Why the fascination with Kimmer? #8

[Jazlyn]

Originally Posted by MissMerize

I reported the ad with a link to the lady in the red dress

I wrote to them too.

[amadeus4313]

Originally Posted by Jazlyn

I wrote to them too.

Me too.

[SMP]

Originally Posted by Magicsmom

SMP, if you can believe anything the Kimmer says, she claimed the blouse was a vintage equestrian design.

Thanks, MM. IOW, she was accounting for the "older" look of the pix. Hmmm, that does complicate things. But this woman has a slightly scooped nose (think a feminine Bob Hope) and I'm sure Heidi's nose is fairly short and straight. Oh well, onwards and upwards.

[HoneyBee2]

Originally Posted by lowcarborator

Hi all...I've been following this saga for months. prior to that i'd been a reader at jimmys site...and thats how i initially got familiar with kimkins. thought id finally join this site and make it official, lol.
its been like a sad soap opera unfolding on the internet..and im sorry for all of those who were hurt by this. (which, imo, is everyone who is still in denial and belonging).
i was really impressed at the dedication and tenacity you all had with the russian bride sites and how you flushed those out!
this really is crazier than fiction and when i tried to describe it all to someone unfamiliar...she even said it sounds like a lifetime movie!
ok..back to lurking. im getting some great recipes on another thread and im making the revolution rolls today

Welcome and glad to have you on the board!

Originally Posted by MissMerize

Did anyone see this site? Easy thumbnail, but there are 600 pages of them.

Scanna's Russian Brides

I can add it to the websites to search list. Did you have any search criteria in when getting the 600 pages?

Originally Posted by MJR

Or maybe one of those dateing sites she visited. Does anyone have the links to the ones we know she used? I've got some time today to look.

The websites are on my blog here. Click on link in my siggy.

Hi Jeanessa!

[Barbara B]

Originally Posted by Darlene41

Hi Barbara and Everybody.

If you take a look at HoneyBee's blog you can see the sights that have already been searched. I've searched plentyoffish (actually, I've searched it twice.)
http://www.lowcarbfriends.com/bbs/blog.php?b=6

I've been searching everywhere. We will find the rest of those pictures...someday.

OK, I commented this on her blog, I've searched scanna's site from pages 210 - 420

[HoneyBee2]

Originally Posted by juniper01

Haven't got time to read everything yet, but there was another interesting site that I didn't get to brouse for Russian Brides, it is:
CuteOnly - Only Cute Russian and Ukrainian Girls

That link is on the blog for websites to search. If you search it keep in mind up to page 270 has already been searched.

[mrsmenopausal]

Originally Posted by MissMerize

Translation:

Keep it down you troublemaker and go make some new friends cause your old ones ditched you when the word got out.

Originally Posted by HoneyBee2

I had to throw in this picture I just got of my brother's triplets.

Omg, what dolls!! Congrats to you all. I have twin boys. I can't imagine what puberty in his house is going to be like. Stereophonic puberty gave me a nervous twitch. lol.

Originally Posted by Maid of Erin

Really? The Ring of Kerry is usually included in most tours unless you are only staying near Dublin. Killarney is a very pretty town in County Kerry. I am an hour away from Killarney. Dublin in on the east and I live in the southwest outside Tralee, where I put a plus sign. Hope you enjoy your trip, when are you coming?



ps. Forgot to mark out Kilkenny for you. If you draw a line from Killarney to Dublin, it's a little right of the center. It's on the map but not too easy to read.

Thanks for doing that map! That's great.
I leave on friday. I'll be gone 8 days (somehow I came up with 10 days originally but it appears I was math challenged the day I came up with that figure and was corrected today. LOL). The 12 of us are sneaking off to Killashandra on our own (that's where our family is from).

Originally Posted by Chelveston

He's at least readed it?

Originally Posted by gibster

Oh, you'll have a grand time in Ireland! I've been there 3 times - never did a tour. It's just fun to hop in a car and drive. Kerry is on the west coast, Dublin on the east.

I'm so excited but not so excited about the plane ride. It has been over 20 years since I was on a plane. gulp.

Originally Posted by Princess Dieter

The Princess<--recovering from stomach bug that really cleaned the heck outta my royal pipes!

aww, hope you're feeling better and sorry but.. bahahhaha about the royal pipes.

Originally Posted by tiggerr

Alas, no.

She lost her battle in July.

I'm so sorry.

[Princess Dieter]

Originally Posted by Chelveston

You just hit the "Report Classified" button near the top of the ad (in the blue box).

I linked to Ducky & the Fake models pics & slamboard.

I forgot the TV news.

