Post LL Thoughts - Ellemcham123

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From what I can tell, you will probably be happier lengthening femur. Better recovery, and in general people have much longer femurs than tibia opposed to the other way around.

I think proportions can be tricky and it comes down to an individual basis. For example personally i am going the full 3.25 inches on femurs because I have a pretty big head and verrry long arms, so my legs currently look silly short if anything. However another person, with a small head and proportionate arms might look awkward lengthening such an amount. Heck in a fantasy world I would do 3 inches on femur and around 2 on tibia and I still think I would look proportionate, or maybe scale it back half an inch on the femur.

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how tall are you now ?

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Sounds like you're just going through what I like to call the "no leg session/do you even squat" syndrome 
Built upper body but small twig-like legs, its looked down upon in the lifting community but you know what who cares what those people think. I think it'll pass and when you do get your leg mass back, who knows you'll probably think its the best decision you ever made 
If its ok, can you show us a picture of yourself so we can see your proportion?

Good luck

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Quote from: ellemcham123 on July 20, 2014, 09:38:09 AMI am new to this forum and actually can't start a new thread, so I thought I would just add to this thread. I recently completed limb lengthening (it has been about 11 months since my initial operation) and I gained in total around 7 cm on my tibias through an external fixation method. I do not want to disclose my doctor (for personal reasons), even though I feel that he is an excellent doctor...


Some people are never happy.
You should focus on your attitude instead of your thighs!

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Quote from: G-Man on July 21, 2014, 09:48:11 AMSome people are never happy.
You should focus on your attitude instead of your thighs!

This is why I say LL should be the last thing you do in terms of "fixing" your life, not something to go into debt for when you are still any combination of seriously lacking in confidence, immensely depressed, penniless, bad with women etc.

It won't solve all your problems, just elevate an already good one. Yeah being tall will always be better, but its a total waste if you are miserable in every aspect of your life.

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Quote from: programdude on July 21, 2014, 02:19:06 PMThis is why I say LL should be the last thing you do in terms of "fixing" your life, not something to go into debt for when you are still any combination of seriously lacking in confidence, immensely depressed, penniless, bad with women etc.

It won't solve all your problems, just elevate an already good one. Yeah being tall will always be better, but its a total waste if you are miserable in every aspect of your life.

Exactly this. I am confident in myself in everything except for my height (which is just under 5'6"). While not a player (nor do I have any desire to be), I've done well with women, have a pretty good paying job (and will be making career moves after LL), have good social skills, am very intelligent and educated, am in great physical shape, and have great facial aesthetics (and I look very young for 30, my family has great aging genes - at least I got that lol). After breaking up with  my ex a year and a half ago, I went out there and lived and dated. Had sex with a good amount of girls (including some one night stands), and every date I went on got me at least a kiss.
 
But despite all this, I was always nervous about my height (even when literally heading to a date when I knew the girl already agreed to see me and knew my height), and it always got in the way of my confidence. So it was something that I definitely mulled over for a long time.

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double post, sorry

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Quote from: YellowSpike391 on July 21, 2014, 02:40:40 PMBut despite all this, I was always nervous about my height (even when literally heading to a date when I knew the girl already agreed to see me and knew my height), and it always got in the way of my confidence. So it was something that I definitely mulled over for a long time.
This sums up one of the reasons I'm doing it. I see quite a few women each month, but even when I'm going into an encounter and she knows I'm not particularly tall, has already expressed she was eager to sleep with me, or even if I've already slept with her, the fact I subconsciously know I am not as tall as I, and in most cases she would find ideal makes me enjoy things less even though everything alway goes smoothly.
But if you want LL to actually succeed with women or making money in the first place, you are doing it wrong.

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Quote from: programdude on July 21, 2014, 03:10:06 PMBut if you want LL to actually succeed with women or making money in the first place, you are doing it wrong.

Yup. 100% this.

I could live my life at a weak 5'6". Lots of people (including 6'+ well built guys at the gym I workout with) say I should be "bangin 10's" lol. I get told I'm handsome on almost a daily basis, yet for me, the height overshadows it. I'm not trying to be "perfect" (there is no such thing), and I'm not a selfish person. I simply just want to be happy. I don't need to be rich or have a million women lined up or drive a Porsche. I just want a relatively modest, but happy life...pretty solid career/salary, nice house with a backyard, an attractive wife and (in the future) kids.

But I feel, in order to achieve of all that (despite having achieved a lot so far), I need to be fully confident in myself. Getting to 5'8" or slightly higher, will give me that remaining missing confidence.

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Sounds like you've got a good head for this going into it, which I've noticed tends to mean satisfaction and making good decisions surrounding the operation. Are you scheduled for LL?