Smart Women ~ Dumb Choices

I was reading some of the truthful blogs about the scammer diet aka Kimkins this morning and shaking my head. I understand why some members bury their heads in the sand, I really do. If you are insulated in that surreal place where everyone cheers you on and supports you while you struggle with food issues it is so natural to lose perspective. And when you are super hungry every thought becomes a chore.

And when you might venture out to check out the other low carb support sites they can be intimidating and scary. Bulletin Boards take on a high school like flavor of the in crowd, the geeks, the kid no one likes, the bullies, the passive aggressives who pretend to be your friend, and it is so easy and comforting to scurry back to your safe haven.

I danced around a few places when I started my serious journey to health and fitness a few years ago. I lurked at LCF and always felt like an outsider, an intruder that no one would pay attention to. I still feel that way. But the wide range of opinions on things that matter to me in my weight loss journey helped me much more than a narrow perspective tightly controlled and choreographed. I didn't see it then but I do now in hindsight.

I avoid the playground with it's bullies, know it alls, posters with 50,000 posts who rule the roost and unconsciously or deliberately belittle. I focus on that which matters to me. I seek out the words of the intelligent, the kind, the successful at finding their own weight loss path and sticking to it or changing it as needed. The ones who have honestly walked the walk and share honestly.

Honest is not a word that can be attributed to Kimkins or to Heidi Diaz. No matter what tune she sings now. No matter how she is spinning the haters and liars. She is a bad person. She is dangerous.

I know many of the current members have found support in the membership there in spite of who runs the site. I hope they have found sanity in eating and have collected info so they do not find themselves lost without their network like the hundreds of banned.

There have been so many warnings of this but I think it bears repeating. It makes me sad.

OK some new links, thanks to WildAngel!

mariasol: Kimkins Boot Camp

So Heidi, you say that you don’t promote laxatives…….. MJR’s-Duck Squad

Kimorexia: Blame the Fraud, Not the Victim

What drew me to Kimkins? The Art of Toad Swallowing

Coffey To Go: How *****y Are You?

Thank You EzineArticles Kimkins Scam

Medusa: THE KIMKINS STARVATION DIET: ANOREXIA AND BULIMIA NOT ONLY AFFECT WOMEN...

Award Ceremony To Be Scheduled Soon! HoneyBee’s Blog

Grilled Cheese Sandwich with Pickles: White Rice Hangover

Willa's Notebook: The People Who Hang On to KK

Anti-Kimkins Blogs of Note: Kimkins Scam Kimkins Controversy - Kimkins Scam

Kimkins Keeps Me Crying, Are All Articles Innocent? Kimkins And Other Affiliate Marketing Nightmares

Kimkins–Affiliate Marketing Diary of a Mad Housewife

when is kimkins not kimkins? 2big4mysize’s Weblog

Kimkins Diet Review: Eating and Shopping for Whole Foods

My Hindsight Fashion Sense Kimkins Controversy - Kimkins Scam

Kimkins Class Action Lawsuit: Following the Kimkins Class Action Lawsuit

Wouter limits ~ a fake blog about a real scam

Another Day Another Busload Goes To Banned Camp

Looks like the Cap'n Morgan was out this weekend and the ban button was utilized in full fury!

Welcome Miss Merize and the newest additions to the Kimkins
banned camp!

Check out Miss M's blog and join the Kimkins lawsuit.

A very good synopsis of the Kimkins fraud timeline

Confused by the long convoluted history that is the Kimkins diet scam story?


This site has an excellent synopsis of the time line.

Have a look and beware of Kimkins.

From Laura Dolson,
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2002 to December 2007

2002 - Heidi Diaz, under the screen name "Kimmer", develops her version of a low-carb diet on the Low Carb Friends diet discussion boards. She reports dramatic weight loss. Some people try her diet and discuss it on the boards. This goes on for several years, with a fair amount of controversy.

2006 - Amid much negativity, in June 2006 Heidi left Low Carb Friends and with a partner who later left, founded Kimkins a fee-based Web site.

January 2007 - An issue of People magazine features people who have lost a lot of weight. One of them credits Kimkins along with another diet. This is the beginning of attention to Kimkins from outside the low-carb community.

June 2007 - Woman's World magazine features Kimkins on the cover.

At this point, the Kimkins Web site explodes with new members, taking in over a million dollars in the month of June alone.

July 2007 - Controversy in the low carb community outside of Low Carb Friends builds quickly. Heidi does a public interview on Jimmy Moore's Livin' La Vida Low Carb Podcast, which brings her further exposure. Inside Low Carb Friends, a dedicated group of members has been working hard for some time to expose Kimkins as a scam and a fraud.

