Dr. Berstein's Clinic

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Hi, I'm a newbie to this site, and find you all extremely supportive of one another. Great!! Due to a sleep study I had done last year, I was diagnosed with sleep apnea. This is where you actually stop or struggle to breathe, whilst sleeping. Scared me witless!! Apparently, obesity has a profound effect on this condition, so I resolved to improve my health and possibly the apnea, by losing weight. I joined Dr. Bernstein's Clinic, here in Toronto, last Sept. and as of yesterday a.m. I have lost 106lbs. I still have 70-75lbs. to go to reach my goal weight, but as the program I am on is strictly controlled, I suspect I will attain that by July/Aug. I have another sleep study planned for Mar.27, and should discover then whether I have improved or hopefully cured the apnea. Since being diagnosed I have found out a lot of interesting facts re: weight gain; weight retention; weight affected by lack of sleep; I have a few web-sites and chat-forums I could direct you to if anyone is interested. I suggest that anyone who has a problem with snoring, day-time fatigue, napping at inappropriate times etc, to check out (LINKS REMOVED) I was stunned to find out how my weight gain and retention was associated with my sleep habits. By choice I sleep only 4-5 hrs. nightly, and have a power nap during the afternoon. But I'm not doing myself any favours, as the body reacts in a strange way. and according to the scientific studies, Sleep Affects Your Weight!!! I'm trying to locate the web-site where you can read the latest on that subject. As soon as I find it I'll post it. Cheers!
 
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Ok, so this was posted eons ago, so I am hoping that you will still read this. I was just wondering what is restricted from your diet on Bernstein and if you can give me an idea what a typical day of food would be. I am considering this plan but want to be fully informed before I make any decisions as I am sure you can understand.

Appreciate any info you can share with me.
 
Benefits of Dr. Bernstein's weight loss programs:

1. Supervision by the physician and nurses is comprised of medical evaluation, laboratory analysis and regular monitoring to ensure your weight loss is healthy & quick.
2. Achieve great results without exercise or the dangers of diet pills or surgery .
3. Take inches off your waist, hips and thighs. Reshape your body while maintaining good skin tone.
4. Our unique treatments eliminate cravings and abnormal hunger (the reason most other diets fail) .
5. Enjoy regular grocery store foods at every meal.
6. Treatments are affordable, tax-deductible, and may be covered by insurance
7. We treat patients with medical complications such as diabetes and heart disease. We can reduce or eliminate your need for insulin, cardiovascular medications and many other prescriptions.
8. We will help stabilize and control your blood sugar, blood pressure and cholesterol levels.
9. Programs are individually prescribed for your specific needs with easy-to-follow guidebooks, diet and meal planners and recipe book.
10. The Maintenance Program incorporates new routines and lifestyle improvements to help you keep the weight off permanently.
11. Maintaining a healthy weight helps prevent heart attack, stroke, asthma, sleep apnea, arthritic complications and joint pain, and can reduce your predisposition to Alzheimer's disease and cancer of the breast, colon and prostate.
12. Research shows that maintaining your ideal weight adds an average of 11 healthy years to your life.
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A lot of the claims this plan makes, don't seem legitimate... yeah he may have doctor before his name... but - I don't buy it...

You can lose weight without forking over money to a clinic... and do it safely, sanely, and have long lasting results...
 
I was on this diet several years ago. I am 5'6, male and was 183 pounds. I got down to 138 over 13 weeks. I did regain the weight over a period of time, but I can't say this was really the fault of the diet. I stayed on the diet, except once I think I had one beer or a chocoalte bar or somehting. Here are some of my comments:

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Teaches you portion control, the importance of eating protein and not eating starch and how little food your body really needs (of course in the normal course, this is more than on the Dr. B. diet).
Lose weight really quickly. Pretty amazing results for the first while, though first week doesnt count in my view (water weitght)
I found the service was decent and they got you through appointments quickly.
Nurse was of decent attitude. None of this horrible attitude.

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Personally I was tired and hungry a lot. In my view it was very little food - the price of losing weight, I guess.
I felt like I was almost discouraged from exercising by the bernstein dr - probably wise because your body has nothing to use.
Certain foods are now dead to me. Ultra-low fat mayonnaise - wait it is not even food! Crystal light.
At certain points I stopped eating the fruit as it was impeding weight loss.
MY gp wanted me to get off.
My mom knows a few people on the diet and doesn't know anyone who did not gain back.

A few years later I have now lost 50 pounds applying what I learned using Dr Bernstein, but just eating more. I can't say I wouldn't recommend it but you need to know what you are getting into and prepared to be tired and hungry.

A side note - DO NOT pig out at the end of the diet. I did this and had to be off work four/five days because of digestive issues.
 
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It's not.

On another board, I know of two people who are following it, one in Toronto, another in Tampa.

The woman from Toronto is doing it, she's lost 38 pounds, she thinks this is the solution, but she's eating like 800 calories a day. And it's taken four months for her to lose those 38 pounds.

It doesn't sound healthy, and I don't know what she will do when she has to get off it. Or is this the way you eat for the rest of your life? No clue.
 
Hi, I'm a complete newbie, and I'm currently on the Dr. Bernstein's diet as well. It is medically supervised, and they have a maintenance program to introduce foods back into your diet. You definitely aren't going to be eating only 800 calories for the rest of your life. They even mention in their pamphlet that this is a "diet" not a "lifestyle diet". I find that I actually have more energy eating this diet, than when I was on a 1200 calorie diet. I like it so far, but it's only been 2 weeks for me
 
do you realize that this thread is over 3 yrs old??? I'm gonna close it.
 
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