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Normal weight for a woman. Formulas for calculation. Does age affect height-to-weight ratio?

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    Girls, sports are a must, no matter what age you are! Anna writes that doctors do not allow her after the operation, and so - I had two abdominal operations, after the second operation three days of resuscitation, serious problems with the cervicothoracic spine and the doctors also said that you should not strain, etc. They treated me to the 2nd group of disability ... .. and abandoned me. Weight has always been below normal, although skinny never looked. To make it shorter, I’ll say that after a long torment, I went in for sports according to the Bubnovsky system, I have been doing it since 2012, now I’m 55 years old, weight 60 kg, height 166 cm. No stomach, no folds, cellulite and everything else is not observed)))) )) Ira said correctly, you can weigh 52 kg, but if the muscles are flabby, then the view will not be so hot. So, Anya, stop torturing yourself with all sorts of diets, find Bubnovsky’s gymnastics on the Internet, start practicing and. believe me. you will want to live!)))) These are not just words, it has been tested on yourself. I couldn't walk without outside help, but now I just fly! Good luck to all of you!))))) And, by the way, I never tortured myself with diets, only after the operation I stuck to it. I am for separate nutrition: if proteins - then only with vegetables, carbohydrates in the same way - with vegetables. And carbohydrates - the first half of the day. proteins - the second half of the day.

    Well, I lost weight from 60 to 49 (49,500). And again I almost lost my life. Now the size of jeans is 25, I wear XXS-XS. Growth, of course, remained the same :-) But all this would please if it were carbohydrate-free and fat-free I didn’t lose my hair on a diet. In a few days, so much fell out that almost nothing was left on my head. In addition, the weight will keep getting close to the 50kg mark. Only due to the fact that my stomach and body no longer need normal portions of food , and I don’t eat much, I still hold on to 49 kg. Personally, I don’t consider myself a skeleton, but my colleagues say that I have a disease, since I still don’t see the real picture: that I have turned into a bag of bones. But I’m crazy I feel sorry for my hair. I am very bitter. An even deeper depression has developed. I no longer have happiness from any weight loss. thick. Everyone went crazy with envy. looks and a complete lack of desire to live. It sounds terrible, but it’s true. I lost all life orientations, strength (even just walking), lost my memory (literally), lost the incentive to live ... for her sake. After work and on weekends, you need to stand in the yard for hours and look after her, you need to do homework with her, you need to meet her in the evenings at school, you need to drag bags from shops, you need to cook for her ... All this became simply unbearable. And before she even happily ran and walked with her, and did her homework with pleasure, and supervised everything perfectly. Now I just forget everything. I’m already ashamed in front of people. They look at me strangely. I will work again. how much she dropped with such inhuman efforts I don’t take so much again. After all, I didn’t starve myself, but refused fats and carbohydrates, which, in fact, should be done if you want to lose weight. I will again be a donut with thick cheeks, but without hair. this ... Now colleagues are only gloating: “Well, I’ve lost weight, and now you’ll spend a lot of money on recovery ...”. I have already spent a tidy sum on vitamins and drugs. I pear also on the strongest stresses that I have experienced in recent months. In general, my whole life is one big stress, however, age is age, and with age I began to hardly endure everything that was previously perceived and overcome much easier. So it all started before the new year. Day after day I became getting worse and worse. I stopped sleeping, lost my appetite, stopped loving myself. During the New Year holidays, it only got worse. And after the holiday, I was already in a severe depression and I myself was aware that sooner or later something bad happened to me It seemed to me that either I would become seriously ill, or I would fall under a car due to absent-mindedness and immersion in sadness. So I got sick so much that I was barely alive. and from a cheerful girly-cheerful girl she turned into such a heartbroken person. Everything is so. And now also hair ... It takes at least 5 years to restore them. And this is with a balanced diet and complete peace. And I can only dream of peace. that I myself am surprised how I even lived to be 32 years old. If at least my family was my outlet and oprah, I would more easily bring all the problems at work. And it turns out that I have been alone all my life and for myself. The failure of all life systems was simply inevitable .No one can stand it. No one!

