Slimming World Magazine
Reviewed By WLR Dietitian
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Fact File - Slimming World Magazine |
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Issue reviewed: April/May 2005 |
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Circulation: 261,426
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Pages: 116,
21% Advertising |
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Cover Price: £2.35
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Content
Slimming World mag focuses on success stories and food, with
just a few features and a little beauty and fitness.
Overall view
This magazine is jam-packed with success
stories – this issue includes seven reader weight-loss wins
compared with the usual three or four found in other slimming mags. The stories are all really inspiring and include
slimmers of all ages and weight loss achievements. For
example, the youngest slimmer was 23 and the oldest 49, while
the smallest weight loss was 2st 10lb and the greatest, 12st
5lb. Better still, the ‘after’ pictures are great – the
slimmers are all wearing fashionable clothes and are
photographed in nice locations.
In Detail
Sadly, the food content isn’t as great. Yes, the
photography is lovely and the recipes look tasty, but
they’re completely tied into the Slimming World Food
Optimising philosophy. This means they’re all coded with red
or green symbols and include information about Syns and Free
Foods – but there’s no calorie or fat information. This makes
them completely useless for anyone who’s not a member of
Slimming World and wants to include them as part of a
calorie-controlled or low-fat diet. Meanwhile, there’s no diet
plan to follow – and any information that’s given about Food
Optimising simply makes it look incredibly complicated.
There are very few features and these tend not to be
related directly to slimming. For example, this issue included
features on flirting and using the habits of children to try
new things. There is however a feature on the charity events
that can help you get fit.
As with all the magazines, that are linked to a club,
there’s a lot of advertising focussed on Slimming World
products and clubs, although it’s not quite as heavy as in
some of the other titles.
Who it will suit
Anyone who is already a member of
Slimming World or simply wants a hit of inspiration about how
other slimmers have achieved their goals.
Value for money
- Slimming – unless you already belong to the club
you’ll have no idea how to make the recipes or food
information work for you 0/10
- Content – the success stories are really inspiring and
motivating but there’s not much else in this magazine 3/10
Related Information
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