Kimkins, look twice

Increasing traffic these days: “heidi diaz”, “kimkins scam”, “kimkins fraud” and “kimkims” yes, I made that typo, too, hehe . .. you too? 😉

Haha…

moar funny pictures

Click on the image and vote for my stray Ramon 😀

Tippykins?

Check out Mariasol’s new post: clicky click

Campbraincarbaway, yeah right.

A quick update on our TippyToes

Tippy now has her own blog: located here

As far as I can see she deleted her very first post, but thanks to Medusa you can read it here.

Also, check out Jimmy Moore’s latest post to see what TippyToes / Jeannie Baitinger says herself: click here.

“Dr” Mark gone too?

According to Honeybee’s post here, this seems to be the case.

TippyToes’s gone?

Another rat TippyToes apparently leaves the sinking Kimkins ship.

Go read Medusa’s post on this : Tippy done flippy

Heidi Diaz “decided” to come clean

Well, um, she had to:

Click on image above or go to KTLA local news and scroll down a bit. It’s currently the 8th or so video down.

Heidi & the foster kids

Kimkins Scam: Heidi’s Foster Kids Revisited

Heidi Diaz at her deposition

Allegedly:

(click for bigger)

Also, go read 2big4mysize’s post for the latest news!

Christin’s story on KVUE

Click to watch it now.

Kimkins in the news, again

Corona diet promoter sued, called a liar

Kimkins on Youtube

The full interview now this time, I believe.

Isn’t the picture stretched?

I think so, too.

TippyToes pwned

>> by CJane at LCF

Hat tip 🙂

Hilarious, ain’t it?! 😀

By the way, site hits, here and elsewhere, climbed enormously within the last 24hrs. That’s national tv for you, Kimmer. Nobody will fall for your lies anymore.

Kimkins featured on national TV

Now up. Watch Christin & Deni and Singinglass & TippyToes on the Morning Show with Mike & Juliet.

Click here.

>> Excellent recap on Kimkins Dangers.

Kimmer’s “explanation”

From kimkins.com:

Dear Kimkins Members,

OK, so it’s time to come clean.

In view of recent events and the feedback I’ve received from members, I’ve decided to set a few things straight. Those of you who know me are well aware I’m a private person and prefer to remain that way. However, that doesn’t seem to be in the cards.

So, let’s put a few burning questions to rest:

Q: Who is Kimmer?

A: Heidi Diaz

Q: Why the drama, denial and hiding?

A: For the past 10 years it was to avoid an invasion of my own privacy. However, for the past 3 years it was to protect the identity of my foster children. California foster regulations prohibit foster parents from making statements that would identify children as “foster”, even by association. Identifying myself which could lead to my home address or identifying me in public could identify them.

Q: Did you lose 198 pounds in 11 months?

A: No. But I did lose 100 pounds in 6 months. However, since Kimkins appeared on the Woman’s World cover, I’ve been glued to my computer. I’m no different than any of you and I’m well familiar with stress eating or grabbing what’s handy instead of what’s Kimkins friendly.

Q: So you’ve regained the weight?

A: Yes, but I’ve been back on Kimkins for 2 weeks and have lost 23 pounds so far. I gain fast and I lose fast, that’s how it’s always been. I’ll be experimenting and rotating with each option except Cycling because that will be too much temptation for me. I’m a lifelong dieter and I know what a free week (or weekend) will do to my willpower.

Q: What about the model photos in some of the Success Stories?

A: The majority of our earliest Success Stories were from another website and we couldn’t take those with us. We wanted to show visitors the possibilities with Kimkins. So, while we built up our newest batch, I created stories which were a compilation of previous successes that people had shared with me over the past 10 years. We’re extremely proud of all of our members (paid and unpaid) who have experienced weight loss success.

Q: You have been photographed without hair. Did Kimkins do that?

A: Absolutely not. I developed alopecia universalis 23 years ago. It is an autoimmune disease that causes total body hair loss. Our family has cluster autoimmune conditions. Mine are alopecia, hypothyroidism and eczema. Other family members also include alopecia plus type 1 diabetes type 1, multiple sclerosis, lupus, eczema and rheumatoid arthritis. Autoimmune is when your body attacks itself and destroys certain functions. Most people with an autoimmune condition develop more than one. If one person in a family develops an autoimmune condition, other family members tend to develop them.

Q: What about the people who joined Kimkins because you said you lost 198 pounds in 11 months or because of the success story re-enactments?

A: I offer my sincere apology to anyone who felt misled or joined purely on that basis. That was never our intent. Kimkins will provide a refund and membership cancellation upon request to anyone who joined Kimkins prior to November 1, 2007. Please write support@kimkins.com This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it <!– document.write( ” ); //–> by November 16, 2007 and provide your full name, current or former user name, PayPal transaction number and PayPal email address.

