Some of my most popular blog posts have been diet related, so I thought I’d post about something I’ve been curious about. How do you calculate your ideal body weight?
Calculators
You can find online calculators for both men and women. For me, apparently my ideal weight is 145. Which means I’m about 50 pounds over weight. I don’t believe that. But, if I look down at the different frame styles (small, medium, and large), maybe I can get away with with being only 20 pounds over weight if I have a large frame – whatever that means.
These calculators are working off a simple look up. You enter in your height, and they look that up and display what what their spreadsheet says is your ideal weight. The calculator on this page will show you a few more options. It will look at your height, current weight, age, and gender and find the average weight for people with similar measurements – this is called the Ideal Weight. It also shows what medical recommendations are for those measurements. My average is 175 and my medical is 169. I can believe I’m 20 pounds over where I should be.
There doesn’t seem to be one clear and concise answer to this question. Unlike calculating your BMR, there is no easy formula to plug in to. I recommend looking across a few calculators and then taking an average.