In thinking health and fitness magazines are unrealistic?

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Usually features professional athletes or Hollywood A-listers. The diet and exercise plans seem unrealistic (expensive or difficult to find ingredients, assumption that people have enough time or space to do the exercises). Oh and the pictures are altered.

Lots of people work out and track macros and calories - and lots of them do it without spending a fortune on any expensive plans. So no, it's not unrealistic - any ody can improve their fitness and health a lot - if they really want to do it. For example, check out Caroline girvan - she has lots of people doing her free YouTube workouts, eating well, and looking bloody fantastic.

This thought just occurred to you?

Well, magazines rely on advertising revenue. If they don’t feature the shit companies are peddling as the latest new thing, and make it look aspirational, there’s no ad revenue therefore no magazine.

If it was all no-nonsense eat eggs for breakfast and go for a brisk walk, the pages would be rather empty, and rather dull.

I have a good friend who was a fitness magazine model. He wasn’t a professional athlete or a Hollywood A lister. He was a poor working class boy who put himself out there as a side hustle to support his disabled dad & full time carer mum. He ended up making enough money to do that plus fund a Uni degree in engineering.