Q: What about the people who want to continue with Kimkins?

A: A lifetime membership is lifetime. You’re here and that’s permanent!

In fact, I’m going to be part of the “Watch Us Lose” models on the homepage and will update my stats each week, add updated photos and post in the Kimmer’s Back on Track Challenge. I will lose my weight all over again and everyone is welcome to lose right alongside me. I had baseline medical tests done a few weeks ago and will share both my starting and final results once I reach goal which I hope to be around my birthday in May 2008.

Q: Will we ever meet “Kimmer”?

A: I’m going to do my best. I truly am a shy person who prefers to stay in the background, but a Kimkins Cruise is planned for Summer 2008 and I’ll be there to meet & greet everyone! We will be asking members for feedback on local meet-ups as well so everyone has a chance to meet me and network with other Kimkinites! Support is everything in successful long term weight loss.

Q: Anything else?

A: Kimkins works. I have offered my internet style of Kimkins diet advice for 10 years. It was hugely successful which is why Kimkins became popular. My first 8 years were 100% voluntary and I even turned down gifts. My goal has always been for people to learn the very simple and very effective basics of quick weight loss. This remains our focus today. Anyone who wants a refund and cancellation, please let us know.

Everyone who wants to stick with Kimkins — well, what are you waiting for? Let’s do it! I’ve got, uh … a couple of pounds to lose myself and I could use some support!

Q: What about starting a Kimmer Challenge?

A: Excellent! Let’s do it! I’m setting up the Kimmer’s Back on Track Challenge thread, so come on over and say “Hi!”

Kimkins Lawsuit

Check this out : click

Kimkins affiliates

Some important info in this post at lcf.

New logo at …

… Borat does Kimkins. You like?

So many really creative people, heh 🙂

One of my fav blogs, too. Humour is not dead.

Kimmer’s after pic / The Lady in Red…

…has been found. So what do you think? Is Kimmer / Heidi Diaz actually a Russian girl seeking a foreign man? 😀

Click on the image to see for yourself:

… or here

It was only a matter of time.

Hat tip yet again to the super sleuths at lcf!

Wikipedia & Kimkins

After it kept getting deleted all the time, finally there’s a Wiki entry on Kimkims again (although maybe not for long).

Hmmm…new ownership for kimkims.com

Something like it was to be expected…

KimkinsExposed has more info on it here.

Conversation between Kimmer & Tippy Toes at theTruth

theTruth posted an interesting PM conversation between Kimmer / Heidi Diaz and Tippy Toes.

– I got your pics — are you a troublemaker or what? Nobody will believe it’s the same person. THIS is why they think our success story photos are fake!

Go read it here.

Faked success stories at Kimkins.com – Part 57

Ray on kimkins is actually Joe.

A continually updated fake success story/photo page is here, at kimkinsexposed!

Heidi Diaz talks to Jimmy Moore again

Listen to it here 😀

Tzt.

Full article and transcript: here

And another faked success story

Brad’s success story.

Pic taken from here.

Again hat tip to the sleuths at lcf!

More of The Kimmer on YouTube

Released by Slamboard:

Or click here.

Russian mail order bride diet…

… just for shits & giggles …

by doodle-in-ma:

More fake success stories on Kimkins.com

Click to see more

I’m sure the stories will be taken down soon. If that’ll be the case, go here & there.

Hat tip to the super sleuths at lcf!

Kimkins – 2nd Installment on KTLA is up

Click on image to watch it now!

Kimkins Success stories & photos

The mystery of some of them has finally been solved.

#1

#2

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On the kimkins.com forum someone asked:

I just saw the picture used as your “after” in the Womens World article on a Russian mail order bride site.

It was the exact picture!! At least 16 of your success stories are also pictures from the Russian mail order bride site, lowcarbfriends is posting your success story pictures and the _link_s to the Russian site, there is no question it is your success stories. What is your explanation for this?? Is anything real on this site?? I have tried and tried to believe you, but with even YOUR “after” picture coming from the Russian bride site, there is nothing else you can say.

I expect a refund asap, none of your “TOS violation” crap.

A very disappointed client,

edited name

This only lasted one mintue in the Ask Kimmer thread

This only lasted one mintue in the Ask Kimmer thread

(copy/paste from lcf)

Doggygirl reports:

Tippy Toes weighs in

Surveillance Video of Heidi Diaz / Kimmer on YouTube

If this don’t work, click here

Released by Slamboard

The Lady in Red…

… yes, who is she?

New post on KimkinsExposed: read it here

Heidi Diaz = Kimmer? You decide

Go read TheTruth’s new post: Kimmer Speaks

Also, don’t forget: KTLA will broadcast installment II at 10 pm PDT this evening.

Kimkins / Internet Diet Scam exposed on TV!

