Determining Your Body Mass Index
Enter your weight in pounds:
height in feet:
and inches:
Your Body Mass Index is:
If your BMI is moderate or high, you may want to consider lowering your weight by reducing your daily calorie intake by either diet or exercise, or a combination of the two.
Determing Your Daily Calorie Needs
Determine your activity level:
Inactive (office work/sitting most of the day)
Moderately Active (office work plus 30 to 60 minutes of aerobic activity or walking/standing most of the day)
Extensively Active (strenuous physical work or athletic level of physical activity)
Daily Calorie Needs:
To lose 1 pound per week, reduce daily calories to:
To lose a 1/2 pound per week, reduce daily calories to:
Nutrition experts say losing one-half to 1 pound a week at most is the safest, most effective way to take off pounds and keep them off.
Please note: This application works best using Netscape (tested using version 4.7).