Now that all of the fake success stories have been discovered and confirmed by scores of people across the internet, I see everyone at LowCarbFriends (which I refuse to link) is all abuzz with the information. But I can't help but grumble over the fact that all of this could have been stopped over a year ago when myself and others tried to discuss Kimkins' fake Success Stories photos - and LCF admins promptly shut us up by deleting our threads!!! I remember one thread I put up asking innocently, "do these pictures just not look right to anyone else?" and it was gone within minutes. After that, everything I put up was SANITIZED by the admins, meaning, they EDITED my posts and took out anything I said that referred to Kimmer. And of course, their idiotic policy is to not allow you to discuss their actions on the board, so if you questioned it, they'd delete that too. That's when I closed my account there and vowed never to return. It's so ironic that NOW they decide its okay to slam Kimkins.
Think about all of the people that could have been saved from Kimmer, had LCF not gone through so much trouble to protect her. I hold them just as responsible for this fiasco as Kimmer. And this was BEFORE the WW cover, so had they allowed people to even question the legitimacy of her diet and her website, thousands of people could have been warned and who knows, maybe she would have even gotten the cover and we wouldn't be here now. But they protected her and HID all evidence against her. They didn't care that she was a fraud, had no medical background, and no proof of her claims, they just didn't want anyone to speak ill of her. Why is that??? What was the connection between Tom and Heidi? What agreement did she default on that caused him to go up against her?
You really have to wonder WHY. Were they sharing profits? Hoping to share profits? Did Kimmer turn them down for advertising revenue and it pissed off Tom so he decided to turn against her? Something definitely happened and we'll probably never know the truth, but LCF is just as guilty and dirty in this as Heidi is. And we all know it.
Luckily, ALC is an awesome balanced message board without Gestapo admin censoring our every word, so people who wanted integrity and freedom went there - and found it was refreshing and FAIR. I so appreciate the management and administration THERE and that's where I encourage people to go, as well as any of the other LC boards in my sidebar. Anywhere BUT LCF, because when this is over, they'll still be censoring your speech, and who needs that?
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Thursday, October 4, 2007
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Things To Do With $60 Instead of Buying a Kimkins Membership
What will $60 buy you at Kimkins.com? Anorexia, starvation, hair loss, dizziness, nausea, muscle loss, and thyroid destruction. Oh, and some snarkiness, disrespect and condescension by the 300+ pound diet guru named Heidi Diaz aka Kimmer.
Or, you can take that same $60 and...
...buy some FOOD! Some healthy low carb choices like lean turkey, 100% whole wheat bread, veggies, berries, plain whole milk yogurt with your choice of SF Davinci syrups, well, you get the picture!
...get a DDR video game and dance pad and have a great time dancing - you won't even know you're really working out!
...pick up a new pair of GOOD walking shoes, not the cheapie sale ones that tear up after a few miles, but a GOOD pair with gel insoles and feel like you're walking on clouds.
...test drive a new mp3 player - or toss that walkman and get your very first one! These have dropped so drastically in price that you can get a 1 gig player for under $40 then use the other $20 at iTunes for some music, or borrow from all of your friends that bought one way before you did, lol. Or, you could hit up some of those Russian websites that sell downloads for .10 each because they have different copyright laws than the US and its totally legal, but you didn't hear that from ME! I'm not responsible for what you search and find in Google when you type in Russian mp3 downloads.
...take a friend or two to the zoo for the day. That's a workout in itself just spending the day walking around looking at the animals, especially if their cages are miles apart like they are at most zoos! By the time you've seen three animals, you're out of breath! Plus admission is like a week's worth of gas, so call up a couple of folks, pack a lunch with plenty of water bottles, and take off for the day.
...buy some of the latest diet books - even though I'm mostly low carb, I like to pick and choose components from other diets and work them into my way of life. It's always fun to read what else is out there and see how it can apply to me, or if it just makes me laugh until I snort Diet Rite through my nose. Some good ones new to the market are, No Excuses! Fitness Workout by Celebrity Fit Club's Harvey Walden (he's probably much less scary in a book), The Best Life Diet, by Bob Greene (Oprah's trainer), and Making the Cut: The 30-Day Diet and Fitness Plan for the Strongest, Sexiest You, by The Biggest Loser's Jillian Michaels.