I also reported it and signed my real name so they can see it's not one person reporting it over and over. I specified that it's an illegal ad because it uses photos in an unauthorized manner, offers fake stories with fake pictures and made-up names, and referred them to the KTLA report and Kimkins Exposed.

The Princess

[sammymomma]

Report: Kimkins.com
Category: Con Artists

Kimkins Fraud-Based Internet Starvation Diet Touted as 'No Faster Weight Loss. None' Kimkins is based on LIES Corona California
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Kimkins.com
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U.S.A.

Submitted: 10/15/2007 7:00:14 PM
Modified: 10/15/2007 7:00:00 PM
Stephanie
Northport, Florida


I'm writing to alert you to a fraudulent and dangerous starvation diet plan (not just low carb, but very low carb, low calorie and low fat) which goes by the name of 'KIMKINS No Faster Weight Loss. None' on the internet. This diet was written up in June in Woman's World magazine and quickly climbed to approx. 40,000 members making the founder, Heidi K. Diaz a very, very wealthy woman.

The diet was based on the claims of the founder, Heidi K. Diaz, aka Kimmer, who said she lost 198 lbs in 11 months and had maintained that loss for over 5 years. She began cultivating a diet advice following as early as 2003 on a popular low carb forum. She was so successful that she left that site in 2006 and began her own PAID forum. After the WW article, the forum subscription price jumped to $59.95 (which is what I paid).

One of the main reasons I joined was the promise on the forum home page, 'personal coaching by the founder, Kimmer!'.

From the home page in June:
Included In Your Membership
Kimkins Diet
Food Lists
Sample Menus
Recipe Library
Support Forums
Online Personal Journal
Direct Access to Kimmer

The draw for this sort of forum and diet comes from people desperate to lose weight and keep it off. Those unfamiliar with dieting, or with the low carb lifestyle are usually those most easily misled by this diet scammer (that would be me).

Furthermore, Diaz has spent many hours in the past several years spamming the internet (craigslist and Yahoo Answers in particular until she was stopped) promoting her insanely low calorie (some call it anorexic) diet to TEENS. I personally know of at least two teenagers who followed her diet and posted actively on the forum, in spite of Kimmer's stated policy of not allowing teens on her site (a documented lie).

The promise made by Kimkins.com was:

'What if I told you that you could lose weight at turbo speed? Experience natural appetite suppression? Would you be interested?

Don't worry! No awful prepackaged foods. Forget about diet pills or risky surgery. The plan I'm talking about is all natural with everyday food.
It's called Kimkins and was developed by me, Kimmer, in 2000 when I weighed a morbidly obese 318 pounds! In less than a year I lost 198 pounds and kept it off!

Are you getting excited yet? You should be!

Kimkins has literally changed the lives of real people just like you who were at their wits end about their weight problem.'

So what's the problem??

**It's been documented (by private investigator) that Diaz has NOT lost weight and is in fact, morbidly obese. The entire diet plan is based on fraudulent claims!!

**Although the published versions (there are 5 versions of the Kimkins diet) are already low calorie (approximately 500-800 calories per day if followed to the letter), the practical advice (well documented) on the forum is to continue to drop calories and fats resulting in many, many Kimkins dieters living on 300-600 calories a day for months. I have screenshots of advice from 'Kimmer' advising me to effectively drop my daily caloric intake from approx. 800 to more like 500-600 a day and telling me she looked forward to me becoming one of her *success stories*)

**People are experiencing SEVERE health and medical problems as a result of following this diet (documented). Note: I experienced health issues as a result of this diet and gave it up after 6-7 weeks and am still recovering at the date of this writing.

**Diaz stole the success story photos for her site from Russian Bride websites (documented).

**She bans people from using her forum for the slightest infraction (asking questions she doesn't like, or questioning the published photos of herself on the internet) with NO refund. A class action lawsuit is underway by those defrauded and banned without refund (documented).

**Kimmer no longer gives personal advice, she is MIA from her site since early in October citing that she 'sold the site' to an anonymous new owner.

The Better Business Bureau has given Kimkins.com an F rating.
KTLA News ran a special report on two consecutive nights last week, in which actual footage of Diaz is shown evading reporters.

Every one of the original administration/success stories has since left Kimkins, and in fact they all now have blogs explaining what a terrible mistake their involvement was with Kimkins and Heidi Diaz, the 300lb+ scammer behind the diet. Their stories of personal dealings with Diaz are truly chilling.

If you wish to research further, please go to these sites:

Kimkins Exposed

Winning Weight Loss

Kimkins Dangers

The Journey

The Open Bench

Kimkins Survivors

3 Fat Chicks on a Diet Official Website for Weight Loss Support - Kimkins: Anatomy of a Diet Scam

About.com expose:
Inside Kimkins - More Review and Update About the Kimkins Diet

Each of the sites above will have links to literally dozens of other similar links, all working together to attempt to stop Heidi Diaz and the Kimkins diet scam before someone dies.

