queries your menu choice say something about not feeling hungry or only wanting something light this time.
Make no mistake, you're experiencing starvation when you're on Bernstein, which is why you might feel tired and fuzzy-headed (the potassium should help with that) and might experience symptoms like hair falling out etc.
Fundamentally I think what Bernstein offers is structure. You make it a part of your life to go into a clinic once every few days; you know that your urine is being tested so there's no way to "cheat" without it having consequences; weight loss becomes normal, it's just a matter of how much.
They deliver what they promise to. Like I said I recommend the diet for anyone.
What is rarely addressed is the inside of your head and how losing so much weight so fast can be a shock to it. (I was a bit half-assed about the diet towards the end -- losing a mere 20 pounds in 2 months -- because my ambivalence was making itself felt. Since leaving the program I've put about half the weight back on but that's not something I can blame Dr. B. for. I have food and body issues, just like plenty of other people, and I need to address them. I suspect that this last point is why so many of us have problems once we leave the program and why we put the weight on in the first place.
And finally... for what it's worth I never had a nurse with a bad attitude (well once, maybe, but I was in a bit of a mood myself so perhaps I bought it on myself) and only ever had one nurse who didn't seem to give a sh*t. What I did notice however, reading between the lines, is that a lot of the staff are not happy there and I can only think the fact that they are "always hiring" indicates major turnover, which indicates major staff unhappiness. One or two comments I overheard leads me to think the staff are not well-paid and might be treated badly.
Good luck to all on Bernstein. You should be really proud of yourselves for taking this step. :-)
Sticking to the diet absolutely is a really good strategy not just for losing weight but for fending off hunger.
I adhered to the diet religiously out of pure desperation to lose weight and that uncompromising attitude served me well. The hunger was wretchedly bad for the first three days but settled down after that; the cravings and intense fantasies about peanut butter and chocolate lasted longer, not subsiding til I was about 3 weeks in. Apparently both of these things are normal. Thereafter I was more likely to feel bored and constrained, BUT NOT HUNGRY, which is also normal. A side effect of ketosis is that you cease to be hungry, so it benefits you to be ketotic at all times, and of course the diet induces ketosis. So sticking to the diet will result in not feeling hungry.
Like I said there are provisos to my praise: I had hellish problems with constipation -- also normal for Bernstein patients -- and the laxatives they recommend had me on the floor in an agony of cramps. I found myself napping during the day, apparently due to the lack of nutrition; once or twice I fainted; at about the hundred pound mark my hair started falling out. (Also, once I had lost about 70 pounds loose skin seemed to appear on every square inch of me. Clearly this is not due to the Bernstein diet as such, but rather to the fact that I had just lost a shedload of weight. According to one of the doctors the skin just rebounds over time without surgery.) There was also an entire month in which I lost NOTHING despite maintaining my uncompromising adherence to the diet. According to the nurses it just happens sometimes, something to do with my fat cells filling up with fluid. It was pretty galling.
As to the money, I have a couple of suggestions: at times I stretched the injections a bit, and only had 1-2 a week, thus making two payments stretch over a whole month, and still maintained a pretty good average (4 pounds a week). One of the nurses gave me a great tip: get some "sub-lingual" (that is, taken by being dissolved under the tongue) vitamin B12 tablets from the drugstore and take them daily AS A SUBSTITUTE for the injections. Those two techniques combined should cut costs down quite a bit.
In terms of hunger and so on, I suggest checking out the recipes in the cookbook. The lentil soup recipe was a revelation. It's hearty, warm, filling (!), easy to make, cheap and YUMMY! I use it as a staple of my day-to-day eating even off the diet. I'd recommend having the bran muffins for breakfast too as they sort of approach being a normalish breakfast (vs. those lovely protein powder sachets) and help you, er... go to the bathroom. Another key recommendation I would make is to NOT tell people you're on a diet if you're out for dinner or something. One way or another people will try to get you to "cheat" -- as if it's some kind of treat you're granting yourself -- and it's so much easier just to not have that conversation in the first place. Just order your green salad or whatever without making a big deal of why, and if anyone queries your menu choice say something about not feeling hungry or only wanting something light this time.
Make no mistake, you're experiencing starvation when you're on Bernstein, which is why you might feel tired and fuzzy-headed (the potassium should help with that) and might experience symptoms like hair falling out etc.
Fundamentally I think what Bernstein offers is structure. You make it a part of your life to go into a clinic once every few days; you know that your urine is being tested so there's no way to "cheat" without it having consequences; weight loss becomes normal, it's just a matter of how much.
They deliver what they promise to. Like I said I recommend the diet for anyone.
What is rarely addressed is the inside of your head and how losing so much weight so fast can be a shock to it. (I was a bit half-assed about the diet towards the end -- losing a mere 20 pounds in 2 months -- because my ambivalence was making itself felt. Since leaving the program I've put about half the weight back on but that's not something I can blame Dr. B. for. I have food and body issues, just like plenty of other people, and I need to address them. I suspect that this last point is why so many of us have problems once we leave the program and why we put the weight on in the first place.