“The Kimmer” featured on KTLA. Click on image to watch it now!

Some screencaps by Serenity-Aus, click for bigger:

TRANSCRIPT for you with dial-up

Leila: And now a KTLA exclusive for you. The founder of a popular internet diet is facing tough questions. Is she actually who she says she is?

Emmet: Chip Yost has been investigating this intriguing case joins us now with more, Chip.

Chip: Leila and Emmet, the kimkins diet has taken off on the internet. It’s based on a mixture of a couple of diets, most notably the Atkins diet. Its success can largely be traced to the amazing claims of the diet’s founder. A woman known as “the Kimmer”. But what we and others found, is that “the Kimmer’s” claims may not be all they’re cracked up to be.

Chip:“Ma’am can you look at this picture I’m showing you.” [kimmer in the car]

Why is this woman in such a hurry to get away from us? The answer starts atthis website, kimkins.com. It’s a website that says if you buy a lifetime membership for $59.95 and follow the kimkins diet, you can lose more than 2 pounds a week, with no exercise. The diet is named after the website’s founder. A woman known as “the Kimmer”. This was supposedly “the Kimmer” before the diet. This is what she says she looked like 11 months later. After dramatically losing 198lbs on her diet. [images of the website and her blue flowery before shot, and red dress shot ]

Heidi (HBGal) And I was really happy for her, cause I felt like I kinda knew her. Umm, So I went over and I joined. [Heidi (HBGirl) interviewed ]

Chip: Heidi [HBGirl] who lives in southern California was sold. She signed up, and thousands of others did too. [Heidi(HBGirl) walking outside]Especially after many of them saw the diet featured in a woman’s world magazine cover story. Inside the magazine, Kimmer’s story was told again. Alongside the story of another woman who lost weight on the kimkins diet. But unlike the other dieter, who posed for pictures, Kimmer wasn’t interviewed in person. In fact, it seemed no one in the dieting world had ever really seen her in person. [shots of the ww article] Even heidi [HB girl] tried to meet up with her when she found out they lived only a few miles apart.

Heidi (HBGal) “She always had an excuse, something with her kids, or she was doing something or another.” [Heidi (HB Girl) at computer]

Chip: Suspicions began floating. Is kimmer really that lady in the red dress? [red dress]A former business partner of Kimmer who also had never met her in person, decided to hire private investigator Bob Charlton of Alliance Investigative Services to find out who Kimmer really was. [images from surveillance of green van] Charlton knew Kimmer’s real name was Heidi Diaz and that she lived in Corona. But when he finally found her, he was in for a shock. He realised she wasn’t that thin woman in the red dress. Charlton’s investigation found that Heidi “Kimmer” Diaz was really this woman. [images from surveillance of Kimmer at petrol pump, and at store] Chip: “And is Heidi Diaz as far as you know the Kimmer?”

Charlton: “Yes, from kimkins.com” [charlton being interviewed]

Chip: Charlton’s pictures were posted on the internet. [images of slamboard]Kimkins members were in a huff, they thought they had been taken. The Better Business Bureau offered to meet with kimmer to settle the dispute. But they too were turned down

BBB “Because she claims that she’s ahh you know, a bit shy” [BBB guy being interviewed]

Chip: Finally we decided to go to Heidi Diaz or Kimmer’s apartment ourselves to see if she would clear things up [garage underneath kimmer’s apartment trying to interview Heidi] Chip: “are you actually the person that’s been claiming to be kimmer on the kimkins.com website.”

Kimmer (Heidi Diaz) “No comment”

Chip:“Ma’am have you been lying to people about who you are. Ma’am, we just want to clear some things up. Are you actually Kimmer? Have you been telling people this picture is you? Can you look through the window Ma’am. Ma’am can you look at this picture I’m showing you? [Heidi gets back in car and drive’s off to avoid reporter]She didn’t answer our questions, but Heidi Diaz may soon have to answer questions before a court.

Chip: Tomorrow night we’ll tell you why a class action lawsuit is about to be filed against her, and why some members claim her diet is causing them all kinds of health problems. And one other note I should mention Emmet and Leila the picture of the lady in the red dress was taken off the website over the weekend.

>>> Also, stay tuned as part II is due to air Oct. 3.

Private Investigator’s Notes

The Surveillance of Southern California Diet Scammer Heidi Diaz of Kimkins

Kimmer’s/Heidi’s “omgZ TiPz”

Christin’s newest blog entry : click to read

Kimmer’s tips sound very much like advice given on … pro-ana sites maybe?!

The Kimkins Diet Scam

on ScamTypes.com: click to read

Kimmer’s/Heidi’s minions at their best

Kimkins Exposed : TippyToes blames Members for health problems

*headdesk*

See this comment by Cando … Kimmer/Heidi used to promote laxatives on LCF as well.

