Why the fascination with Kimmer? #16

[want2bskinny]

Originally Posted by vernswifevickie

Amy..I don't see Gran's post on your blog. Is it a blog post or a comment?

I don't see it either? I loved your blog Vickie, you have an incredible way with words. I bow down to all the ducks with blogs. I'm lucky I can write a decent message on the boards

[vernswifevickie]

Originally Posted by want2bskinny

I don't see it either? I loved your blog Vickie, you have an incredible way with words. I bow down to all the ducks with blogs. I'm lucky I can write a decent message on the boards

Bonnie..thanks so much fo the kind words about my blog. I just looked at it again and saw all the typos! Ugh!!! I can't type worth a darn. I really need to work on that.

[Amyb1569]

That was weird...it did not post. Okay it is there now..sorry. It is a blog post.

[CarolynF]

Wow..Amy..poor Gran. She was just following Heidi's instructions and Heidi could care less, I'm sure. Heidi thinks that fat people can live off their fat. What an idiot!

[MomToEli]

Originally Posted by HoneyBee2

Well I guess Kimmer decided that she didn't have those grand numbers to post for April 30th, since her only post in that challenge yesterday was how she would be at chat.

So what does she do today....DISTRACT....of course, with a new challenge!
From Kimmer:

Re:Kimmer's "Pinky Swear" Challenge 2008 Minutes ago
HAPPY MAY 1ST!!!

Today we're starting the new May Pinky Swear Celebration Time challenge AND my "baby's" birthday! 19. When did that happen, LOL? In honor of the event, I've switched my avatar for today. In keeping with my please-don't-let-me-touch-anything-tech, I got a great 60% off bargain on Guitar Hero III for his gift ... only to learn that it's for a Wii (what's that?) and not XBox. On a positive note, I've never bought him anything remotely related to video games or computers in 19 years and he was in total and absolute shock!

Gee, Heidi ... think he just might have preferred to get a BED for his birthday?

Stop being such a schmuck, and in public even.

[vernswifevickie]

Originally Posted by Amyb1569

That was weird...it did not post. Okay it is there now..sorry. It is a blog post.

Originally Posted by CarolynF

Wow..Amy..poor Gran. She was just following Heidi's instructions and Heidi could care less, I'm sure. Heidi thinks that fat people can live off their fat. What an idiot!

Wow! Gran's story is really sad. I feel so bad for her.

[Mayberryfan]

Amyb,

I hope all those people who run around to various blogs and call the Ducks 'drama queens' 'bored housewives' and people who just need to get a life will read about Gran. My heart just goes out to her. I certainly hope she can recover and I certainly hope that Heidi is brought to justice.

Heidi, in case you don't know this, we aren't stopping until you are where you cannot hurt anyone else. Every legal means will be exhausted in pursuing you.

[Magicsmom]

Originally Posted by vernswifevickie

Amy..I don't see Gran's post on your blog. Is it a blog post or a comment?

Vickie, is that Misha in your avatar?

[rebel]

Originally Posted by Magicsmom

Vickie, is that Misha in your avatar?

I was wondering the same thing.

[vernswifevickie]

Originally Posted by Magicsmom

Vickie, is that Misha in your avatar?

Originally Posted by rebel

I was wondering the same thing.

No, but thanks for asking. That is Agnes in my avatar. She climbs on the back of my chair and sits on my shoulder when I am having coffee in the morning. I took that picture this morning with my cell phone and I liked the way it came out so I replaced my old avatar pic with it. Agnes is 2 1/2 years old. She was dumped in a box on the side of the road with her littermates. Someone rescued them and took them to the vet near my shop. We adopted Agnes...she's Vern's cat...she's a pain...LOL

This one is Misha...