    I am no taller than 160 cm, 32 years old, a woman who has given birth; the work is very monotonous, office work. For 6 years I recovered to almost 60 kg. Normosthenic physique. Narrow shoulders and generally narrow, but, alas, not thin. I’ve always been (my mother’s Eastern Genes). I’m like Anastasia Zavorotnyuk. passed with difficulty. And although all the neighbors continued to call me petite and thin, it was disgusting to look at myself and the mirror. Moreover, all this is fat, and not just a wide bone, covered with a thin layer of skin. Here is my aunt, approx. so. Everyone says, skeleton, painful, but I like it so much. More than when she was at her normal weight, but for some reason she looks like a rock (especially against the background of my family, where everyone is small and narrow-boned). weighed, but so much, too. I don’t have the opportunity to play sports and I don’t want to. a couple of weeks, everything will float again and even get worse. Yes, and I’m a dolt. my narrow constitution, I became a non-existent size, looked like a cancer patient or a first-grader, people whispered unkindly behind my back. But I also liked 45. The best weight, as I noticed, for almost everyone is 50. in him. Neither proper nutrition nor restriction helped a single gram. At the same time, there didn’t seem to be a gaomonas deviation either. I didn’t eat or drink and lost 6 kg. Now I weigh 52-53, no way lower. It’s worth at least a piece of something to eat, plus 1 kg, drink a little more water, plus 1 kg. I’m already emaciated. All clothes 44 are simply huge. Now I wear 40-42 and I myself understand that, of course, it’s better this way. And my cheeks have become much smaller (and they are very big on their own). 48-50 will be fine! I can. So it's all about the constitution and the fat layer. My colleague does not scratch much, tries to lose weight, but the figure is an overturned triangle. I think her legs won’t get thinner, but I’m losing weight from head to toe proportionally. Even the hands and head circumference, feet. All gloves and balls are large. t. So I don’t advise anyone to lose weight. I’m just sharing my story.

    I am an elderly person, I am over 60, I now weigh 58, height 150. 7 years ago I weighed 75 kg, fell ill and spent 4 months in the hospital, where I lost weight to 48 kg and looked like a skeleton covered with skin, although according to all calculations, I was at normal weight. So everything is individual. Now I want to lose 3 kg, but not more.

    I am over 50, weighed 75, after a long illness I lost weight to 48, my height is 150 now (it was more in my youth). So, despite the supposedly “normal” weight, I looked like a skeleton covered with skin. Now, after 6 years, I weigh 58 kg, I look normal, however, I want to lose 3 kg, I will be even more normal, but not more, so as not to turn into a skeleton again. So everything is individual.

    Kick-Ass! Has everyone gone crazy?

    with a height of 166, you can weigh 66 kg, if you don’t hang anything in sports. you can weigh 56 kg without sports, you will have both sides and stomach. Say she lost weight to 52 and is still not slim, which means she was losing mostly muscles, not fat.

    Some nonsense. With a height of 166, the normal weight is from 52 to 66? My girlfriend had a weight of 56, and there were folds of fat on her back, thick sides and folds under her breasts, at the same time her stomach hung. So is it normal for a height of 166? She has now lost weight to 52 and still does not look like a slender birch.

There is hardly a person who would not care about his appearance. Each of us wants to look attractive - to have ideal body proportions, maybe even become a new standard of beauty. But, as you know, we are all different - in height, age, configuration.

In many ways, a person’s self-awareness is affected by his weight. Accordingly, the higher it is, the more uncomfortable we feel. It is unlikely that there is a person who refuses to calculate the ideal weight for him. As mentioned earlier, we are all different, which means that body weight will be individual.

Ways to calculate ideal weight

We are not alike, and each has its own beauty. And in the pursuit of an ideal figure, it would not hurt to know the exact weight that you need to strive for. So it will be easier to control the path traveled and the remaining path to your standard.

When calculating your ideal weight, remember that you should first of all feel comfortable with these kilograms. Because someone is crazy about protruding collarbones, while others, on the contrary, prefer curvaceous forms.

Despite all individual preferences, doctors have set a peculiar framework for determining the shortage or excess of kilograms. To date, a great many online calculators and various tables have been developed and compiled. Many experts are studying the question of how to calculate weight by height and age, sex. But they did not come to a consensus.

The most famous calculation methods:

  • By Quetelet
  • By Brock.
  • According to Egorov-Levitsky.
  • According to Lorenz.

You can independently calculate weight by height and age using any of the methods. And having learned the treasured figure, it will be possible to begin the path to your standard.

Calculation of BMI by Adolf Quetelet

It is worth immediately warning that this method will not calculate the ideal weight. According to Quetelet, based on your current weight and height, you need to calculate After, focusing on the result and the developed table, get information about the need to gain weight or lose weight.

Egorov-Levitsky table

When compiling, the developers took into account all the most important factors that form weight. They indicated only the maximum limit, but did not specify the minimum. And, in fact, it is not necessary. After all, a person is mainly concerned about excess kilograms, and not their lack.

