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Kimkins is optimized for search engines. The SEP work was carried out before Heidi Diaz came clean about her actual weight. If you search the term Kimkins on Google, you will see Kimkins.com at the top of the search. Below the site description are seven links to pages within the site. One of them is the old Who is Kimmer page. On that page is the fraudulent after picture and also the 198 lb weight loss claim and the text of the old interview with Jimmy Moore. This page should be deleted. I have to wonder whether it had been left up on purpose.

Edit: The page no longer accessible.

Heidi Diaz has decided to, in her words, come clean on the Kimkins website. She is no longer claiming to look like any of these after photos. I couldn’t help but notice that the recent photograph of the real Kimmer that was added to the website today looks a bit vertically stretched. I am curious as to what other people think.

Please feel free to leave comments on this blog. I have had to use full moderation, but I will be approving as often as possible.

Google Trends is a tool from Google that has not really caught on. I guess the disclaimers about accuracy might have something to do with that. Nevertheless, when I was researching something entirely unrelated, I got the idea to see what the Trends Graph for Kimkins looked like.

Take a moment to picture what you think it might look like before you click the link.

This is just a quick post to remind people who have an interest in Kimkins that there is a Slamboard YouTube Channel with a couple of relevant videos.

I chose not to embed these videos on this blog, but they are embeddable for any other bloggers who want to publicize them and comment on them. They are surveillance videos.

Riverside County, California private investigator Robert Charlton was an integral part of the work done to expose Heidi Diaz (the obese woman known as “Kimmer” of Kimkins diet fame). Robert has written a fascinating article about his involvement in the case and the days and days of surveillance it took to finally obtain pictures of this reclusive woman:

During the several days spent on surveillance, I observed Ms. Diaz out of the apartment twice. She was usually seated at a window on her computer. I remember thinking “what a strange woman”, just sitting at the computer all day long creating diet schemes to take money from people who have placed their hopes in her hands to help them lose weight.

I passed by her vehicle one day and noticed a tray of sugar cookies with sprinkles just recently opened and sitting on the passenger seat of her mini van. This from a woman telling other people to eat 500 to 800 calories a day all the while she is taking in much much more than that.

Read Mr. Charlton’s blog post here.