Venting I wish I NEVER lost weight in my developmental (teen) years.

[AnApparentMyth]

This is a bitter pill for me to swallow. I just wanted so badly to lose the weight, and I did in the end. But I did it without doing research on how much I SHOULD eat and just winged it. This ended up with me only eating about 1000-1300 calories, which is way to little for a (used to be) growing teen. I think I severely malnourished myself and lost out on a ton of potential height or facial development. I was eating like shit, so focused on the damn weight loss. I shouldn't have done it so chastely. I could've been so much better...

 

[ThanostheGOAT]

How tall are you?

 

[AnApparentMyth]

How tall are you?

5'8.

 

[orgcel]

Same, I ended up being 5'9 while my younger brother is 6'2. Genetic recombination is also a factor but I feel like I could have at least been 5'11

 

[Lone Kanga Solo]

David Goggins went from like 6'1 to 6'4 apparently from just doing stretches. Idk if it is entirely true but I do believe it to be