Weight gain where am I?

Get to know yourself better. Starting with your BMI.

The first thing you need to do is to find out whether or not your're overweight, and if you are, by how much? There is a tried and trusted method for doing this: the Body Mass Index(BMI), which expresses the ratio between a person's body weight and their height (kg/m2). Determine your BMI:

Obesity is a serious health risk

If your Body Mass Index is over 30 it's time to take action because obesity is more than a cosmetic problem, it's a serious health risk. Obesity is a disease that involves having enough excess body fat to heam your health. Obesity is defined as morbid obesity (also called severe obesity) when the BMI is 40 or reater. If things get this serious the excess weight puts your life at risk because it is almost always accompained by a large number of disorders - known as co-morbidiries - that have an adverse impact on both health and quality of life, and at the same time shorten life expectancy.

Since obesity is a chronic disease, its symptoms develop only gradually. Obesity makes your everyday life difficult too - it causes painful aches in your joints and your back, breathlessness and skin problems.

Left untreated, obesity tends to become morbid and lead to other life-threatning conditions such as type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, high colesterol levels, sleep apnoea, cancer.

Perhaps this is all too familiar to you.