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Another Kimkins Dieter With Heart Problems

Update: There is a comment on this post from Kathy who says that she was the original poster of this message on the Kimkins.com board. Kathy just found out that she has cancer and she is upset that we did not update this post with the new information. Kathy, please accept our heartfelt apologies. We found your post on LCF, not Kimkins.com, and therefore did not know of your diagnosis until your comment. Our thoughts are with you and we wish you the very best.

According to a poster on LowCarbFriends.com, this plea for help from a Kimkins dieter was posted recently at Kimkins.com:

I was taken to the E.R. Sunday night with symptoms of a heart attack. It turned out that my potassium levels were dangerously low. I haven’t been on plan since then and have gained back 12 lbs already. I have to follow up with my doctor tomorrow. I know what she is going to say. My diet will be blamed. What can I say to her that will convince her to let me continue this W.O E. Do you think that my diet could have had anything to do with it? I haven’t posted in Fit Day for over a week. I tried to I.M you but didn’t know that you were having computer problems. I want to get back on plan but am a little nervous about it. My doctor is a bit old fashioned and doesn’t like anything that isn’t “balanced”. I never have been able to convince her otherwise. I’m open for suggestions. Help!

Kimkins Staff Fitness Guru is Overweight

Kimkins Exposed has written a lengthy and controversial post about KimATC, the Kimkins staff diet guru:

With at least 50 pounds to lose, if not more, dedicated to Kimkins for quite some time now, on staff at Kimkins, and a certified athletic trainer, we have to ask “how’s that Kimkins working for ya?”

LCF Blocks Anti Kimkins Blogs

Kimkins Dangers reports on the recent sanitation and censorship on the LowCarbFriends forum with regards to the Kimkins controversy and Kimkins staffer KimATC:

LCF forum admins banned links and discussion about anything posted on anti-Kimkins blogs in an attempt to protect one of their regular posters. (Or to protect Kimkins?)

A Kimkins Member Speaks Out About the Teen Starvation Diet Scandal

This Kimkins member discusses her disillusionment:

Then I began looking. As many of us have. Reading. Lurking. Taking it all in. And there is A LOT to take in. I have been on both sides of the fence at times, mostly because I don’t know who anyone on these boards and blogs are, really, and I have to remember that when I read their posts. Who knows who is telling the real truth? So I’ve seen both sides of the coin. Until yesterday. Until the post/info about the 14 year old girl surfaced. I had not known until recently that there was a young girl posting on the site. I went, I looked at her posts–her need for more calories. I saw a few answers given by moderators about getting in more calories, specifically more nutrients that she would never get from her current caloric intake. Then I saw Kimmer’s response…and……
she disagreed with the others about needing more calories. WHAT???!!!!???? I have girls, and in this situation, as that girl’s parent, I would be FURIOUS. FURIOUS. Did I say FURIOUS?? She is telling a child NOT TO EAT MORE!!! WHO IS SHE to tell a young girl not to eat more food? Is being thin worth THAT??? No it is certainly not. EVER. And now, as many have taken the child’s posted before and after picture and reposted it–As her parent, I would be angry at all who have discussed this child’s internet activities and posted her pictures. And then I would restrict her online access!!

Please Support These Kimkins Dieters

Every day we see Kimkins dieters (many of them newbies) and we try to at least alert them to the fact that there are many concerns and unanswered questions about the Kimkins diet.

Discussion about the controversy surrounding Kimkins and Heidi Diaz (Kimmer) is usually silenced on the Kimkins.com site, and members have been banned for questioning the veracity of Heidi’s claims.
Please stop by these Kimkins members’ blogs to lend support and help sound a warning:

Fat Brat Candee Candee Vickie Nonnie Tinkerbell Tarvos HappyFatSkinnyGirl Pattigreenbean Elaine Cyn Mr. B Stephanie HarmonyNote

Kimmer Encourages Child to Continue On!

Kimkins Exposed follows up on the story of the 14-year-old girl doing the dangerous Kimkins very low calorie diet:

Kimmer Encourages Child to Continue On!

Child Still Cheered Along on Kimkins!

