Height issue

[Ivandavid]

First of all I'm sorry if this doesn't belong in the right place, I really thought it should be placed here.

OK so here's my situation: My father's height is 5' 9"

My mother's height is 5' 3"

I'm 15 years old and I'm 5' 11" 1/2. Please don't say "That's pretty enough, shouldn't complain!". Also I want to mention I'm currently 231 pounds. (I know I'm fat) But I was 251 pounds 3 months ago so I lost 20 pounds and I'm still losing weight. I want to know what's the height I will reach? I'm starting to grow beard, I have pubic hair, I mean I think my puberty started long time ago, like when I was 12 or 13, and I'm not sure but it ended perhaps? Some say I'll grow up to 18/21 years old and I'll reach 6' 2". Some say I'll stop growing because I'm fat.(which seems true, indeed). My ideal height would be 6' 1" so what you think? Will I grow more? Won't I? What should I do?

 

Thank you for your time,

David.

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[Mr Skeptic]

Yeah, you still have years worth of growth. Just don't think growing will solve your weight problem.

[Ivandavid]

Ok someone else? What you think?

[zapatos]

This is simply based on what I experienced with my sons and their friends. They generally had a growth spurt begin sometime between the ages of 12 and 15. The growth spurt lasted different lengths of time for different kids, but once it significantly slowed, that kid added very little additional height. I also found that the growth charts supplied by their pediatrician wasn't much use in predicting their final height.

 

My older son had an early growth spurt and the doctor predicted he would grow to about 6'1". He quit growing at 5'9" at about 14 years old. My younger son had a late growth spurt. The doctor predicted he would grow to 5'8", and he quit growing at about 5'11" at about 17 years old.

 

I'm 5'8" and my wife is 5'5".

 

So, my suggestion is that you look at how fast you've been growing lately and use that as an indication as to whether or not you'll continue to get much taller.

[mulreay]

Or you can argue it is a study in futility to try and judge somebody's 'adult' height. There are no charts, doctors, specialists or graphs that will determine your height when you stop growing.

This is something we cannot and probably will never be able to answer. What will be, will be.

It's like you planting a seed in the ground and when it germinates and breaks the surface soil, you tell me to the inch what height the plant/tree will peak at. It cannot be done as there are too many unknown variables.

[lilschuh]

Or you can argue it is a study in futility to try and judge somebody's 'adult' height. There are no charts, doctors, specialists or graphs that will determine your height when you stop growing.

This is something we cannot and probably will never be able to answer. What will be, will be.

It's like you planting a seed in the ground and when it germinates and breaks the surface soil, you tell me to the inch what height the plant/tree will peak at. It cannot be done as there are too many unknown variables.

 

The growth charts come from somewhere though. They are not made up. There may be a lot of variability, which it appears there is, but the chart was most likely formed using statistical data. There is a given amount of variation in the chart as well.

 

There are many, many things that affect height. It is an additive process of genes, and there is some knowledge as to how those interact and what the end product will be.

 

And, to say that we will never be able to determine someone's adult height seems to me to be a long shot. I doubt that there is anything we can not accomplish.