How to Determine How Much Weight to Lose Without Getting Too Skinny

Most people have heard that Americans are grossly overweight. In fact, obesity has even become the subject of several reality shows as doctors, nutritionists and trainers try to stop the bad habits of overeating and lack of exercise. There is always a risk, however, of becoming too obsessed with weight loss and ending up at-risk for an eating disorder. Luckily, there are tools you can use to determine just how much weight to lose without getting too skinny.

Things You'll Need

• Body Calculator
• Current age, height and weight
• Information about lifestyle and eating habits
• Paper and pencil
• Reliable digital scale

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Instructions

• 1

  Open a body calculating tool, such as the one found on dietician.com. Many are available online and free to use.

• 2

  Fill in the requested information as completely as possible. At the least, you need to provide your age, gender, current weight and height. Enter as much of the additional data as you have available, including your lifestyle and eating habits. Submit this information to the body calculating tool.

• 3

  Wait for the results to appear. Most tools will give you a healthy weight range for your age and height. Record the weight on the low end of your healthy weight range with a piece of paper and pencil. If you fall under this number, professionals designate you as too skinny.

• 4

  Step on the digital scale to verify your current weight. Record this number with the paper and pencil.

• 5

  Subtract your lowest healthy weight number from your current weight to determine how much weight you could lose without the risk of being too skinny.