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I've always listed my height as 6', based on measurements taken many years ago in a doctor's office (officially, 5' 11.5", but like most guys that height, I rounded up :D ).
But, while measuring various body parts for a bike fitting, I got curious about my height and decided to measure it. Imagine my shock when I carefully measured myself (with my son's help) and it showed I'm only 5' 10"!!??
That was late in the evening, and my son pointed out that we get shorter as the day wears on. So, I took another measurement this morning and sure enough I'm barely 5' 11"...so no longer can I "round up". I guess I've shrunk a bit over the years...damn!
So, if you haven't measured yourself for height in the last few decades, you might want to do so (if you dare!). You might be surprised by the results.
Unfortunately, if you're tracking your Body Mass Index, this exercise may result in an upward revision of your BMI. :(
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Sorry, but in case you missed it in the orientation, you are only allowed to post good news on this forum.
So, if you haven't measured yourself for height in the last few decades, you might want to do so (if you dare!). You might be surprised by the results.
Are you mad? Why would I do that?
If this does not desist at once, I shall say "Ni" to you again.
I faart in you general direction.
Yeah, yeah....Kill the Messenger. :rolleyes:
Measured last year at the doctor's office. One and one half inch less than my high school height. Very distressing!
Measured last year at the doctor's office. One and one half inch less than my high school height. Very distressing!
Yeah, but your weight was probably the same...right? :D
Yep, I'm down a bit. Still taller than HS (6'3" then), but I was still growing. By 20yo, I was 6'5" (rounding up 1/4" ;) )
31 years later, I measure out at 6'4".
But weight? Hmmm. 135 lbs. in HS, 220 now. A few years ago I was close to 250. :eek:
I've been 6'4" all my life, until about 10 minutes ago...Now I'm 6'2 1/2".
You're right, apparently--I was 6'4" in college and in an Army physical in 1968, but I don't know that I've been carefully measured since then. They ask how tall you are and have you hop on the scale.
My dad, who was 6'2", always claimed he "used to be 6'4"." All this time I thought he was lying....
Yeah, but your weight was probably the same...right? :D
High School 135lbs. Now 159lbs. Not too bad for 35 years
I was 5'11" & 3/4 for a long time...Now at 52 1/2 years old I at 5'11" 1/4
I was over 6'2 when I graduated college. After many years of running, "hiking", exiting an aircraft while in flight, and other gravity assisted or hindered activities, I was 6'1 on the official scale at the nutritionist's office.
Yes but many of us are growing in other ways.
Just the other day I racked my brains and it was a real stretch.
I've moved from a 56cm frame to a 54cm just for this reason. The 56 doesn't fit as it used to. And, it's all upper torso loss. The inseams on my pants are still the same and fit fine. But, that makes sense given the loss is via the spine compressing. For me this is a welcome change. Most of my adult life, I had a hard time getting shirts to fit properly. My upper torso has always been longer than average for someone my height. Now, the shirts fit fine.
Stop it! Stop it!
You're only encouraging him!
And depressing me.
My height and weight have changed very little since my college undergrad days, although I hit minimum weight in the early 1980s, on a strict Pritikin diet. The average American sedentary / "supersize me" lifestyle would probably have added another 30 or 40 lbs of flab by now.
My height and weight have changed very little since my college undergrad days, although I hit minimum weight in the early 1980s, on a strict Pritikin diet. The average American sedentary / "supersize me" lifestyle would probably have added another 30 or 40 lbs of flab by now.
I've heard the average American gains 1 lb per year after high school...so, 20 years = +20 lbs (it might be more than this now, and the number of fat 20-somethings is truly shocking).
Ironically, "1 lb per year" is the result of a very small daily calorie surplus. To gain 1 lb per year you only need to overeat (or, under-exercise) by 11 calories per day!
I've always claimed to be five feet tall exactly. However, I don't think I am even that tall any longer. I do yoga, however, and keep fairly stretched out, so I don't think I've gotten that much shorter. Perhaps a loss of a quarter of an inch. But it's a big quarter of an inch :D !
