Effects of weight loss on height?
nasr25
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Has anyone with considerable amount of weight seen an increase in height? I have about 80 pounds to lose and I know I was 5 11” a few years back and I am 5-10” I am only 27 so I know it can’t be age. Can weight gain cause you to shrink in height?
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I suspect it's not so much shrinking as it is affecting your posture.12
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Considering that some of our height's via cartilage, yeah because it's squishy.0
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lynn_glenmont wrote: »I suspect it's not so much shrinking as it is affecting your posture.
Hear, hear {just found that "Great call", might also be used as criticism & thus I am editing, my post}!1 -
I gained an inch after losing 80 pounds, but I believe it has more to do with me having much better posture from carrying much less weight in my chest and core areas.3
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I find this conversation very interesting. I was measured recently (I've lost 96 pounds) and I was half an inch taller. Since I'm 63 I was shocked to say the least. I fully expected to be shorter not taller. I think I would have to vote for posture too. It's the only thing that makes sense to me.3
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In addition remember that the time of day effects your height. You will be shorter in the evening than in the morning because gravity compresses you.3
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Re age, I'm 53 and am the exact same height I was when I was 18. I attribute that to yoga.3
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I posted elsewhere that I noticed the other night that my depressing dowagers hump (from years of slouching to hide my embarrassingly ample bosom) has decreased significantly with weight loss. Even a significant breast reduction ten years ago didn’t help. I was astonished. Totally unexpected result of weight loss and it truly snuck up on me.
I may not be taller, but I certainly feel as if I am.
I think part of it is the Kick *kitten* Take No Prisoners attitude I’m developing in my dotage, lol.5 -
Losing 130 lb and aging 7 years in the process...but my height's the same.
One thing I've noticed though is due to WAY less fat on my butt and hips, I sit so much lower in chairs and especially in my car.4 -
It could absolutely be from weight gain or if you are now carrying heavy things, ie child.
My son is a 22 Marine sometimes rucking/hiking with over 100 pounds of equipment and his weapon on his back. He’s been in for just under 4 years and has already lost almost an inch of height from constantly carrying an extra 100+ pounds.0 -
I gained 3cm (just over an inch)... Maybe.
I was 160cm for years. Lost about 44lb and got measured again, gained 3cm.
But no guarantee thats not just due to different method of measuring.1
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