The BMI is a measure of your weight relative to your height. It is a reliable indicator of total body fat, which is related to the risk of disease and death. The score is valid for both men and women but it does have some limits. The limits are:

• It may overestimate body fat in athletes and others who have a muscular build.
• It may underestimate body fat in older persons and others who have lost muscle mass.

Being overweight or obese can significantly increase a person’s risk for developing several diseases, including heart disease, Diabetes, Osteoarthritis,  and some types of cancer. Similarly, being underweight can also lead to increased health risks due to malnutrition.

Despite her unhealthy hamburger diet, Lindsay Lohan (22) has managed to lose that extra weight she gained a while back. Her new weight is said to be 43kg, a suitable weight for a girl of her small size (she is 5′4″ tall). Mom on the other hand is not happy, and has told Lindsay to put on some weight by eating even more at McDonalds(!). Dina, that’s not a good advice to give someone.. If you need to put on weight, you eat more HEALTHY food, not junk! And maybe, hit the gym once in a while to tighten up.

If you are determined on losing weight, this diet may just be what you have been looking for. ELRM is an acronym for… Eat Less, Exercise More.

Although the idea behind weight loss is simple – burn more calories than you eat – the process is very hard for most people. Weight loss can be accomplished by replacing a couple of sodas with water and adding 20 minutes of walking each day. This sounds simple, but many people choose to use weight loss pills or other drugs to achieve their goal to look better. Obviously, they are unaware that it could be much better to lose weight by other means. The hard way to weight loss – eating less, exercising more – has proved to be a much better solution.

Very low-calorie diets are not without risk and can deprive you of important nutrients and are potentially dangerous. Fad diets rarely have any permanent effect, because sudden and radical changes in your eating patterns are difficult to sustain over time. In addition, the so-called crash diets often send dieters into a cycle of quick weight loss, followed by a rebound weight gain when normal eating resumes, and then it becomes even more difficult to reduce weight when the next diet is attempted.

To lose weight safely and keep it off requires long-term changes in daily eating and exercise habits. Many experts recommend a goal of losing about a pound for a week. A modest reduction of 500 calories per day will achieve this goal, since a total reduction of 3,500 calories is required to lose a pound of fat you have stored. An important way to lower your calorie intake is to learn and practice healthy eating habits and stick to those.

“ I’m happier and healthier than ever so there is no need to worry about me”

Mischa is tired of people critizising her weight. She has lost a few pounds since the infamous cellulite pictures were taken, and now she is happy with her new look. Eating less fatty food combined with Yoga and pilates workouts is the reason for her weightloss. This proves that you don’t need the “insane celeb diets” to look good, only determination.

I came across this site the other day called Oversize solutions, which sell all kind of accessories designed to help fat people get through the day. They have tools that help you put on your socks or clip your toenails if you’re to fat to reach your feet. They have heavy duty scales, heavy duty chares, heavy duty toilets and heavy duty God knows what. And, they even have a tool called the Self Wipe – Toilet Aid… That’s right, a tool to help you wipe your ass in case you can’t reach it with your hands!

WTF!? If you’re to fat to wipe your own ass (and that’s just nasty) you don’t need tools, you need to loose som fu##ing weight !! I mean, it’s great that someone wants to help them (read:benefit from them),  but by catering to their special needs you only allow the problem to get even bigger (pun intended)…

These “slinky tights” will probably soon replace the more retro trend of leggings. The benefit of treggings is that it can be worn without some kind of long length garment covering the crotch, making it even easier to show off some long legs, and is nothing else than ultra skinny jeans.  Worn by celebrities like Lindsay Lohan, Kate Moss, Paris Hilton, Rihanna and Victoria Beckham.

If you didn’t know by now; Jessica Simpson (28) got fat! and we’re not just talking about the 25 pounds that Carrie Underwood commented on a while back. Jess has gone up at least 6 sizes, and doesn’t look much like she did when she starred in Dukes of Hazzard. Even though she denies the weightgain and blames it on a bad choise of outfit, the extra fat has already lost her several jobs including a frontpage on fitness magazine “Self Magazine” and a performance at the Pussycat Dolls’ second-anniversary bash at Pure nightclub in Las Vegas.

Lets be honest… Jessica’s only talent in life has been looking hot. No? Then name one other thing she does great? And when having a great body is your bread and butter, you don’t eat it!

As usaual when someone puts on weight, other fat people instantly rush in to defend them (fat people stick together, it’s a gravity thing). And it didn’t take long before both Jennifer Love Hewitt and Kim Kardashian claimed that Jessie didn’t look fat at all, only healty. Yeah, to you maybe...