Target weight

Body Mass Index is a generally accepted way to look at how your height and weight should relate to each other. BMI is the ratio of your weight to the square of your height

An ideal BMI for an adult male is someplace in the range of about 20.7-28.4.

Using the upper end of that range you can estimate a target weight (including a factor for conversion between feet/pounds and metric measurements) as

W = .0404 * H²

where H is your height in inches.

For me, at 68 inches, that gives a target weight of about 186 pounds.

Ideally I think I should probably weigh in less than that, but it provides a good target at the upper range of acceptable weight for me.

Body Mass Index

Body Mass Index (BMI) seems to be the international standard for standardizing ideas about weight goals and ideal weight. It a measurement that reflects how well your weight matches to the ideal for your height.

Your Body Mass Index is the ratio of your weight and height. Actually the ratio of your weight to the square of your height. The standard measurements are in metric but you can use pounds and inches for your measurements and multiply the result of your weight divided by the square of your height by 703 for the conversion.

I need to incorporate BMI into my nutritional constraints and objectives for the diet linear programming model I'm working on. I haven't done that yet, but I will.