I was 5'7" when I was younger (35 or so years ago), but I'm only 5'5" now (well, actually 5'5.5", but I don't count the half inch)...no back problems...just aging I guess.
I remember being between 5'3" and 5'4" when I was a teenager. Yesterday, I looked on my driver's license and it's 160 cm which is 5'3".
I hate the difference it makes on the BMI. In the past months, I have disillusioned myself into thinking that I was a crash diet away from an healthy BMI. Yesterday, it was fifteen pounds away which will take some consistency and effort.
I'm 5'8 and 3/4 so I say I'm 5'9 - my doctor measured me at my first visit several months ago and said I was 5'7 1/2, but then when I went in yesterday I was 5'8 and almost 3/4. I've been saying I'm 5'9 for 15 years, I think I'll just stick with that for now.
My measuring tape says 5ft 1/2 inch. I stand firm on the fack that "it's broken"
I'm 5ft 2in!!
Mine's "broken" too! I'd measured at 5'8 throughout my late teens and early 20s. About 2 years ago, I measured myself at 5'7.5". It's not a huge difference, but I refuse to accept it. I'm certainly not old enough to be shrinking.
i shrunk by 1 cm recently... *depressed*
apparently we really shrunk when we get older...
My 79 yr old mom has back problems, and she's always saying how she just "shrunk." She was always a taller woman - 5'8, and she's about eye to eye with me right now, and I'm 5'5. I know she doesn't/can't stand up straight, but like the other poster that mentioned her elderly father -- it's not like she chopped off 3 inches of leg! ha! All of the internal structure is there, so I wouldn't think her BMI has changed any, just based on her eventual change in height.
I've had barre exercise classes led by a former all-american diver, and he insists that you can "stretch" yourself to gain height -- that your flexibility has a lot to do with it. (not gaining several inches, but perhaps fractions) Of course, he's pretty tall, and he's super flexible. I'm working on my own flexibility, because it seems like a good thing to have as one gets older, along with good balance and cardiovascular condition. Plus, it just feels good!
Oh, and don't forget about gravity. I found out a while back that gravity is not only affecting my chin and my chest, but also my eyeballs! Doctor says my astigmatism will never get any better as I age, unlike some folks, who have it disappear. Seems that gravity is squishing my eyeballs, too!
Haha! That's why my profile says 5'6" on a good day!! I always come in like a 1/4 inch under, although it tends to get rounded up. I measured myself about a year ago and I was 5'5" and a 1/2 inch (lost a 1/4 inch?) ...but it was on carpeting and done sloppily, so idk...lol
Have been this height since, like, 10th grade (16).