...indulge in some Chocoperfection bars! $60 will get you about 24 bars of pure heaven. Melt it, pour it over some low carb ice cream or mix it in some plain yogurt for a chocolate treat, or do like me, I eat squares of it in one hand with almonds in the other.
...do the obvious - donate it to charity! I mean, if you've got $60 to throw away because you really don't need it - I like to give to charities where I really see what is being done with the money. Around Christmas, many local churches will be putting together holiday boxes, or you can go to a department store and buy at least two good kid's winter coats and drop them off at a Coats for Kids donation spot, or your company may be adopting a family. Either way, you will feel good about that $60, unlike having Heidi lock out your access to her stinky little site because you asked her if she had any recent pictures.
Those are just a few ideas off the top of my head, but I'm sure you can think of more things to do with that money other than give it a scam artist!
Or, you can take that same $60 and...
...buy some FOOD! Some healthy low carb choices like lean turkey, 100% whole wheat bread, veggies, berries, plain whole milk yogurt with your choice of SF Davinci syrups, well, you get the picture!
...get a DDR video game and dance pad and have a great time dancing - you won't even know you're really working out!
...pick up a new pair of GOOD walking shoes, not the cheapie sale ones that tear up after a few miles, but a GOOD pair with gel insoles and feel like you're walking on clouds.
...test drive a new mp3 player - or toss that walkman and get your very first one! These have dropped so drastically in price that you can get a 1 gig player for under $40 then use the other $20 at iTunes for some music, or borrow from all of your friends that bought one way before you did, lol. Or, you could hit up some of those Russian websites that sell downloads for .10 each because they have different copyright laws than the US and its totally legal, but you didn't hear that from ME! I'm not responsible for what you search and find in Google when you type in Russian mp3 downloads.
...take a friend or two to the zoo for the day. That's a workout in itself just spending the day walking around looking at the animals, especially if their cages are miles apart like they are at most zoos! By the time you've seen three animals, you're out of breath! Plus admission is like a week's worth of gas, so call up a couple of folks, pack a lunch with plenty of water bottles, and take off for the day.
...buy some of the latest diet books - even though I'm mostly low carb, I like to pick and choose components from other diets and work them into my way of life. It's always fun to read what else is out there and see how it can apply to me, or if it just makes me laugh until I snort Diet Rite through my nose. Some good ones new to the market are, No Excuses! Fitness Workout by Celebrity Fit Club's Harvey Walden (he's probably much less scary in a book), The Best Life Diet, by Bob Greene (Oprah's trainer), and Making the Cut: The 30-Day Diet and Fitness Plan for the Strongest, Sexiest You, by The Biggest Loser's Jillian Michaels.
...indulge in some Chocoperfection bars! $60 will get you about 24 bars of pure heaven. Melt it, pour it over some low carb ice cream or mix it in some plain yogurt for a chocolate treat, or do like me, I eat squares of it in one hand with almonds in the other.
...do the obvious - donate it to charity! I mean, if you've got $60 to throw away because you really don't need it - I like to give to charities where I really see what is being done with the money. Around Christmas, many local churches will be putting together holiday boxes, or you can go to a department store and buy at least two good kid's winter coats and drop them off at a Coats for Kids donation spot, or your company may be adopting a family. Either way, you will feel good about that $60, unlike having Heidi lock out your access to her stinky little site because you asked her if she had any recent pictures.
Those are just a few ideas off the top of my head, but I'm sure you can think of more things to do with that money other than give it a scam artist!
Blogging Tips for the Revolution!
It does my heart good to see so many anti-kimkins bloggers! I swear, we need our own social network!
I wanted to drop some tips about promoting your blog and helping it get as much exposure as possible. I'm no expert but I know a little something about a little something.
