How to Calculate BMI for Female

You can know your overall health by assessing aspects in your body such as body weight, fat percentage, muscle mass, sugar level, body mass index (BMI) and so on. You should concentrate a bit on your BMI, know what it is, how it is calculated and what level of BMI is healthy. When you want to calculate BMI for females, you simply need to follow the same steps as BMI calculation for men is done—determining some numbers and use of an equation.

Body mass index is a method used to determine the total amount of fat in your body and also assess whether you are overweight, underweight or within the normal weight range.

Here is a step by step guide on how you can calculate BMI for female:

1)       Measure your weight

When you wake up in the morning, empty your bowels and weigh yourself before eating or drinking anything. To get a more accurate reading, you can weigh yourself when you are naked.

Important: Make sure you are not wearing your weighted vest when measuring your weight.

2)       Measure your height

Get someone to measure how tall you are or if you are alone, stand against a tall closet …

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