In Covert Bailey's Ultimate Fit or Fat book, he gives a formula for computing your ideal weight based on the lean body mass and body fat %. I've been using that formula to compute my ideal weight.

Yes, I'll agree with you. Everyone should motivate by their own to loss weight.

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The MEDIA is the Devil! They taunt celebrities for being skinny like Holocaust victims and then when you see a celebrity that is a normal weight for the average person they criticize him/her for being fat! What kind of messages are they sending to the public? Especially young vulnerable teenage girls??? I saw a modeling shot last week and the model was roughly 18 years old and was so sickeninlgy skinny I would say she was roughly 90 ish lbs and maybe 5 feet 10 inches tall! Is that beauty? Do you honestly think a woman that tall can naturally be that thin??? What is this world coming too? Well maybe now with this horrible world wide recession everyone will be skinny from not being able to afford food and fat will be in because only the rich can eat!!! VERY SAD!

The MEDIA is the Devil! They taunt celebrities for being skinny like Holocaust victims and then when you see a celebrity that is a normal weight for the average person they criticize him/her for being fat! What kind of messages are they sending to the public? Especially young vulnerable teenage girls??? I saw a modeling shot last week and the model was roughly 18 years old and was so sickeninlgy skinny I would say she was roughly 90 ish lbs and maybe 5 feet 10 inches tall! Is that beauty? Do you honestly think a woman that tall can naturally be that thin??? What is this world coming too? Well maybe now with this horrible world wide recession everyone will be skinny from not being able to afford food and fat will be in because only the rich can eat!!! VERY SAD!

I'm 5'2" and hover around 130 lbs lately so technically I'm abt the same as Jessica. Granted it's not a "thin" weight but it's healthy. True, the photo of her is NOT flattering at all. Maybe she could learn to dress not to be judged :)

It's people like you who make teenagers and young girls go anorexic because oh my god a celebrity gained a few pounds. first off, she's not fat, second off... since we do celebrities have to be skinny? quit ruining teenagers lives and just let people weigh what they want, it's their life, not yours.

,aybe you should weight your nouse it may hae more pounds than jessica.

Life should be about health.I made my lifestyle work around my health.Being tiny like jessica 5'2 and 125 lbs is not fat in fact in real life ppl tell me to gain weight..I love the way I look and I run everyday and not eat carbs and eat plenty of fish,fruit and grains.I use my body as enegry source and not a bringe breakdown.I put gas in my body since,I will have this body all my life..It makes me sick..that the media picks on this ppl for how skinny they get to how fat..I bet the one that is writing the article is FAT and they have there own issues...Not everyone is a size 0 nor 12 is not perfect but is the person that makes that up in the end.

Any way to delete that long previous post? lol

Jessica looks fab regardless, she just needs to find some flattering clothes is all. :)

Who was the CRAZY that posted the previous BABBLE? All I can say is it was SCARY to read! YIKES!!!!!! And this had to do with the comments about Jessica Simpsons weight debate? All I can say is OH MY!

True beauty comes from within. 135 lbs is not FAT. I don't think being super skinny is all that attractive. In the 50's and early 60's women like Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell who had shapely bodies were the epitomey of beauty and they were not skinny. In those days a size 10 was the average - now if you don't wear a size 2 your fat. HOW RIDICULIS!!!

The Consequences Of Obesity

Obesity has been defined as when excess body fat accumulates in one to where their physical overgrowth makes the person unhealthy to varying degrees. Obesity is different than being overweight, as others determine obesity to be of a more serious concern. While obesity is not a disease, it is a serious health risk for one who has this risk.
As measured by one’s body mass index (BMI), one’s BMI of 25 to 30 kg/m is considered overweight. If their BMI is 30 to 35 kg/m, they are class I obese, 35 to 40 BMI would be class II obese, and any BMI above 40 is class III obesity.
Presently, with obesity affecting children progressively more, the issue of obesity has become a serious public health concern.
Approximately half of all children under the age of 12 are either obese are overweight. About twenty percent of children ages 2 to 5 years old are either obese are overweight. The consequences of these stats on our children are very concerning, considering the health issues they may or likely experience as they get older.
Worldwide, nearly one and a half billion people are either obese or overweight. In the United States, about one third of adults are either obese or overweight.
Women of low socioeconomic status are likely to be twice as obese compared with those who are not at this status. It is now predicted that, for the first time in about 150 years, our life expectancy is suppose to decline because primarily of this obesity problem.
Morbid obesity is defined as one who has a body mass index of 30 kg/m or greater, and this surgery, along with the three other types of surgery for morbid obesity, should be considered a last resort after all other methods to reduce the patient’s weight have chronically failed.
Morbid obesity greatly affects the health of the patient in a very negative way. It has about 10 co-morbidities that can develop if the situation is not corrected. Some if not most of these co-morbidities are life-threatening.
One solution beneficial in many cases of morbid obesity if one’s obesity is not eventually controlled or corrected is what is known as gastric bypass surgery. This is a type of bariatric surgery that essentially reduces the volume of the human stomach in order to correct and treat morbid obesity by surgical re-construction of the stomach and small intestine.
Patients for such surgeries are those with a BMI of greater than 40, or a BMI greater than 35 if the patient has co-morbidities aside from obesity. This surgery should be considered for the severely obese when other treatment options have failed. The standard of care illustrating as to whether this surgery is reasonable and necessary should be clarified.
There are three surgical variations of gastric bypass surgery, and one is chosen by the surgeon based on their experience and success from the variation they will utilize. Generally, these surgeries are procedures related to gastric restrictive operations or mal-absorptive operations.
Over 200,000 gastric bypass surgeries are performed each year, and this surgery being performed continues to progress as a suitable option for the morbidly obese. There is evidence that this surgery is particularly beneficial for those obese patients that have non-insulin dependent Diabetes Mellitus as well.
It is believed that the results of this surgery to correct morbid obesity greatly limits or prevents such co-morbidities associated with those who are obese. Yet about two percent of those who undergo this surgery die as a result from about a half a dozen complications that could occur. However, the surgery reduces the overall mortality of the patient by 40 percent or so, yet this percentage is debatable due to conflicting clinical studies at times.
Age of the patient should be taken into consideration, as to whether or not the risks of this surgery outweigh any potential benefits for the patient who may have existing co-morbidities that have already caused physiological damage to the patient. Also what should be determined by the surgeon is the amount of safety, effectiveness, and rationale for a particular patient regarding those patients who are elderly, for example.
Many feel bariatric surgery such as this should be considered as a last resort when exercise and diet have failed for a great length of time.
If a person or a doctor is considering this type of surgery, there is a website dedicated to bariatric surgery, which is: www.asmbs.org,

Dan Abshear