Every time you update, make sure to "ping" the services that notify the collective sites that keep track of weblogs and publish them. By doing this, you are letting them know that your blog has been updated and they will crawl and index your blog, publishing the new entries, which help to increase your blog's popularity. Two that I use are Pingoat and >Pingomatic, but they have a lot of the same services and you don't want to ping too much or you may be seen as spam and get blocked - so I would suggest using one or the other, or if one is down, use the other, etc. Or, if you have the time, compare their services and set them up appropriately. I've just never had the time to do this!
Use sites such as digg, StumbleUpon, and Technorati to vote on your own posts. Create an account there and it will only take a couple of clicks each time to vote. Then do a search for other anti-Kimkins items and vote on them also! In fact, again, if you have the time, whenever you find a new anti-kimkins entry, digg it, Stumble it, or Technorati fave it. If we make it a habit to do this often, it will help keep us all at the top of the pile (and pro-Kimkins at the bottom!).
Use FREE site submission tools to submit your blog to the search engines. You will have to confirm and accept many of them in your email, so be prepared for about 30 or more confirmation emails at once but just follow the directions and it will only take a few minutes to get the submission rolling. I use the one I get for free with my web hosting package (for other sites) - if you have other web hosting services, check and see if it offers this in your control panel. Or do a search for FREE site submission services and you'll find many. Remember, you want the FREE one, not the upgraded or advanced packages! I have also used SubmitExpress in the past and it was great.
Most of the blog directories want your blog to be at least 30 days old before it will accept them, and some even require 90 days. But there are many that don't have such a requirement, so you could go down this list of directories at WAHM and submit your link wherever possible.
Comment in other anti-Kimkins blogs such as (this one), KimkinsExposed, KimkinsDangers, KimkinsControversy, all of those in the Blog Rolls of each of the blogs, etc. That helps to spread your link and increase your recognition. There's many of us and our numbers are growing, but try to make it a point to drop a line or two as you read, and leave your link in your comment.
If you have some html knowledge and know how to edit your metatags, add the appropriate keywords to that section to help your search engine rankings. Pssst! This is what Kimmer is using for her Kimkins site:
meta name="description" content="The Kimkins lean low carb plan is simple -- less fat than Atkins, less carbs than South Beach and faster weight loss than Weight Watchers!"
meta name="keywords" content="loose weight,diets to loose weight,loose weight quickly,how to loose weight,loose weight fast,to loose weight,loosing weight,weight gain diets,weight gain tips,weight gaining diets,pregnancy weight gain,healthy weight gain,fast weight gain,fat weight,weight lost,food weight,dieting weight,quick weight,la weight lost,body fat weight,over weight,gaining weight,weight,weight control,healthy weight,weight idiots,diets to gain weight,reduce weight,loose pounds,diets,fat diets,lose 10 pounds,fat loss diets,appetite suppressant,lose 10 pounds fast,ketosis,domino effect, kimmer experiment,OAMC,boot camp,camp kimkins,starvation mode,metabolism"
I suggest using THOSE exactly and adding all of the anti-kimkins words in there too, along with diet fraud, scandal, Heidi Diaz, Kimmer, etc. Whatever else you can think of that an unsuspecting web searcher might type into a search engine. We want them to come to US, not HER!
Post often! Search engines like fresh content. If you never update your site and let weeks and months go by, you'll slowly drop in the rankings. No need to post everyday - unless you want to, but 2-3x weekly or at least weekly would be best. Even bi-weekly is better than monthly or not at all. If you have nothing new to post, then post highlights of what the OTHER anti-Kimkins blogs are talking about. There will ALWAYS be some fresh material between the group of us all! Give a summary of new developments, a reminder of what people can do to help, or give a shoutout to new bloggers, link to the new posts so all of your readers can follow along.
That's all I can think of right now - please comment if you can think of something else we can do to help keep us on top!
I wanted to drop some tips about promoting your blog and helping it get as much exposure as possible. I'm no expert but I know a little something about a little something.
