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Dr Bernstein Diet & Health Clinic
Category: Active Life Fitness & Instruction Fitness & Instruction [Edit]
1558 Broadway WVancouver, BC V6J 5K9
Neighbourhoods: Fairview Slopes, South Granville
(604) 736-3438
- Good for Kids:
- No
2 reviews for Dr Bernstein Diet & Health Clinic
2 reviews in English
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Review from Joyce D.
Burnaby, BC
8/26/2009
Ok fellow yelpers I am really going out on a limb here admitting my past employment but I used to work here for a few years. I am going to give you the good and the bad and believe me there is a whole lot of both.
First of all do yourself a favour and don't ever ever work there. The place is seriously f*****, well you know. It is the single most cut-throat place I have ever walked into. The staff are encouraged to rat each other out; I seriously think I cried more in 3 years than I did in the last 20. It is a diet chain across Canada and yes it works but we will get to that later. Back to the work environment. If you notice headhunters, job sites, laundry mat boards they are ALWAYS looking for staff because they can never keep them. In 3 years I seen everyone come and go both before me and after. It was a joke. Dr Bernstein himself was an invisible ghost who would float in from Toronto once or twice a year so they would have too many chiefs running the place hence the problems. Yes even the unemployment line is better.
As for the diet it is tough, very low in calories i would probably scare you if I told ya and you have to go in 3X a week to get a shot of vitamin b6 and b8 to stave off the hunger pains. Believe in what I am saying I did the diet. Before my eyes I saw all the "former fatties" is what people referred to themselves melt in thin air. It is strict, unbelievably so, The nurses were given strict orders to kick clients off for cheating. No I am not kidding, wish I were. You go in on Mon, Wed, Frid to get weighed in that is the discipline. A nurse goes over your diet meal plan and then you bend over and you know the rest.
YES you will lose weight. Your friends will look at you in disbelief and then they will go join. You will get rid of all your fat clothes a spend a small fortune at Metrotown and look real hot! Now the hard part, most of them put it all back on. They have a maintenance diet you go on and go in once a week for a shot but most are so excited to see their skinny selves again they don't want to hear about it and go out to Cactus Club or Joeys to celebrate their skinny self. I saw more people walking back in the door than I dreamed possible. It is an expensive diet at over 500 bucks for a month of injections and weigh-ins but because of the low calories and the mentoring of the nurses, some good some bad you know who you are, right Sheila, Alicia and Sam, hope I didn't leave anyone out......you will lose a ton of weight.
So all in all Dr Bernstein diet works, don't work there, and do maintenance. That is all I have to say about that. -
Review from Samantha K.
Vancouver, BC
9/20/2009
OK, so I do happen to know the owner and have a problem with certain staff members, but I think that's what makes this review better. As Joyce D did I worked there to. As a nurse there it was the easiest job I could ever do, except for the terrible office politics. I would like to tell people who may be considering using this diet that there are some great staff members there, but they come and go. I do know from working there for a year and half that this works. People who can follow the strict regiment do very well. Currently I work with three people who are using this program and are nurses that love it. It is very hard for some people to follow, but if you can it will work and it will work fast, particularly for the men. Lucky buggers. The only problem is that it is very expensive. It was pricey 5 years ago when I worked there, but it is even more expensive now. Over all if you have the dough and need to lose some extra pounds, go for it. It's a great program for the disciplined who can afford it.
