What is my ideal body weight?
In order to calculate your ideal body weight, we use the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tables.

If your weight is 20% or more over the ideal weight for your heightidentified in the tables above, you are considered obese. If you are 100 pounds or more above your ideal weight, you are considered morbidly obese.

For our patients, we use the middle of the medium frame size. For example, if a patient is female and is 5'3" tall, we would calculate her normal weight as the midpoint of 121 to 135 pounds at 128 pounds. Since morbid obesity is defined as 100 pounds or more over the ideal weight, then the female would have to weigh 228 pounds to be considered morbidly obese.

Obesity is also defined using the Body Mass Index or BMI. This is calculated as weight in kilograms over height in meters squared. A body mass index of greater than 35 with serious co-morbidities or greater than 40 is defined as morbidly obese.