Sometimes, you can just see it. Those love handles hanging around your waistline like a sagging spare tire, those extra wiggly rows of fat below your chin and around your neck. The buttocks that seem to not fit back into those pants that "must have shrunk while hanging in your closet."



Those things can give you the idea that it might be time for you to lose a few pounds.



But sometimes, the signals don't seem to be so clear. True enough if you step onto the talking scale and it starts to cry, you know its time to get yourself in gear to lose some of those extra few pounds. However, many times, it is something more subtle. A glance from someone passing by, or just how you feel when you look in the potato chip bag and its empty, and you just bought it yesterday at the warehouse store.



Those signs get people visiting the web in waves on the lookout for answers to their weight loss problems. And one of the things they look for on the internet is a chart to determine their ideal body weight.



These are in no short supply online, and together with weight loss calculators can give you an idea of your weight loss goal and just how fast you possibly can reach it. But there are a couple of drawbacks to using these kinds of tools, especially on the internet.



One issue is that you need to consider the website that ideal weight chart or calculator is on. Many times these websites are designed for one purpose only - to get you to purchase one of the products that is being advertised on that site.



Nothing wrong with this, business is business. But if each time you look at the ideal weight chart and there isn't any way you can ever be that weight without buying a dietary plan or supplement that just happens to be for sale on their site, you might like to give it an additional thought.



There are ideal weights for various people. But in fact, every individual person has their own ideal weight. Not to look silly or anything, but if you want to find out what your ideal weight is, you want to look on more than one website and consider the differences in what those ideal weights are.



Sometimes, there is also a discrepancy between what the charts say you are supposed to weigh and what you think you are supposed to weigh. This happens more often than not. You look at the chart and input your weight and height and then check the results, but the number doesn't seem low enough to you. You're sure that if the chart says 160, that it must be completely wrong and your real ideal weight is about 135.



The fact is, your ideal weight is probably around 160. How you think you look and how you are feeling has a lot to do with if you think the charts and calculators are accurate. 



You also need to be conscious that the charts give a range. That if you step on the scale 15 times a day, your weight will likely to be different each time. And that the charts often give only a single number.



Much easier to say that your ideal weight is around 160 pounds or 125 pounds or whatever it is, than to view those numbers as something exact that you need to accomplish or else. That is not how your body works and you will wind up with a lot of indignation towards yourself if you think like that and don't accomplish your goal.



The real world is not the Biggest Loser. That is a TV show. You are you and your body will react a lot better if you view it as your friend instead of something that will not measure up to a document you found on the internet. So make sure that you get the right information, but that you make the final decision about your ideal body weight.