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“In the world of Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb, can’t we all just get along?”

Welcome to the 69th episode of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show With Jimmy Moore”–the most highly-respected and popular low-carb podcast on the Internet today!

In today’s show, our host Jimmy takes on the challenge of addressing the recent strong opposition that a vocal minority has directed against Kimmer, the creator of the Kimkins diet. Questions have swirled about who she is and whether her diet is a bona fide fraud. And this is coming from supposed low-carb supporters.

Jimmy himself has even recently been attacked over his decision to begin this diet and for his candid discussion of the Kimkins plan at his blog. The question is: Why is there so much vitriolic hatred directed by one group of low-carbers against another?

In the true ecumenical low-carb spirit that “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show” has always celebrated, Jimmy asks: “Can’t we all just get along?”

ALSO: Come back on Thursday for a VERY special edition of the podcast as Jimmy Moore speaks directly with Kimmer herself in an exclusive interview featuring questions that were submitted by YOU! You WON’T want to miss it!

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- Jimmy Moore’s call for interview questions for Kimmer

Did you miss anything Jimmy said? Fear not: a full transcript lies ahead if you simply click the following link!

Transcript of Episode 69:

This is Episode 69 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore.” Welcome to the diet and health podcast show that brings you all the very best information about the low-carb lifestyle twice a week with fun and exciting topics to help educate, encourage, and inspire you in this amazingly healthy way of eating. Thank you so much for making this a regular part of your weekly routine.

Today’s episode will be a rather unique one because it will serve as a preface for one of the most important interviews I have ever conducted here at my podcast show or at my LivinLaVidaLowCarb.com blog. She’s the woman of the hour, so to speak, in the low-carb world right now with all of the forums and message boards buzzing away about her. Of course, I’m referring to Kimmer from the Kimkins low-carb diet.

There’s been so much written about Kimmer and Kimkins over the past couple of months that I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to get everything out in the open by allowing anybody and everybody to submit any question they want to ask Kimmer about herself or her diet. This invitation was available for an entire week to allow those with concerns to share their most pressing questions for Kimmer and I received quite a response. I pooled all of these questions into an interview with Kimmer which you will get to hear beginning on Thursday’s podcast.

Let me just get this out of the way right now–if you had a question for me to ask Kimmer and failed to e-mail it to me, then don’t be disappointed if the question is not asked. I can’t read your mind and know what questions you have for her. You will be pleased to know there were a ton of questions submitted as you will notice during the interview later this week and they ranged from what exactly is the Kimkins diet all the way to what is the real name of Kimmer. We’ll leave no stone unturned that you had a question about as we hear directly from the woman herself responding to the questions you provided. Once this interview has concluded, there should be nothing else to say about Kimmer or the Kimkins diet since all will have been answered.

I would like to take this opportunity for the rest of Episode 69 to express some concerns I have about what is happening in the low-carb community right now over this Kimkins issue. There is one very vocal group of low-carbers out there right now who are doing anything and everything they can to tear down Kimmer and the Kimkins diet. They have their reasons for doing so and I’m not in total disagreement with some of their objections to Kimkins. But what I absolutely do not agree with them about is the tactics they are imploring to achieve their goal. It’s one thing to simply have an honest debate over what you think is right or wrong regarding a healthy low-carb diet. That is worthy of hearing a variety of opinions about. Yet it is entirely another thing to resort to outright personal attacks against someone over those disagreements. That’s exactly what is happening with the Kimkins controversy right now. Even more egregious is the fact that some genuinely good and innocent people who really have no real dog in this hunt are being maliciously maligned in the process of these savage personal vendettas against anyone and everyone who seems to be affiliated with Kimmer and the Kimkins diet. Count Jimmy Moore as one of those victims.

Let me share a brief background about how I was introduced to Kimkins. In April 2006, I was approached by a representative of Kimkins named Catherine to start blogging about this exciting new low-carb diet that was helping lots of people lose weight quickly and I was told about the founder of the diet Kimmer and her amazing 198-pound weight loss success. Since I have always been about helping people find the low-carb plan that will work best for them, I was happy to add this one to the others I blogged about, including Atkins, South Beach, Protein Power, and many more. To me, low-carb is simply the starting point of your diet and then you find the specific plan that will work for you. I’ve always remained consistent on this message since I started blogging and podcasting and will continue to hammer that same message as long as I’m doing this. Customizing the diet that’s right for you is an important part of your eventual weight loss success. Although I lost 180 pounds on the Atkins diet in 2004, I’m not so naive or narrow-minded to think that will be the way for everyone. Anyone who claims their diet is the only way to weight loss success is lying to your face.