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[This time]

Vickie...you are like me, the last time i bought a cat was 1984 the rest are all strays, well 1 mother a 4 kittens in my cabana 8 years ago, the newest one came crying to me in my driveway a few months ago, lets just say he is one of the family,and all my cats are indoor cats, with the exception of the screened in porch Linda

[Amyb1569]

Sad tonight...
This was posted at KK and it touched me and hurt my heart. This person is sad and scared and hurting. I wish she was not at KK. I wish known of them were there. But being a newbie...it is sad.
Posted at KK today....
I am lost in diet yonkers! I have spent my adult life with weight problems. As a child I was very active and thin and then something changed. I have never thought of myself as fat, but I am wrong. I got a picture of myself today that a parent at my daughters school took of me. It is of myself and my daughter standing together and I am fat. I am one of those fat people! I feel so hurt and betrayed by myself. I am not sure how I could have ever let myself get this way. I no longer want to be this way and I am not sure if I can change.

I just found out about the whole Kimkins imposter story and I feel sad about it. Whatever happened in the past, this plan worked for those people. I am in hopes this can work for me also. I have tried low carb in the past only to be on the diet for 2 weeks with no cheating, eating only the right foods and still did not loose any weight, not 1 pound. It was very hard to do that work and not see any progress.

If just one person could find the time to just say hi! Maybe an "I know what your going through" it would not be so hard. I no longer want to go out of my house I am so embarrassed to be this size. What am I going to do?

[Magicsmom]

Amy, that really is sad. I know how she feels. I wish she'd have come here instead, but I'm sure there are supportive people over there.

[Magicsmom]

Originally Posted by vernswifevickie

No, but thanks for asking. That is Agnes in my avatar. She climbs on the back of my chair and sits on my shoulder when I am having coffee in the morning. I took that picture this morning with my cell phone and I liked the way it came out so I replaced my old avatar pic with it. Agnes is 2 1/2 years old. She was dumped in a box on the side of the road with her littermates. Someone rescued them and took them to the vet near my shop. We adopted Agnes...she's Vern's cat...she's a pain...LOL

I Misha. Isn't it interesting how animals pick their favorite people? One of our cats bonded with DH, and one of them bonded after me. That is where my nickname came from. Magic is momma's boy.

[Sherrie_lc]

Originally Posted by Barbara B

ITA. There's really no reason to extend it. That's precisely why Dr. A utilized the idea of finding your Critical Carbohydrate Level.

I do remember somewhere in his book he does say that you can stay on induction but I think this is a bad idea. When I did Atkins back in 2002 I found I needed to eat more carbs (aka refeeds) to keep my weight loss going in the end. My stalls were never about carb creep or calorie creep for that matter as I was counting everything and I always registered dark purple on the sticks no matter how much water I drank, I had the same readings that I did when I first started.

Anyway there has been research that shows too little carbs may have an impact on our thyroid so I think that is something we should always be aware of. I don't think that means induction is bad (I think its great to get rid of those cravings etc) just that extended induction may be a bad idea. Anyway I think there is still a lot that we don't know about the human body yet. Besides by eating more veggies this helps to ensure we get more important vitamins and minerals in.

[vernswifevickie]

Originally Posted by This time

Vickie...you are like me, the last time i bought a cat was 1984 the rest are all strays, well 1 mother a 4 kittens in my cabana 8 years ago, the newest one came crying to me in my driveway a few months ago, lets just say he is one of the family,and all my cats are indoor cats, with the exception of the screened in porch Linda

Linda..all my cats are rescues too. Misha was only a few days old when I got her. Her eyes were still closed! I bottle fed her....she was my baby. I love all of my cats...but Misha was my baby. I'm doing better though...I'm only crying once every day or two now. I still catch glimpses of my other cat, Cloe, and think for a nano-second that it's Mish. Then I remember that she's gone. I miss her.

Originally Posted by Magicsmom

I Misha. Isn't it interesting how animals pick their favorite people? One of our cats bonded with DH, and one of them bonded after me. That is where my nickname came from. Magic is momma's boy.

