The Kaiser Permanente website has a Body Mass Index calculator at https://members.kaiserpermanente.org/kpweb/healthcalc/bmi.do
To use it, you need to know your weight in pounds and your height in inches. If you want to go the metric route, this is the calculation: Divide your weight in kilograms by your height in meters squared. To convert imperial to metric and find BMI, multiply your weight in pounds by 703, divide that number by your height in inches, then take the result and divide it again by your height in inches. (This calculation is courtesty of Kaiser Permanente's leaflet "Fit Tips: Fun Little Ideas for Big Results".)
My BMI comes out at 27.1, which is overweight. The ideal BMI for adults is considered to be 18.5 to 24.9. (I guess they use the same scales for men and women - presumably women are supposed to fall at the lower end of the range, men at the upper end.)
Just for interest, Kaiser Permanente also has a BMI calculator for children ages 2-19 at
https://members.kaiserpermanente.org/kpweb/healthency.do?hwid=calc020§ionId=calc020-sec&contextId=tf6820.
Deep Thought came out at 15, which puts her in the 15th centile for BMI. (A child of her age would be considered underweight at 14.)
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Do you know, I honestly don't want to know! I can feel bad without having another medical criteria to fail by. (But I'm glad DeepThought is not fading away!)
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