Self Diet Club Review

Joining Fee:

Existing subscribers to Self Magazine can join the Self Diet Club totally free of charge. Non-subscribers can subscribe for just $12 per year.

Features:

Diet features:
- Interactive diet site helps users to plan meals, track their calorie intake and monitor their progress.
- Self Diet Club provides constant motivation to stick to their chosen healthy eating regimen.
- Get access to award winning tools to help you start down the path to a fitter lifestyle.
- Create your own diet profile and set diet goals that are personalized to your own weight loss desires.
- Use the food log to track calories, carbs, fats and more to find out how close you are to achieving your goals.
- The Food Database contains more than 20,000 food options.
- Use the meal planner to generate weekly menus and then automatically create shopping lists to make shopping for groceries easier.
- Diet Analyzer lets you know, visually and graphically, how balanced your diet is.
- Visualize your progress using the "todays totals" feature.

Fitness features:
- BMI Calculator
- An Exercise log lets you know how many calories you burn during exercise and activity.

Expert Advice:
- Managed by Self Magazine, the Self Diet Club features all of the nutritional research and expertise offered within the pages of Self Magazine.

Community Support:
- Get motivation from an active user community.
- Ask a specific question of other Self Dieters, or find a workout and diet buddy to help motivate each other.

Help Files / Technical Support:
- A set of Frequently Asked Questions lets users (and prospective users) get any of their questions answered.
- Users can call for assistance using a dedicated user helpline.

Editor's Verdict:

The Self Diet Club is a diet, health, nutrition and fitness program run by Self Magazine for the benefit of its subscription readers. Self Magazine is an American magazine specializing in fitness, health and nutrition for women. Started by Condé Nast Publications in 1979 and currently published 12 times a year, it has more than 5 million readers. The Self Diet Club features all of the nutritional research and expertise that can be found within the pages of Self Magazine, but with a range of complementary resources and tools that help the average dieter improve their dieting results and weight loss success.

Through providing users with a range of supportive features and materials, the Self Diet Club motivates its users to stick to their chosen diets and develop a generally healthier lifestyle. Users can create their own diet profile, complete with all vital statistics, and use this profile to set diet goals based on projected weight loss. Similarly users keep a food log that contains information about all food consumed in a day. By doing so, users can use this information, coupled with the Self food database, to generate a calories 'balance' for a particular day. The food database contains more than 20,000 entries and also contains a great number of menu items from popular restaurants and fast food outlets, so users can work out exactly how many calories they consumed in a day. The food database is an excellent tool, because it makes dieters more aware of the actual calorific value of the foods they are eating, so that they can decide where substitutions need to be made in order to reduce calorie intake.

Less impressive are the tools related to exercise that are featured on the Self Diet Club. While users do get to use an exercise log, to record the exercise and activities that they engage in every day (as well as the calorie-burning effect that that activity has) these tools seemed to us to be of poor quality and not very well thought out. The exercise log didn't, for example, allow users to enter their height, weight and gender to get an accurate assessment of how many calories would be burnt as a result of their exercise. Equally, the site doesn't feature an exercise directory that demonstrates to users how to engage in particular exercises if they have never done so before.

The Self Diet Club is a must for all Self Magazine subscribers, as you're effectively paying for it within your subscription. If you're not particularly interested in Self Magazine, we wouldn't suggest buying a subscription just for what is on offer at the Self Diet Club. Whilst there are some useful features in terms of diet support, the fitness features that are available on the site certainly seem like an afterthought and aren't particularly helpful. The site itself is fairly difficult to navigate and use and many of the features seem a little temperamental and difficult to use.

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