Hey everyone. Ok, quick recap. I'm 5-2.25. My dad at his peak was about 5-4, as everyone on his side of my family, for the most part, are very short. Some of my shortest relatives, were like 4-6 lol. My mom at her tallest was maybe 5-0, 5-1. She is the only sister, and my uncle's (her brothers) are around 5-7 and 5-9. Their kids (my cousins) are all taller than me, and they're girls btw lol. Not much taller, but they all vary between 5-3 to 5-6. Now my brother, who seems to have gotten more genes from my mom's side, is about 5-6.5. He finally outgrew me around the time he was 13. So he's got just over 4 inches on me.
Now, as a kid, I was the pickiest eater you can imagine. I ate nothing but snacks and candy for the most part. The only real food I ate was waffles/pancakes for breakfast, plain turkey sandwiches without any dressings or toppings (crust cut off lol) for lunch, and usually thin chicken cutlets with mashed potatoes, hamburgers (home cooked) with fries, meatloaf, or thin roast beef for dinner. I may have hated eating good food, but at the same time I was already not eating a lot of the stuff that you hear everyone saying they try to avoid due to the fat/calories (bacon, cheese, mayo, cookies, cake, ice cream, etc...). We only ate McDonalds once a week. And I only ate small servings. I also only ate the meat. No buns. Guess you could say I pioneered the Atkins diet of avoiding bread and carbs a good 20 years before it became a thing lol.
On top of my terribly diet, I also would stay up during the night. I've always been a light sleeper, and I had my little rule of staying up to watch the sunrise if I woke up after 4am, (what can I say, I've always been sentimental like that lol).
I also started working out right before I turned 14, but I didn't really lift seriously until about a half year later (got a bench at Christmas). And even then, I never trained like a professional athlete probably until I was 16 or 17. Plus I've heard that it's only a myth that lifting weights closes growth plates prematurely. Taking steroids allegedly does, but I've never taken them.
Anyway, what do you guys think? How much of a factor did these 3 things play in my final adult height? I've thought about it for over a decade and I think that, had these factors not been present, I'd have probably been somewhere between 5-4 and 5-5. I don't think I have enough genes from my mom's side (where everyone is taller) to have made it to 5-6 like my brother did. But at the same time, I do believe these factors did play a part in stunting my growth, even just a little.
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