People sometimes ask, "How expensive is an effective weight loss program?" But shouldn't the real question be: "How expensive is carrying around excess weight?"

Excess weight can be expensive in terms of long-term medical costs and the lack of desire to do anything that lets you enjoy life. Sure, we all want to look good, but the real reason to lose excess weight is good health and the enormous amount of money that it saves over the years.  

The chart below has values rounded to the nearest whole number as is for adults only.

For more information on BMI please see: http://www.cdc.gov/healthyweight/assessing/bmi/adult_bmi/index.html