How to achieve your ideal weight

If, after you have calculated the weight by age, height and gender, you find that there are a couple of extra pounds, then it's time to think about eliminating them.

Trying to maintain an ideal body weight, you are doing a huge service to your body. In many developed countries, overweight people make up fifty percent of the total population. And every year their number increases exponentially. This is an additional, unnecessary burden on the human body. It affects the joints and internal organs to a greater extent. But, nevertheless, it is worth noting that thinness also does not benefit. The golden mean in the matter of weight is what any person needs.

Once you've made the decision to lose weight, don't try to find a miracle-working fast diet. Such does not exist. It will not bring benefits, but it is quite capable of weakening the body. It is best to lose weight gradually. After all, in fact, getting rid of excess weight is not difficult, difficulties appear when trying to maintain it.

A weight loss method is considered safe, in which you lose from five hundred grams to one kilogram per week. If the weight goes off faster, then you burn not only fat, but also muscle fibers. And this is absolutely unacceptable. Since with well-developed muscles it is easier to maintain optimal weight.

Steps to ideal weight:

  • Drink a glass of clean drinking water on an empty stomach, and fifteen minutes before the start of any meal.
  • Don't skip breakfast. And no, you shouldn't skip any meal. After all, this way you will get hungry and eat even more next time. And, as you know, it is better to eat many times, but a little bit.
  • Try to reduce your fat intake.
  • Come to the store with a prepared shopping list. So you will not be tempted to grab something unnecessary and harmful.
  • Chew food thoroughly. Thus, you not only do not choke, but also get enough faster. When eating slowly, the feeling of hunger disappears more quickly.
  • If you feel like you haven't eaten enough and need a refill, then the first thing you need to do is take your time. Sit for five minutes. And then think about whether the feeling of hunger is really so strong.
  • Eat strictly in the kitchen. Never eat while standing or walking.
  • Add a fresh fruit or vegetable to every meal.
  • Avoid white bread.
  • Simmer and bake. Try not to fry your food.
  • Allow yourself sweetness no more than once a week.
  • Give up fast food.
  • The optimal number of meals per day is five.
  • Cook your own meals more often. So you will control how it is processed and calories.

To look graceful, fragile, feminine - beautiful - is the dream of every woman, regardless of age. However, the definition of beauty is as fluid as the label of fashion. What, by the way, cannot be said about your health - external perfection should in no way harm internal perfection.

That is why, before you seriously take up the sculpture of your own body, you should calculate your most optimal weight. After all, knowing exactly how many kilograms you need to get better or lose weight, it is much easier to go to your goal. Calculating your ideal weight will help you not to stop halfway and not go too far along the way.

Most people, without attaching any importance to height, age, body type, lifestyle, strive to fit their body to the notorious "90-60-90". For many women, this standard is a dream come true. At the same time, few people think about the fact that it is quite artificial, and few will be able to maintain it.

Well, besides, it doesn’t always look organic, because the second 90 can hide both narrow pelvic bones with rounded feminine buttocks, and a wide pelvis with a flat booty. The size is one - and in appearance such figures are not at all equivalent. Therefore, the numbers in each case should be different. You should not strive for something that is contrary to your nature. It is important to lose weight taking into account your own characteristics of the figure and state of health.

The main goal is to calculate weight in accordance with the height and age of a person. Calculation until the state when you feel as comfortable as possible. And here the volume of the waist and hips will not be important, but there will be a feeling of freedom and looseness.

If you have gained extra pounds, you should not immediately jump on diets and get rid of them according to the Kremlin rules, Dukan or anyone else. Get out your photos, in which you are at the correct weight, in your opinion, and try to remember how you felt. Even if your then parameters did not fit into the usual ideals, they still suit you, which means they serve your purpose.

At the same time, if you want to know how to calculate your best weight, then you can resort to a few simple manipulations that scientists have suggested.

The calculation scheme for a woman, according to American scientists, is as follows:

Y (ideal weight) = 50 kg + (your height - 150) x 0.75.

For example, with a height of 160 cm, the equation will look like this: 50 + (160 - 150) x 0.75 = 57.5 kg.

You can also use the technique proposed by Lorenzo:

Y (ideal weight) \u003d height - 100 - (your height - 150) x 0.25.

In other words, with the same height of 160 cm, the result will be 160 - 100 - (160 - 150) x 0.25 = 62.5 kg.

The Quetelet formula allows you to calculate the desired figure no less accurately. The scheme is simple: you need to divide the number of your current kilograms (X) by your height in meters multiplied by yourself (Y). If the resulting figure varies between 20–23.8, then you are normal.

