All weight issues affect your health – not enough body weight as well as too much!

Often it is a combination of stressors affecting the body, mind, emotions and spirit that creates the imbalance that lead to a weight disorder. Lifestyle “choices” do not always present a range of options that allow great choices. Work and home environments are not easily changed. The impact of food availability, culture around food plus the nature of time-compressed activities all add considerably to our abilities to change and maintain healthy dietary habits.

Lifestyle patterns of activity (movement and exercise), food choices and eating patterns can all alter your metabolism and create imbalances in the ability to absorb important nutrients and and eliminate waste effectively. Such imbalances need to be addressed in order to lose weight and keep it off!

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WHO classification of obesity

WHO Classification	BMI*	Risk of Comorbidity
Underweight	Below 18.5	Low
Healthy weight	18.5-24.9	Average
Overweight (grade 1 obesity)	25.0-29.9	Mild increase
Obese (grade 2 obesity)	30.0-39.0	Moderate/severe
Morbid/severe obesity(grade 3)	40.0 and above	Very severe

*BMI = weight/height 2
The BMI calculator below is a .exe file that will open in a new window. Click “open” (not “save”) unless you want to save the calculator to your computer. You will need to know your height and weight in either imperial or metric (both measurements must in the same category).

Why should I Lose weight?

As BMI goes up, so does the risk for certain conditions including:

Because high BMI is just one factor for increased disease risk, you must also consider these factors to assess your disease risk:

Diet
Physical activity
Waist circumference

If you know you need to lose weight, go straight to the highly successful . Ultra Lite also provides a well-balanced maintenance program to help you keep your weight off. Many factors can influence your ability to lose weight. Causes of weight gain – and hindrances to weight loss – can include: