What is a healthy weight? The answer is different for everyone. But it’s important to know what a healthy weight is for you. Check out our top questions and answers on weight, weight gain, and weight loss. And talk to your doctor or nurse about your weight goals. Women often gain and lose weight differently, so the steps you need to take to lose weight may be different from the steps someone else needs to take.
The Office on Women's Health is grateful for the medical review in 2018 by:
Kathryn McMurry, M.S., Nutrition Coordinator, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Fatima Cody-Stanford, M.D., M.P.H., M.P.A., Obesity Medicine & Nutrition, Massachusetts General Hospital Weight Center, Harvard Medical School
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Page last updated: March 27, 2019.
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