Weight for women who dream of a stunning figure can be determined by other, no less truthful formulas. For example, you can use this: ideal weight = (half your height) - (40000 divided by your height in cm). This technique is valid only for women.

But for men, the system will look a little different: ideal weight = height in cm x 4/5 - 70.

Paul Brock's technique

The famous French nutritionist Paul Brock has a different point of view on the canons of physical beauty. He introduced one of the most convenient, practical and sober thinking methods for determining the adequate weight of a person.

  • 100 (at 156–165 cm of human height);
  • 105 (at 166–175 cm);
  • 110 (at 176–185 cm);
  • 115 (at 186+ cm).

But that's not all. Do not forget about your physique and, no less important, the number of years you have lived. After all, metabolism and the ability of the body to lose weight or gain weight without harm to health depend on age.

Determine your body type

Age is one of the most important aspects of calculating the optimal number of kilograms. Therefore, you must always act with these parameters in mind.

Experts classify all people into each of three types:

  • thin-boned, or scientifically asthenic;
  • normo-osseous, or normal;
  • broad-boned, or hypersthenic.

Finding out your type yourself is a matter of a few seconds. Moreover, this must be done before proceeding with the calculation of the ideal weight of a person.

The first way is by the circumference of the wrist. There are different rules for women and men. For example, in lovely ladies of the asthenic type, it will be less than 16 cm, normal - from 16 to 18, hypersthenic - more than 18 cm.

For men, the rules are quite different. The wrist already 17 cm characterizes the asthenic type, the interval of 17.5–20 cm is normal, more than 20 cm is hypersthenic.

You can also use the Pignet index. The method for calculating it is as follows: IP \u003d L - (P + T), where L denotes height in cm, P is weight in kg, T is chest circumference in cm. For example, at 160 cm, 55 kg and underbust volume 70 cm will be the number 35.

This index is decoded as follows:

  • thin people have an index of more than 30;
  • people of normal build - an index that fits within the range of 10-30;
  • hypersthenic index less than 10.

According to the French nutritionist we mentioned above, people whose physique is out of the normal type should calculate their optimal weight only after correcting for the type of physique. For asthenics subtract 10%, for hypersthenics add 10%.

In this case, the calculation of the most optimal indicator according to Brock will look like this: ideal weight = (height - 100 (105, 110, etc., respectively)) ± 10% (depending on the type of figure) of the resulting figure. For example, your height is 168 cm. Then it turns out: 168 - 105 \u003d 63. 63 - 10% \u003d 57.3 - an ideal indicator, taking into account your body type.

Ideal weight is an average standard that is calculated based on data from a large number of people. But all people are different. Lifestyle, food culture, nationality and body type - all this affects the ideal weight. For example, the normal weight of people with a strong physique will be 2-3% higher than that of people with an average body. And the norm for thin people is 3-5% less. Therefore, it is not necessary to strive specifically for the ideal weight, which shows weight calculator. It is enough if your weight is within the calculated range.

Beyond the weight calculator calculates BMI- body mass index (ideal weight), which is widely used to determine the degree of correspondence between body weight and height.

How to calculate your ideal weight (BMI) yourself

BMI \u003d M: R 2, where

M - body weight in kg

P - height in meters

An example of calculating the body mass index: M (weight) - 78 kg, P (height) - 1.68 m

BMI = 78: 1.68 2 = 27.6

From the table below, you can see that a BMI of -27.6 corresponds to being overweight.

Table of interpretation of BMI indicators

In the case of a strong deviation from the norm, it is time to seriously think about correcting your weight. With reduced weight, dystrophy develops. In the modern civilized world, its cause is usually intentional malnutrition. The desire to have an unnaturally slender figure can result in a violation of both the psyche and physical health - the ability to work decreases, the skin dries, hair falls out. All this comes from a lack of substances necessary for the body.

However, their excessive excess also does not lead to anything good. A huge number of people suffer from obesity. Excess weight greatly increases the risk of kidney and gallbladder stones, joint deformities, impotence, myocardial infarction and many other diseases. The whole body works with overload, moving masses of fat in space that are not provided for by the design of the human body. Not surprisingly, the life expectancy of obese people is on average 6-8 years less than that of the rest.

Do I need to lose weight? Before making such a decision, calculate your ideal weight, the value of which, among other things, depends on age, gender, body type, level of physical activity, profession, water balance, etc.

Before you begin to reduce excess body weight, you need to answer yourself one simple but very important question: “Do I need to lose weight at all?” Often, the excessive pursuit of the ideal figure ends with health problems and mental breakdowns. Remember that the ideal weight is the one you feel most comfortable with. If you wake up in the morning and feel healthy and happy, if you look at your own reflection in the mirror, and you like it, if you are happy, efficient, positive, self-confident - then is there any point in changing something? What for? To meet the standards that the media imposes on us?

