How To Determine What Your Weight Should Be – BMI Is Key
Knowing what your weight should be is a huge help to determine what your weight loss target should be. And this target will help you minimize the risk to your health of being overweight. Even if you do weigh yourself often, just knowing your weight is not all that needs to be known.
Knowing what your BMI should be is the best way to determine what your target weight should be. Your BMI is factored using your height and weight in a basic math equation.
To figure out your BMI, take your weight and multiply it by 703. Take that number and divide it by your height converted to inches. Divide that number again by your height in inches. That final number is your BMI. If that’s too complicated, there are BMI calculators online that will do the math for you.
Ideally, your BMI would be in the healthy range. The healthy range is having a BMI that falls between 18.5 and 24.9. This is where you want to strive to be. A BMI of between 25 and 29.9 is regarded to be overweight. Anything over that is regarded to be obese. Also, on the low end of the scale, anything under 18.5 is regarded to be underweight.
Knowing where you are on the BMI scale will let you know how at risk for health problems you are. Excess weight increases the chances of health problems such as high blood pressure, diabetes, heart attacks or even an early death.
The BMI scale is not always a 100% accurate account of precisely where your weight needs to be. The frame of your body needs to be taken into account somewhat. If you have big bones, your body is able to handle a little extra weight and still be healthy. Conversely, if you have a smaller frame, you can do without some weight and still be healthy.
Know your body and determine what your weight should be from those factors. No one single calculation is a guarantee but it is a very good estimate of what you should shoot for.
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