I used to joke before I lost weight that I was a size 5 - ring, not pants. (I was a 22/24 sized pants.) I don't know why my hands didn't carry fat? They would swell more often when I went for walks to the point that my rings were uncomfortable (I used to call them snausages because they looked so overstuffed) where I really don't have nearly that problem now. But, I've been noticing that my shoe size has changed. I thought I was a 9 wide, but apparently I'm an 8 or 8.5 regular. Still haven't figured that one out. Being short, the hands thing makes sense, but my feet being big and changing in size seems weird. Crazy!
I have huge fingers. My boyfriend's size 11 mens grad ring is just now too big for my ring finger, and that's at 100 pounds down. I bought a diamond ring in a woman's ten that fits snug. I hope my hands get smaller, but I'm not counting on it.
Funny that you would mention class ring. I started dating my beau when I was 51 and in our "getting to know you" conversations, he asked me my ring size. I told him I had no idea, having only recently lost 100 lbs, that the last time I had a ring sized was freshman year of high school and it was 4.5. I did know my favorite ring that I bought when I was heavy no longer fit and that my jeweler friend had indicated the style it was would not allow for resizing so she hadn't measured my current size.
So it had been nearly 40 years since that class ring. I am the same height I was then and only about 30 lbs. heavier. But I was still shocked when he bought me a 4.5 size ring that Christmas that fit!
I have creepy little kid hands with short, chubby fingers. The last time I bought a ring, I was a little under 200 lbs and was torn between getting a size 9 and an 11. I think I went with the 11 because I didn't want the circulation cut off if my hands swelled (they do that pretty constantly in the summer). At this point if I try wearing it, it gets flung across the room with even the slightest hand movement, but I think my ring measurement's probably still higher than what someone would expect for my weight.
I have teeny, tiny child-sized hands with tiny, short fingers. I wear a size 4.5, maybe a 5 in the summer when things tend to swell from humidity. I am a few pounds overweight, but my finger size doesn't seem to change with weight. My wedding ring was a size 5 and it fit just fine through a variety of weights from my very heaviest to my very tiniest.
I find that I can NEVER find cheap, fun rings that fit unless I buy a child's ring. And everything else has to be refitted. I just got this ring that used to be my grandma's -- a beautiful opal ring, and had to have it resized several sizes down. I'm the only one in my family with tiny fingers like this!
Interesting, I had no idea size 7 was the average!
I always thought it was on the big side, mostly because my ring size is 7. My fingers are freakishly long and bony (no joke, gloves that fit my hands are about 1/2 to 1 full inch too short in the fingers!), but on the upside my ring size has never changed with my weight.
My fingers are freakishly long and bony (no joke, gloves that fit my hands are about 1/2 to 1 full inch too short in the fingers!), but on the upside my ring size has never changed with my weight.
