Bmi medelålders kvinna

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What the calculator knows about you

Your height, weight, age and sex, probably your target weight and some of your dieting habits.

What the calculator does not know

Whether you are a real person or have just entered some data out of curiosity.

Your physical and mental health condition. One then often feels one has had enough.

Feeling full with less calories

Bitter substances slow down the digestion and make one feel full quicker.

Soups with few calories satisfy hunger particularly well.

Fast food: Eating a dürüm instead of a doner keeps your figure in better form.

Less food tends to be more filling when eaten from small plates.

Eat a plentiful breakfast and lunch, but cut back on snacks.

Regular mealtimes help you to lose weight.

For dessert, choose coffee and cheese instead of sweets and alcohol.

Strongly spiced meals are filling and stimulate calorie-burning.

The same amount of food is more filling in the morning than in the evening.

Proteins are filling for a longer time than fats and carbohydrates.

A large glass of water before your meal reduces your calorie intake.

Your intake of calories, sugar, fat, salt, processed meat, fruit, vegetables, vitamins, minerals, supplements and other relevant nutrition data. Very often they are at the bottom of the shelf.

Preparing food

Serve food from large packets in normal-sized portions.

Cook the food in a steam cooker or Römertopf (clay cooker) without adding any fat.

Keep any food left over and warm it up later in the microwave oven without adding any fat.

Fry eggs in a Teflon frying pan with a little mineral water, but without adding any fat.

Use a kitchen paper towel to dab off the fat from food that has been deep-fried or breaded.

Remove the skin from fried sausages, or pierce it, so that the fat can come out.

Cook chips and breaded food in the oven without adding any fat.

Vegetable crisps: Cut into thin slices and leave to dry in the oven at 150°C (300°F).

Fry meat hot but only for a short time, and then cook it in the oven for an hour at 80°C (180°F).

Fry or deep-fry meat in an egg-piccata batter instead of using bread crumbs.

If you are eating out: Order a menu with soup, salad and an extra portion of vegetables.

Make popcorn only in a microwave oven - it hardly needs any fat.

Surroundings

Only keep or eat food in the kitchen and dining room.

Do not leave any snacks lying around in view.

Clothes made of non-elastic fabric warn you that you have put on weight when they feel tight.

Clothes made of non-elastic fabric enable you to see and feel whether you have lost weight.

Arrange food in the fridge such that high-calorie food is on the top or bottom shelf.

Throw food products away that have past their shelf-life, rather than eat them.

Make sure to serve food that is already on the plate: Keep the pots, pans and bowls in the kitchen.

A cool bedroom stimulates fat-burning during sleep.

Cleaning your teeth directly after the main meals reduces the temptation to eat in between.

Book a holiday hotel with half board rather than full board.

Eat with enjoyment

Allow at least twenty minutes for each meal.

Eat at the table and not whilst standing, walking or sitting at your writing desk, or on the couch.

TV, mobile phone, computer and newspapers are taboo while you are eating.

A wider choice of food means more enjoyment with less calories.

Chew each mouthful until your tongue can no longer feel any solid particles.

Do not put any more food on the fork until the last bite has been swallowed.

Make a pause before the second helping.

However, we must firstly take into account that where obesity in young people is concerned, there is a very high risk of gaining even more weight. The same difference can also be seen at the point where underweight becomes critical. In these cases I decided to apply common-sense considerations, rather than the data.

For instance, the curves – if shown strictly according to the data – would have to turn upwards in a bizarre way towards the edge of the chart on the right-hand side.

Read more about the SBMI

Do the curves of the chart exactly reflect the results of BMI studies?

Yes and no. Your amounts of body fat, muscle and other fat-free mass. as normal, too high or too low.

Is the age-related height loss factored in?

Yes, it is. Just use your current height, and you will get your correct, age-adjusted SBMI.

body mass index, sex and age. Therefore, the lower curves of the SBMI chart follow the green curve at more or less the same distance from youth to old age.

The possible causes for bad health increase as we grow older, and thus also their probability. Therefore, the calculator encourages people to keep their weight stable, even if it is high, by giving them the prospect of a marked decrease of SBMI in the following years: Our twenty-year-old with a BMI of 33 will lose about 8/70 of his SBMI value by the age of thirty.

The data used for the calibration has only been taken for never-smokers without any diseases known at the beginning of the study. In other words, the female body is biologically used to coping with a higher portion of fat deposits, without any negative consequences for the health. In such a case, weight management should be an issue for you, no matter what the results page may tell you.

For young, obese persons, preventing a further gain in weight is of even greater importance than losing weight.