East Hill
...And, it's all upper torso loss. The inseams on my pants are still the same and fit fine. But, that makes sense given the loss is via the spine compressing. For me this is a welcome change. Most of my adult life, I had a hard time getting shirts to fit properly. My upper torso has always been longer than average for someone my height. Now, the shirts fit fine.That's counter to my experience. I have long legs for my height, and my shrinkage is mostly in my legs I think. Since I was 17, I have worn a 36" inseam and had to shop carefully because only about 1/3 of pants marked that way were long enough. Now a 36" bunches up at my shoes even if I were to pull the waistband up to my ribcage. I now look for short 36s or long 34s. My only shirt fitting problem has been finding long enough sleeves without shirttails to my knees...even when I was a kid.
8th Grade = Age 13 = 6' / 124 lbs
12th Grade = Age 17 = 6'4" / 180 lbs
Today = Age 64 = 6'3" / 201 lbs
I was skinny as a rail at 180, and maybe 4 lbs too much right now. (got as high as 216 before retirement 7 years ago)
Re-measured myself a couple of yrs ago, and the 6'3 1/2"-6'4" of my youth was no more. Now 6'3" barefoot, but my armspan is still 6'6" - same as it was at age 15! Wife is still 5'8 1/2" at age 62.
Crummmbb. I was trying to avoid this. I have always called myself 6'2", with the usual rounding up. Had a physical about 10 days ago. Couldn't stretch to 5'11". I will demand a recount however. But, other than that, the doctor liked my fitness/health real much. I credit one Giant OCR2 comp.
Crummmbb. I was trying to avoid this. I have always called myself 6'2", with the usual rounding up. Had a physical about 10 days ago. Couldn't stretch to 5'11". I will demand a recount however. But, other than that, the doctor liked my fitness/health real much. I credit one Giant OCR2 comp.
Well he should..that is one sweet ride.
Looks like the shrinkage is a general thing. Like most others, I am about 1 1/2" shorter from my HS/College days & have added some weight to compensate. A year & half ago, I talked my Dr into referring me for a bone density scan & found I have osteoporosis in my hips & spine. No bad effects so far tho & I haven't had another to see if I have stabilized or not. If you are small or have a slight build, it is worth getting a scan. Don
What a drag it is getting old........(guitar lick inserted here)
I know where the shrunk mass has gone! :eek:
When I was in HS and got weighed for the HS football program. I suddenly was 5'8" 135lbs! My dad was the coach. At the time if I was 5'7" 125 I was soaking wet. Like the Witch of the West, today I'm melting.
Listen bub - I check my weight everyday but my height is considered a constant for the universe. If we were to find out it was in error - well, I am not responsible for the possible reprecussions. :eek:
Besides - take anything that is a certain dimension and squeeze it so that it is shorter - the mass has to go somewhere, right?! This explains the deforming our our past wonderful shape. I don't know about the rest of you, but this makes total sense to me. The reason my middle was larger is that gravity deformed me. A little shorter and that means the mass had to go somewhere.
That is my story and I am sticking to it!
I just finally came to grips with no longer being 6' tall. That was always a slight round-up anyway, but now I'm definitely no more than 5'11". Messes up my weight-to-height ratio, too. :( What's more, I have officially downsized to medium shirts instead of large. Part of this is due to general "size expansion" of men's clothing, part to being more fit, and part to general shrinkage with age (and there's no blue pill to combat that shrinkage!).
You think it is bad measuring your height - and if it has decreased?
Try measuring your IQ!
No man in America is 5' 11" or even 5'10.5".
They all round up to 6 feet. If you fail to round up, you riak being deported to a shorter country. All other 5'10,5 men will hate you for outing them, and they'll say you can't measure properly and are a communist to boot.
So stick with 6 feet, just to be safe.
I will say it is all the women's fault - they want us tall, dark and handsome - well, 1 out of three ain't bad...
I must be bucking the trend. I always gave my height as 5'10", but that was on a good day. 5'9.5" was more like it. Then a couple years ago the doc measured me on the same scale he's always used, and I was 5'11"! That's what I've been ever since.
