Question

Sally is a 43-year-old mother of two who has gained 50 pounds over the past five years. She is 64 inches tall and weighs 180 pounds with a BMI of 30.8. Her waist circumference is 37 inches. She acknowledges that she is not as physically active as she would like to be. She also notes how recent stresses in her life have affected her sleep and seem to have triggered her appetite for sweets. Sally’s father recently died from complications of type 2 diabetes and her mother and sisters are overweight. Sally says she is very motivated to “not get diabetes” and is disturbed that her recent physical exam revealed mildly elevated blood pressure, glucose, and cholesterol levels.

2.Using information from the text, what is a reasonable goal weight for Sally? How long would you estimate it would take her to safely lose this amount of weight?

Answer 1

According to your BMI you can have following values-

Underweight: Your BMI is less than 18.5

Healthy weight: Your BMI is 18.5 to 24.9

Overweight: Your BMI is 25 to 29.9

Obese: Your BMI is 30 or higher

Thus Sally is considered as obese as her BMI is 30.8

Because she is obese she needs to lose weight so that her BMI comes to the normal range which should be 18.5 to 24.9. In order to make her BMI fall in the normal range, she should lose about 70 pounds of weight so that she becomes about 110 pounds or 49 kg.

Height - 64 inches or 1.6 m

BMI = weight in kg / (height in m) 2

49 / 1.6 x1.6 = 19.14

Thus if she loses about 70 pounds weight she will have her BMI in the ideal range.

I think 9-11 months should be the ideal time to lose such amount of weight (70 pounds)