Every time you update, make sure to "ping" the services that notify the collective sites that keep track of weblogs and publish them. By doing this, you are letting them know that your blog has been updated and they will crawl and index your blog, publishing the new entries, which help to increase your blog's popularity. Two that I use are Pingoat and >Pingomatic, but they have a lot of the same services and you don't want to ping too much or you may be seen as spam and get blocked - so I would suggest using one or the other, or if one is down, use the other, etc. Or, if you have the time, compare their services and set them up appropriately. I've just never had the time to do this!
Use sites such as digg, StumbleUpon, and Technorati to vote on your own posts. Create an account there and it will only take a couple of clicks each time to vote. Then do a search for other anti-Kimkins items and vote on them also! In fact, again, if you have the time, whenever you find a new anti-kimkins entry, digg it, Stumble it, or Technorati fave it. If we make it a habit to do this often, it will help keep us all at the top of the pile (and pro-Kimkins at the bottom!).
Use FREE site submission tools to submit your blog to the search engines. You will have to confirm and accept many of them in your email, so be prepared for about 30 or more confirmation emails at once but just follow the directions and it will only take a few minutes to get the submission rolling. I use the one I get for free with my web hosting package (for other sites) - if you have other web hosting services, check and see if it offers this in your control panel. Or do a search for FREE site submission services and you'll find many. Remember, you want the FREE one, not the upgraded or advanced packages! I have also used SubmitExpress in the past and it was great.
Most of the blog directories want your blog to be at least 30 days old before it will accept them, and some even require 90 days. But there are many that don't have such a requirement, so you could go down this list of directories at WAHM and submit your link wherever possible.
Comment in other anti-Kimkins blogs such as (this one), KimkinsExposed, KimkinsDangers, KimkinsControversy, all of those in the Blog Rolls of each of the blogs, etc. That helps to spread your link and increase your recognition. There's many of us and our numbers are growing, but try to make it a point to drop a line or two as you read, and leave your link in your comment.
If you have some html knowledge and know how to edit your metatags, add the appropriate keywords to that section to help your search engine rankings. Pssst! This is what Kimmer is using for her Kimkins site:
meta name="description" content="The Kimkins lean low carb plan is simple -- less fat than Atkins, less carbs than South Beach and faster weight loss than Weight Watchers!"
meta name="keywords" content="loose weight,diets to loose weight,loose weight quickly,how to loose weight,loose weight fast,to loose weight,loosing weight,weight gain diets,weight gain tips,weight gaining diets,pregnancy weight gain,healthy weight gain,fast weight gain,fat weight,weight lost,food weight,dieting weight,quick weight,la weight lost,body fat weight,over weight,gaining weight,weight,weight control,healthy weight,weight idiots,diets to gain weight,reduce weight,loose pounds,diets,fat diets,lose 10 pounds,fat loss diets,appetite suppressant,lose 10 pounds fast,ketosis,domino effect, kimmer experiment,OAMC,boot camp,camp kimkins,starvation mode,metabolism"
I suggest using THOSE exactly and adding all of the anti-kimkins words in there too, along with diet fraud, scandal, Heidi Diaz, Kimmer, etc. Whatever else you can think of that an unsuspecting web searcher might type into a search engine. We want them to come to US, not HER!
Post often! Search engines like fresh content. If you never update your site and let weeks and months go by, you'll slowly drop in the rankings. No need to post everyday - unless you want to, but 2-3x weekly or at least weekly would be best. Even bi-weekly is better than monthly or not at all. If you have nothing new to post, then post highlights of what the OTHER anti-Kimkins blogs are talking about. There will ALWAYS be some fresh material between the group of us all! Give a summary of new developments, a reminder of what people can do to help, or give a shoutout to new bloggers, link to the new posts so all of your readers can follow along.
That's all I can think of right now - please comment if you can think of something else we can do to help keep us on top!
Friday, September 7, 2007
Woman's World - huh? Woman's World - what? *crickets*
I've been so busy reading all of the other anti-KK blogs that I haven't had a chance to update this one! There's SO much good stuff out there that I barely have a need to, but still, we need every voice in this mutiny against the evil that is Heidi Diaz - yes, I mean YOU, Kimmer, stop tripping. One more ping, one more update, that's one more link for a puzzled dieter to follow and read about this horrid, soul-stealing wildebeast.
