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Posted on: 2:38 pm, April 23, 2012, by Web Staff, updated on: 02:48pm, April 23, 2012

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(CNN) Brides often feel the pressure of looking their best on their wedding day, purchasing a dress with sometimes significantly lower wedding weight in mind.

While some try to lose weight the healthy way focusing on long-term weight management, eating right and exercise, others attempt crash diets sometimes going to extreme measures to shed those extra pounds.

One such bride, Jessica Schnaider told ABC and The New York Times that she wanted to lose 10 pounds before her big day.

She went to Dr. Oliver Di Pietro in Miami Beach, Florida. In a release to CNN, Di Pietro says hes brought the K-E diet to the United States from Italy. The diet involves inserting a feeding tube into a patients nose that runs to the stomach for a period of 10 days.

Patients do not eat any food, receiving their 800-calorie-a-day food supplements through a portable pump that they carry around. Di Pietro says in his statement that he began to offer this diet to some of his obese patients.

According to his statement, the goal was to help them jump start a longer weight loss program, and all who participated enjoyed a safe and significant weight loss of between 10-25 pounds depending on sex, initial weight and whether or not they chose to stay on the plan the entire 10 days. Schnaider told ABC she only did the diet for 8 days, stopping only once she reached her goal of losing 10 pounds.

Di Pietro says patients are monitored with urine and blood tests during the 10-day cycle. He says before beginning the diet, patients are screened in order to participate.

Di Pietro says in the release that he modified the plan for the U.S. by adding medium chain triglycerides and requiring stricter monitoring by a doctor.

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