what height would you need to be to not have done LL

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just wondering what height people would have needed to have been to not undergo LL.

for me I am 164.5cm, if I was 168cm I would not be doing this operation, I would simply wear nike air to bring me to 169cm.

I have a friend who is 167.5, he wears a 1cm lift to 168.5cm and said he is not willing to do LL, with that being said he said he is an 'okay' height with his 1cm lift.

interestingly I will end up 169.5cm post LL so I guess it's good to end up taller than I needed to be to be happy, also I will be wearing nike air to 170.5cm anyway if that matters.

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My current height.  Interestingly enough, the catalyst for my LL was wanting to wear 32" inseam pants, not so much that I had a particular height in mind.  I went from a 29" inseam to the 32" I wanted through LL.

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lol wot you got LL just to fit into pants better?

well I guess it would save a bill or two at the tailors but that seems a bit extreme no?

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I'm male, 17 and 157cms. That's 5'2.
I wouldn't do LL if I were 163cms+.

Unlike most other men, I don't mind being a short guy (probably because I love every other thing I have) but I find 5'2 to be abnormally short. There's 5'7 men that say they're happy with 5'9 and 5'10 men saying 6' would make them happy. I also found a 6'1 guy doing this to become 6'4 and thought he was really stupid. I guess we just want more than what we have, but at 5'2 it doesn't feel like much of a choice. (Note that the average height in India for the middle class and onwards is probably 5'6)

I'm hoping I'll grow a bit in a year. If not, I know what I must do.

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Quote from: microman on July 05, 2015, 08:39:54 PMlol wot you got LL just to fit into pants better?

well I guess it would save a bill or two at the tailors but that seems a bit extreme no?

Yeah, the reason I did LL was a bit silly and extreme now that I think back on it.  But LL had a lot of other benefits, much more than just being able to buy clothes off the rack.

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I think it's pretty subjective, but looking at height distribution in my country 3 inches is going from 15th %ile to the median so it's a pretty nice jump. I would not consider if if I was at the median height.

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I´d say 182-183 in my case. If I really go for LL I´d aim for 185-186 though. Doing small amounts with internals is simply not worth the money imo.

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Good question, I'd say a little bit over 180 and I would never had developed height neurosis. If I was 183CM the thought that I was short might have never occured to me and I would never have found this forum, funny that 5CM can make such a big difference to someones life.

Now that I've already become more or less obsessed with height I think at least 185CM with good proportions would help me put these thought behind me.

I think that is wthin reach, almost at least.

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Quote from: Penguin on July 05, 2015, 09:29:30 PMI'm male, 17 and 157cms. That's 5'2.
I wouldn't do LL if I were 163cms+.

Unlike most other men, I don't mind being a short guy (probably because I love every other thing I have) but I find 5'2 to be abnormally short. There's 5'7 men that say they're happy with 5'9 and 5'10 men saying 6' would make them happy. I also found a 6'1 guy doing this to become 6'4 and thought he was really stupid. I guess we just want more than what we have, but at 5'2 it doesn't feel like much of a choice. (Note that the average height in India for the middle class and onwards is probably 5'6)

I'm hoping I'll grow a bit in a year. If not, I know what I must do.

You make a really good point here. I guess if I was a couple of inches shorter, I'd be longing just to be average. And I'd be quite content just knowing that I'd be taller than the average woman after LL. But because my focus is on my taller friends and family, I feel I would have needed to be around 6'0 to avoid my current feelings of height inadequacy.

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Quote from: ewf on July 06, 2015, 01:52:53 AMYou make a really good point here. I guess if I was a couple of inches shorter, I'd be longing just to be average. And I'd be quite content just knowing that I'd be taller than the average woman after LL. But because my focus is on my taller friends and family, I feel I would have needed to be around 6'0 to avoid my current feelings of height inadequacy.

On one hand I wonder why a 5'9.5 guy would do this to him. That isn't a short height in any country, unless all your friends are basketball players.

On the other hand, it reassures me that this surgery is safe and good enough for tall people like you to do it on a whim. Then again, "whim" is relative and a midget that did it for correction probably thinks I'm crazy for doing it cosmetically.