For the record and full disclosure, I am currently an affiliate with the Kimkins diet at my blog just as I have sponsorship and affiliate relationships with ChocoPerfection, LO-CARB U, Atkins Nutritionals, Jillian Michaels, The Biggest Loser, Dr. Jonny Bowden, and many others. To me, Kimkins has been a business relationship for a little more than a year just as all these others have been. If someone clicks on the banner and makes a purchase, then I get a portion of the sale. That’s how an affiliate link works.

You can visit my LivinLaVidaLowCarb.com blog and never ever have to pay a single dime to read the content I provide there. The same goes with this podcast show you are listening to right now. Sure, I do sponsor ads, but you are not obligated to make a purchase in order to listen to what I have to say. It’s just like radio and television, so I don’t see what the big deal is. One of my readers asked me the other day why I don’t ask for donations or charge a fee to access my blog. My response to that question is I want to make the information available to anyone who needs to see it regardless of their financial ability. I know firsthand just how difficult it is to make ends meet, so I wouldn’t want to put anyone into a situation where they couldn’t afford to read my blog.

But, at the same time, I am happy to share with my readers and listeners some outstanding products and services that I think people in the low-carb community could benefit from. Nothing gets on my blog as a sponsor or affiliate that I haven’t personally looked at and/or tried for myself. If someone chooses to make a purchase of something I highlight at my blog, then that is their decision and nobody coerced them into doing it. Again, you can navigate all over my blog without ever spending any money at all. Sure, I want you to support my sponsors if you appreciate the work I am doing, but it is most definitely NOT a requirement for accessing the content.

I’ve been blogging and podcasting as my career for nearly a year now and I enjoy the work I am privileged to be doing. It has been a dream of mine to own my own business, work for myself, pay the bills, be with my wife Christine, and, most of all, help others and make a real difference in the lives of the people I come into contact with. That’s exactly what I have been doing by faithfully answering hundreds of e-mails a week, blogging daily on a variety of topics, and committing to two podcast shows a week. It’s never a dull moment in the Moore household you can count on that, but I wouldn’t have it any other way. I’m lovin’ livin’ la vida low-carb!

Best of all, people’s lives are truly being changed for the better. That was one of the biggest draws I had to start talking about my low-carb weight loss success in April 2005 at my blog and in October 2006 at this podcast show. It was my chance to interact with people who are in the same situation I was in when I started out weighing 410 pounds in 2004. Regardless of what is ever said about me personally, I know my blog and this podcast show have made a real difference in the lives of thousands of people who will never be the same again. Nobody can ever take that away from me.

Just so you know, I have never met Kimmer in person nor do I really have a reason to other than to hug her neck for helping me lose about 35 pounds in the past six weeks on my way to my 50-pound weight loss goal. Yes, I started on the Kimkins diet in early June after I experienced a slight weight gain that had me up to 248 pounds. I decided to try the Kimmer Experiment, also known as K/E, to help bring my weight back down. It is essentially a low-carb diet that is not calorie-restricted, although it calls for a slight lowering of the fat intake to control calories. People who know me will tell you I am NOT fat-phobic, so I still eat my fair share of fat from coconut oil, butter, mayonnaise, and natural fats in the meats I consume. But I am more aware of the amount of fat I am eating as a natural way to reduce my calorie consumption. So far, it has worked well!

To most people like me who begin Kimkins, the person of Kimmer is not even in the equation in terms of the diet. Yes, she created it and has set up the marketing behind it. But it is the people who share their struggles, victories, cares, and encouragement at the Kimkins Forums who make Kimkins what it really is. Those people out there who get too hung up on the personalities involved and forget that there are real people who are looking a way that will help them lose weight and get healthy need a reality check. What is the point of tearing somebody down just because they support a nutritional approach you happen to disagree with? What makes this even more preposterous is the fact that Kimkins is first and foremost a low-carb diet, too! Why is there such vitriol hatred coming from those who purport to support livin’ la vida low-carb? To me, this is all so petty and makes absolutely no sense at all.

I would like to issue a public challenge to the members of the low-carb community who have made it their life’s mission to act in this manner–let’s just stop with the bickering, backbiting, and behind-the-scenes bashing of Kimmer, Kimkins, and anyone even remotely involved with this. There is nothing productive or positive that can result when these kind of ruthless personal assaults are unleashed on people who have done nothing to deserve it. All this will do is turn the very people off we are trying to reach with the positive message of low-carb living. And that, in the end, would be a crying shame that should make you take pause! Let Kimmer have her say in this interview and then leave it be. Do it for the greater good of low-carb.

That’s it for Episode 69 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore.” If you are curious about what this Kimkins controversy is all about or if you happen to be right there in the thick of it, then I invite you to come back on Thursday when we’ll kick off my interview with Kimkins founder Kimmer as she answers some very tough questions provided by my readers and listeners about this low-carb diet which was featured recently on the cover of Woman’s World magazine. Be sure to tell everyone you know about this interview because it’s sure to be one of the most popular podcasts I’ve ever done. So, until then, keep on livin’ la vida low-carb!

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