Sometimes,
you can just see it. Those love handles hanging around your waist like a saggy
spare tire, those extra wiggly rows of at under your chin and around your neck.
The buttocks that seem to not fit back into those pants that “must have shrunk
while hanging in your closet.”
All
those things can give you the idea that it might be time to lose some weight.
But
sometimes, the signals are not so clear. True enough if you step onto the
talking scale and it starts to cry, you know its time to get yourself in gear
to lose some of those extra pounds. But many times, it is something more
subtle. A glance from someone passing by, or just the way you feel when you
look in the potato chip bag and its empty, and you just bought it yesterday at
the warehouse store.
Those
signals get people coming to the internet in waves looking for answers to their
weight loss problems. And one of the things they look for online is a chart to
figure out their ideal body weight.
These
are in no short supply online, and along with weight loss calculators can give
you an idea of your weight loss goal and how fast you can reach it. But there
are a couple of drawbacks with using these kinds of tools, especially on the
internet.
One
problem is that you need to look at the website that ideal weight chart or
calculator is on. Many times these sites are designed for one purpose only – to
get you to buy one of the products that is being advertised on that site.
Nothing
wrong with that, business is business. But if every time you look at the ideal
weight chart and there is no way you can ever be that weight without buying a
dietary plan or supplement that just happens to be for sale on their site, you
might want to give it a second thought.
There
are ideal weights for various people. But in fact, each individual person has
their own ideal weight. Not to sound silly or anything, but if you want to find
out what your ideal weight is, you need to look on more than one website and
take a look at the differences in what those ideal weights.
Sometimes,
there is also a discrepancy between what the charts say you are supposed to
weigh and what you think you are supposed to weigh. This happens more often than
not. You look at the chart and input your height and weight and then check the results,
but the number doesn’t seem low enough to you. You are sure that if the chart
says 160, that it must be wrong and your real ideal weight is around 135.
Truth
is, your ideal weight is probably around 160. The way you think you look and
how you feel have a lot to do with whether you think the charts and calculators
are accurate.
You
also need to be aware that the charts give a range. That if you step on the
scale 15 times a day, your weight is going to be different each time. And that
the charts often give only a single number.
Much
easier to say that your ideal weight is around 160 pounds or 125 pounds or
whatever it is, than to view those numbers as something exact that you need to
accomplish or else. That is not how your body works and you will wind up with a
lot of resentment towards yourself if you think like that and don’t accomplish
your goal.
The
real world is not the Biggest Loser. That is a TV show. You are you and your
body will respond a lot better if you view it as your friend instead of
something that won’t measure up to a chart you found on the internet. So make
sure that you get the information you need, but that you make the final
decision about your ideal body weight.
