BMI and Ideal Weight Pro

This application offers different interface choices and can perform the following functions:

- Calculate ideal weight and BMI (body mass index) using basic data such as sex, weight, height and age.

- Calculate ideal weight with more detail using the advanced option, where you can add your physique, number of children (women), number of years of overweight and waist circumference. These data adjust the classification. Furthermore, the ideal weight results present details by different authors, which is useful for professionals or to make comparisons.

- Calculate the energy requirement (or caloric) estimate (REE): where you can, based on the input data, have notion of the amount of calories required per day and how much to eat or stop eating to lose weight, with the possibility of indicate the weight you want to lose per week.

- Get results about: your weight, your possible weight, your cardiometabolic risk according to waist circumference, a classification of your status, overweight and fat percentage estimated by BMI.

- Select a background according to your taste, from 7 possibilities.

- Measure skinfold: it offers an alternative to measure the existing body fat and lean mass. Here is necessary to have a plicometer, so it is more oriented to professionals of the area. Remember that in any case the overall results show an estimate of the percentage of fat.

It is important to note that the percentages of body fat tend to be, on average, about 10% for athletes and about 15% for thin people. Therefore having fat is normal does not necessarily mean overweight, unless that exceeds a certain limit, which in general will be greater than 20%.

This application is developed to make calculations for people over 18 years. Not recommended for children, pregnant women or bodybuilders.