Kimkins Controversy - Kimkins Scam

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?)

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

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.

Kimkins.com Tries to Silence About.com’s Kimkins Diet Review

A few days ago, Laura Dolson, the About.com Guide to Low Carb Diets, wrote a review of the Kimkins diet.   She drew most of her information from Kimmer/Heidi Diaz’s own telephone interview with low carb blogger Jimmy Moore (Jimmy has since dropped his support of Kimkins as a result of this interview).  Unsurprisingly, Dolson’s level and fair survey of the facts surrounding Kimkins resulted in a negative review.  It seems like the only people who write positive Kimkins reviews are the Kimkins affiliates who rake in commissions from their raves.

Dolson heard from Kimkins.com PR staff asking her to take down the negative review of Kimkins. Laura says:

Predictably, I’ve heard from the Kimkins company PR person, asking me to take the article down because it is inaccurate and “based on hearsay”. I’m not going to do that, but if there is anything that is inaccurate, I would want to revise it. I foresee a long back-and-forth in email with the company, but since I admittedly haven’t been on the site myself, I’d love it if anyone here would be willing to correct me, either by posting to this thread or writing to me at lowcarbdiets.guide~about.com.

Kimkins Diet Review by About.com

Laura Dolson, the About.com guide to low carb diets, has written an excellent review of the Kimkins diet — required reading for anybody interested in this plan! She says:

Kimkins is certainly a potentially dangerous diet, and I would warn anyone tempted by it to stay away. In addition, “Kimmer’s” claims of extensive weight loss maintained for five years with the maintenance diet she has described (in at least one interview) seems extremely unlikely to me. In science, there is a saying: “Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof.” Beyond short term weight loss, Kimmer has not produced any proof that her diet has even helped one person — not even herself.

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.

3 Day Miracle Diet

Kimkins Diet Review - Elizabeth

Kimkins Diet Review - Elizabeth discusses her experience with the Kimkins diet scam:

After considerable thought I decided to post my experience with the Kimmer’s site. I first became acquainted with Kimmer on the LowCarbFriends.com early last year. She appeared to be very gung ho in wanting to help the LCF members. It seemed that she must have lived on the computer answering questions and posting what had worked for her.

What I did notice was that she became very impatient if a member was not following her WOE exactly. I just thought it was because she really truly cared and wanted people to experience the weight loss she reported she had.

When I found out she had started her own website I decided for $14.95 it was worth a shot. Shortly after I had joined I noticed that when I would ask questions in a specific forum I was receiving the answers from other members. Low and behold she was not around any more - the way she was on LCF. I couldn’t understand this because on her new site she advertised personal training, coaching, etc.

After numerous attempts to get her to answer questions I had, I just gave up and stopped posting. I then just spent my time lurking.

What was alarming to me was reading some of the other member’s posts regarding the adverse health problems they were experiencing.

Not only was it recommended you cut out all carbs, but also you are told to cut calories and fats. I looked at some of the Fitday reports and was amazed that a lot of the members were so low on calories and fats that it was no surprise they were reporting sickness, loss of hair, and a slew of other symptoms.

I also noticed that some of the people were disappearing from the site and not posting any more. I found out later that they were banned for asking questions regarding the questionable Kimmer pictures and her lack of participation with the members.

What really solidified it for me was reading the “Kimmer fascination” post on the LCF forum. How could this gal have all these alias, phony pictures and continue to give out harmful advice to her members?

Please, before you plunk down $60 or whatever it is up to now ….. do yourself a favor and visit the LCF posts. If you want to just lose weight and remain healthy DO NOT follow her advice. I can guarantee you - it’s a big waste of money and it is dangerous.

Kimkins Censorship Update: Kimkins Chat Room Gone

At Spark People a poster wrote:

Good morning, I joined Kimkins on July 17, 2007 and have been very sucessful: 17lbs in 17 days. One of the main reasons I paid the $59 membership fee was the chat room that was available on the site. Unfortunately, Kimkins disabled the chat room in the middle of this week. When I sent a question to Kimmer with my concerns about the chat feature and requested a possible refund, my account was immediately blocked. I did not find out what the problem was until I sent another email to their tech support. The response was that the chat room would not be available any longer and that my membership fee was returned. My advice to anyone who is a member of Kimkins, get your money back and move to Sparkpeople. This site has everything that Kimkins does and Sparkpeople is much more user friendly. In addition, the whole Kimkins Diet Plan is on the forums for no charge…..keep your money in your pocket or get your money back.

Posters on other message boards have confirmed that the Kimkins member chat room is gone and is not expected back. Rumor has it that it was just too hard to police the chat and members were discussing the ongoing Kimkins controversies.

You were BANNED? What happened to LIFETIME…

Anti-Kimkins discussing the Kimkins bannings, and what you can do about it:

Apparently, membership to the site includes an unspoken vow to not speak harshly of the founder or the plan, in any public, online forum; to not question the legitimacy or validity of the founder or the plan, or any portion thereof; and to avoid engaging in private discussions with other members regarding concerns about….well, the founder or the plan!

Kimkins Spyware

Kimkins Dangers on the new spyware being used against members at Kimkins.com.