Desperately grasping for straws here, not?

Go Read Kimkins Exposed: This quacks us up

Behind the scenes at the Kimkins Saga

Learn the truth from The Truth: clicky click (updated daily!)

Kimkins Petition

Investigate Kimkims Petition – please sign!

Stop Kimmer/Kimkins

Heidi Kimberly Diaz aka Kimmer of kimkins.com has misrepresented herself in the form of 118 lbs woman after alledgedly losing ca. 200 lbs within 8 months as seen in very current photos here (yep, sure) and here (right, whoa) in order to gain money for the “secret” of her plan (viewable for every body at LCF) and her personal support.

Fraud.

Check out these links and spread the word!

• Kimkins Exposed
• Anti-Kimkins
• Becky: Winning Weight
• Christin: The Journey
• Deni: Open Bench
• Free Kimkins Free
• Jimmy Moore’s Apology
• Kimkins @ Slamboard
• Kimkins Controversy
• Kimkins Dangers
• Kimkins Sucks!
• Kimkins Survivors
• Kimorexia
• Kkatastrophediet’s Weblog
• TRUTH Starts Here
• 3 Fat Chicks: Anatomy of a Diet Scam
• About.com Inside Kimkins
• A Pinch Of…
• How Jeanessa Got Scammed
• How Much Body Fat Can You Really Lose In A Week?
• Jersey Girl: Thoughts on Kimkins
• Kimkins Circus
• Kimkins Controversy Continues to Boil
• Kimkins Debacle; Super Smart Diet Tips
• Kimkins Experience Part 1
• Kimkins Experience Part 2
• Kimkins Saga Revisited
• Kimkins Survivors
• Mama Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Anorexic
• Tami’s Change in Game Plan
• The Problem with Kimkins
• Thin at Any Cost
• A Running Jewel
• Kimkins Circus
• The Quack of Doom: Entering the circus for the first time?
• Once Upon A Diet
• Someone in Southern California may need an attorney soon
• The Final Escape
• melting mama: Kimkins Scam.
• Have you ever screamed so loud that the room echoed? « Incredible Shrinking Ladies
• Inside the Kimkins Controversy
• A Dumbbell In A Home Gym: Kimkins: Caveat Freakin’ Emptor.
• Heard of the Kimkins Diet? Steer Clear it’s a total scam!
• Vickie’s Voice: …more of my story…
• The Road to Clarity and Transformation: The Kimmer (Kimkins) Controversy and a Parallel Universe
• Banished…oh Fo’ Shame. not.
• a mother’s heart » the kimkins debacle
• Fear & Loathing in the kitchen
• Kimkins Diet Review : The Dangers of the Kimkins Diet

 

• Blogroll

  • Anti-Kimkins
  • Becky: Winning Weight
  • Christin: The Journey
  • Deni: Open Bench
  • Free Kimkins Free
  • Jimmy Moore’s Apology
  • Kimkins @ Slamboard
  • Kimkins Controversy
  • Kimkins Dangers
  • Kimkins Sucks!
  • Kimkins Survivors
  • Kimorexia
  • Kkatastrophediet’s Weblog
  • Psychicrations : The slimmer Kimmer that wasn’t
  • Doggygirl : Beware of Kimkins!
  • Stop Kimkins Now!: Stop Kimkins Now!
  • Medusa : Deadly Kimkins Diet

• Forum Threads

  • Active Low-Carber Part 1
  • Active Low-Carber Part 2
  • Active Low-Carber Part 3
  • Active Low-Carber Part 4
  • Discouraging the Kimkins Diet
  • Why the Fascination with Kimmer Part 1
  • Why the Fascination with Kimmer Part 2
  • Why the Fascination with Kimmer Part 3
  • Wonder or Diet Fraud?

• Kimkins Reviews

  • 3 Fat Chicks: Anatomy of a Diet Scam
  • A Pinch Of…
  • How Jeanessa Got Scammed
  • How Much Body Fat Can You Really Lose In A Week?
  • Jersey Girl: Thoughts on Kimkins
  • Kimkins Circus
  • Kimkins Controversy Continues to Boil
  • Kimkins Debacle; Super Smart Diet Tips
  • Kimkins Experience Part 1
  • Kimkins Experience Part 2
  • Kimkins Saga Revisited
  • Kimkins Survivors
  • Mama Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Anorexic
  • Tami’s Change in Game Plan
  • The Problem with Kimkins
  • Thin at Any Cost

• Lawsuit Blog

  • Kimkins Lawsuit Weblog

• Low Carb Forums

  • Active Low Carber
  • Eating Low with Amy
  • Low Carb Discussion
  • Low Carbo Nostra

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Hi y’all!

Here’s some info on the infamous Kimmer aka Heidi Kimberly Diaz and her “Kimkins-WOE” for ya.