Body Image and Weight Management

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Body Image and Weight Management
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When are you hungry?

• When do you eat?
• Factors that effect food intake
• Smell and taste of food
• Mood
• Family traditions / ethnic background
• Social occasions
• Religious traditions
• Advertising
• Cost and availability

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Needed Energy

• Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR)
• The minimum amount of energy needed to keep you
  alive when you are in a rested, fasting state.

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Maintaining Weight

• Stay the same weight
• Input output
• Gain weight
• Input gt output
• Loose weight
• Input lt output

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Healthy Weight

• What is a healthy weight?
• Both Claim to be 250 lbs.

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Body Composition

• Is a persons weight a good indicator if they are
  healthy?
• Can a person be thin and unhealthy/out of shape?
• Determining Proper Body Composition
• Weight
• Body Mass Index
• Waist-to-Hip Ratio
• Total Body Fat

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BMI

• Height and weight give a BMI number

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BMI

• What are some of the limitations of the BMI
  chart?
• Individuals with a lot of muscle will have a high
  BMI number, but have a low body fat
• (Body fat vs. lean mass)
• Invented in 1830, based on western European body
  types

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Waist-to-Hip Ratio

• Helps to measure dangerous visceral belly fat
• At risk for liver problems, insulin resistance,
  and heart attacks
• Measure around your waist and hips.
• Men (33-37 inches), Women (31-35 inches)
• Men ratio 0.9 is considered at risk
• Female ratio 0.8 is considered at risk

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Body Fat

• Get straight to the issue measure body fat
• According to Thomas Owens, M.D., Duke University
  Medical Center

Description Female Male
Recommended 20-25 8-14
Obese 30 25
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Achieving Ideal Body Shape

• The only way to alter ones body shape in a
  healthy manner is to include healthy eating and
  exercise
• Loosing more than 1 pound a week may result in
  the lose of muscle mass.