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21 and started growing again after eating properly - kiddies eat your food!
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im not sure about this, but i thought it might be helpful to those of you who are short but keep dieting.
i have been vegetarian all my life. i also am allergic to milk and dairy. and tofu and stuff is expensive. so when i was growing up, i didnt eat right - mainly carbohydrate foods and beans on toast and that kind of stuff. lots of sugary food and fast food. my diet was hi fat/sugar/carb and low protein, though i did supplement with multivitamins+iron. i also did not do much sport. i wasnt fat, i was size 10-12 but i wasnt fit.
it is said that most girls stop growing 3 years after their period, and i was 11 when i started so in theory i should have stopped growing age 14. when i was 13 i broke my ankle and in the xray, dos'c can see if you'sve stopped growing by lookin at the bones, and my consultant orthapaedic surgeon told me that i had stopped growing, and i was about 5 ft 1.
when i was 18 i was 5 ft 2 when i was measured for body mass index at the doc's for soemthing else.
but when i was 19 i joined the gym, and when i joined they measured my height and i was 5ft 2. but i started eating properly, watcdhing my protein intake and eating quorn and making my protein intake higher and calcium, and eating better and now over the past year i have grown 2 inches! im now 5ft 4. thats a rate of 1 inch in 6 months which i think is fast considering my age.
i would attribute this to malnutrition inmy youth and during puberty, but now im eating right, im growing! so all you teens - do NOT diet, eat right and grow tall!
eat those greens, you know you want to!
im not sure about this, but i thought it might be helpful to those of you who are short but keep dieting.
i have been vegetarian all my life. i also am allergic to milk and dairy. and tofu and stuff is expensive. so when i was growing up, i didnt eat right - mainly carbohydrate foods and beans on toast and that kind of stuff. lots of sugary food and fast food. my diet was hi fat/sugar/carb and low protein, though i did supplement with multivitamins+iron. i also did not do much sport. i wasnt fat, i was size 10-12 but i wasnt fit.
it is said that most girls stop growing 3 years after their period, and i was 11 when i started so in theory i should have stopped growing age 14. when i was 13 i broke my ankle and in the xray, dos'c can see if you'sve stopped growing by lookin at the bones, and my consultant orthapaedic surgeon told me that i had stopped growing, and i was about 5 ft 1.
when i was 18 i was 5 ft 2 when i was measured for body mass index at the doc's for soemthing else.
but when i was 19 i joined the gym, and when i joined they measured my height and i was 5ft 2. but i started eating properly, watcdhing my protein intake and eating quorn and making my protein intake higher and calcium, and eating better and now over the past year i have grown 2 inches! im now 5ft 4. thats a rate of 1 inch in 6 months which i think is fast considering my age.
i would attribute this to malnutrition inmy youth and during puberty, but now im eating right, im growing! so all you teens - do NOT diet, eat right and grow tall!
eat those greens, you know you want to!
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Reply 2
It could just be that because youve been going to the gym your back muscles have gotten stronger therefore can support your back better instead of compressing the spinal coloumn. So it seems you get taller. Theres also like when you are relaxed the muscles and ligaments stretch and you gain some height until you tense up again, not sure about that though, i saw it briefly on some report about spinal manipulation.
But yea congratz on jump starting your growth... not that theres anything wrong with being short! Im 5ft 9 myself.
But yea congratz on jump starting your growth... not that theres anything wrong with being short! Im 5ft 9 myself.
Reply 3
some people just have a growth spurt late in their teens so it could just be coincidence. however; kids, eat healthily!
i was supposed to grow at 17 (had bone age xrays done when i was a kiddy so prediction done from that i think) but i've been 4ft10 since i was about 14
my mums cousin had one at 22 though so i have 2 years of hope left.
i was supposed to grow at 17 (had bone age xrays done when i was a kiddy so prediction done from that i think) but i've been 4ft10 since i was about 14
my mums cousin had one at 22 though so i have 2 years of hope left.
Reply 4
Seems I missed the growing part of puberty; I had a deap voice, facial hair and all the other great changes by year 8 and that's where I stopped growing. I still have hope though, 4 years left of growing potential 
Reply 5
Well.... yeah, it stands to reason that if you're not getting any protein, you're not going to grow. Unfortunately, vegetable protein is pretty much the poorest kind, and it's also insanely expensive, but it's worth it if you have no alternatives.
I, also, am a vegetarian, but I get protein from protein shakes, nuts, cottage cheese, eggs, milk and whatnot. I don't know what I'd do if I was lactose intolerant!
I, also, am a vegetarian, but I get protein from protein shakes, nuts, cottage cheese, eggs, milk and whatnot. I don't know what I'd do if I was lactose intolerant!
