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BACKGROUND

SELF Magazine is a popular fitness and health magazine, often featuring celebrities and reliable advice for living a better life. The SELF Diet Club is an extension of that, providing an online resource for you to track and manage your diet and weight loss efforts. Access meal planners, track weight, find a workout buddy, receive expert advice and track of all your daily nutrient consumption and exercise. It's a great motivation when you can look over your progress and see success.

Best of all, SELF Diet Club does most of the heavy lifting for you. Most people twinge when they see calorie counting in a diet description, but this will automate that process. When you enter the foods you've consumed that day, it will tally the calories and other nutritional facts for you.

PRO

• Automated calorie counting
• Healthy calorie consumption
• Variety in meal plans
• No food restrictions
• Popular tools available like meal plans, food tracking and online community

CON

• Not as regimented as other plans
• Requires subscription to magazine

DIET and NUTRITION

The SELF Diet Club will make recommendations via daily meal plans for the appropriate foods and calorie count. Based on your desired calorie consumption, SELF will create the meal plans (including recommended recipes), varying each day.

There aren't any restricted food groups - although most foods are recommended in moderation. As long as you meet your calorie goals, you can have meat, seafood, bread, rice, pasta, fruits, vegetables, alcohol and sweets.

EXERCISE

SELF Diet Club recommends a reasonable and moderate exercise routine - 30 minutes of cardio, three times a week and 20 minutes of strength training, 2 times a week. SELF Diet Club has an online exercise tracker to give you a record of your exercise and show you how many calories you burned.

EXPENSE

Membership to the SELF Diet Club is free to any SELF Magazine subscriber. A one-year subscription is $16.

CONCLUSION

What a fun way to connect with others who share your goals to manage your weight and live a healthy life. Everyone in the SELF Diet Club has a paid subscription to SELF Magazine, a great publication with a lot of additional support and information. While a stringent calorie-counting program all the work is done for you via online tools. There are many tools available that have become popular amongst Web-based diet programs, especially the meal planners. What comes out to an affordable annual subscription, you'll have access to a complete community to help guide you on your weight loss journey.

Common Misspellings

ELF Diet Club, SELF Deit Club, SELF Club

slimmyn08

Self diet club is a life saver. This plan is excellent and minimal in cost. it does all the work of calculation for you, which is necessary if you intend to lose weight. I love it!

opt4health

online component is fantastic and I don't have to restrict any foods...everything in moderation is the key to a better SELF!