Healthy Weight

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What is a healthy weight? generally speaking, you want to maintain a weight that falls within the ‘healthy weight range’ according to the BMI index. It is important to remember that your goal weight should be a realistic weight that you can maintain while you are living a healthy lifestyle.

Your correct weight is a weight that can be maintained without:

Restricting food intake
Over-exercising
Being preoccupied with thoughts of food due to deprivation
Feeling the negative affects of starvation or semi starvation such as fatigue, irritability, loss of concentration, and a depressed mood

Also, it is important to remember that everyone’s weight tends to fluctuate within a day so it is not necessary to become fixated on a certain number.

by Jill Cohen, M.S.W., LCSW