Ideal Weight Calculator

An individual’s ideal weight calculator has to take into consideration several factors. The factors include: an individual’s present body weight, gender, body frame, and height. Therefore, for individuals to calculate their ideal weight, they have to enter these values on a weight calculator, regardless of their age. Weight calculators are important tools for ascertaining whether an individual is overweight, average, or underweight.

If you’ve ever wondered, “What is the ideal weight for my height?” this calculator is for you. Find out the ideal weight for your height and use your ideal weight calculation to develop a fitness plan that’s right for you.

“What is my ideal weight?” 

Calorie Counters ask in order to set a goal weight and doctors ask to assess degree of risk. Obesity is associated with “risks” like pregnancy complications, diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, and more, and underweight is risky too.  But being a little overweight may not be a problem at all.   And so it begs the question, what is ideal weight?

Rapid Weight Assessment

The weight categories – underweight, healthy weight, overweight, obese, and extremely obese – are used to describe ranges of the BMI or Body Mass Index.  The BMI is a tool used to quickly determine if someone is at a healthy weight.  The BMI uses a person’s height and weight.  The numerical answer is plotted on a chart divided into categories:

• Underweight: less than 19
• Healthy weight: 19 – 24
• Overweight:  25 – 29
• Obese:  30 – 34
• Extremely obese: more than 35

These categories are traditionally used to monitor health status and to guide medical treatment.  The military follows BMI and it can show up in employment files and on report cards too.

But rapidity has trade offs. The BMI has limitations because it does not indicate whether the source of “mass” is fat or muscle or anything else and, as a result, weight can be misclassified. For instance, some athletes  have a large muscle mass and a high BMI but they are not obese, while a couch-potato may have a healthy BMI but too little muscle and relatively too much fat.  The BMI is also less accurate in the elderly because their muscle and bone have been reduced.

Weight vs. Fat

Since two people of the same weight may have different amounts of body fat, it is important to assess “fat” separately from “weight”.  Waist measurement is the best assessment tool to measure dangerous fat.

Extra fat stored around the waist is riskier, health-wise, than fat stored in other places.  Risk for disease increases when a man’s waist is 40 inches and a woman’s waist is 35 or more.  To measure your waist, place a tape measure around your bare abdomen just above your hip bone, make it snug but not compressed, relax, exhale, measure, and record the number with the date.  And then to differentiate between fat and muscle throughout the entire body.

YOUR ideal weight

For most people, “ideal weight” or the healthy weight range is somewhere between BMI 19 and 24, although the range can extend to BMI 29 when a person is fit and free of health problems and fat is not stored around the waist.
A span between BMI 19 and 29 is quite a range.  For a for 5’5″ tall woman, that is 60 pounds from 115!

But remember individual variation is huge.  There are so many different genetic tendencies.  And so, it turns out that ideal weight is the weight where you feel your best and are free from disease. It is a weight you can easily maintain with moderate eating and exercise.

As for me, a healthy, medium-framed woman at 4’11” with average muscularity and body fat, I feel best at an “ideal weight” between 105 and 110 pounds.   I have maintained that weight forever, although my weight is higher if I work out with weights.  As a young adult, I weighed 120 pounds but I didn’t feel as good.  How about you?

Your thoughts…

What is your ideal weight?

A good way to assess your weight is to calculate your body mass index (BMI). BMI takes into account not just your weight, but also your height to indicate body fat. The goal for most people: a BMI that’s over 18 and under 25.

Please have a look at below Ideal Weight Calculator Chart

Male		Female
Height	Ideal Weight	Height	Ideal Weight
4′ 6″	63 – 77 lbs.	4′ 6″	63 – 77 lbs.
4′ 7″	68 – 84 lbs.	4′ 7″	68 – 83 lbs.
4′ 8″	74 – 90 lbs.	4′ 8″	72 – 88 lbs.
4′ 9″	79 – 97 lbs.	4′ 9″	77 – 94 lbs.
4′ 10″	85 – 103 lbs.	4′ 10″	81 – 99 lbs.
4′ 11″	90 – 110 lbs.	4′ 11″	86 – 105 lbs.
5′ 0″	95 – 117 lbs.	5′ 0″	90 – 110 lbs.
5′ 1″	101 – 123 lbs.	5′ 1″	95 – 116 lbs.
5′ 2″	106 – 130 lbs.	5′ 2″	99 – 121 lbs.
5′ 3″	112 – 136 lbs.	5′ 3″	104 – 127 lbs.
5′ 4″	117 – 143 lbs.	5′ 4″	108 – 132 lbs.
5′ 5″	122 – 150 lbs.	5′ 5″	113 – 138 lbs.
5′ 6″	128 – 156 lbs.	5′ 6″	117 – 143 lbs.
5′ 7″	133 – 163 lbs.	5′ 7″	122 – 149 lbs.
5′ 8″	139 – 169 lbs.	5′ 8″	126 – 154 lbs.
5′ 9″	144 – 176 lbs.	5′ 9″	131 – 160 lbs.
5′ 10″	149 – 183 lbs.	5′ 10″	135 – 165 lbs.
5′ 11″	155 – 189 lbs.	5′ 11″	140 – 171 lbs.
6′ 0″	160 – 196 lbs.	6′ 0″	144 – 176 lbs.
6′ 1″	166 – 202 lbs.	6′ 1″	149 – 182 lbs.
6′ 2″	171 – 209 lbs.	6′ 2″	153 – 187 lbs.
6′ 3″	176 – 216 lbs.	6′ 3″	158 – 193 lbs.
6′ 4″	182 – 222 lbs.	6′ 4″	162 – 198 lbs.
6′ 5″	187 – 229 lbs.	6′ 5″	167 – 204 lbs.
6′ 6″	193 – 235 lbs.	6′ 6″	171 – 209 lbs.
6′ 7″	198 – 242 lbs.	6′ 7″	176 – 215 lbs.
6′ 8″	203 – 249 lbs.	6′ 8″	180 – 220 lbs.
6′ 9″	209 – 255 lbs.	6′ 9″	185 – 226 lbs.
6′ 10″	214 – 262 lbs.	6′ 10″	189 – 231 lbs.
6′ 11″	220 – 268 lbs.	6′ 11″	194 – 237 lbs.
7′ 0″	225 – 275 lbs.	7′ 0″	198 – 242 lbs.

An ideal body weight is calculated by body mass index (BMI). BMI is a measure of average weight with respect to height. BMI is calculated by this formula: Weight in kg divided by square of height in meters. The result is interpreted as:Below 18.5 = Underweight18.5 – 24.9 = Normal or average weight25 – 29.9 = OverweightAbove 30 = Obese

A good way to assess your weight is to calculate your body mass index (BMI). BMI takes into account not just your weight, but also your height to indicate body fat. The goal for most people: a BMI that’s over 18 and under 25.