Kimkins diet

 

So little to say… but go read these posts!

I am totally out of writing mojo, even about Kimkins these days. The latest on the Kimkins lawsuit is that the 3rd deposition of Heidi Diaz has been completed and went well, and the 3rd amended compliant has been filed. If you have never read the complaint, you should. Lots of evidence presented in…

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Pregorexia

Disturbing and dangerous trend:

Pregorexic: Are Some Pregnant Women Putting Their Fetuses at Risk?

Part of the outrage over the Kimkins diet has been the way members and staff push themselves and each other to eat less and less, starving off the weight. This news story isn’t about Kimkins, but…

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Christin talks about Kimkins

Jimmy Mmore has a new podcast interview with former Kimkins covergirl Chrstin Sherburne.
http://www.thelivinlowcarbshow.com/christin-sherburne/

It’s really nice to hear from Christin herself how she’s doing after a really difficult year, including recovery from harm the Kimkins diet did to her…

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2kidsandapup, you’ve been robbed.

2kidsandapup, you’ve been robbed. Heidi Diaz lifted one of your pictures for her blog, where she promotes the allegedly fraudulently marketed Kimkins diet. Very nice photo! Is the recipe yours, too? Looks delicious, though not something allowed on the Kimkins diet.

Here’s the source of the…

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Big news day for lowcarb diets!

These are different interpretations of the same info. I think it’s all good news! Will the world get it? I hope so!

OK, I think it’ll take more than this, but still… I’ll take good news where I can! Note that none of the articles says to starve yourself on a low-everything diet until you lose…

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Some Recent Health News

I found these articles interesting and thought I’d share them here.

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This one supports the importance of essential fatty acids for mental health.
Eating Healthy Food Can Keep Mental Disorders At…

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Weighing the Facts: Fighting Disordered Thoughts: Anorexia

I thank MrsMenopausal (Weighing the Facts) for pointing out this video on her blog. She has a great and informative blog - please be sure to check it out. (Hi Mrs!)

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Another thought about those model pictures…

SingingLass keeps referring to what Heidi Diaz did as using ‘model photos’ to represent her diet plan, and says that everyone does it. I still think that’s completely irrelevant, but one more problem with that argument is that companies that use models to promote their products HIRE those models….

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I’ll Answer the Refund Question that Heidi Diaz/Kimmer and SingingLass Are Avoiding

A Kimkins member has asked for a refund on the Kimkins message boards, after being ignored by Heidi Diaz in email requests. Note: Singinglass, an admin, claims the member never tried to contact Heidi, so either Singinglass reads Heidi’s emails (and as culpable than we thought!) or she believes a…

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Kimkins Deceptive Marketing - Food Pictures

This picture is part of a banner on the Kimkins site. Wouldn’t you want to go on a diet where you could eat like this and still lose a ton of weight? (Actually you can, but not on Kimkins!) Those pictures stolen from other web sites to lure dieters into paying $80 just to find out that you don’t…

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Who deserves the credit this time?

For Heidi Diaz Kimkins spammy blog about the saltiest foods - the source is here. No credit given to the source.

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Happy Independence Day!

Have a safe & happy holiday!

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Image source: www.freefever.com

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From Dr. Briffa: Omega-3 fat supplementation found to improve brain function

One of the nutrients Kimkins is most deficient in is essentail fatty acids. They’re called essential for a reason! Here’s a post from Dr. Briffa about the importance of Omega 3s for basic brain function, and potentially protecting you from dementia.

Regina Wilshire recently posted about Omega 3s…

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Heidi Diaz - The Only Person Happy About High Gas Prices

Surprise! Due to the high price of gas, the Kimkins Vegas meet-up is ‘postponed’. Raise your hand if you saw that coming!

Heidi Diaz doesn’t have to come up with a creative excuse for not showing up for her own party. If she’d shown up, she’d have had to explain why she can’t lose weight on her…

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To the Kimkins member struggling with skipping heartbeats and dizzy spells

Please tell your doctor exactly what you are eating. He will not think to ask you specifically because you are above your target weight. It could be from starvation, muscle atrophy, low thyroid, or adrenal fatigue. All can be caused by the Kimkins diet. I know you don’t want to hear that it’s the…

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More photonapping… meatloaf muffins

Here’s the meatloaf picture that Kimmer, accomplished photonapper, Kimkins diet ‘creationer’, posted on her blog a few days ago.

