Kimkins Controversy - Kimkins Scam

Have you Heard About FitReach?

If you are looking for a convenient way to stay on track with your fitness and dietary goals, you should check out FitReach. You can use the site to help you track your progress, whether your goal is weight loss or muscle gain.

You can create a training plan and input your statistics and your results. Your FitReach account can also serve up a great way to manage your diet. In the information age, we have a lot of information at our fingertips with regard to diet and fitness. There are enough trusted sources and review sites out there to help you separate the good info from the bad if you do a little homework. Knowing how to lose weight and/or get fit is not the issue with most of us. As often as not we fail to stick to perfectly good plans because we lack the motivation or the organization. Tools like FitReach help people firm up a plan and stick to it. Your progress is visible to other FitReach members, if you choose to make it visible.

Creating a FitReach profile is quick and easy. Getting fit and/or losing weight is not quick and easy, but anything that you can do to keep yourself on track is worth looking into.

Where’s Kimmer?

The controversy page on Kimkins and the Kimkins homepage don’t match up. It’s not so much a lie as an oversight.

Here is the sentence I am referring to…

Here is a screencap from Kimkins, slightly modified for the purposes of lulz…

Heidi is writing about a 50lb weight loss AND she has stopped documenting her progress on the front page. It doesn’t add up (or subtract up, depending on how you look at it).

Reaching Out

Blogs serve various purposes for various people. I became a bit upset when I recently saw a blog that was being used by someone with a serious eating disorder, possibly bulimia. Her profile information sounded positive and hopeful with regard to recovering, but her journal style entries were shocking details of an unhealthy relationship with food. The shield of anonymity prevents me from trying to help this person in any substantial way. If any of my readers think they have enough life experience and empathy to reach out to a binge and purge blogger, go to Egocidal.blogspot.com.

Freedom of Information

If you are really interested in the minute details of the legal proceedings related to Kimkins, you might be interested in Riverside Civil Court Open Access. Anyone can view documents related to the case, or just about any other case.

I am not in a reading mood today. My most insightful observation is related to the clerical quality standards. One page was copied on an pretty extreme diagonal. I wish people took more pride in their work.

Spreadable Butter Made Easy

I recently felt more joy than circumstances warranted when I started using our new can opener. Basically, our old one was crap and the new one was as good as it gets. I hadn’t realized just how much my life had been diminished by that crappy can opener.

This post is not about can openers, it is about a really cool French butter keeper from Vat19. Seeing how it works has made me question how much better my life could be if my butter would spread well at room temperature. I should note that with the cost of heating fuel rising, ‘room’ temperature is lower than ever, at least in the winter.

Vat19 is a really cool online store. Some product are a bit silly and some are pure genius.

Check out ‘Normal Eating’

I am not promoting the school of thought that is being referred to as Normal Eating. It interests me and I haven’t heard or read anything about it that I found discouraging. The basic idea is that our bodies know how to regulate weight properly and that teaching ourselves to eat based on physiological cues and to ignore emotional and societal cues will result in healthy weight loss. I recommend that you all read up on it. The only criticism that I have is that many people are so entrenched in a culture that overeats that calling this ‘normal eating’ will sound elitist to their family and friends. In a society, normal is what everyone decides to call normal. I could be wrong.

I Can Spot Homeschoolers From a Mile Away

Seriously, a lot of kids that get home schooled do end up noticeably different from their age cohorts that are attending public schools. That is a good thing ion most cases. I can’t pick out a home schooling parent as easily. The results of home schooling may have some commonality, but the reasons for embarking on the home schooling journey are quite varied.

Some parents want to be free to provide an education that is in line with their religious beliefs. Some parents want to be free to travel with their kids and educate them at the same time. I home schooled two children for about 4 months once and I found it to be an unsatisfactory arrangement. They though it sucked. I had some experience working in an educational setting and I thought I could do a good job on the fly with the resources on the Internet and at the library. It was a project based curriculum. In retrospect, I should have considered some structured resources like the ones provided by The Grace Academy. Trained professionals from this organization can get parents on the right track with their home schooling efforts. They have a statement of faith on their website. It is a Christian organization.

Counting Words

I like to know how many words I have written. Most serious word processing programs have a built in word counter. I keep telling myself that I should write my blog posts into Word rather than typing them right on my browser, but I never do. When it comes time to count the marvelous words that I have written, I use this handy page for counting words. I think that page must get a lot of traffic. I tried to embed the script ion a more convenient place, but it wouldn’t work for me

Get ISP Info at GetISP.info

ISP stand for Internet Service Provider. I can vividly remember the days when I had a choice between the phone company and, well, nothing. Now you can get high speed broadband connections from your cable company and DSL from several different providers. The combination of competition and technological advancements has been very good to us. Satellite Internet is quickly becoming a viable option for many consumers as well. If you heard bad things about the reliability of satellite internet in the past, you should take a fresh look at it. The capacity has been much improved. I used to live in a rural area where there was no high speed option. the woman to whom I sold the property ended up getting satellite internet and she is happy with it.

According to GetISP.info, many of us have access to all three of these plus the cheaper but less useful option of dialup. I can imagine that it is hard for many of us to choose the best option. If you watch cable television, you will probably get bombarded with adds for the cable internet service that they themselves provide. You probably see offers for DSL inside your phone bill envelope. It’s a wonder that they don’t have some astronaut dropping ISP leaflets down on our heads from up in a satellite. I guess they would probably burn up on re-entry.

GetISP.info puts all the best ISP deals together in one place to help you decide.

Kimmkins With Two M’s

I don’t know why I didn’t have this thought process until just now. The people who are at the most risk of suffering financially and/or with regard to their health are also very likely to have poor spelling. They aren’t going to stumble upon the fact that Kimkens is a fraud if all of the anti-kimkins blogs diligently check their spelling. I shouldn’t imply that only unintelligent people are joining Kimmkins. A smart person with the right combination of a trusting nature and a burning desire to lose weight quickly is just as likely to throw their money down the well that is the Kimkins site.