This has been such a crazy roller coaster. At times I laughed heartily, and sometimes I was just really sad for the people she hurt, and even sadder for the few that are still either brainwashed by her, or just frozen scared to move. After the last 48 hours though, I came to a serious revelation, in the words of Goldie from Charm School: "Bitch crazy!" (excuse my French!)
I can't recap all of this, its too much, too juicy, too important for me to chance by not telling the story accurately. I implore you all, if you haven't visited any or all of the anti-KK sites lately, please use my list on the right to visit each and every one of them for the FULL update!
The pics below kind of summarize it:
(Surveillance pictures property of Slamboard)
You know what's messed up in all of this is that she didn't have to LIE. She didn't have to commit FRAUD to get friends (how pitiful is that?). Well, knowing firsthand what a nasty, vicious person she is, I can't imagine anyone being her friend in real life! It's not a crime to go on a diet, lose weight, and gain it back. No one will villify you. I've recommended and converted MANY folks to Atkins and I certainly have fallen off, climbed back on, and fallen off again. They can look at me and tell I haven't stuck with it. Those who know me have been on the journey with me. But I tell them what I did right, and what I did wrong, and I try to help them not make the same mistakes. And they STILL count on me for advice. She didn't have to lie.
At this point, we don't even know if she EVER lost any weight. We have NO pictures of her to prove this. Not a single one. Every picture she has ever posted of a thin woman has appeared to be someone else. Now we know why. If she had ever lost weight, she would have at least ONE picture. So we must conclude that THIS is how she's always looked in some way - just as a source tipped us to a while back.
Where is Woman's World in all of this? Why so quiet? Where's the new magazine cover denouncing your previous endorsement of this fraud??? Do you not care about your readers??? Do you not care about your reputation? Wait, you were already known as the diet version of the Sun magazine (oh hey, look, Pete Doherty's cat is on crack!), so not much reputation to worry about there. But still, millions of people read you and trust you (why, I don't know), and because of your fictionalized, unverified story about Heidi Diaz and her starvation diet that she has obviously never been on herself - thousands of people flocked to her site and gave up their hard earned money to look like this:
How many people do you think would have rushed to her site and paid to look like this?
There has to be some integrity in the publishing world. Even The National Enquirer will print retractions if they're proven to be WRONG. Are you not even as ethical as a magazine that regularly reports on three headed alien babies giving birth to chihuahuas?
It's not too late. Although the issue is several months old, it still has life in some doctor's offices and beauty salons. Some poor, unenlightened overweight person is waiting for their turn and they will pick up the June issue and read this fairy tale, and suddenly feel excited that there is hope for them. They might even cancel their appointment and instead rush home to log on to the site and give Heidi Diaz their $60 so she can tell them how to lose their hair, slow down their heartbeat and pass out at work. They may even end up in the emergency room like so many Kimkins Survivors have reported. They may even find their way back from the madness by reading sites like Kimkins Exposed, Kimkins Dangers, or Kimkins Controversy. But will they ever truly be the same? Do you, Woman's World editors, bear any responsibility for what you SUGGESTED people do to themselves?
How about this - don't you feel like a fool now? How does it feel to be scammed? No, you didnt' pay the $60 - but you look like complete and utter idiots. You have the fact checking ability of my 8 year old. Kimmer is laughing at YOU and the wool she so cleverly pulled over your eyes. You know who else is probably laughing at you? All of the LEGITIMATE health and nutrition magazines who are sitting back counting down the days until your writers and editors are dragged into court to testify on your part in this whole deception.
It's not over. It won't be over until there's justice for everyone hurt by Heidi Diaz aka Kimmer, and Woman's World magazine. You can sit all day and try to quiet us, but we'll just keep popping back up in another place. We won't stop. We won't stop. Until Kimmer is BEHIND BARS. No matter how. long. it takes. Believe that.
Two fingers.
P.S. Have you signed the petition to stop Heidi/Kimmer/Kimkins yet??
