Naturally, every woman wants not only to be satisfied with her appearance in the mirror, but also to feel great. After all, ladies often have many different roles – wife, mother, employee and personal development, professional goals should not be forgotten. To do everything and at the same time to function at 100%, you need to be at a normal weight. Normal means optimal for your height and age.
Usually women dream of losing weight by default. In any case, the majority. And many of them do not suspect that they are in a completely ideal weight for their height and age, or, on the contrary, are underweight. Or, on the contrary, the lady is eating cakes instead of fruits and believes that life is beautiful, and shortness of breath is just so that you can admire nature once again. Such a woman needs to look at the real state of affairs and find out how far she is from the indicators normal for her height and age.
And it’s not so much about beauty as about health. At the optimal weight and move more freely, and live more productively, and less susceptible to disease. How do you know your ideal weight?
Ideal weight for a woman: 3 ways to calculate it
1 – Brock’s method
This method is already 100 years old. But this does not make it obsolete, on the contrary – it is time-tested and relevant to this day. So, according to Brock’s method, you need to subtract 100 from your height. This will be an indicator of your ideal weight. For example, if your height is 165 cm, then the optimal weight will be 65 kilos.
2 – Quetelet method
This method is also called BMI – Body Mass Index. Growth indicators are also taken into account in it. To determine your ideal weight, you need your weight in kg. divided by the height in meters, which is squared.
For example, with a height of 1,6 and a weight of 60 kg, BMI = 60: 1,6 * 1,6) = 23,44
Of course, 23,44 cannot be your ideal weight in any way, do not worry, this is your body mass index, which needs to be correlated with the table.
- less than 16,5 – significant underweight
- 16,5 – 18,5 – you are underweight and underweight
- 18,5 – 24,5 normal weight
- 25 – 30 overweight
- 30 – 35 obesity 1st degree
- 35 – 40 obesity 2st degree
3 – method for breast volume
According to this method, you need to multiply your height in cm by your breast volume in cm and divide by 240. The result will be your ideal weight. For example, (160 × 90): 240 = 60 kg.
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Whatever your weight is – normal, over or under normal, remember that your health is in your hands: proper nutrition, exercise, good motivation – and your weight will certainly correspond to the ideal!
Recall that earlier we talked about an interesting system invented in one bar – women are treated to cocktails depending on their weight, as well as about the unique experience of losing weight when Chelsea Gould lost half of her weight.