And finally... for what it's worth I never had a nurse with a bad attitude (well once, maybe, but I was in a bit of a mood myself so perhaps I bought it on myself) and only ever had one nurse who didn't seem to give a sh*t. What I did notice however, reading between the lines, is that a lot of the staff are not happy there and I can only think the fact that they are "always hiring" indicates major turnover, which indicates major staff unhappiness. One or two comments I overheard leads me to think the staff are not well-paid and might be treated badly.
Good luck to all on Bernstein. You should be really proud of yourselves for taking this step. :-)
Being overweight and working for a company that advocates weight loss is ridiculous. If you are a nurse and believe in maintaining a healthy lifestyle, being a healthy weight is part of that. To not lose the weight or follow his program because of the fear of associated health risks, then consider this: what health risks do you run being overweight? I found it absurd that there were overweight nurses there! It was not a motivator; and perhaps some people need the visual motivation; but more than that, it's not consistent to what the diet and company principles are preaching.
If the overweight staff was genuinely concerned with a healthy lifestyle and correct food choices, then they should advocate that and engage in healthy eating. And why would anyone work for a company that they don't believe in or, even more, disagree with entirely? How hypocritical!
I don't only fault the nurses, but I fault the company for that. Granted, it's ethical that the company gives everyone a chance, regardless of their physical appearance and health (and I'm assuming that the staff is offered the program for free because Dr.B wants his staff to be healthy and at an appropraite weight), but absolutely gross that those nurses who are overweight (and Dr's too) are preaching to us about what we can and cannot eat....since we clients are the ones focused on losing weight and trying to live a healthy, clean lifestyle.
I'm sorry but prettypansy is making excuses about being overweight. Unless you have a serious medical condition that prohibits weight loss (which is rarely the case and actually impossible), it takes hard work, discipline, determination and a passion for being healthy. It's much better to eat smaller, controlled portions of meat, veggies, fruit and little carbs rather than be fat!! Just look at the early primordial hunters and gatherers of humankind....they didn't binge on bread and potatoe chips or rice. They ate what they needed, in small amounts and sometimes would even skip meals. This is the way in which our body is designed to sustain itself. Get real and own up to the truth.
If the overweight staff was genuinely concerned with a healthy lifestyle and correct food choices, then they should advocate that and engage in healthy eating. And why would anyone work for a company that they don't believe in or, even more, disagree with entirely? How hypocritical!
I don't only fault the nurses, but I fault the company for that. Granted, it's ethical that the company gives everyone a chance, regardless of their physical appearance and health (and I'm assuming that the staff is offered the program for free because Dr.B wants his staff to be healthy and at an appropraite weight), but absolutely gross that those nurses who are overweight (and Dr's too) are preaching to us about what we can and cannot eat....since we clients are the ones focused on losing weight and trying to live a healthy, clean lifestyle.
I'm sorry but prettypansy is making excuses about being overweight. Unless you have a serious medical condition that prohibits weight loss (which is rarely the case and actually impossible), it takes hard work, discipline, determination and a passion for being healthy. It's much better to eat smaller, controlled portions of meat, veggies, fruit and little carbs rather than be fat!! Just look at the early primordial hunters and gatherers of humankind....they didn't binge on bread and potatoe chips or rice. They ate what they needed, in small amounts and sometimes would even skip meals. This is the way in which our body is designed to sustain itself. Get real and own up to the truth.
Hello
I just want to ask you if you think this diet is safe. and if you would recomedn it for other to use it? i am a the end of my rope and i am really desperate to loose 120lbs.
thanks
I just want to ask you if you think this diet is safe. and if you would recomedn it for other to use it? i am a the end of my rope and i am really desperate to loose 120lbs.
thanks
I appreciate your advise and totally agree with you. Losing weight in a few weeks is not worth and clinics are are for business. They are very sweet and trap the people in need. I have the experience of joining Herbal Magic and spent $2000 but with hardly any results. The best short is to simply watch your diet and do some excercise which will help you in losing weight gradually, and gain agood health eventually.
I know where you are coming from it happened to me over 4 oz of weight i was ot down.
Hi Prettypansy;
Just read your article on Dr. Bernsteins. Thank you for your informative article. I need a quick weight loss and thought I would try Dr. Bernsteins,after reading your article I will not.Other choices of weight loss I am thinking about is weight watchers,herbal magic or weight loss clinic. Being a nurse can you recommend any one of these or another one?
Just read your article on Dr. Bernsteins. Thank you for your informative article. I need a quick weight loss and thought I would try Dr. Bernsteins,after reading your article I will not.Other choices of weight loss I am thinking about is weight watchers,herbal magic or weight loss clinic. Being a nurse can you recommend any one of these or another one?
hello, i'm taking the shots at home, just wanted to know how much you were taking, as i'm doing 2 mls of each b12 and b6, 3 times a week, i'm having a hard time sleeping is this normal? let me know if you have any advice which could help, thanks in avance