Burn Calorie

When people want to lose their weight by diet, they begin to change daily habit of eating a low-fat food. Without proper excercise for excess calories expenditure, that habit would likely to waste your valuable time. Because, excess calories will be stored in form of fat.

Research revealed that cutting fat without losing weight actually increased triglyceride levels and decreased high-density lipoproteins (HDLs), the “good” cholesterol that helps protect again heart disease. While excess fat isn’t healthy, fat is also not necessarily a bad thing. Without some fat in our diet, the body won’t make nerve cells and hormones or absorb some of the fat- soluble vitamins such as Vitamin E.

So how can you determine your ideal weight? How much fat and how many calories should you consume to reach and maintain a healthy weight?

For women

The ideal weight for a woman who is exactly 5 feet tall is 100 pounds. Additional inch above 5 feet, add 5 pounds. If you are shorter than 5 feet tall, subtract 5 pounds for every inch you measure below 5 feet.

Next, determine whether you have a small, medium or large frame. Using a measuring tape, measure your wrist. If your wrist measures exactly 6 inches, you have a medium frame and the weight number you calculated above, does not need to be adjusted. If your wrist measures less than 6 inches, subtract 10 percent from your ideal weight. If your wrist measures more than 6 inches, add 10 percent to your ideal weight.

So, suppose you are 5 feet 5″ tall, and your wrist is less than 6 inch, that would make your ideal weight 100 pounds + 25 pounds (every additional inch) – 10% x (100 + 25) = 112.5 pounds

For men

The ideal weight for a man who is exactly 5 feet tall is 106 pounds. Additional inch above 5 feet, add 6 pounds, and every inches below 5 feet, substract 6 pounds. To determine whether you have a small, medium or large frame, measure your wrist. If your wrist measures exactly 7 inches, you have a medium frame and you do not need to adjust your ideal weight. If your wrist is smaller than 7 inches, you have a small frame and should subtract 10 percent from your ideal weight. If your wrist is larger than 7 inches, you have a small frame and should add 10 percent to your ideal weight.

Suppose you are 4 feet 10″, and your wrist is less than 7 inch, that would make your ideal weight 106 pounds – 18 pounds (every inches below 5 feet tall, which is 3 inches) – 10% x (106 – 18) = 80 pounds.

BMI
Another method to determine whether your are overweight or not is something called Body Mass Index (BMI). Take your height in Meters, for example 1.6 metres. Take your weight in kilos, say, 60 kilos. Now using formula below, calculate your BMI:

60 kilos/(1.6*1.6) = 23.43 (this is the BMI figure)

Rough and Ready Reckoner
If your BMI is well under 20.00, ie below 18, then you are UNDERWEIGHT.
If your BMI is between 20 and 25, GOOD.
If your BMI is between 25 and 30, start to pay attention.
If your BMI is OVER 30, watch out. Clinicians classify this as obese.

The third method, and probably the most significant: ARE YOU HAPPY WITH YOUR WEIGHT?
You can be over the odds, technically, enjoy being you, enjoy your life and while the doctor might like you to shed a few pounds, it is YOUR body and YOUR life. Don’t allow ANYONE to grind you down. But if you are NOT happy, then, of course, you’re at an entirely different ball game. Do method one or two, above, to get a rough idea of where you stand.

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