Calculate Your Healthy Weight

Healthy Weight Calculator

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Calculate Your Healthy Weight

Try our quick, convenient calculator to find out your estimated healthy weight, based on your height, your frame, and your recommended body mass index. Just click on the upper dial to indicate your height, and click on the lower dial to indicate whether your frame is small, medium or large (whether you are small-boned, medium-boned, or large-boned). Then click in the MIDDLE of the dial to calculate Healthy Weight! Or if you prefer, type in your height and select your frame size.

To calculate your estimated healthy weight, type in your height, select your frame size, and click Calculate. Use numbers only. You can use either feet/inches or centimeters.

Height: feet inches - OR - centimeters

Please indicate whether your frame (bone size) is:

Small
(fingers overlap when you place your thumb and middle finger around your wrist)

Medium
(fingers touch when you place your thumb and middle finger around your wrist)

Large
(fingers do not touch when you place your thumb and middle finger around your wrist)

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Note: If you think you need to lose or gain weight, please see your doctor before setting a goal. Your doctor can advise you as to reasonable weight goals. This healthy weight calculation is intended for adults only and may not be accurate for those who are extremely muscular, less than five feet tall or very elderly. Please see the disclaimer below.

Reference:
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) report Clinical Guidelines on the Identification, Evaluation and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults: the Evidence Report. Released June 1998.

This tool was reviewed and updated June 2007.

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