August 2007 - Anti-Kimkins material (mainly blogs) on the net are now spreading like wildfire. People are beginning to report serious side-effects of the diet, and controversy has ramped to a fever-pitch. Kimkins hires a PR director to help deal with the problems. Behind the scenes, we later learn that key administrators are seriously questioning the diet. This leads to them quitting or being fired in early September.

September 2007 - Kimkins administrators leave, including PR director Christin Sherburne, who later reports many symptoms including chest pains and low heart rate. A private investigator was hired to determine the true identity of Kimkins "Kimmer and photos are posted. A lawsuit is organized.

October 2007 - The story is broken on KTLA-TV (more details here, including links to video). Photos are exposed as fraudulent.

Also, as I had a guest membership on Kimkins I responded when Kimmer posted something false about my review. In that message, I warned members to be careful about their health (copy of that message here). I was banned 10 minutes later.

November 2007 - Heidi Diaz is called for a public deposition where she finally tells the truth about her identity, finances, and her fraudulent claims. Kimkins is discussed on a national morning TV show. Another PR director, who appeared on that show, left Kimkins. (More Details on All of This)

To this point, the diet is unchanged. There is no minimum recommendation of vegetables, carbs, or even food on most of the Kimkins plans. If followed to the letter, the option labeled "most popular" would contain less than 600 calories and could be much less. Most worrisome of all is that people would not necessarily know if their bodies were being damaged until it was too late.

Do you know this woman? Kimkins is using her pic!

Have you seen this woman?

Kimkins has been using her picture on the website and all over the internet. We know it is not Heidi Diaz and we know she used fake pics not only for herself but her before and after stories as well.

If you know this woman please contact Medusa on her blog!

Stop the fraud that is Kimkins.

Kimkins as an example of internet marketing

Blogtalk Radio with Willie Crawford and LCF's own Miss Merize, author of the soon to be released Meat and Martini Diet will be talking about internet marketing on a serious level and using the Kimkins fraud as an example.

Wanna see how Heidi Diaz conned thousands? Tune in to listen and learn.

Want your Kimkins money back?

Want your money back? Want Kimkins to have to return the fraudulent funds Heidi K Diaz scammed?

The last six weeks have revealed a myriad of problems with the diet plan found on the Kimkins.com website. There are health issues, identity issues and even the issue of general plan information being free elsewhere on the web.

The history of these findings can be accessed all over the web.

If you are a member of Kimkins.com or were a member of Kimkins.com, you are eligible to participate in a class action lawsuit that is being organized by John E. Tiedt of www.tiedtlaw.com.

There is strength in numbers and every voice counts!!!

If you would like to be a representative in the Kimkims.com Class Action Lawsuit, please send the following to kimkinslawsuit@yahoo.com:

1.) Your legal name and mailing address

2.) A telephone number where you can be reached between the hours of 11am-8pm EST

3.) The amount you paid Kimkins.com

4.) The approximate date that you joined Kimkins.com as a paid member

You will not have to appear in court or pay a dime.

More rats deserting the Kimkins ship?

Has Tippy Toes flipped?

More on the flippy Tippy Toes flight from the sinking Kimkins Titanic.

Kimkins Lying Liar Admits She Lied

Heidi Diaz has had to admit in public and on tape that she is a lying liar who lies. Don't you love that phrase? I see it used in the same sentence as Kimkins a lot lately and it fits.

In case you haven't seen the latest check out the KTLA news report on Kimkins or as they call it Kim Kins .

Very telling.

Welcome to another Kimkins Truth Blog

This blog is my humble effort at ensuring the plague known as Kimkins and it's author, Heidi K Diaz, aka Kimmer, Kimkins, Kimkims, The Kimmer, and a thousand other aliases is stopped from endangering the health of those sucked into her web of deceit.

If you are finding this site as a result of a search for a weight loss plan or for the Kimkins plan itself then please read read read all of the truths published on the many kimkins blogs and websites, some of which I have listed on my blogroll. Please watch the media reports and follow the updates on the lawsuit.

Heidi K Diaz is a fraud and opportunist who has sullied the low carb world with her greed and avarice. The Kimkins plan has been discredited by nutritionists, physicians, weight loss experts and even it's few success stories themselves!

You can lose weight safely and sanely and there are numerous FREE websites you can join to learn and share and be supported in your journey.

I joined Low Carb Friends many years ago and lost safely but that is another story for another day. On the side bar are links on healthy low carb eating and groups that you can join (without parting with money first) to learn more. Please check them out.

Please take a few minutes and educate yourself and pass the word on. Don't think it can't happen to you because it can.