How interesting! Thank you. I found I need to weigh anywhere between 97 and 128 or so. Soooo...I'm still pretty far off, lol, but I'll make it! Thanks again for sharing this!
Angie

As I get into the range of "normal weight" I have been wondering if my diet goal is a good one. I found this site about what would be ones ideal weight. I wanted to share it.*********************************************** ******************** Better Ideal Weight Body Calculations

*Set a realistic "Ideal Weight" goal for your body,

Try to Feel Good about yourself even if you are overweight.

Did*you*know:

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Almost all "ideal body weight"**websites use obsolete formulas or tables created in 1979 or earlier.

On this page: Learn what people just like you think about their ideal weight.
Then: Set your own diet goal somewhere between a medically-recommended weight and a weight that your peers would hope for.

Please enter your Weight, Height, Age and Gender, then Click the Calculate Button.*

* Weight: pounds kilograms can* convert lbs to kg * Height: inches cm *or* 1' 2' 3' 4' 5' 6' 7' * 0'' 1'' 2'' 3'' 4'' 5'' 6'' 7'' 8'' 9'' 10'' 11'' * Age: years* or* 70 + years 60 - 69 yrs 50 - 59 yrs 40 - 49 yrs 30 - 39 yrs 20 - 29 yrs 18 - 19 yrs 17 yrs 16 yrs 15 yrs 14 yrs 13 yrs 12 yrs 11 yrs 10 yrs 9 yrs 8 yrs 7 yrs 6 yrs 5 yrs 4 yrs 3 yrs 2 yrs 1.5 yrs 1 yrs Adult Child * Gender: Male Female *

View the Calculation Results Below:

Peoples*Choice Ideal*Weight: This shows the average weight that other people of your Age, Height, Weight and Gender would describe as their ideal weight.

Women tend to imagine their ideal weight is unrealistically low, so they diet unnecessarily. Men tend to allow their ideal weight to be higher than medically recommended. Men and Women should learn from each other. Ideal Weight, - Click to learn more

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Medical Recommendation: This recommendation is based on a Body Mass Index (BMI) range of 19-25. Click to learn more about BMI recommendations

Medical evidence suggests that all body weights within this range are reasonably equally healthy (for people of your height). Outside this range, health risks may occur. Your current Body Mass Index is kg/m2

Use a combination of the above results, to set your own personal goal.

My favorite way to calc target weight is using lean body mass & body fat % target.* Because different people really do have different bone masses, muscle mass, etc, this is the only way to tell where you should be your healthy range.*
Have your fitness club or doctor do a body fat % test on you.* Take the % they give you and multiply by your current weight.* This tells you how many pounds of fat you're carrying:
Current weight: 150****** Body Fat:* 28%
150 * 28% = 42lbs of body fat
Now subtract your body fat from your total body weight, this is your total "Lean Body Mass"
150 - 42 = 108 lbs lean body mass
This means that with ZERO percent body fat, this person would weight 108 lbs.*
Now, find out from a chart online what your ideal body fat % should be.* I found this one:
"According to an article from Medscape.com, the American Dietetic Association recommends that men have 15-18% body fat and women have 20-25% body fat. Healthy male athletes might be as low as 5-12% body fat, and healthy female athletes could be as low as 10-20%. "
So assuming you want to be at the low end of that, say 20%.* Multiple your target % by your lean body mass:
108 * .20 = 21.6lbs
Add this to your lean body mass:
108 + 22lbs = 130
For someone with 108 lbs of lean body mass, a target weight of 130 would put them at the very low end of a heatlhy, normal body fat %.
I think a lot of people focus too much on the "number", and LOTS of people have goals weights that are simply too low because they don't realize that having that little fat can actually be detrimental to their health (I know!! weird, huh?)
This was really eye opening to me because once I knew my lean body mass I found that my "ideal" weight* that I'd always had in my mind was* MUCH too low for my body type.* I want to lose weight and be healthy, but I do NOT want to lose muscle mass, so I readjusted my goals based on my results.* It's been great.
Just wanted to give another way that can show a more personalized goal.* The online calculators are good general guides but they are*based on*averages, so if you're very muscular, or have higher or lower than normal bone mass, etc, they can be skewed.
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I loved this...thank you Chris!!