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Weight Loss Forum / General Topics / November 2003Ring resizing
One unwanted side effect of my weight loss was that my wedding ring slides off my finger. As soon as my palm points down the ring falls. It does not hold at all anymore. Just what is involved in resizing the ring? How hard would it be to re-resize if I regain weight? My plan for now is to just not wear it for a year, if I still hold onto my new weight, resize the ring. I do not want to be like an idiot, making it smaller, then bigger, etc. i > One unwanted side effect of my weight loss was that my wedding ring > slides off my finger. As soon as my palm points down the ring [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > i Resizing a ring is rather simple but it also weakens the ring. It probably wouldn't be a good idea to resize a ring multiple times. You might want to check into a ring guard until you have it resized. This would allow you to wear it without fear of losing it. Here's an example of one. http://viewithere.com/ring_guard/ >> One unwanted side effect of my weight loss was that my wedding ring >> slides off my finger. As soon as my palm points down the ring [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > http://viewithere.com/ring_guard/ thanks, an interesting idea. i I make jewelry and resize ring all the time, if it is done properly you will not have a problem. It is far easier to make a ring smaller then making it larger. Don't use a ring guard since it can get caught on things and sometimes hurts your finger causing skin toughing. Roxan > > One unwanted side effect of my weight loss was that my wedding ring > > slides off my finger. As soon as my palm points down the ring [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > http://viewithere.com/ring_guard/ Thanks, then, I will just wait a year or two, then. i > I make jewelry and resize ring all the time, if it is done properly you will > not have a problem. It is far easier to make a ring smaller then making it [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] >> >> http://viewithere.com/ring_guard/ I've had exactly the same problem. I've had to give up wearing my wedding ring altogether after it fell off in a shop. Another time it flew off my hand and across the room while I was at an exercise class. Both times I was very lucky not to have lost it. There was a thread here about this a few months ago, and from this I learned about something called ring guards. A quick google tells me it was within a thread called "another milestone" back in August of this year so you might find it helpful to have a look there. I'd never heard of ring guards before, and I even found they are available here in the UK, but sadly they don't make them wide enough for my wedding ring. They apparently clip onto the ring and make it fit more snugly. I found a whole lot of US websites selling them so maybe you'll have better luck. I also don't want to get my ring made smaller because (a) I'm not yet at my target weight and (b) there's always the chance I'll regain. For once, Ignoramus, you've posted something I can absolutely identify with:) janice >One unwanted side effect of my weight loss was that my wedding ring >slides off my finger. As soon as my palm points down the ring [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > >i > I've had exactly the same problem. I've had to give up wearing my > wedding ring altogether after it fell off in a shop. Another time it [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > For once, Ignoramus, you've posted something I can absolutely identify > with:) Thanks Janice. I will ask my wife what she thinks of these ring guards. G;ad we can identify with this problem. i >>One unwanted side effect of my weight loss was that my wedding ring >>slides off my finger. As soon as my palm points down the ring [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >> >>i >> I've had exactly the same problem. I've had to give up wearing my >> wedding ring altogether after it fell off in a shop. Another time it [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] >>> >>>i My mother used to just put a little tape around the bottom of her ring... and that worked for her after she lost weight with WW. Might be less comfortable than a guard, but a possible solution if one can't find an appropriate ring guard. Cynthia 262/233.5/200 first goal >I've had exactly the same problem. I've had to give up wearing my >wedding ring altogether after it fell off in a shop. Another time it >flew off my hand and across the room while I was at an exercise class. >Both times I was very lucky not to have lost it. Mine fell off one day last week. I didn't notice it was gone right away, and by that time I *really* had to get to work. My husband looked for it for about an hour and finally found it in our driveway. :( beeswing >Just what is involved in resizing the ring? How hard would it be to >re-resize if I regain weight? It depends on how the ring is made. You may want to pick up a ring guard from a jeweler. BUT A ring guard may cause damage to the ring, depending on how well it fits and how long it is worn. Ring guards are VERY inexpensive. ~Kat "Rice