Use me, abuse me. I'm fat, I deserve it....

Many wonder how it is that Heidi Diaz keeps the few dieters left at Kimkins under her thumb? Why would anyone believe a proven liar? How does a woman who's over 300 lbs. sell diet advice on the internet?

The answer is actually pretty simple: failed dieters blame themselves, not the diet. After all, it's negative self-image that leads to weight gain, NOT the other way around.

Heidi "Kimmer" Diaz knows this and she gleefully uses it against people.

A poster at Low Carb Friends today linked to a September 2007 blog post http://www.kimkinscontroversy.com/2007/09/19/kimmerheidi-diaz-ex-husband-and-his-new-wife-speak-out-about-the-kimkins-scammer/ in which Heidi's ex-husband details many of her deep, dark secrets. Heidi is a con artist who has gone to jail in the past for her schemes, is on disability for mental illness and has a presence in so many corners of the web, it takes a whole flock of Ducks (the anti-Kimmer crowd) to keep up with it.

Among Heidi's past sins are the fact that she's never lost weight, she's stolen the identities of her children and other relatives and had failed weight loss surgery. The proof of what Heidi looks like and a multitude of truth stretchings by Heidi can be found among the court documents available online through the Riverside County courts.

So, again, this all begs the question - WHY? Why after all the evidence showing that Heidi Diaz is a fraud has been widely publicized, why does anyone keep believing her? Why are there any dieters left over at Kimkins?

I imagine it's a combination of desperation and ignorance. Many, including myself, fell for the Kimkins scam before there was any negative information readily available about it online. All I knew of Kimkins is what I read in Woman's World magazine - which I'll never buy again - and what I Googled. All of it was positive.

But, that's no longer the case. Google Kimkins now and you get the actual site first, but then the next several pages are the truth about the lies and dangers that surround Heidi Diaz' starvation diet. Proof of faked success stories, complete with stolen pictures and ACTUAL pictures of what Kimmer really looks like.

To think that Diaz is dispicable enough to take advantage of the people there who are willing to try anything to lose weight, is heartbreaking. Like any attempt at starvation, Kimkins will help you lose weight. But the after affects can be devastating to your health, your self-esteem, and your relationship with food.

Food isn't your friend and neither is Heidi Diaz. But, there is life and weightloss after Kimkins. You don't have to be lied to anymore. Please, if you are doubting Kimkins, having trouble sticking to her plan, or are worried about your health, please check all this out for yourself. There are people who will support you, help you and not take advantage of you.

Leave Kimkins now, before it's too late...........

Why Continue the Fight?

Several people (Ducks!) took part in a bombing raid over at the Kimkins diet website a few nights ago. Here is just one of the messages posted in an attempt to reach the dieters still left there.

We are here to help you. We're not asking you for money or hero-worship. We only ask that you read this and then check out the facts for yourself.

You have been lied to over and over by Kimmer. Her family says she has NEVER been thin. All she cares about is getting your money, nothing else.

Kimkins is DANGEROUS. This diet is starvation. It can lead to problems such as significant hair loss, dizzy spells, heart palpitations, fainting, and muscle wasting. The consequences can be very serious, even deadly. Google the term VLCD - very
low calorie diet - and see what effects it can have on your body.

Kimmer has NO medical training whatsoever to properly advise you on how to lose weight. Kimkins promotes a condition known as "rabbit starvation" - another good thing to Google and check out what it can do to you. It's serious, it's scary and it's not worth endangering your health!

I have been where you are, I know exactly how desperate you
feel to lose weight and how GOOD it feels when it starts falling off. But,
when you starve the weight off, you're putting your metabolism at risk and
making it MUCH harder to keep the weight off unless you keep eating at
starvation levels. Can you really follow Kimkins for the rest of your life? No. Your body's natural defenses will take over.

Kimmer doesn't follow her own plan. When the private investigator talked to her and got pictures and video of her last fall, she had an open container of sugar cookies in the passenger seat of her car next to her. At the same time, she was brow-beating dieters at Kimkins to carefully measure how much lettuce they ate!

There are good low-carb plans out there that you can do to lose weight, and be healthy at the same time. There's Atkins, Protein Power, Glycemic Load, etc., all
doctor-created and safe. Please, leave Kimkins now before you damage your
health. There are great support sites out there for FREE. You don't have
to do this alone! Take some time and research Kimmer - Heidi Diaz for
yourself and ask yourself if you can still trust her?

-I'm a successful low-carb friend and I approve this message!

During the raid a few members posted comments that said "take your hate elsewhere." Do you see any "hate" in the above quote?

No. What you see is an attempt to wake up some people and educate them on the DANGERS of the Kimkins diet.

My dear friend Medusa - http://2medusa.blogspot.com/ - has blogged in excruciating detail about the ravages of anorexia nervosa. Anyone who does a 500 calorie a day diet for very long is in serious danger of doing that kind of life-threatening damage to their body. Your body will literally eat itself to death trying to live.

As a "Duck" - someone who knows all about the fraud behind Kimkins and all the lies told by Heidi Diaz, I cannot give up on stopping Heidi until she is in prison where she belongs.

This fight isn't about hate at all! I am not motivated by hate. I am motivated by a deep desire to help others.

If you are still at Kimkins, or doing another starvation diet like the Magic Chicken Diet, you must ask yourself some tough questions.

Are you willing to break away and do a sensible, effective diet like Atkins, Protein Power or The Glycemic Load diet?

Or, are you determined to simply leave behind a skinny corpse?

As the Magic Chicken Turns?

As the Ducks continue their effort to bring down the dangerous diet known as Kimkins, another, shockingly similar diet is...uhmm...'fowling' things up. That would be the Magic Chicken Diet.

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)

Tsk, tsk, Heidi! Is THAT the best you've got?

So, the breaking news today is that Heidi Diaz, aka Kimmer, tried to throw a monkey wrench into the fraud lawsuit she's facing by posing as a person "in the know" on Low Carb Friends (LCF)'s Fascination with Kimmer thread a few days ago. Posing as "Martina's Martini" and using the same IP address as Heidi's, Martina tried to distract the Ducks by dropping a few pitiful innuendos that there might be a traitor in the flock. But, Martina vanished almost as soon as she appeared, sensing that the Duck squad can't be so easily distracted.

So, I've gotta ask, seriously, Heidi, is that ALL you've got? Is that your best effort to stop the tide of truth that threatens to wash over you? Really?

Pitiful. Just pitiful!

It would seem that Heidi's considerable lying skills are failing her just when she needs them most. Don't you just love it when that happens?

For years, Heidi, masquerading under the name Kimmer, has been a fixture in the low carb community, trying to sell people on her diet - Kimkins - and finally lucked up on some major success last June when the diet hit the pages of Woman's World and exploded Heidi's bank account to the tune of $1-2 million bucks.

The problem? It was all based on lies and faked success stories. The few real success stories from Kimkins have since retracted their support of the diet, after experiencing health problems related to starvation and malnutrition.

Heidi, face it: You're running on borrowed time. The fat lady is getting ready to sing, and oh what a great tune she'll belt out!