A Message for Mayberryfan … Imagine

Sigh. I have intentionally ignored this entire situation because it just hasn’t been worthy of a response, nor worthy of the time it takes away from the real things I have going on. But, alas, now I must respond.

Imagine, if you would, a certain lawsuit principal receiving a private message asking her if she was aware of how her ex-husband happened to stick his nose into the whole KK mess, and how she would be very unhappy if she did know.

Now, imagine that principal receiving an email telling her that this blogger, as well as the Yucky blogger and the Medusa blogger had actually initiated contact with that same ex-husband while investigating HER (the principal). Imagine, just for a moment, that principal did not know this blogger he had dialoged with nor was she fully aware of all contacts this blogger had with her ex-husband in real-time. Imagine all she knew was that he tried to intimidate her and manipulate the people in this matter to meet his own ends. Imagine that lawsuit principal being told that this same ex-husband, whom at one time she actually feared, had likely been given personal information about her by these bloggers.

Imagine that this lawsuit principal had not been aware of her ex-husband’s real agenda in the whole affair, and imagine that her legal business with him had not come to the conclusion they both had sought and that the door to her relationship with him had not been closed forever. Imagine that he still wants something from her.

Can you imagine the fear that could potentially have gripped her heart? Can you imagine the angst and anger that would have boiled up in her, directed at these three bloggers who had intentionally contacted this man who held such a painful position in her past? Can you imagine how that fear might have driven her into hiding - and right OUT of the lawsuit?

Luckily for this particular lawsuit principal she DOES know this blogger. She DOES know all of the circumstances surrounding her ex-husband’s interjection into this whole affair. She is NOT any longer afraid of him. And she also knows that the lead attorney in the class action lawsuit of which she is a principal was fully apprised of the situation AS IT UNFOLDED, including the true identity of the blogger involved.

Mayberryfan, enough is enough. The fact you involved an innocent party in your vendetta speaks volumes about you. When you posted on various message boards, impersonating Kimmer, you likely crossed a legal line. This time you are really close to intimidating a witness. I HAVE the emails you sent to this particular lawsuit principal. I also have her replies. Other lawsuit principals have been alerted to this tactic that you now seem intent on employing. Your lies and manipulations are going to do nothing but continue to backfire on you. Your reputation is shot. Do you really believe anyone can trust you after what you have done, and continue to do? If they do, they certainly do so at their own risk. You not only tried to scare the wits out of this particular principal, you told bold face lies in your attempt to do so. I must say, reading that email made me immediately think of Heidi and how she so coolly and easily twists the truth and outright fabricates scenarios to suit her purpose.

You didn't lie? Well, here are just a few examples, all of which you can find in your own copies of those emails:

You have NOT left the Fascinated board. You log on there almost every single day.

The matter of Yucky’s blog post and conversations with Christin on her blog - that was not the result of any great investigation. It was a matter of public knowledge. On top of that, it wasn’t Christin’s fundraiser, it was Jimmy Moore’s for her benefit. And she wasn’t trying to put together the cruise. She was promoting the cruise that IS going to happen, btw (for more information, please check here.

Martina’s Martini showed up on the scene before any of us on LCF or anywhere for that matter were even aware this lawsuit principal HAD an ex-husband. Lucky for me this has all been established unequivocally. In fact, I learned who Martina’s Martini was from John T, via one of the other lawsuit principals. Too bad you didn’t believe Kat. She told you the truth. I guess she must be part of this big reckless pursuit of anyone even remotely connected to the Kimkins scandal, as you say.

You couldn’t possibly be referring to your own public treatment and ‘investigation” into the Luper family, or Sam Redman, could you? Oh, of course not. Calling people scammers and pedophiles without anything to substantiate those claims doesn’t count, right? There are others. Would you like me to point you to your own comments to prove my point?

The disagreement I had with you had nothing to do with Martina’s Martini showing up on the scene. It had to do with your public chastising of Yucky for her questioning of Christin and her motives - long after Martina’s Martini had faded into distant memory. It had to do with you being a hypocrite. It had to do with the fact that you have shouted down countless people on the FWK threads, you have slandered people way beyond the scope of any “investigation” or legitimate questioning as to whether they have any connection to the KK matter. And yet you had the unmitigated gall to call out Yucky for asking sincere questions. Those questions, by the way, lead to REAL dialog and a true friendship being forged between her and Christin. That must just torment you.

