Dieter Overbored!

There is a dedicated forum at Kimkins exclusively for those who are restarting the diet. I think it bears looking into. There are people who go on Weight Watchers and do the program for life. The same thing can be said of Protein Power, South Beach, Atkins, Overeaters Anonymous, and a plethora of other eating plans designed to take weight off and keep it off. There are testimonials from people who have lost weight, changed their way of eating for good, and maintained their weight loss. Heidi Diaz claimed to be one of those people, and it was all a big fat lie, but that’s a different post for another day.

The Kimkins re-starters are full of guilt. The site is peppered with posts of self-flagellation and confession of the sin of falling off the wagon. People blame themselves for having failed. At one time, they lost weight on the Kimkins program, a glowing testimonial to success by starvation. They are ashamed for their perceived failure. Someone needs to tell them they didn’t fail. Kimkins is a flawed program, and the main byproduct of that flaw is that people can’t stick to it. Some of them complain of the sick feeling (a.k.a. SNATT), becoming bored with the food choices, blame stress, pregnancies, and just plain emotional weakness. They blame everything but the real culprit: the Kimkins eating plan.

Kimkins to this day doesn’t have a maintenance plan, and is it any wonder? Who in their right mind would want to eat like that for the rest of their lives? Kimkins members are doling out vegetables to themselves in jello cups that would be better used in the recycling plant, eating carefully measured portions of romaine with a few squirts of salad spritzer, and poaching chicken breasts in fat free broth. It’s not exactly an enjoyable way of eating. Yes, it produces weight loss because of the deprivation [read very low calories], but it has an insidious effect on the body. Even those who have been fortunate enough to reach their goal weight using the program have found their metabolisms so damaged that attempting to eat normal quantities of food produces rapid weight gain. The lucky people are those who come out of it with their health intact, even if their metabolism is a train wreck.

So to all you restarters – NOW HEAR THIS!!! The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. What do you expect to accomplish by repetitively losing weight via Kimkins, only to regain it? Do not ever forget that Heidi Diaz has never lost a substantial amount of weight on Kimkins or any other plan. If you’ve managed to lose weight, you’ve accomplished more than she ever did. You are not to blame for gaining weight again, so dispense with the self-blaming. Her flawed diet plan is the culprit. Get yourself to a nutritionist who supports low carb eating and get advice on how to repair your metabolism. Repairing one’s metabolism after a bout with Kimkins is very difficult, but not impossible to do. However, you need counsel from someone who knows what they’re talking about.

There is another factor to following this plan, and I speak this from first-hand experience. For a certain group of people of which I am one, the deprivation of Kimkins causes binge eating once the individual has had enough of the starvation. This, of course, leads to rapid and excessive weight gain. Some people end up where they started, or worse. All-or-nothing personalities have no business even trying Kimkins. It is a train wreck waiting to happen. Do yourself a favor. Look into Atkins, Protein Power, South Beach, or some other low carb plan that actually allows you to EAT! Pick one you can stick with for the rest of your life. Avoid extreme plans. The deprivation and boredom of the Kimkins plan are just not worth it.