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  • Weight Loss and Height Calculation

    How do you deal with places such as weight watchers or even on-line calculators when you are trying to determine how much you should weigh?

    As we get shorter (those of us w/o surgery), the legs actaully don't change...it's only the top half so what do you go by? How tall you SHOULD be or how tall you really are?

    I used to be 5'5 whan I was diagnosed. I'm now 5'3.5 so that makes about a 10 lb difference as far as I can tell.

    Just curious how everyone else does this.
    43 y.o. married w/a 12 and 14 y.o
    62 degree curve T7 - L2 that is now being measured at 54 degrees?????
    Never had surgery/Thinking about it and gathering all the info I can!

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    weight

    i had my fusions 45 years ago, before the rods. my doc tells me if i was completely straight, i'd be at least 1 1/2- 2 inches taller. so i figure i'm compressed, and not 5' 1 1/2, but 5'4 which is what my sister and adult daughters are. makes it seem like i'm closer to so called
    "normal weight" each inch = 5 pounds according to the weight charts.

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    • #3
      Fat stomach!!!!

      I am about 146 now & am about 5'4" now.. my original height was 5'8". To me, my stomach looks so fat/bloated from being scrunched up! As I've said before, I look like a little buddha doll...either that or a beer belly!!! I can't wait to be straightened out. I always have weighed more than I look/ big bone wt perhaps. Many friends are a bit shocked when I say I may lose much wt after the operations for they feel I'm thin now. As you can see by my weight, I'm not wasting away by any means...........Ly
      surg in Aug..

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      • #4
        This is a great question. I go to Weight Watchers and I am using my current height. I was 5'8" and am now 5'6". I have scoliosis, but also have osteopenia, so I may have lost height from that. I'm 52. I have wondered which weight would be the most accurate as I still feel like I'm 5'8" in my mind, LOL.

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        • #5
          Lynne,

          Everytime I look in the mirror, I find myself looking more and more like the Pillsbury Dough Boy. I was told that my actual height would be around 5'8" to 5'9" if I had a normal spine, so that's what I'm using as an indicator of what I should weigh.

          Chris

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          • #6
            chris---how much height have you lost(orig. 5'8")??

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            • #7
              At skeletal maturity I was 5'6½" with a curve in my spine. If I did not have the curve, I would have been like my sisters at 5'8" and 5'9". I stayed at 5'6½" until I reached my late 40s. Then I started to notice clothes weren't fitting right. I was becoming short-waisted. I'm now 5'4" and I attribute the height loss to a rapid progression of my scoliosis during the menopause years.

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