Krispies. East meets west" Cosmo Kramer I ran into a similar problem when my fiancee and I got my wedding rings. They were too small for my ring finger but too big for my little finger. I was insisting that I was going to lose weight before the wedding, so I refused to have it sized up and since it was a possiblity that I wasn't going to lose the weight, I wouldn't size it down, either. I tried the plastic ring guards, which are best for not damaging the ring itself since metal ones will scratch, but it wouldn't stay on too well. It would fly off whenever I brushed it up against something, and that's just not good since it's less noticable than the ring flying off and I didn't realize that my ring wasn't protected anymore. My mom told me how her and her friends used to fix their boyfriends class rings so they could wear them, though: Yarn, or string. It can get messy depending on what you put your hands into with the rings on, but it doesn't come off until you take it off. I wore yarn on my ring for over a year, until I finally broke down and had it sized 2 weeks before the wedding. I used crochet yarn, but I think twine works better since it's thicker and is easier to tie in knots to keep it from unravelling. Just a thought, in case you can't find the ring guards or have the same problem I did. It also works as a quick fix if the guard comes off, too. Hope this helps, Amanda > One unwanted side effect of my weight loss was that my wedding ring > slides off my finger. As soon as my palm points down the ring [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > i >My mom told me how her and her friends used to fix their boyfriends class >rings so they could wear them, though: Yarn, or string. It can get messy >depending on what you put your hands into with the rings on, but it doesn't >come off until you take it off. Ykes .. your mom??? I used to do that lol but you didn't have to worry about the yarn getting yucky (btw, ONLY angora yarn was allowable) lol. We changed the yarn every day to match our clothes for the day :) wow ... what memories you brought back for me! And I'm still giggiling over the 'my mom' comment ... I have a 4 year old and 8 month old :) ~Kat "Rice Krispies. East meets west" Cosmo Kramer >My plan for now is to just not wear it for a year, if I still hold >onto my new weight, resize the ring. I do not want to be like an >idiot, making it smaller, then bigger, etc. If your ring isn't engraved then it's no big deal to make it smaller. If it is, you could lose it depending on how much of the ring it covers. If you don't want to mess with your original ring, it might be just as easy to buy a new one and keep the original (with engraving intact) at home for the sentiment. My original wedding ring got to be too small when I gained weight, so I just got another one. My wedding ring belonged to my mother-in-law (who was 94 when shed died) and her mother before her, so I wasn't going to make it bigger (or smaller). Anyway, I'm one of these people whose fingers swell in the summer and contract in the winter, and also swell when I eat salt. So I can't wear the same rings all the time even weight stable. I just have a variety of rings for the way my finger feels on a given day. And I don't wear any when I exercise, because that's another finger swelling time for me <G>. For one of our anniversaries, my husband had an 18 karat gold bracelet custom made for me. It is a one of a kind and has a tiny little cross on it. I never take it off, so in a way, that's become my "wedding ring". Barbara Hirsch, Publisher OBESITY MEDS AND RESEARCH NEWS The latest in obesity research and weight loss drug development http://www.obesity-news.com/ That's interesting. My ring is a cheap $60 ring from sam's club. It has some sort of a little engraved edge, but no deep/complicated engraving. I could not care less for jewelry in general and would refer to not buy a new ring. I think that I will try these ring guards for starters, they are so cheap. i 223/175/180 >>My plan for now is to just not wear it for a year, if I still hold >>onto my new weight, resize the ring. I do not want to be like an [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > The latest in obesity research and weight loss drug development > http://www.obesity-news.com/ >That's interesting. My ring is a cheap $60 ring from sam's club. It >has some sort of a little engraved edge, but no deep/complicated >engraving. Igor, I meant a message on the inside. They're kind of common in wedding rings. Marty's has a message from me to him in it, but because mine is a family heirloom it has no message inside. Anything else would be easy to fix. Barbara Hirsch, Publisher OBESITY MEDS AND RESEARCH NEWS The latest in obesity research and weight loss drug development http://www.obesity-news.com/ >>That's interesting. My ring is a cheap $60 ring from sam's club. It >>has some sort of a little engraved edge, but no deep/complicated [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > >Anything else would be easy to fix. I took that as what you meant, and was a bit puzzled by Ig's reply. DH and I had our rings engraved on the inside with both sets of initials (mine before marriage) and the date. I think there's still