If you are serious about the problem of normalization of weight and the improvement of health associated with this, then you should approach this task wisely, having previously obtained the necessary knowledge.

So, the body mass index (BMI), invented by the Belgian sociologist and statistician Adolphe Quetelet, is recognized throughout the world as the simplest and most adequate indicator that allows you to quickly assess body weight. BMI is recommended by WHO as the main criterion for assessing nutritional status, especially when conducting large-scale screenings.

Body mass index (BMI) - a value that allows you to assess the correspondence of body weight to a person's height:

BMI (kg / m 2) \u003d Body weight (kg) / Body height (m 2)

But, like all simple and affordable methods, the calculation of BMI has its drawbacks. It should be borne in mind that excessive or insufficient muscle development can affect the accuracy of determining BMI.

How to correctly evaluate the result, taking into account age, gender and physical condition? Below are the answers to the 4 most common questions about ideal weight.

4 most common questions about ideal weight

1. Does the value of the ideal weight depend on age?

Yes it depends. Over the years, the intensity of metabolic processes in the body naturally decreases (by 0.5% per year). Therefore, it is obvious: in order to maintain your ideal weight with age, you must either reduce the calorie content of the daily diet every year, or increase physical activity. Failure to follow this simple rule will lead to excess weight, and subsequently to obesity.

2. Does the value of the ideal weight depend on the physique?

Yes it depends. Before you start calculating your ideal weight, you need to determine your body type.

The physique is of 3 types:

  • asthenic,
  • normosthenic,
  • hypersthenic.

Solovyov's index allows you to determine the type of physique by the girth of the wrist (in centimeters).

Asthenic (thin-boned). The circumference of the wrist in women is less than 16 cm, in men it is less than 18 cm.

People with an asthenic body type are thin, not inclined to be overweight due to an accelerated metabolism, they are distinguished by narrow hips and chest. As a rule, growth is not lower than average, with elongated limbs and a "swan" neck. They may suffer from a lack of strength and endurance, complex due to excessive thinness (and this problem is much more difficult to solve than being overweight).

Normosthenic. The circumference of the wrist for women is 15-17 cm, for men 18-20 cm.

Those who are lucky enough to have a normosthenic type are proportionately built, usually of average height.

Hypersthenic. The circumference of the wrist in women is more than 17 cm, in men it is more than 20 cm.

Women of a hypersthenic physique can safely justify themselves that they have a wide bone. Their bones are really heavy, such ladies have broad shoulders, a massive chest and long legs. They can safely choose professions where physical strength and endurance are needed. It is this one that will stop a galloping horse, and enter a burning hut.

3. Does the value of the ideal weight depend on gender?

Yes, it depends.

Calculation of the ideal weight using the Lorenz formula(taking into account gender and height).

Ideal weight for men = (height - 100) - (height - 152) x 0.2.

Ideal weight for women = (height - 100) - (height - 152) x 0.4.

Height in centimeters, weight in kilograms.

Example.

For a man with a height of 160 cm, the ideal weight is calculated as follows:

(160 - 100) - (160 - 152) x 0.2 = 60 - 8 x 0.2 = 60 - 1.6 = 58.4 kg

For a woman with a height of 160 cm, the ideal weight is calculated as follows:

(160 - 100) - (160 - 152) x 0.4 = 60 - 8 x 0.4 = 60 - 3.2 = 56.8 kg

As you can see, with the same height, the ideal body weight varies depending on gender.

4. What formulas for calculating the ideal weight are the most accurate?

The most accurate are formulas that take into account gender, age, physique (at least height) or special tables developed by hygienists.

Broca's method, named after a French doctor in the late 19th century, is the most popular method for quickly assessing weight.

Broca's formula for people with a normal physique:
weight (ideal) = height - 100 (with height less than 165 cm);

weight (ideal) = height - 105 (with a height of 166 - 175 cm);

weight (ideal) = height - 110 (with height above 175 cm).
If you have an asthenic body type, then the result obtained is reduced by 10%, with a hypersthenic body type, increase by 10%.

Example.

With a height of 170 cm, the ideal weight for normosthenics will be: 170 - 105 = 65 kg

For asthenics: 58.5 kg (-10%).

For hypersthenics: 71.5 kg (+ 10%).

P.S. Now you can calm down: not everyone is given by nature to have model parameters, do not demand the impossible from yourself. Everyone has their own ideal weight.

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