This has been such a crazy roller coaster. At times I laughed heartily, and sometimes I was just really sad for the people she hurt, and even sadder for the few that are still either brainwashed by her, or just frozen scared to move. After the last 48 hours though, I came to a serious revelation, in the words of Goldie from Charm School: "Bitch crazy!" (excuse my French!)
I can't recap all of this, its too much, too juicy, too important for me to chance by not telling the story accurately. I implore you all, if you haven't visited any or all of the anti-KK sites lately, please use my list on the right to visit each and every one of them for the FULL update!
The pics below kind of summarize it:
 |  |  |
| This is how Kimmer said she used to look. | This is how she CLAIMED to look AFTER doing Kimkins. | This is how she REALLY looks!!! Click on pic to BLOW UP - literally, blow up! |
(Surveillance pictures property of Slamboard)
You know what's messed up in all of this is that she didn't have to LIE. She didn't have to commit FRAUD to get friends (how pitiful is that?). Well, knowing firsthand what a nasty, vicious person she is, I can't imagine anyone being her friend in real life! It's not a crime to go on a diet, lose weight, and gain it back. No one will villify you. I've recommended and converted MANY folks to Atkins and I certainly have fallen off, climbed back on, and fallen off again. They can look at me and tell I haven't stuck with it. Those who know me have been on the journey with me. But I tell them what I did right, and what I did wrong, and I try to help them not make the same mistakes. And they STILL count on me for advice. She didn't have to lie.
At this point, we don't even know if she EVER lost any weight. We have NO pictures of her to prove this. Not a single one. Every picture she has ever posted of a thin woman has appeared to be someone else. Now we know why. If she had ever lost weight, she would have at least ONE picture. So we must conclude that THIS is how she's always looked in some way - just as a source tipped us to a while back.
Where is Woman's World in all of this? Why so quiet? Where's the new magazine cover denouncing your previous endorsement of this fraud??? Do you not care about your readers??? Do you not care about your reputation? Wait, you were already known as the diet version of the Sun magazine (oh hey, look, Pete Doherty's cat is on crack!), so not much reputation to worry about there. But still, millions of people read you and trust you (why, I don't know), and because of your fictionalized, unverified story about Heidi Diaz and her starvation diet that she has obviously never been on herself - thousands of people flocked to her site and gave up their hard earned money to look like this:
How many people do you think would have rushed to her site and paid to look like this?
There has to be some integrity in the publishing world. Even The National Enquirer will print retractions if they're proven to be WRONG. Are you not even as ethical as a magazine that regularly reports on three headed alien babies giving birth to chihuahuas?
It's not too late. Although the issue is several months old, it still has life in some doctor's offices and beauty salons. Some poor, unenlightened overweight person is waiting for their turn and they will pick up the June issue and read this fairy tale, and suddenly feel excited that there is hope for them. They might even cancel their appointment and instead rush home to log on to the site and give Heidi Diaz their $60 so she can tell them how to lose their hair, slow down their heartbeat and pass out at work. They may even end up in the emergency room like so many Kimkins Survivors have reported. They may even find their way back from the madness by reading sites like Kimkins Exposed, Kimkins Dangers, or Kimkins Controversy. But will they ever truly be the same? Do you, Woman's World editors, bear any responsibility for what you SUGGESTED people do to themselves?
How about this - don't you feel like a fool now? How does it feel to be scammed? No, you didnt' pay the $60 - but you look like complete and utter idiots. You have the fact checking ability of my 8 year old. Kimmer is laughing at YOU and the wool she so cleverly pulled over your eyes. You know who else is probably laughing at you? All of the LEGITIMATE health and nutrition magazines who are sitting back counting down the days until your writers and editors are dragged into court to testify on your part in this whole deception.
It's not over. It won't be over until there's justice for everyone hurt by Heidi Diaz aka Kimmer, and Woman's World magazine. You can sit all day and try to quiet us, but we'll just keep popping back up in another place. We won't stop. We won't stop. Until Kimmer is BEHIND BARS. No matter how. long. it takes. Believe that.
Two fingers.
P.S. Have you signed the petition to stop Heidi/Kimmer/Kimkins yet??
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