I mentioned elsewhere on the website that I’m a practitioner of logic and I am attracted to logic in basically all its forms (there are way too many illogical things and people on this planet – have enough of that already). I also mentioned that I am an amateur of one type of logic in technology – programming.
Any way, I just slapped together (in JavaScript) a calculator that calculates Ideal Body Weight (IBW). It’s almost too simple to use, but what’s interesting about the formula for calculating Ideal Body Weight behind this calculator is that it’s the formula that, based on my search through the years, provides the best estimate of one’s ideal body weight. It only takes gender and height as input. As far as I know this formula is used by insurance companies to estimate health risk (if you are overweight or obese you will cost them more money) of individuals.
That being said, go to the IBW Calculator page to find out your ideal body weight.