Maintenance, smaintenance: Kimmer's con game still going strong!

As her day in court draws near, Heidi "Kimmer" Diaz is trying to come up with a maintenance plan for her doomed Kimkins diet program. Scratch that. It's obvious from the following text from inside the Kimpound, Kimmer is trying to get what few members she has left to come up with a maintenance plan for her.

But, wait! Don't you have to actually lose all your weight before you can go into maintenance? Recent pictures published elsewhere on the 'net seem to show that Kimmer has lost a few pounds. (Good job on getting those pictures, btw!) But, Heidi is no where near maintenance!

Let's take a look a her message to the dieters she has left. In typical Heidi fashion, she's included just enough sensible suggestions to make everything she says seem reasonable.

Designing a Maintenance Plan - Feedback! 23 Hours, 42
Minutes ago OK, let's take a look at "maintenance". Let me jot down a few ideas
and you all let me know what you're thinking. (translation:
Write the maintenance plan for me and let me take credit!) My vision of a
successful Kimkins Maintenance Plan should be focused on high nutrient whole
foods. Brown rice instead of instant white rice, whole fruit instead of juice
drinks, 7 grain bread instead of white, lower calorie higher carb choices (fresh
fruit or winter squash) over high calorie lower carb (faux cheesecake).Kimkins
Maintenance should be as simple as Kimkins. A few easy to remember rules that
you'll always have with you. Nobody is going to drag a diet sheet in their purse
or wallet for eternity or whip out a calculator at a restaurant -- not for long
anyway.

* Kimkins Maintenance must be very simple. I think
regular Kimkins is ultra simple, but some newbies have problems at the beginning
figuring it out. (Translation: truth is, while Kimkins food
lists look relatively healthy, dieters are encourged to eat about 800 calories
per day. Starvation will equal weight loss for a while.) Maintenance will
more complicated, but it needs to be simple. (Translation: Kimmer wants her dieters to tell her how to convince
people to live the rest of their lives on about 1000 calories per day without
feeling deprived, in order to keep the pounds they've lost off.)

* Should Kimkins Maintenance be calorie or carb oriented?
If a combination, what limits? The accepted definition of "low carb" is 100
carbs or less per day. To us that sounds very generous until we realize that
much fast food, fruits, grains and carb snacks can easily meet that limit with 1
serving. If a limit of 300 carbs is chosen, then any maintenance plan fits the
bill including Weight Watchers. (Translation: Kimmer
used parts of other diet plans such as Atkins and Stillman's to create Kimkins,
so why not just steal parts of other maintenance plans and call it the Kimkins
Maintenance plan?)

* How do we add back junk food? Few people are willing to
give up cheeseburgers (on buns), pizza, spaghetti & garlic bread, beer,
Grandma's fudge, Hot Pockets, mashed potatoes & gravy, Girl Scout cookies,
or nachos for the rest of their life. My vote would be that they not be included
in Kimkins Maintenance choices, but I don't think that's realistic. (Translation: Kimmer needs a way to justify her love of sugar
cookies and Cap'n Morgan, but it's everyone elses' fault because THEY can't give
up nachos!)

* What about restaurants? Would a good solution for
Maintenance to state a calorie limit and advice to check the restaurant website
in advance? (Remind me, who was it that went to a
Chinese restaurant for a family birthday celebration and ordered a high-carb
treat without realizing it?? Why, I think it was Kimmer!)

* I'm reminded of Dr. Atkins research. A criticism of Dr.
A was that high fat went hand in hand with heart disease and other conditions.
Dr. Atkins' research over 30+ years showed that it is high fat WITH high carb
that triggers heart disease and poor cholesterol profiles. If Kimkins
Maintenance leans toward typical American diet aren't we leaning toward typical
American health problems? (Now, doesn't this make you
wonder why Kimmer harps on keeping Kimkins ultra low-fat and low carb? Do you
only buy Dr. Atkins' research when it suits YOU, Heidi??)

* If we suggest a calorie limit will people be shocked to
realize that they can't eat as much as they think? Permanently? I've talked with
thousands of people about low carb and weight loss over the past 10 years. One
of the top 3 questions people have (or want to argue) is calories. Particularly
for people who once weighed 300+ pounds (eating maybe 3500 calories a day or
more) it's a shock to learn that at 125 pounds they're looking at 1300-1500
calories for life -- and 1500 calories might require 30-60 minutes of exercise a
day. (Translation: Since Kimmer has talked to SO many
dieters over the past 10 years, she's extremely qualified without any other
medical or nutritional training to advise you on losing weight and maintaining
that loss, right?)

* Will people "modify" Kimkins Maintenance? If so, is it
really Kimkins? (Translation: If you tweak it, it's
not Kimkins. Why not just do Atkins or Protein Power or some other
medically-approved weight loss plan and forget about any advice coming from
Heidi Diaz!)

* Should we design our ideal "Kimkins Maintenance" as the
official plan and those who find it too healthy or strict can follow other
plans? Do people really want a "low carb" maintenance plan? (Translation: Does Kimkins really need a maintenance plan, even
though Kimmer used the promise of having one (which she does not) as part of her
success story (she's never lost a lot of weight nor maintained a loss) for
selling memberships to Kimkins?)

What do you think? The perfect maintenance plan for me
won't necessarily be what's best for others. As an example I would look forward
to adding back fruit, yogurt and milk -- but others
can't wait to add back spaghetti, rice, tortillas and Sara Lee. (Translation: Kimmer is superior to other dieters because she only
desires "healthy" additions to her diet whereas you other slobs can't wait to
stuff your face with pasta and pre-packaged baked-goods.)

Let's hope no one left at Kimkins will help Heidi do her dirty work in an honest desire to help formulate a maintenance plan. And, let's face it: Even if the "perfect" maintenance plan surfaces over at Kimkins, it's too late to take back all the damage you've done Heidi. Much, much too late!

Thanks to my inside source at Kimkins for helping me spread the word about this dangerous diet program!!