Magicsmom..I never knew your screen name was for your cat! That is so cool! I think it's very interesting how cats bond to certain people..and it's even more fascinating to me how they somehow manage to end up with the people they should be with. My Cloe was my aunt's cat. She was 3 years old when my aunt had a heart attack that left her disabled and unable to live alone. I took Cloe for her so she wouldn't have to worry. Cloe was a feral kitten that my aunt trapped and brought indoors. She was always sickly and frail. It took alot of TLC and I thought we were going to lose her a couple of times but she is now a beautiful, thriving, crazy, affectionate, 10 year old cat. Cloe is special to me, both because my Aunt Minnie (cloe's first mom) is my favorite aunt...and because Cloe has overcome so much and has fought so hard to become healthy.

Ok...I readily admit it...I am a crazy cat lady...I love my cats!
This one is Cloe
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[Sherrie_lc]

Originally Posted by 2big4mysize

Sherrie there were some studies that showed that some antideptessants particularly the uptake inhibitors that were liver enzymes activated were reduced in effectivness because low carbing used those enzymes too. Thiose are the folk who will need there doseage checked and possible adjusted when they low carb. Some folk mistakenly believe serotonin is made from carbs (when it is actually made from protein) and think low carbing will lower their serotonin levels.

2Big I find that particularly interesting. When I lost my weight on Atkins I was taking Diane-35ED which is a progesterone only pill. I went from having no PMS, clear skin, normal hair, 5 day periods that were light and always on time to a huge hormonal mess that continued to get worse as time went on instead of better like it should do. I had to stop taking the pill altogether just to try and get some regularity, it still sucked but was better then it had become.

Lots of others on contraception were experiencing similar problems and I believe a ladies husband whom was a gynecologist was also noticing this problem but she went quiet and I never heard anymore. When I spoke to someone whom was involved in research she suggested that it may have something to do with how the liver was metabolising it.

I was never able to find anything on this and never got any answers from anyone I tried to ask about it. I had heard that some put their patients on a higher dose but there was never any explanation as to why.

I think you may have just hit the nail on the head with this issue too so if you ever come across these studies I'd appreciate it if you could send them to me. I know we have a lady at the moment experiencing problems whom has one of those things in her arm, name escapes me right now but I know its right here on the tip of my tongue!

[OhYeahBabe]

Originally Posted by Amyb1569

Sad tonight...
This was posted at KK and it touched me and hurt my heart. This person is sad and scared and hurting. I wish she was not at KK. I wish known of them were there. But being a newbie...it is sad.
Posted at KK today....
I am lost in diet yonkers! I have spent my adult life with weight problems. As a child I was very active and thin and then something changed. I have never thought of myself as fat, but I am wrong. I got a picture of myself today that a parent at my daughters school took of me. It is of myself and my daughter standing together and I am fat. I am one of those fat people! I feel so hurt and betrayed by myself. I am not sure how I could have ever let myself get this way. I no longer want to be this way and I am not sure if I can change.

I just found out about the whole Kimkins imposter story and I feel sad about it. Whatever happened in the past, this plan worked for those people. I am in hopes this can work for me also. I have tried low carb in the past only to be on the diet for 2 weeks with no cheating, eating only the right foods and still did not loose any weight, not 1 pound. It was very hard to do that work and not see any progress.

If just one person could find the time to just say hi! Maybe an "I know what your going through" it would not be so hard. I no longer want to go out of my house I am so embarrassed to be this size. What am I going to do?

Maybe she'll get lucky and get banned. I hate to think of how lost she'd feel, but at least she wouldn't get further dragged into the diet, the health problems, making friends she'll be devastated to lose, etc. I wish there were ways to communicate with her.

