What is a BMI?

Your BMI (Body Mass Index) is a measure of your weight in relation to your height. Simply put, it is a number that will tell you how thin or how fat you are.

Calculate your BMI

Click on the following link to determine your BMI. You will need to know your weight (in pounds or kilograms) and your height (in feet/inches or centimeters) to enter into the boxes of the BMI calculator.

BMI Calculator

 

Once you know you your BMI, you can place yourself into one of the following categories:

 

BMI	category
below 19	underweight
19-24.9	normal
25-29.9	overweight
30-30.9	obese
40 and over	morbidly obese

 

The health implications of each BMI category will be explained in detail in one of the DDS chapters. Knowing your BMI will assist you with the use of the Daily Diet Score, as will be explained with further additions to the Daily Diet Score web site.