Calculate your current and appropriate bmi (URL)

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Hi,

Someone just posted this URL and its fantastic:

http://www.obesityhelp.com/morbidobesity/bmi-start.phtml you put in

your height and weight, it does the rest. Not only does it calculate

your current BMI, it will tell you the appropriate weight for your

height, and has a formula on subsequent pages that allow you to

figure out how quickly you can achieve your goal based on an

anticipate loss of 65% of your excess weight (I thought that was damn

conservative) at different weekly loss rates.

Check it out. I who am mathematically challenged was able to work it!

Grinning and patting myself on the back,

Theresa

> >

> > what would you consider the " ideal " goal for someone at 5'4 " and

> 245 lbs pre

> > opt?

> >

> > Judie

>

> Judie,

>

> Your pre-op BMI is 42 - not bad. You ideal BMI is about 22, so you

> are 20 BMI points over the ideal. If you loose 70% of your excess

> weight then you will loose 14 BMI points giving you a BMI of 28. So

> you will weigh 163 lbs. 70% is a fairly conservative estimate and

> you might do a bit better (say 80%) which would put you at a BMI of

> 26 or 151 lbs. I would consider anything below BMI=30 as a success,

> and that would be 175 lbs. So you should loose 70-94 lbs. If you

> excercise regularly you can loose more, if you drink a 6 pack of

coke

> every day you will loose less, but this gives you a rough idea what

> to expect.

>

> Hull

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