If Your Weight Is Already Normal, Can Still Undergoing Diet Program?

You have to know your actual diet goals

Be slim indeed become a dream for many people. Many people are fighting tooth and nail to get the ideal weight with a strict diet. In fact, there are also people who still have the desire to lose weight even though her weight was already entered in the normal category. This usually occurs in people who are less satisfied in the form of his body and he wanted more slim again. If healthiest when it keep doing the diet despite already having a normal weight?

What is my normal weight?

Ideal weight can be known from the body mass index (IMT) or in the language of the United Kingdom called the body mass index (BMI). You can calculate the IMT with the following formula:

From those results, note the following weight categories.

Less weight: < 18.5

Normal weight: 18.5 – 24.9

Excess body weight: 25 – 29.9

Obesity: ≥ 30

However, the IMT does not provide a thorough evaluation. For example, because there is no calculation of the percentage of fat, there is no consideration of gender, age, waist size, physical activity, and does not consider the ethnic factor.

If I already have a normal weight, are still allowed to continue dieting?

As explained above, the IMT is ideal until the limit of 18.5. In General, you can still sort of normal before it crossed the line. However, when you pass the limit of IMT, you belong to the category of less weight.

Like when you are overweight, underweight can also cause a variety of health disorders. Especially on the people doing the diet program is not appropriate. What are the health problems that accompany people who are underweight?

1.    Malnutrition, vitamin deficiency, or anemia

As you know, the human body requires a variety of nutrients, vitamins, and minerals to run various activities and the metabolism of the body. If you do the diet program until your body is very thin, you can lack the nutrients needed by the body.

This causes your body to not run the process well and can actually cause a variety of health disorders. For example, when you don't eat meat, you can iron deficiency and protein. You will lose body strength because muscles are broken down into energy and have decreased the ability of metabolism because of iron deficiency.

Iron deficiency can cause anemia. In addition, you will feel energized all day and always feel limp.

2.    Osteoporosis

If you lack vitamin D and calcium intake, the body will take his needs from your bones. As you may know, the bones contain calcium. If the reserves of calcium on a bone are continuously taken, then the bones will become porous and you risk experiencing osteoporosis.

3.    Weakened body resistance

When your weight is below normal, there are distractions at your body's defense system. In other words, you will be more susceptible to disease.

4.    Increases the risk of post-operative complications

People with below normal body weight are also susceptible to complications of postoperative illness compared to those with normal weight.

5.    Infertile

For you womenfolk, the menstrual schedule would be disrupted even quit if you are very thin. This indicates that Your egg production process is interrupted and can cause infertility.

A too skinny man who also has proven will become less fertile because the quality and the sperm cell production will be disrupted. Therefore, both men and women should remain focused on maintaining normal body weight.

6. Disorders of growth and development

This disorder occurs primarily in children and adolescents. Adolescents desperately needed nutrients for the growth and development of their body organs. Deficiency of nutrients will cause obstructed to their growth and development. Therefore, the basically excessive diet is not recommended for teenagers.

Rather than keep a diet, better sport to form an ideal body

If your body wants to look more attractive, keep Your weight loss is not appropriate measures. It's good You do physical exercise or sport. With physical exercise, you could burn the fat on Your body parts.

The problem is, the percentage of fat on the body also affects the appearance of your body. In addition, with physical exercise, you also can tighten muscles that make you look fit. For example with crunches stomach muscles to tighten, squat to tighten the muscles of the thighs and buttocks, push-ups to tighten your chest, and so on.

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