Kimkins Controversy - Kimkins Scam

Then the little red flags began to jump up in front of me. Blinding really, because I continued on without really seeing the big picture. Of course the Kimmer controversy took place, and you know the pro-Kimmer position I took on that. But thoughts began to take root in my mind and I began to look back at some of the posts I remember. One member posted she was eating 300-400 calories a day and no longer losing. Her pants were not getting any smaller and her body was getting flabbier. And then she disappeared. Since then we’ve had bleeding kidneys, constipation, and ailments that could very easily be related to gallbladder disease. While I do not know of this first hand, one woman claims to have been hospitalized for severe pelvic pain. And the cause, overuse of Epsom salts. Much to her credit, she fully accepts the blame for her illness. Just a lot of things have happened, but the most troubling for me is the starvation and the freaking out over gaining a ½ a pound of weight and the frustration over not making the “gold standard” of a pound a day, or 20 pounds month, month after month. Please don’t get me wrong, I am in no way denigrating your miraculous accomplishments here, and I applaud you, but at the same time I worry for you. Especially those of you who have been the most successful. For the majority of you, I pray that you “cheat” or “tweak” enough to keep yourselves safe.

I have all my life had problems with bowel elimination but now it was non-existant. I tried the Epsom Salt drink that Kimmer recomended to get things going and that didn’t work for me. Realistically in my head I said - nothing in = nothing out.. but I didn’t get it. I bought into the “laxatives aren’t addicting” advice that was freely given on kimkins.com. When I went on vacation early August of last year - I got so constipated I resorted to taking EX-LAX - there it started. I was using EX-LAX almost daily and realized that it couldn’t be good, so I went to Smooth Move tea, a natural alternative LOL… Daily… sometimes twice - from August 2006 until last Monday July 23 - I drank the tea almost every day and a few times would take an EX-LAX or two in addition if things weren’t moving. I was ADDICTED… a member of LCF started a post about her addiction to laxatives and I knew I had to do something about it.

I believed Kimmer when she said new information shows that laxatives are not addictive, so I started taking ex-lax, much as she said her sister did. I took it for almost 5 months, morning and night, and it worked. After hearing the upset on the lowcarbfriends board, I tried to stop it, but I couldn’t “go” without them. I am still trying to undo the harm they have caused.