[vernswifevickie]

Originally Posted by Amyb1569

Sad tonight...
This was posted at KK and it touched me and hurt my heart. This person is sad and scared and hurting. I wish she was not at KK. I wish known of them were there. But being a newbie...it is sad.
Posted at KK today....
I am lost in diet yonkers! I have spent my adult life with weight problems. As a child I was very active and thin and then something changed. I have never thought of myself as fat, but I am wrong. I got a picture of myself today that a parent at my daughters school took of me. It is of myself and my daughter standing together and I am fat. I am one of those fat people! I feel so hurt and betrayed by myself. I am not sure how I could have ever let myself get this way. I no longer want to be this way and I am not sure if I can change.

I just found out about the whole Kimkins imposter story and I feel sad about it. Whatever happened in the past, this plan worked for those people. I am in hopes this can work for me also. I have tried low carb in the past only to be on the diet for 2 weeks with no cheating, eating only the right foods and still did not loose any weight, not 1 pound. It was very hard to do that work and not see any progress.

If just one person could find the time to just say hi! Maybe an "I know what your going through" it would not be so hard. I no longer want to go out of my house I am so embarrassed to be this size. What am I going to do?

Originally Posted by OhYeahBabe

Maybe she'll get lucky and get banned. I hate to think of how lost she'd feel, but at least she wouldn't get further dragged into the diet, the health problems, making friends she'll be devastated to lose, etc. I wish there were ways to communicate with her.

It really is sad to see that person's words. It takes me back to the desperation I was feeling the night I discovered Kimkins. Heidi capitalizes on those desperate feelings that we've all had at one time or another. Then, like OYB said, once you make the friends and find the support and friendship with others who have felt or are feeling the same way...you just get sucked deeper and deeper into the diet, into the mentality on the site, and into Heidi's web. I hope she finds her way to a healthier solution.

[CarolynF]

Vickie: I'm a cat lover, too..I was sad when Misha "crossed the rainbow bridge"..She was very beautiful and my cat (Alex) would have wanted to "date" her, but he is in an "altered" state..So, they could have been friends.

No...I doubt if that lady will "stick with KKs"..She sounds so sad and depressed. Hopefully, she won't be one of Heidi's victims for long.

[cleochatra]

The one blessing of most human beings is that they won't choose to remain deprived for long.

If people can't survive on Atkins simply because they miss pasta and bread, imagine suddenly being told by a morbidly obese diet guru that now you're going to eat chicken boobs and the whites of their unfertilized offspring with 'pinches of lettuce' for perpetuity.

[Magicsmom]

Originally Posted by vernswifevickie

It really is sad to see that person's words. It takes me back to the desperation I was feeling the night I discovered Kimkins. Heidi capitalizes on those desperate feelings that we've all had at one time or another. Then, like OYB said, once you make the friends and find the support and friendship with others who have felt or are feeling the same way...you just get sucked deeper and deeper into the diet, into the mentality on the site, and into Heidi's web. I hope she finds her way to a healthier solution.

There really is a certain mentality at KK, isn't there? I think it's why the ducks are so despised in their ranks, because we are a threat to their little world.

Originally Posted by CarolynF

Vickie: I'm a cat lover, too..I was sad when Misha "crossed the rainbow bridge"..She was very beautiful and my cat (Alex) would have wanted to "date" her, but he is in an "altered" state..So, they could have been friends.

No...I doubt if that lady will "stick with KKs"..She sounds so sad and depressed. Hopefully, she won't be one of Heidi's victims for long.

This reminded me, our cat A.C. is a lover of all animals. He was absolutely star struck with our little girl Missy. He sat and gazed at her for extended periods of time. It made her very uncomfortable. I'm sure he would have loved a friendship with Misha too.

[Amyb1569]

I am having a pissy Heidi and KK day. I want someone who knows something about hair loss to please help me..please.
My hair is coming out pretty bad. The last two times I have washed it...I was shocked.
And my DD said very innocent today...did you brush your hair....I said why? and she said well it looks thin...wow...
Now sure what brushing it and thin means.but she said it looked thin..and only an hour earlier I had handfulls of hair come out....
I am freaked and sad and a little scared of losing more..