Quote from: HobbesTheDog on August 25, 2020, 06:58:13 PM5'4" (?) mom, 5'6" dad.
I drank 3 cups of milk until 11 or 12, ate healthy, exercised, and was forced to go to bed at 8:30 until maybe 12 (so early I would get bored while trying to fall asleep). I remained abnormally short until 13 or 14 and at this point I'm not even sure if I can reach the lowest theoretical height of 5'6" (at night).
Damn, you're saying you're the same height as your mom?
But at least you have no regret now because you've done everything you could to maximize your height. Meanwhile, I did every single thing that could possibly stunt growth.
So you're 163cm and 17 now. You can still reach 165cm if you're lucky.
Quote from: Medium Drink Of Water on August 25, 2020, 06:47:26 PMThe problem with stuff like this is that people who were picky eaters as kids blame themselves for not gorging themselves on all the available food or not eating enough vegetables, thinking that's why they're short now and considering LL. It's unlikely that affected you much. Your brother or father or whoever is taller than you because families and races have genetic variability.
You don't need to justify LL by convincing yourself you somehow didn't get the height you should've been entitled to at birth. If you want to be taller than you are now, go for the surgery without the guilt or wondering.
A fellow Beijing LL'er I met lived in a refugee camp as a kid before his family was granted asylum in Canada. He was significantly shorter than his non-refugee younger brother; had some other health issues too since he was a kid. Living in conditions like that obviously did have something to do with his height. Probably your upbringing wasn't as deprived and didn't change your height much.
Isn't this already a clear example that height can be significantly affected by poor upbringing?
By the way, I read somewhere that Lionel Messi would have been 4'10 or so if he hadn't been given HGH.