In fact, the big brouhaha, as you called it, that you “left” Fascinated over had to do with a post that you swear I plagiarized of someone you happen to call a friend (who’s pleas to let this drop you have simply refused to honor, in true friend fashion of course). Do you not see the hypocrisy, once again? The post that I “stole” was “stolen” from Kimkins.con. It wasn’t your friend’s, nor her “mole’s” property to start with. So you have been busy trying to discredit me for stealing stolen material. I’m not real sure why you don’t GET THAT. Oh, and the little so many hours and minutes ago tags at the top of those posts? They are put there by the Kimkins.con server, not your friend. And for the record, your friend NEVER attempted to contact me in regards to this matter. Nor did anyone else, for that matter. Your cryptic comment on my blog was just too clever. I didn’t get it.

You seem to reserve your ire over “copying” material for special circumstances, eh? Only those cases that don’t involve one of your favorite personalities. To quote someone I read recently, “Geez, there are some real nit-pickers in this world.” Oh, I guess that was you.

Oh, and I can’t speak for Medusa or Yucky, but I’ll tell you what I told Sam Redman. I’m not interested in writing a book about all this, though I do think it would be an interesting read.

You want to expose my identity? Go for it. If it is all that important to you, try. Of course, you will have to prove it, too. And Lord help you if you are wrong. But before you do, ask yourself this question: Just who, besides Heidi, would benefit from knowing that information? If helping Heidi doesn’t matter to you - or is your goal - then you just go for it.

Whose side are you on in this matter, anyway? From where I sit, it looks like you are on YOUR side.

For the sake of this lawsuit - STOP.

Heidi Diaz, Don't You Get It Yet?

Heidi, you have been given so many, many opportunities to DO THE RIGHT THING. Why will you not step up to the plate and simply DO IT. I'm sure now the excuse will be the lawsuit - you have proven over and over again that YOUR skin is more valuable than anyone else's.

Wait. Where have I heard that before? Just recently, too ...

Regardless, this has been posted recently on your site and has been posted elsewhere on the Internet:

2 Weeks, 2 Days ago:

Ok Ladies
I am having a hard time getting back on track.. I am having a hard time accepting compliments... I love to hear them but my brain is working overload on me.. I was in the 190's several weeks ago and now I am back up to 210.. I need to get back on track.. I so want to lose the weight.. but my brain is telling me something different... I am going to try today to get back on track...
XXXX- Sometimes it takes me awhile to get back into Ketios too.. You will get there... Hang in there..

XXXXX- Sorry what kind of surgery are you having? My mind is in a fog right now..lol
Yesterday:

Saw my heart doctor on Wed and had dizzy spell in his office.. He said I was skipping heart beats.. Did a ekg and my heart is fine... I still have no engery, fatiqued etc... He said he will keep on and keep looking as to why I am having some of these problems.. Other stuff is going on with my body.. I said I have had some of these problems for years and doctors would just do so much and then quit looking as to why I have these problems.. He said he wasnt quiting and will find out why.. He thinks its my thyroid or my adrenal glands are not working right.. I have alot of the sypotoms of them.. My sister had her thyroid taken out this past wed.. She is doing good..

I am back on plan today...and need to stay on plan no matter what.. I am back up to 220... I need to get that willpower back that I had when I started Kimkins almost a year ago next month...

This woman has apparently lost a significant amount of weight already following Kimkins. There have been many, many people who have left YOUR site, Heidi Diaz, with the same exact set of symptoms. Whether this woman has had these issues in the past or not is irrelevant. We all know that YOUR diet at the least exasperates these symptoms.

Dear sweet dieter, if you are reading here, please, please tell your doctor exactly what you ate and HOW MUCH you ate to lose your weight. You are in very serious danger here, and the person you are trusting to lead your through your diet journey could CARE LESS. Certainly not enough to advise you to stop immediately.

Others in the ex-KK community who have experienced similar symptoms, I pray that you will chime in here as well as find a way to reach out to this person.

How So Many People?

A long time poster on the Low Carb Friends message board wrote a very moving and heartfelt statement regarding her own journey into the disaster of Kimkins, to which another person posted this question:

“How many people did she do this to?”

That is a question that so many have toyed with. It is often coupled with another question: Why would so many people allow her to do this to them? Please hear me out as my statement may not resonate well with some of you, but hopefully by the conclusion of this post I will have clarified myself enough that you will at least consider what I’m saying.

