Kimkins Controversy - Kimkins Scam

How Many Testimonials is TOO MANY ?

According to arindamchakraborty.com, you can have too many testimonials. I can’t view Kimkins.com, but I noticed an item on Google directing me to view ALL 719 TESTIMONIALS. One of the most successful websites in the weight loss niche has ZERO testimonials. Fatloss4idiots.com relies more on effective advertising.

Kimkins.com seems to be set up so that a handful of testimonials are randomly called up from the database to display on the front page. The top one showing on the google cache of the homepage reads as a story of failure before it is truncated. Given the fact that Kimkins is a dishonest marketing of a seriously flawed diet, it’s not surprising that the testimonials leave a bit to be desired. Hey, at least there are a LOT of them

Why the Lack of Fascination with Kimkins?

The wheels of justice turn slowly. Fortunately for Heidi Diaz, the core demographic that she defrauded grew up watching Sesame Street and have a short attention span as a result.

That may be an exaggeration, but there certainly is less going on on the blogosphere. A result in the proceedings will probably get some people talking for awhile, maybe even the media. Personally, I think the media is done with this human drama.

A Very Public Weight Loss Journey

I was checking out YouTube for anything related to Kimkins just now. There wasn’t anything new on that front. I noticed that the surveillance video of Heidi has surpassed 10,000 views without any fanfare.

A few diet vLoggers have started adding kimkins as a keyword to unrelated videos, which is fine. This is how I discovered YvesMetamorphosis. Her weight loss journey is not a remarkable success or failure. She is not selling anything. What makes her channel worth mentioning is just the fact that it is a very public accounting of her 10 week effort. I wish her well.

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.

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.

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.

Have I Mentioned that I Hate SPAM?

Back when the Kimkins ebook was released, it was mentioned on Kimkins Exposed that some spam emails were longer than the 2000+ words that Heidi Diaz bestowed upon her loyal subjects. I have been getting really long, really porny comment spam lately. I decided to do a word count on one of them and the tally was over 5000. Thank goodness for moderation. If you ever have an important comment to make about the Kimkins Controversy, make sure it does not include thousands of dirty words, because I get so much spam that I skim through it rather than reading for context.

Don’t Knock Investment Opportunity

The internet has had a catalytic effect on relationships of all sorts. Personal relationships, whether casual or intimate are almost too easy to initiate. This has caused some social upheaval (or at least turbo-charged the same kind of upheavals that have always been part of society).

Idea oriented people with Investment opportunities can connect with people who want to make their money work for them quite easily as well. Go4Funding.com is a site that brings people together for mutual benefit in much the same way that a personals site works.

I was shocked to see a section where people presented business ideas in order to get feedback from other members. I am always scared to share any idea that I have on the internet for fear of having it stolen. Even if you don’t quite fall into either category of person for which the site is intended, it is still quite an interesting read.

Where are All the Pro-Kimkins Blogs?

If you perform a Google Blog Search for the term Kimkins, you see that the only kimkins supporter on the first page is, well, Heidi Diaz. Heidi has more than one blog, but the only item on the front page is form the subdirectory of her website.

I found an article from some LawyersAndSettlements.com a few pages in that looks interesting.

I think that blogs rank higher in this search when there are frequent and recent posts related to the search term. Heidi’s blogspot blog shows up on page six of the search.

Page Rank

Kimkins has a Google page rank of 3. Many of the upstart blogs criticizing the site have a PR of 4.

Google uses a largely secret algorithm to determine these numbers. Some people say that they put ten cats in a wet cardboard box and then go for a short coffee break. When they come back, they give your site a page rank based on the number of cats remaining in the box. Or maybe it’s the number that got out. Hey, I am not a software engineer.