Self Magazine Reviews

Are you dieting or a big fitness buff?  Do you like magazines that have step by step fitness routines that you can actually lay in the floor and do based on the magazines instructions?  If so, this magazine is for you.  I need diet & exercise tips just as much as the next woman.  However, this magazine with the exception of a few beauty tips here and there (which I must say are great by the way), is strictly a diet & fitness magazine.  I expect this from say Fitness magazine but Self tends to lend itself more to a more overall Health & Beauty genre but pretty much it's just a diet & exercise...

To all those people out there who are looking for a quick - easy read while on the treadmill or on the train, Self Magazine is just that. It has everything from beauty to fitness, nutrition and doesn't just focus entirely on one subject like many other women's magazines. It gives broad, easy - to - read information that doesn't bore after the first 20 pages. The layout is kinda of nice too, it varies in pace, from articles to short blurbs with interesting facts about various subjects. The writing isn't anything special but what do you expect from a magazine? It's just entertaining and a nice/quick...

Self is a great magazine for people who are into bettering themselves thru exercise and healthy habits. It is full of ads for beauty products and very few fitness products. The articles tend to be about losing weight or shaping up in the shortest amount of time, which is not helpful to someone who has a long journey ahead of them, it makes it hard to believe that you can be slimmer in just 2 weeks by doing the exercises 3x a week. The models in the magazine are always fitness models, you rarely see a real sized woman who doesn't have abs of steel. The magazine does offer some great recipes and...

Self is a unique magazine.  It doesn't preach that you aren't skinny enough, happy enough, fulflled enough, self conscious enough, fashion conscious enough and all the other "not enoughs" the way a lot of so-called "women's" magazines do.  Self is for those who are pretty happy the way they are and aren't looking for a magazine to change their life. Love it!