I shrunk, too. From a max of 5' 11", I'm now less than 5' 10". On my back xray, my vertebrae layout has as many curves as a mountain road, so I had no trouble explaining where my height went. The doctors told me that everyone's lower discs dry and shrink, so I guess there's still some height loss even if your back stays straighter than mine.
I was always told I was exactly 6' tall by whoever weighed and measured me at various doctors's offices from the end of eight grade until the last time? I was measured maybe when I was 40 or so. Last year while waiting for my wife in an osteopath office (in the morning), I saw a completely different device that the osteopath said is much more accurate. It indicated 6' 1/2" at age 56. She insisted that her device was accurate and properly calibrated. I think this is about right since it corresponds to the amount by which the top of my head has grown beyond my hair since my mid 40's.
You think it is bad measuring your height - and if it has decreased?
Try measuring your IQ!
See, I've always been short, fat and dumb - so none of this is new to me! :D
See, I've always been short, fat and dumb - so none of this is new to me! :D
But, it would seem, you are inexorably getting shorter, fatter and dumber.
But, it would seem, you are inexorably getting shorter, fatter and dumber.
But I'm used to it... it just feels right.
Oh to be 18 and over 6'3" again! At 18, I was almost 6'4" and 185. At 57, I'm "almost" 6'3" and 189. Actually, I think I've lost about 3/4", mostly from years of playing basketball, running and other things that compress all that soft stuff between the disks in the spine. I still claim 6'3" because I'm there in shoes.
My youngest (16) kid is about an inch and a half taller than me, or maybe he's really my height that I used to be!
If you are small or have a slight build, it is worth getting a scan.
I've had one done, and they were very happy to tell me that I am still at 99% of what a typical 25 year old female is supposed to be. I was told to keep doing whatever it was that I'd been doing--which consists of walking,cycling, and lifting those 140 pound containers at work...
East Hill
I've had one done, and they were very happy to tell me that I am still at 99% of what a typical 25 year old female is supposed to be. I was told to keep doing whatever it was that I'd been doing--which consists of walking,cycling, and lifting those 140 pound containers at work...
East Hill
I take back anything that I may have ever said that might have offended you :D
I just finally came to grips with no longer being 6' tall.
I came to grips with not being 6' tall years ago :D :D
I'm now 5'3" and that's an inch less than high school.
I take back anything that I may have ever said that might have offended you :D
My job is rather specialised, and we have a specific exemption from the 'not over 70 pounds' standard that applies to the rest of the USPS employees.
The containers I make up and handle are designed with two sets of handles. The containers are actually meant to be handled by two people (so 2 X 70 = 140), but that's not always feasible. So, on the small containers, which measure about errrr, about 25 inches by 25 inches by ?, it's easier just to handle the thing by myself. Don't tell anyone ;) . We aren't supposed to lift them by ourselves when they weigh over 70 pounds...
It's actually quite a shock to new people who have seen us apparently doing nothing all day, and then discover that they are actually expected to work. We point out that the job description reads "Constant Heavy Lifting", but apparently no one ever reads down that far :D .
East Hill
I was vertically challenged as a teenager and young adult, and even more at age 50. What tickles me is that where I work, I had to post the same specific sign on a lot of doors. To save time, I standardized the sign-heights by placing my shoe-tips against the doors, and placing the tip of my nose on the center of the signs while pressing the signs with their adhesive strips onto the doors.
That was eleven years ago. Now, I chuckle whenever I see any of those signs, because their height hasn't changed, while my height shrunk from 5'4" to 5'3". Reminded daily that I'm melting...
My height has always been 5'6 1/4". Well it has been for the last 40 odd years. Had to be measured today and I am now 5'6 1/2". And that was in bare feet- Perhaps it is hair Growth- as although I am losing it a bit up top- I have been told by my Wife that I need a Haircut---for the last 3 months. Only problem is - It is still only just spring and the warm weather might go away for a few days.
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