I don't think SHE did that to anyone. I think most of us who are overweight have thoughts of "what if I just ..." on a pretty regular basis.

What SHE DID was she played on those thoughts and encouraged people to act on them. She pretended that she had done just that, that it had netted her fabulous results without negative consequences. She presented information with confidence which gave her credibility. When people would start to act on that thinking and would eventually start to have negative reactions (SNATT, fatigue, heart palpitations, hair loss, etc.) she would either convince them that those things were normal, short lived and without lasting consequences or - and the or is important here - or that they were experiencing those things because they were somehow not doing it “good enough”. Not counting perfectly, too big a finger pinch of lettuce or whatever. In many diet programs you are told to be sure to measure peanut butter, fat-free mayo or salad dressing by using a knife to remove any "extra" that might be mounded up. So, what she said wasn't all that foreign, just was taken to extremes. She also started with portions that are smaller than what our bodies need to thrive. Thanks to a movement in the prepared food industry – restaurants and fast food eating places in particular – to increase our consumption, we have long ago lost sight of what IS a proper portion. We just know that what we eat now is too much.

Enough of those extremes added together and you have problems. Couple that with, of course, advice leading to laxative use/abuse, suggestions to misuse Retin-A, and other devious instructions and you have a virtual Molotov cocktail in your hands.

Evil does that - it takes our human frailties and desires, targets those, massages them until they feel good, then drags us deeper and deeper into dangerous waters, sort of like the whole frog in boiling water thing. In that example you can place a frog in pan full of cool water, slowly bringing the water to the boiling point. The frog will acclimate himself to the increased water temperature, eventually cooking to death in the process, all the while oblivious to the danger he was in. While the frog had the ability to escape danger – he could hop out of the pan – he hadn’t the mind too.

The same can and does happen when it comes to things like marital fidelity, prosperity gospel, violence in television programming, music and video games, etc.

All through Scripture we are compared to sheep. What does that mean for us? How is it relevant to THIS conversation?

Well, sheep are very social creatures. They don’t like being alone. They will go wherever their group goes without question because staying together is quite important to them. An entire herd of sheep have been known to do things like walk into a raging river, because the sheep bringing up the rear would rather be in a dangerous spot with their friends than to stop and risk being alone. In fact, those rear sheep are totally unaware of the fact they are walking into danger at all, because they don’t recognize that those who have gone ahead of them are already beyond saving.

Sheep stray easily. They may become so enticed by scrumptious looking plants at the bottom of a ravine that they will work very hard to get down to it to eat it, then stand there wondering (but not particularly stressing at first) how to get back out because they have no sense of direction. They don’t know how they got there, how to get out or where they should be instead!

Sheep are dumb. They can’t be trained to do anything. Now, as people we CAN be trained, either by God, by others or by ourselves. But we still are really good at making poor choices. We reason our way into messes. We are easily seduced because we believe the three basic lies that were told way back in the Garden: 1. God didn’t really say that. 2. If God did really say that, that’s not what He really meant. 3. If God did say that, and did really mean that then God can’t be trusted – He’s just trying to keep you from something good and enjoyable. (Read Genesis 3:1-7) We learn to believe those lies at a very young age, by the way, and while we may TELL ourselves that we don’t believe them any more, our actions and choices prove otherwise.

All of this to say that it is our basic human nature that makes us susceptible to people like Heidi Diaz. It is my opinion that she is evil personified, driven by her own lust for power and her own lack of self esteem, lacking in remorse or conscious. Thankfully she is not the norm in our society. Sadly, and dangerous to the rest of us, she draws to herself others of like mind, who may not be as skilled as she is, but who find the illusion of power they get from being her cohort intoxicating. What they don’t realize is that they are merely tools to her, and quite disposable when they no longer serve her purpose. Perhaps they become her sacrificial lambs in her quest to save herself. She will have them undertake the tasks to risky for her to take, making them the targets of outrage and perhaps liability.

How do we defend ourselves against people like Heidi Diaz? I don’t know that we can 100%. By staying solidly within the reach of our Shepherd is the best protection I know of. Even at that, though, evil can and does entice us, by fooling us into believing that our Shepherd is the one who led us there. Learning His voice is vital. I firmly believe that is one reason we have been given written revelation – The Bible- so that we can test things against an unchanging voice that isn’t as easily manipulated as our inner voice.

The only other thing we can do is learn our lessons as best we can, do our best to stop each such person as we become aware of them, and warn others as much as they are willing to listen.

Until next time ….