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Who did Kimmer photonap this time - part 2

Thanks, Haalo, for the heads up that she removed the photo she stole from you, and used a photo she stole from here. I see she’s also used a stock photo from here. I had no idea she was a Kimorexia reader! Well, not today anyway!

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What did Kimmer photonap this time?

This time it’s a soup photo, lifted from here. The photo was flipped and cropped to lop off the bread.

She didn’t lift the receipe from that site, though. Too bad, because it sounds better than hers.

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Kimmer Blathers About Low Thyroid

Here’s a case where Heidi Diaz / Kimmer may know what she’s talking about. In a recent blog post, she reviewed the symptoms of low thyroid. (She lifted a thyroid image from here and her words from somewhere else but failed cite her sources. Figures.)

What stood out for me was the fact that the…

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Low on inspiration…

Gosh this battle is dragging on. There should be more court action soon, though.

I read a blog today from a person who posted a couple of weeks ago that they were starting Kimkins and were so excited. They posted again this week saying they’d lost 100 pounds in 5 months on Kimkins. Do the math….

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Mariasol Presents an Important Kimmer Admission

Mariasol found a reference by Kimmer to her own WLS.
Kimmer Admits WLS

An important note:
Kimkins is sold as “Better than gastric bypass!” Kimkins didn’t even work for Kimmer after WLS. As it has failed to work for her all other times she has tried it. Again and again.

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Magicsmom Muses on Kimmer the Helpful

She did such a nice job on this post that I thought I’d share it! Reading Kimmer’s own words has all new meaning when the truth has been uncovered.
Wonderful, helpful Kimmer! What a saint!

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Kimkins Member Wrestles With Major Issues (by Mayberryfan)

This post by Mayberryfan fits with the post I made earlier today about the starvation study. In her post, she talks about a Kimkins member who is really struggling. Mayberry says this woman’s words “give important insight into the mental issues that can arise from trying to conform to a starvation…

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Effects Of Semi-Starvation

I want to share with you something I read this morning. This is some seriously interesting reading. It discusses and interprets the Ancel Keys “starvation study” from 1950.

The article is about the relationship between eating disorders and prolonged dietary restriction. The entire article can be…

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Have you been to AnswerFittness.com?

AnswerFitness is a new-to-me blog. I found it through their detailed review of the Kimkins diet:

Kimkins Diet: Big Fat Fraud? | Diet Reviews

I think it’s important to note that he reviewed Kimkins on his own. He’s not a naysayer, negative nancy, angry mobster, or any of the other things the…

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Mariasol’s Thoughts on Kimkins and Laxative Abuse

When checking my blog stats, I noticed that many people end up on my blog from a google search on laxatives for weight loss. How sad.

Laxatives are not useful for weight loss. They cause loss of water weight. Not fat loss. The drop on the scale is not permanent. As soon as you replace the lost…

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Take Action Now—There’s Still Time

It has been awhile since these were posted. so many new faces are showing up on the scene. They can join in the fight by filing their own reports.

Sign the petition
Request for Kimkins Investigation Petition
This petition goes to the Federal Trade Commission, Better Business Bureau, and the…

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It’s too late to take that back…

In Kimmer’s own words, on LCF:
Kimkins is 1992 Atkins, except minimal fat for max weight loss.

Kimmer Experiment is Stillman’s.

She ripped off 2 diet plans. Then she used her plan behind the plan to make them so unhealthy that people have gotten seriously sick following her advice.

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Fraudelent Marketing in the News

Former Body Solutions CEO admits lying to FTC
May 19, 2008

DALLAS

The former CEO of a company that used radio personalities to market Body
Solutions weight-loss products pleaded guilty Monday to lying to federal
regulators about his assets.

