The Magic Chicken diet shares many similarities with Kimkins - the promise of super-fast weight loss without pills, special foods or exercise. As fast as some of the magic chicken dieters have supposedly lost weight, I'm wondering if they shouldn't have called it the "Magic Roadrunner Diet!"
Take a look at this random testimonial (available for free) I found on the MCD website:
(NOTE: While there is no timetable on this testimonial, MCD went online in July '07. So, at best this is a 106 lbs. loss in roughly 8 months time. I have a good friend who had WLS then discovered she has stage 4 breast cancer and is going through aggressive chemo and radiation. Even she did not lose weight this fast.)But, I find this part puzzling - WHY NO PICTURES? In fact, the ONLY pictures of any successful weightloss I've been able to find at MCD are the ones of Bonnie Luper - "creator" of the Magic Chicken Diet.
Hmmm? Did Bonnie actually lose lots of weight? Her pictures seem genuine. Perhaps her whole story is true. Maybe she did devise her own plan to lose weight, and was very successful. (But pictures of her look gaunt, ashen, and tired, btw.)
So, does that QUALIFY her to dispense weightloss advice to anyone else? NO! I know how to clean the corrosion off the battery terminals in my car, but that sure as hell doesn't make me a mechanic!
Here are just a few truths about the puzzle that is the Magic Chicken Diet. 
- It is every bit as nutritionally bankrupt as the Kimkins diet. In a coming post, the MCD sample menu will be posted and compared to Kimkins.
- Bonnie Luper is as qualified to sell diet advice as I (a teacher) am to do brain surgery. She might be able to set up shop online, but she'd never be able to open up a physical location next to her Stoney Creek Candle supply shop in Texas. Special training/licensing is required to set up a physical location and Bonnie has never claimed to be a nutritionist or counselor.
- There is SOME connection between Kimkins and the MCD. We haven't found it yet. But we WILL find it.
- The lack of nutrional content in the Magic Chicken Diet will lead to a condition called rabbit starvation if it is followed for long. Hair loss, nausea, muscle cramps, constipation and heart palpitations will also result and signal damage to your health, possibly permanent damage.
For a while now the Ducks at Low Carb Friends, including bloggers Mariasol, Medusa and others have been asking Bonnie Luper for some explanations about her website. Why won't she answer those question? What is she hiding? Why is there virtually no marketing for the MCD site, even though it's supposedly worth $69.95 to join? The forums there are DEAD, and we have the screenshots to prove it. Look for them coming to a blog near you, soon!
Perhaps the only connection between Bonnie and Heidi Diaz is that Bonnie (or one of her sisters) was (are?) a member at Kimkins and decided to start her own website. The concern is that people who are desperate to lose weight may essentially go from drinking the Kimkins Kool-aid to a cup of magic chicken broth, without realizing they are jeopardizing their health.
With all the good, healthy (and doctor approved) low-carb diet plans around - Atkins, Protein Power and The Glycemic Load come to mind - it's hard to understand why anyone would try a dangerous low carb, low fat, low calorie plan like MCD or Kimkins. (I tried Kimkins prior to any negative publicity and because I was ignorant of the dangers of very low calorie diets -VLCD's).
Show us some verifiable, medical approval of your diet Bonnie, or take it down before the Magic Chicken diet turns into the Tragic Chicken diet!
(cartoon created and copyrighted by Doug Savage)
5 comments:
Mayberry, I'm still laughing here. Why? This sentence:
"I know how to clean the corrosion off the battery terminals in my car, but that sure as hell doesn't make me a mechanic!"
ROFLMAO!
Excellent post! If Bonnie and her ilk think the Ducks headed south for the winter, she's got another thing coming. They won't rest until the MCD is put on the rotisserie and roasted over hot coals.
Tantalizing bits of evidence are rising to the surface and it's just a matter of time before the lid blows off the whole MCD fiasco.
Ya know what? I kinda miss Hulon Pate. Wish he'd pop in and edify us all with his good ol' boy rhetoric. Ya' know, come to think of it, his posts sounded a lot like Martina's...stark, ravin' mad.
Cheers, Mayberry!
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Great post Mayberry!
I just love the way you write.
I've been working on a MCD post myself and can't wait to get.r.done!
Bonnie really should have come forward when you put up an open letter to her. She could have (should have) shed some light on this whole MCD stuff. But, NO! She's going to be a hard head about it and wait for the ducks to unravel the whole mess. Her dirty little secrets will all come out. Just like all the others.
Take care, Mayberry!
KUTGW
What do you mean about Bonnie or one of her sisters being a member of Kimkins? There's a BonnieL who is a member at LCF -- is that Bonnie Luper? We don't know, just wondering.
Another thing we're wondering about -- does Bonnie allow minors to join the MCD ? the way Kimmer does at Kimkins. We haven't seen any warnings to minors or any comments from Bonnie about this matter of how dangerous it is for teenagers to diet, especially vlc diets like the MCD.
So that's another similarity between Bonnie and Kimmer -- a disregard for the possible dangers to their customers.
By the way, there used to be some pictures -- Bonnie's sisters -- but those have been taken off the site. One of Bonnie's sisters died last month or the month before, but we don't know if it's one of the sisters who was featured as an MCD "success story".
I don't know if Bonnie or a sister was ever a member of Kimkins or LCF for that matter - I just think that might be a possibility of where Bonnie and Heidi joined forces.
As far as Bonnie's sister dying, that's sad. Is it Wanda? There was one picture of them together and it appeared that Wanda was wearing a wig. It made me wonder at the time if she was suffering from cancer.
As sorry as I truly am for Bonnie's loss, I won't slow down on trying to put MCD as we know it out of business. It's every bit as dangerous as Kimkins!
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