Another Diet Scam?

Well I have to say that despite the fact  I should know better even I get taken in sometimes by the media hype surrounding one diet or another and it seems that this is the case with the Kimkims diet which appeared to be one of the most successful of the low-carb diets out there.

I mentioned it on my blog a few times, maybe even drove people to the site. The before and after pictures were just fantastic - and though it was a low-carb diet and I'm not keen on these (or on diets at all for that matter) I left people to make up their own minds.

Kimkims has had something like 40,000 members. Could they all be wrong?

Well it seems that a tale is emerging of false representation, faked before and after pictures and a sad woman at the head who looks like she is a good 300lbs if she is an ounce and who is refusing to appear in public to refute claims she is a fraudster.

You can see the whole sorry tale at the slamboard site - on the right you'll see a link to a  KTLA TV  news report which gives the story in a nutshell.

Comments

[Laura]

Thanks for sharing this information with your readers. Hopefully, your warning will help prevent some of them from endangering their health.

Please, if anyone has followed the Kimkins Diet or is currently following it, please make an appointment to see your doctor as soon as possible. Let him know how much (or how little) you have been eating. Hopefully, there will not be any irreversible effects for you. Not everyone has been that lucky.

Please be careful.

[Becky]

Thank you for highlighting this. Like many, I followed this diet and did lose weight. It's hard not to lose when eating so very little. However, I am also losing a lot of hair, seeing diminished lean muscle mass, and fighting a more sluggish metabolism now.

I even worked as an Admin on the site, until I began to suspect that Kimmer was perpetrating fraud. I also confronted her with concerns about the health problems, some serious, that were beginning to show up in people who had followed the plan strictly. Her response was to deny all responsibility and to refuse to change a thing. She showed no compassion and no remorse. I knew then that I could no longer be involved with her.

I encourage anyone who is desperate to lose like I was that there are safer ways to do it that will not compromise your health later down the road, and plenty of low-carb weight loss sites for encouragement and support. There is no need to put yourselves or anyone else at risk, or to support a fraud.

[dieter]

Go to Lowcarbfriends.com. Everyone there outted Kimmer. The slamboard and other blogs are getting all the information from LCF so why not just go straight to the horses mouth? Find the fascination thread and you will see everything first hand.

[Sherrie]

With all due respect and this is nothing against the fascination thread as I had followed it since the beginning and have met lots of fantastic people in that thread. But to say everyone gets their info from that thread is just silly, you do realise that those bloggers also participate and share info on that thread and it is those bloggers that were instrumental in turning people around and bringing them to that thread. What about the private investigation? it was slamboard not LCF that did that.

LCF has been a great resource particularly their Ask Kimmer thread but to imply that everything that has come to light is due to the fascination thread is silly and in a way insulting to all the hard work some of the bloggers put in to get the word out and get rid of Kimmers monopoly of the search engines and everyone else in the beginning whom were labeled haters whenever they tried to speak out.

[WildAngel6]

Thank you for sharing this information about the Kimkins Diet Scam.

Be sure to get in touch with the attorney for the Class Action Lawsuit if you have been a victim of this scam.

http://kimkinslawsuit.wordpress.com/