Reply 6
Its not brill being tall u know it gets annoying sometimes you can't get trousers to fit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
it might be the back thing, but i dont think so, as i never was hunched up. i think its beacuse im not yet of the age where my bones are fused so there is growth potential and im finally feeding my body properly. if this is the case, all you guys please dont do faddy dieting! i honestly thought i'd always be short - my moms 5'1 and sos all my relatives roughly.
guys - i think men stop growing at 25 so do not lose hope! and dont overdo the protein - i think it only helped me becasuue my diet was deficient/very low in protein so im just brining it to normal level. i dont think suddenly consuming the atkins diet is going to help anyon grow.
*towers above everyone proudly*
guys - i think men stop growing at 25 so do not lose hope! and dont overdo the protein - i think it only helped me becasuue my diet was deficient/very low in protein so im just brining it to normal level. i dont think suddenly consuming the atkins diet is going to help anyon grow.
*towers above everyone proudly*
Star Princess
Its not brill being tall u know it gets annoying sometimes you can't get trousers to fit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
lol when i was 5'2 i used to buy kiddies ranges eg m&s school black trousers age 14 fit me fine as they are for 5'2 but fit at the waist. same with tescos and new look range 911 they do great trousers and because they are sized by height, not waist, you can get a good length.
Reply 10
I'm 18 and I'm 5,6.
I quite like my height.
I quite like my height.
Reply 11
im 20 and 4ft 10.. i dont like it but everyone around me seems to like it and accept it.. i think it'd be really weird to be the same height as everyone now...
i would however like to be 5ft tall.
i would however like to be 5ft tall.
Reply 12
suicidal_dream
im 20 and 4ft 10..
i would however like to be 5ft tall.
i would however like to be 5ft tall.
me too
age 12 trousers are like 2 inches too long so 2 inches taller would be nice
But you said that docs thought that you couldn't grow anymore from the XRay- this means that your plates had 'fused' at 13. Obviously I'm not denying your growth but it means that it goes contrary to medical expertise as apparently, you can't grow after plate fusion. I'm thinking that the doc must have misread the X-Ray or something, or maybe he just meant you had paused growing?
I'm only 5 feet-wish
I'm only 5 feet-wish
Reply 14
I want to grow! I eat fairly healthy stuff (well not fatty foods) and last time I checked at the doctors I was 5'4 (about 6 months back). I think I've grown about 1-2 inches because I'm as tall as some of my short-but-taller-than-me mates now
I wish I could grow, though I've just had a slight increase around my bust area, and that's with no pill/contraception and me skipping meals due to the contsraints of student journalism, so that's very exciting!
Even 1 inch of height would make a difference but I used to drink 3 pints of milk a day when 15 for calcium, do yoga/spine stretches etc but didn't grow a centimetre, yet a few years later I made no special effort with diet and grew 3/4 of an inch, BUT it made me 5 feet-yay! I do have a grandmother who was 5ft and a great-grandmother who was 4"10 so the shortness is probably genetic, and even if I could somehow grow, I doubt it would be any more than 5"2, but that is being greedy I think- I'd settle for 5"1 as I'm 5ft standing tall.
Even 1 inch of height would make a difference but I used to drink 3 pints of milk a day when 15 for calcium, do yoga/spine stretches etc but didn't grow a centimetre, yet a few years later I made no special effort with diet and grew 3/4 of an inch, BUT it made me 5 feet-yay! I do have a grandmother who was 5ft and a great-grandmother who was 4"10 so the shortness is probably genetic, and even if I could somehow grow, I doubt it would be any more than 5"2, but that is being greedy I think- I'd settle for 5"1 as I'm 5ft standing tall.
Pink Lady
I wish I could grow, though I've just had a slight increase around my bust area, and that's with no pill/contraception and me skipping meals due to the contsraints of student journalism, so that's very exciting!
Even 1 inch of height would make a difference but I used to drink 3 pints of milk a day when 15 for calcium, do yoga/spine stretches etc but didn't grow a centimetre, yet a few years later I made no special effort with diet and grew 3/4 of an inch, BUT it made me 5 feet-yay! I do have a grandmother who was 5ft and a great-grandmother who was 4"10 so the shortness is probably genetic, and even if I could somehow grow, I doubt it would be any more than 5"2, but that is being greedy I think- I'd settle for 5"1 as I'm 5ft standing tall.
Even 1 inch of height would make a difference but I used to drink 3 pints of milk a day when 15 for calcium, do yoga/spine stretches etc but didn't grow a centimetre, yet a few years later I made no special effort with diet and grew 3/4 of an inch, BUT it made me 5 feet-yay! I do have a grandmother who was 5ft and a great-grandmother who was 4"10 so the shortness is probably genetic, and even if I could somehow grow, I doubt it would be any more than 5"2, but that is being greedy I think- I'd settle for 5"1 as I'm 5ft standing tall.
Protein, surely?
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