They’ve been turned into free online calculators you can use to make personalized estimates. There’s the Body Weight Planner from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Pennington Biomedical Research Center’s Weight Loss Predictor out of Louisiana State University (LSU). • NIH Body Weight Planner: www.bit.ly/NIHcalculator • LSU Weight Loss Predictor: www.bit.ly/LSUcalculator