Just a few weeks ago, Kimmer told Jimmy Moore that Kimkins does not permit teen members. In her advice to this child she said:

I agree with all the replies above, except about needing more calories simply because of your age. A calorie is a unit of energy, that’s all. If we eat too much energy, it’s stored as fat — whether you’re 14 or 84. If you have excess body fat, you have CALORIES hanging there, again whether you’re 14 or 84.

However, if you want to up your calories, simply add more food. You’re a teenager, so a couple servings of dairy are important (or use supplements with your doctor’s advice). String cheese, Dannon low carb yogurt, broccoli, kale, cottage cheese are good sources of calcium and will give you extra calories.

So Kimmer acknowledges that this member is a young teen, and tells her that she does not need to eat adequate calories even though she is a teen. Why hasn’t Kimmer refunded this teen girl’s membership and advised her to seek her parents’ help?

Is Kimkins Using Sock Puppets?

Kimkins Exposed reports:

The controversies surrounding Kimkins and it’s creator, Kimmer, took an unexpected twist when a freelance advertisement was found that sounded eerily like the diet forum for Kimkins emerged this morning.The job was open to bidding freelancers interested in making some money.

Teen on Kimkins Starvation Diet?

Kimkins Exposed reported several developments in the current situation involving a teen on the Kimkins site who is being cheered for eating 500 calories or less per day:

14-year-old Begs Kimmer for Help

Teen Spamming for Kimmer

Update:  Teen on Kimkins 

Kimmer (Heidi Diaz) Had WLS?

The revelation over the weekend that Kimmer (Heidi Diaz) may have a dating profile using the nickname “Kimmer2″ resulted in a flurry of searching for other traces of “Kimmer2″ and two interesting discoveries.

Kimmer2 is the handle Heidi Diaz used to defend herself and Kimkins.com at the Active Low Carber board.

Someone also using the handle “Kimmer2″ on CureZone.com said this in 2005:

I had stomach stapling surgery for weight loss 12 years ago and my gallbladder was removed at the same time (as a “precaution” I was told).

I have no problems with digestion or having to avoid fatty foods although I don’t eat alot of fatty foods as a preference.

I am also an experienced water faster for cleansing purposes (3-14 days).

I did Hulda’s liver flush last night exactly as written. Although I had a lot of liquid feces with small brownish clumps from the Epsom Salts , I didn’t see any stones.

Here’s my questions if anyone can help:

1) If I don’t have a gallbladder, what does the liver flush do?
2) If I don’t have feces (I’m on the 5th day of a water fast), what is the bright yellow liquid that I’m eliminating (not urine)?
3) Is there benefit to a gallbladder-less person doing the liver flush?

Seems like quite a coincidence and many are wondering whether Kimmer2 on Curezone could be Heidi Diaz also.

Finally, a new piece of information: a reliable source tells us that Heidi Diaz is still a very overweight woman, an older, heavier version of the blue shirt pictures from the PlentyOfFish.com dating profile. Wonder when a current photo will surface?

Kimmer’s 2005 Dating Profile Uses the Fat Blue Shirt Pics

Slamboard discusses the recently-discovered PlentyOfFish.com profile that has two uncropped versions of the blue shirt fat “before” Kimmer. Why does Kimmer’s dating profile from 2005 have these before photos on it? According to Kimmer, she had already been maintaining her 200-pound weightloss for nearly four years by that time. Wouldn’t she have one of her thin, glamorous pics on the profile? Maybe not if she’s actually not thin?

Could this profile be a hoax? At first, I seriously considered the possibility that the profile was faked. But here’s why I don’t think that’s the case: the uncropped photos on this profile, which appear to be of Heidi and her son Brandon (who is now about 18 years old) have not to my knowledge been seen anywhere else online.

Take a look at the picture with the marina in the background. Heidi send this exact uncropped picture to Catherine to crop and use as her before picture for Kimkins.com. Catherine has never released the uncropped photo to anyone else. Neither of us had seen the uncropped seated photo until now.

If Heidi did indeed create this dating profile herself, it seems quite likely that she is now an older, perhaps heavier version of the woman in the blue sweater. After all, why not post the red dress photo if that is what she looks like now?