IDEAL WEIGHTS ACCORDING TO FRAME
Adapted from Metropolitan Life Insurance Corporation Tables, 1959. This one has been recognized by many prominent researchers as being more representative of ideal weights than the revised 1983 chart.
*Includes one pound for indoor clothing.
+Age 25 years and older.
NOTE: To determine if you are small , medium, or large frame, take your middle finger and thumb on one hand and put it around the wrist of your other arm. If the finger and thumb cannot touch, you are large frame; if the finger and thumb touch each other, you are medium frame; and if they overlap, you are small frame