The average female height and weight figures may be misleading if you are looking for your personal ideal weight target for an impending weight loss campaign.

The first thing you have to do before calculating whether or not you are below or above the average weight is to calculator your frame size. There is an easy method you can use to do this; simply wrap your forefinger and thumb around your wrist and if they overlap you have a small frame, if they meet you have a medium frame and if they overlap you have a large frame.

The next step is to find a BMI Index chart on the internet. These can be found in a multitude of places but make sure you find one that is designed for a woman first of all and also allows you to insert your frame size to allow for a more accurate result. Once you have found an appropriate BMI Index chart you need to insert your information in order to cross check your.

Although the BMI Index will provide you with information about your ideal weight it doesn't however consider your muscle mass or generic disorders when analyzing your details, so should you feel that the results do not seem to reflect how you see yourself it maybe worthwhile considering visiting your doctor who should be able to advise you about the ideal weight for you.

Once you have done all this you can then compare yourself against the average female height and weight statistics to see how good or bad your situation is in relation to the average female.

The most recent figures show that the average female height and weight measurements for US female are 5 feet 4 inches and 163 pounds respectively!

The average weight figure is quite worrying as it would mean that the vast majority of US women are either overweight or body builders, and I would has at a guess that it would not be the second answer!

The consolation is that you can take solace in the fact that you are not the only one who has a weight problem and who knows you may even be below the average weight!