How many did Dr. Bernstein?
. Look it up and make an appointment. Gl! 
I did it and lost over 100 lbs, but it was hard slogging and extremely restrictive...I was taking in less than 650 calories a day, and my body started rebelling and my weight loss slowed down to less than 2 lbs a week, and they took away my tomatoes, peppers and the one fruit portion a day...so I was left with 2/3 of a small chicken breast and lots of leafy greens and cucumber and diet jello...I quit after 9 months, after I had a orugh time from the nurses: it is part of their style to run the place like a rehab clinic and if you don't lose weight, they berate you and eventually you quit or get thrown out by Bernstein himself...I don't go into ketosis easily, so they were accusing me of eating too much and not weighing my portions...I was on top of the world while the weight was coming off, and then my body started to fight back at the starvation diet ..and when I quit, I immediately regained 25 lbs, and try as I did, weight crept back on over 3 years back to what I weighed before despite not eating bread and root vegetables or any starchy stuff...I dislike tuna, so ate a lot of chicken and shrimp...and of course the oatmeal for breakfast with 8 strawberries...I still do, but use some milk in it and even forbidden fruits on Bernstein, such as blueberries, pear ,raspberries or mango ..His protein portions are too small, and he allows no dairy such as real cheese or yogurts...on the other hand your veg portions are huge and filling ( no root or starchy veg though) so you have lots of roughage, but uric acid in your blood goes up from all the veg, and that can lead to gout if you do it for years. Because it is so restrictive and no allowances are made for greater variety of foods, you get cravings and after you stop the Bernstein diet, you fall back to those comfort foods and gain again...South Beach is better! Buy the book and follow it, costs less than the thousands I paid Bernstein!
They do, sadly. They take fruit away first, then little by little, other things. They also accuse of you cheating if you're not meeting their goals (because they 'gaurantee' weight loss in their ads and program and would rather not give you a free month). They had to do that for me one month because I hadn't lost the 10lbs they promise, I'd lost 2, and they tried to accuse me of cheating also but I had positive (keytone) urine tests every single time. When they couldn't prove I was cheating, they were not happy with me; I told them I would never cheat because I was paying them a lot of money and really was commited, the nurses acted like they didn't believe me and I was "somehow magically able to fool their system but they'd be onto me soon enough"... they gave me a free month. I think, as Marny pointed out, the nurses aren't happy to be working there. Maybe they don't treat their staff well. They certainly seemed moody most of the time.
I did that several years ago. I was losing weight but got concerned when I was on a potassium sparing medication. The nurses wanted me to keep taking my potassium but I wanted to talk to the Doctor before I continued with it as I wanted to be comfortable taking it and didn't want to get hyperkalemia . They refused to let me talked to the doctor. I said well I won't take it until I do and they told be that they would have to drop me from the program. Needless to say I left on my own accord, wrote a carefully worded letter and never heard from them again. THey are all for taking your $$ but didn't want to deal with you when you had issues.
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