Harry Siskind, 53, former chief executive of Mark…

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Peace, Please

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New Fascination With Kimkins Board

Fascination

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Kimkins Lawsuit Gets Personal

I thought this stuff only happened on television? People who speak out openly against Kimkins and support the Kimkins fraud lawsuit are being personally attacked on blogs, and are having their privacy invaded. It’s like school yard bullying moved to cyber space! It’s really ugly. I hope the targets…

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Worth Repeating - Don’t Call it Kimkins if it’s NOT!

If you are using some of the Kimkins principles to adapt another plan to lose weight, please don’t call it Kimkins. Kimmer has said, ‘If you tweak it, it’s not Kimkins!’
Kimkins is a crash diet. The Kimkins PR person said it is for TEMPORARY weight loss on the Mike & Juliet show (links to the…

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Katie Couric on Kimkins?

I am just kidding, of course, but she did get Kimkins-like results. Check out the Katie Couric Photoshop Diet! Be sure to read the article so you can hear how she reacted when she found out this was done to her picture.

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Angry About Kimkins

In case anyone has forgotten why people are so angry at Heidi Diaz for the crash diet that is Kimkins, TheTruth has some important reminders - Heidi’s own words.

Kimmer: Cut Calories and Take Laxatives
Kimmer: Calories and Laxatives #2
Kimmer: Calories and Laxatives #3

Truly scary diet advice -…

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When Reading Internet Articles - Beware of Manipulation

One good outcome from the Kimkins disaster is that a lot of people have gotten much more discerning about things they read. Is the material education or manipulation? Is it the truth? What’s in it for the author? Is the author a real person? Who is making money off this article, or the product it…

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San Diego County ~ Any former Kimkins Members

If you are a former Kimkins member and you reside in San Diego County, John Tiedt would appreciate hearing from you at your earliest convenience.
Please email John or use the Contact Us form on his website.
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Here we go again…

Heidi Diaz is still dispensing unqualified, hazardous advice. That website can’t get shut down fast enough to suit me.

These comments from Heidi Diaz were posted today at Kimkins, and quoted at LCF:

Re:”I’m a Kimkins Newbie” Challenge 2008! 2 Hours, 15 Minutes ago

Kimmer:
“I don’t believe in…

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Kimkins Lawsuit Update

The results of today’s hearing are that Heidi Diaz assets remain frozen, in anticipation of the refunds she will likely have to issue to her customers when the Kimkins lawsuit is concluded.

The attorney, John Tiedt, is continuing to collect evidence of the following:

1.) All Kimkins.com…



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Cleochatra Kicks Heidi Diaz Butt!

Please go visit my dear friend Cleochatra and congratulate her for losing 50 pounds in 10 weeks.

How did she do it? She ATE. Real food. Real fat. Protein. Veggies. What didn’t she do? Lie. Lift someone else’s photos. Contort her photos. Extended Diet Coke fasting. In other words, shes NOT doing…



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About.com Has a New Kimkins Summary

None of this is really news, but Laura Dolson provides a nice, concise summary of the Kimkins scam:

March 2008 Update on Kimkins Diet Scam

Her previous posts can be accessed here.



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It’s All About the Lies

The letter from John Tiedt to the Kimkins class action lawsuit principles outlines a long pattern of lies Heidi Diaz told to get people to join the Kimkins diet, to keep from having to give people their money back, to hurt people, and to cover her hide.

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More Mystic Chicken Info

For those of you who can’t get enough of the mysterious magic chicken & Kimkins connection, MJR has a timeline posted on her blog:

Kimkins - Magic Chicken Diet

Help her out if you have more information, because I think she’s going to start going cluck crazy soon if she doesn’t find the link!





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Just a reminder - there’s still time to join the Kimkins lawsuit!

If you were a paid Kimkins member, you are eligible to join the lawsuit against Heidi Diaz.

If you are not sure if you should join the Kimkins lawsuit, consider the Kimkins deposition evidence of the lies she told to market her site. Consider the breach of contract when she banned people without…



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The quote of the day goes to Mayberryfan!

Mayberrfan has a way with words. She sure does have Heidi Diaz pegged! Here is what she said in this post over at LCF:

Kimmer is the type of person who’d probably hit the cemetary right after a service so she could take some nice fresh flowers to put on her table.

Her motto is “Ethics, smethics.”…



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Is the Kimkins debate over?