Thank you for your time,

A very concerned ex-Kimkins member and Concerned Citizen

Ex-Kimkinite
Northport, Florida
U.S.A.

[Darlene41]

Originally Posted by SMP

I started again, then got hit by a thought. BONK! Is that blouse she's wearing a N.A. design? Is that patio furniture apt to be found on a Russian site? Can anyone determine what kind of shrubbery is in the background? (Gotta have much better eyes than moi.) Sweets, did you narrow the field or just looked at EVERYONE from pg 30-110?

What is N.A. design?
I've search for designers, I've searched old patio ads, I've search vintage clothing just to see if I can at least find the shirt, and many other search terms. Just can't figure it out. But, I do believe that it's a picture from the internet. I even tried to search old WW magazines, because apparently she reads those.

[sammymomma]

NA- North America

Ive been looking for the shirt too

[Caro23]

Originally Posted by Magicsmom

SMP, if you can believe anything the Kimmer says, she claimed the blouse was a vintage equestrian design.

Seriously? I saw that blouse at Marshalls (the discount clothes store) some years back. I remember noting that when that old pic was on her website, because it made her seem like a real person to me.

Vintage equestrian design. That's a riot!

Cilantro

[Darlene41]

Originally Posted by sammymomma

NA- North America

Ive been looking for the shirt too

Oh, thank you.

And, I just thought of something - Heidi/Kimmer scam girl used Yahoo a lot. How about checking the dating site for Yahoo? Is there a dating site on Yahoo?
Well, I'll check it out tonight when I get home from work.

Thanks again sammymomma.

[juniper01]

HoneyBee, those triplets are scrumptious!

[mrsmenopausal]

Originally Posted by Barbara B

Thanks. I have been hunting for it with no luck thus far. I'm searching via this site:

Netvue: The image search engine with full-size results

It's an image finder site. You put in what you're looking for and it scouts out pictures that are relevant. In this case, I looked for "patio furniture" because ever since I saw the picture, my thought was that (1) it's probably not an ad for clothes or she would be standing. I figured it might be an ad for patio furniture or it might be from a magazine like Better Homes and Gardens.

I also did a search here on Jaclyn Smith and got a zillion Jaclyn pictures, none of which matched. I know Jaclyn Smith has a line of Furniture and thought she might also have patio furniture -- thus a search for her pics.

I also went to the Wayback machine to look for archived pages from sites such as J.C. Penny, Sears, and Target. Unfortunately, most of the time only the text is saved, not the images. Oh well ... I'm trying.

I'm wondering if this is a family member. Remember it was said she used her niece's info? I wonder if this is her maybe?

[Darlene41]

Originally Posted by HoneyBee2

MissMer-
What do you think of Danielle Hauck the admin?
Could it be Kimmer trying to run the Boot Camp section since it limits calories? We all know how Kimmer loves to cut the calories for others.

I had to throw in this picture I just got of my brother's triplets.

Awwww...they are beautiful! And congrats to you auntie and to the new parents.

[MissMerize]

I believe the woman on the scale picture is a stock photo.

Does anyone know how long the kimmer in the chair photo was up for? It would help to know when that picture was first uploaded to the kimkins site. Does anyone remember if it was on the front page last year?

[jenna...]

I first saw it in the fall of 2006 when I was surfing lowcarb websites and happened on Jimmys site. The chair picture was there and led me to Kimkins and I thought NO WAY could you lose that fast and then forgot about it until I joined Kimkins in March 07.

[Nady]

Originally Posted by Magicsmom

SMP, if you can believe anything the Kimmer says, she claimed the blouse was a vintage equestrian design.

Yes, of course~ because zebras are equines, aren't they? And people often ride them, right?
~~~N

[mrsmenopausal]

Originally Posted by TerryC

I just wanted to say Hi everyone. I haven't had much to add lately but I've been lurking here. So... Hi!

Originally Posted by HoneyBee2

Great site!! I was just looking at it and put in a search for "Woman Lounging" and I got this image and thought it was funny-

LOL
I'm searching "woman smiling patio chair"

[JustKim]

I think that picture dates back quite aways before 2006 here

[mrsmenopausal]

Originally Posted by MissMerize

There is a way to report this ad as an anonymous person. Everybody go do it. They will investigate and pull it down.


Also, I found this with a wacky search. On the photo site netvue do a search for kimmer. at the bottom of the photos you recognize, look at where they link to.

Found this ad. I'm sure there are affiliates (or kimmer herself) trying to promote the site outside of the us.

did it already.

Originally Posted by Princess Dieter