When did you stop growing.

I am 19 next month and I am only 5'3 and I want to grow two more inches. what shoud I do and is it still possible to grow?

its possible, my cousin is 22 years old and she just grew an inch.

me, i'm 15 and i think i stopped growing already but i think it's my fault cuz i dieted and excersized too hard.

uh, i think right about......now. i'm almost 16.

I've been 5 feet tall since I was in 5th grade, so I was 11. I'm turning 22 this year and I am still only 5 feet tall... I dunno wat to tell u, i think it has to do with genes and stuff like that ...

 

But hey, being short is fun... the only downfall is that of course if u eat anywhere as a person of a more regular height of say 5foot5inches wud, u end up being fattter... Suckkkss thats the only reason i hate being short... other than that I LUV boasting about being cute and short. :-)

 

 

I was only 4'11" when I graduated high school. Sometime in college, I grew another inch. I just wish the extra inch had been in my legs, not my torso... my legs are stubby!

You need to have good nutrition to reach your maximum potential. Dieting won't help. Eat adequate calories including plenty of calcium and protein. Do not create a deficit.

Oh - and my feet grew a whole size during my first pregnancy, and never shrunk back down. Which is fine, because it was terribly hard to find fashionable shoes in size 5!

I stopped growing at 15. But I'm 6'1" and didn't really want to be much taller anyway.

supposedly if you have been on a low protein diet, you may still grow if you have more protein. Like with chinese girls who then eat a higher protien diet when they come to study in a western country, they sometimes have a growth spurt. I do not know how much of that is hearsay but I did read it is possible on a fairly reliable medical information source. I think you have to be in the late teens, early 20's for it to happen.   Basicly it comes down to if your body has signaled your bones they do not need to lenghten any more -once that message is acted upon diet will not bones longer.  So maybe more meat,( and hopefully not the growth hormones feed to animals to have them grow quicker) might give you a bit more height.

i think im done growing now...im 17 :)

18 i was 5'5''+

now im 5'7''+

i think i stopped growing at 25.
recently noticed a bit of growth that took me over 5'7''

i think it happened between 24-26

not sure though as i wasnt checking

i hit five eight around 17, and now i've shrunk a little down to somewhere between five seven and five eight :)

i'm 17...

And i grew literally like a foot between the ages 13-15, i'm now 166cm [5'5], and in the past year i've only grown like 1cm tops.

I don't think i'm gonna grow much more. =[

It's based on genetics, unless the nutritional or medical situation was unusually and severely bad.

I've been 5'4" since age 12 and my body completely stopped "changing" at or around 15, meaning that my measurements at 15 were almost the same as at the same weight at 30, before I lost some, apart from a very slight drop in body fat which isn't related to development or aging (normally those are counterproductive).

i havent been eating good nutrition for the past year and i havent grown, is it too late now to start eating a good nutrition and hopefully grow a little more? i'm 15.

I quit growing when I was 10 - and I am 4 ft 10.  I like being small though :D 

 

Poor nutrition doesn't make that much of a difference. It would have to be severe starvation/famine/etc. for an extended period of time, or at least major nutrient deficiencies, to have a really noticeable effect on growth.

This formula occasionally fails for an individual, because genetics is partly random, but in general, take your parents' heights, average them, and subtract 2 inches if female or add 2 inches if male. That's about what you can assume you'll grow to; if either parent is unusually short for medical/nutritional reasons, your genetic potential is a little higher, and random chance might increase or decrease it a bit as well.

About 8th grade -- 13 years old. Just get some high heels and don't worry about stuff you have absolutely no control over.

I stopped growing when I was 13, so I'm all of 5 feet even, which is sometimes comical with my husband who is 6 feet.  I had to stand on a step in the church to kiss him on our wedding day, even though I was wearing platforms.  :)  I'm actually shorter than both my parents, who aren't very tall, either.  But I found out from my urologist that I probably quit growing partly because my kidneys don't work 100%.  You learn to be very adaptable as a short person, though, and since I have to fly a lot for my job, I never feel squished when I'm on a commuter plane!

At 5'3", I was the tallest girl in my 5th grade class.  I'm now 35 and have to look up to practically everyone.  I think being a shorty is neat; not many people know what its like to be unable to reach into the kitchen cabinets w/o a step stool!  My husband is 6'1", so he's actually quite helpful when I can't reach...  : )

about 25.. i was 5'7" when i graduated high school.. 5'8" when i met my husband at 20 and 5'9" when we got married when i was 25.. i'm now 29 and still 5'9"

I'm 15, 5'9", and still growing but only a little...about 1/4" in the past year. Your growth can also be affected if you're crazy athletic. My cousin, the teeny one in the pic next to me, is a gymnast, and for a while, when she was about 11, she was training 20+ hours a week. Now her whole family is teeny, but she was only about 4'5" at the time. It turns out that she wasn't getting enough calories to grow because of her crazy schedule. She took a year off from gymnastics, at a TON, went on human growth hormone, and grew 6". Since then she is back to training, but much less, about 10 hours a week, and is now just under 5' tall. So as teens, we still need some extra calories to grow, especially if we're excercising like crazy. I excercise a little, run about 3-4 miles 3-4 times a week, and go weights on the days I don't run, and I eat 1500-1700 a day, which is probably still a little low. Hope I helped!