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Covergirl Christin Joins the Staff Exodus from Kimkins.com

Christin, the Woman’s World covergirl and recently-appointed Kimkins director of PR, is the latest person to leave the Kimkins.com organization, close on the heels of Becky and Deni. Christin says:

I must confess to you at this time that I did have some side effects of my drastic weight loss. Neither one was of concern to my doctors and were reasoned out and treated. But, I feel as if I do not disclose them to you, it would not be honest. My hair began falling out the month before I began maintenance. I upped my biotin intake to no avail. Becoming concerned I started asking different stylists and they recommended a certain scalp treatment which after increasing my biotin levels even further seem to have stopped my hair loss. The other side effect I had due to the loss of estrogen was a loss of my monthly cycle for about 5 months. Again, this has been corrected by my doctor and is no longer of concern.

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There is so much more to say, but I do not feel this is the time or place.

Christin Dispenses Diet Advice Online Without Qualifications

Kimkins Exposed takes a close look at Kimkins’ new public relations staffer, covergirl Christin:

From her FitDay records it’s clear she starved herself to lose the weight. Now in her My Daily Plate food journal it’s clear her diet is now filled with mostly packaged products and her calorie intake, which is up and down, is still below what should be normal for a woman her age, weight and height. But she is the face of Kimkins and now representing the company too as Director of Media and Public Relations. While Christin may indeed be a good person, and we have no reason to believe she’s not, one cannot distance the fact that she has been a paid affiliate all along, thus has had a vested interest in promoting Kimkins. Now is a paid staff member who is a corporate officer. When people read her words encouraging them and others to starve themself, they need to be aware of this conflict-of-interest.

Blogger Outlines Kimkins Diet Medical Risks

Sherrie from Pinch Of… reviews the Kimkins diet and discusses its medical risks:

This post here is just some concerns of mine regarding kimkins, I have seen a lot of people try to deny the very low fat and calorie side of this diet or people try to say claim the safety of Kimkins based on their own success when they did not really do it. So I wanted to make a few points about why I don’t see it that way.

The next part I will go into concerns regarding gallstones, rapid weight loss and lean protein (aka Stefannson and the “rabbit diet”).

I thought, a good topic to post on would be the fat intake, as the more and more I read up on about kimkin’s and other’s fitdays the more I see how extremely “anti-fat” this diet is.

Embattled Kimkins Announces New PR Director

Slamboard, which provided new insight into Kimkins and the Who Is Kimmer? question, says this on the appointment of Kimkins poster girl Christin to Director of Public Relations at the sinking Kimkins ship:

Today the Kimkins.com camp announced the appointment of Christin Sherburne as Director of Media & Public Relations.

Christin was the Woman’s World cover model. In the midst of the discussion in the past couple of months about the identity and weight loss claims of Kimkins creator Heidi Diaz (”Kimmer”) a story surfaced that Christin had begged Heidi to meet her during Christin’s trip to LA for the Woman’s World interview and photoshoot, but Heidi brushed her off. To the best of my knowledge nobody, even Christin, can say that they have met “Kimmer” in person or verify that she is the woman in her diverse assortment of “after” pictures.

Christin, a Kimkins affiliate who makes commissions from sales she helps drive to the site, has deflected my attempts to seek her comment on the alleged brush-off. However, I have been told that she was very disappointed and I wonder, given the revelations of the past couple of months, whether she still has faith in Diaz’s integrity.

Kimkins Diet Review - Deb

Kimkins Diet Review - Deb talks about her bad experience with the Kimkins diet:

I have been on the Kimkins diet since the beginning of June 2007, although I did lose 26.5 pounds during that time, I had several health problems along with that way of eating. My first week on the plan, I chose the Bootcamp option which is strict with 30 minutes of intense exercise daily. I thought I would die by the second day. My body was in shock, I almost passed out on my way home from the gym and layed around the entire rest of the day trying to recoup.So I then transferred over to KE which is no veggies but at least I didn’t have to exercise while eating low calories. By the end of the first week on this plan, I began to lose hair, had no energy, and was terribly constipated, severe abdominal pain, nausea, dizziness, and weakness not to mention my weight loss stalled and I was only eating 400-500 calories. I thought how the heck could I not be losing on that low of calories. So I then moved on to the shake option which I loved because it was 2 shakes a day and 1 kimkins meal. I had no appetite on this plan and how wonderful I thought. I had to force my self to eat the 1 meal because I was not hungry at all and so weak I could barely function throughout the day. My moods were awful and I now could not sleep. I felt like a zombie throughout the day, I could not think straight and my vision began to get blurry and now my hair was falling out in clumps, I was due to get a perm but the lady that does my hair wouldn’t touch it until I quit losing hair.

The worse thing was that the auto immune disease I have kept in remission for 5 years has resurfaced because of the starvation I was causing my body to endure. By starving the body of calories and fat, it suppressed my immune system causing the monster to resurface. I thought it was just a coincidence at first, but I contacted Jimmy Moore since his leaving Kimkins and pleaded with him for advice, he was such a huge help. Without bashing Kimkins or any other diet, he suggested that I add more calories and good fats to my diet. I followed his advice and within 3 days my hair quit falling out. By the 5Th day I had energy, I slept like a log and every one of my symptoms have disappeared. I know that Jimmy has taken a hard hit because of the association with Kimkins but please give him a break. I believe that God placed him there so he could learn about the plans so he could better inform his loyal readers about the plan.

The support at Kimkins was great and you don’t want to leave once you are there because of the friends you make there. I do so much miss my friends there and wish they would see the light before it affects their health. I had to leave because my health is more important to me and I can still lose weight and be healthy without starving myself. I intend to follow the Atkins plan because I think he knew that the fat was needed to substain health while losing.

In the end of my journey at Kimkins, I did contact tech support for a refund and Kimmer herself answered my email. She at first did not want to offer a refund but after a couple of emails, she did offer the refund and she did seem to care about my health. I can’t help but question though, was this because she was tracking my every move online like was rumored. If this were the case, she would have already known I warned my Kimkins friends of my health problems and that I was posting at LCF site also for advice. She might have known I went to Jimmy for advice also. If that were the case, then no wonder she was answering for the tech guys over there, she had to talk to me personally to see what was going on.

I am sorry Kimmer but I do believe that when someone says they are losing hair, weak and generally feeling like they are going to die that you should recommend them to add more calories to their diet to see how they feel. I truly did believe in you and I also suffer from anxiety issues and can identify with you not wanting to meet with large crowds but when you did not meet with Christin or Jimmy one on one, that was a HUGE red flag for me. I suffer from anxiety issues and I could have had them come to my home for an interview. If you truly have nothing to hide, then invite Jimmy over for an interview with pictures or meet at a nearby park. You could set this all straight with that one move and if you did, I would publicly apologize to you.

How about it Kimmer? Set the record straight and all this will stop. As for now for me, until I see a move on Kimmer’s part, I will stand by my decision to leave the site and stick with my opinion that the plans are unsafe and dangerous. This decision comes from much prayer and support of true friends that care about my health. Thank you my friends for your support.

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