enough blank space to allow for resizing the ring though. janice >>>That's interesting. My ring is a cheap $60 ring from sam's club. It >>>has some sort of a little engraved edge, but no deep/complicated [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > enough blank space to allow for resizing the ring though. > janice Well, mine does not have any message inside. Just a very plain ring. i My jeweler resizes my rings down for free. If you don't have a "relationship" with a jeweler it should cost you no more than $5-10 to get a ring resized -- after all they are taking out gold and keeping it. Having one enlarged is a little more expensive. And what do you mean, if you regain the weight? Perish the thought! You are not going to gain enough to have to have your ring resized again, I'd venture to say. Mary M > One unwanted side effect of my weight loss was that my wedding ring > slides off my finger. As soon as my palm points down the ring [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > i > My jeweler resizes my rings down for free. If you don't have a > "relationship" with a jeweler it should cost you no more than $5-10 > to get a ring resized -- after all they are taking out gold and Right. I';ll wait a little and then will consider resizing. Maybe by next fall. Meanwhile, if I come across cheat ring guards that would not damage the ring, I would try them. > keeping it. Having one enlarged is a little more expensive. And > what do you mean, if you regain the weight? Perish the thought! You > are not going to gain enough to have to have your ring resized > again, I'd venture to say. I wish that I knew that with certainty. i 223/177/180 > Mary M > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >> >> i Mary M wrote: >And what do you mean, if you regain the weight? Perish the thought! You are >not going to gain enough to have to have your ring resized again, I'd venture to say. That's a nice thought, but...for what it's worth, I've thought it through differently. In my case, when I got married, I weighed about 125 pounds. My weight went up much higher than that (and my ring continued to fit) and now is significantly lower than that, to a point my wedding ring is very loose. I've weighed 125 to 135 most of my life; one might suggest that it's a more "normal" weight for me than the 105 to 108.5 I range at now. Myself, I'm not willing to bet my ring that I can guess what size I'll be the rest of my life. (My mom died young, and my oldest relative died at 102. My great aunt was fit in her 90s, but my grandmother bedridden in her 60s. Who can tell how old I'll get or what shape I'll be in?) My ring has been literally falling off, but I'm unwilling to get it permanently resized, especially since it's not smooth on the outside and it would ruin the look...and ruin it even more if it were sized up again. So as soon as I can wedge it into my busy weekend schedule, I'll be heading down to get a rign guard, or "resizer." It's maybe not the best choice for the sake of the ring, but it's the one I'm most comfortable with. beeswing > x-no-archive: yes > [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > beeswing When I lost weight before, I got to the point where my rings were falling off and I had them resized. The jeweler did an excellent job, by looking at them you could never tell that anything had been done to them. I gained all but about 5 pounds of the weight back that I had lost but fortunately it seems that the weight didn't come back to my fingers. My rings still fit fine, I can take them off, put them back on and even rotate them completely round with no problems. But instead of being fat pretty much everywhere now the fat is mostly on my belly (which is the worst place health-wise to have it). On the other hand, because I had worked out, gotten in better shape and built a bit of muscle when I lost my weight before, now at near my original weight, I don't have the problems with heart burn and getting out of breath while walking that I had when I was this fat before. This time I'm not caving in and making the pecan/karo syrup pies with the pecans from the tree in our backyard like I did this time last year that lead directly, I believe, to my downfall and abandonment of my good WOE. It helps that now m DH is also trying to lose some weight and get in better shape so he hasn't been begging me for the pies! I've been back on "plan" for a little over two months now and have lost 13 pounds. YMMV, of course. Tonia > When I lost weight before, I got to the point where my rings were falling > off and I had them resized. The jeweler did an excellent job, by looking at [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Tonia Tonia, how did you regain weight? I am asking because I started maintaining my weight only recently. I am concerned about the possibility of regaining. Wouldike to hear some experiences from the trenches. i >Tonia, how did you regain weight? I am asking because I started >maintaining my weight only recently. I am concerned about the >possibility of regaining. Wouldike to hear some experiences from the >trenches. I am not tonia, but I regained 5 pounds of my weight and am fiercely working on getting it off again. It was a combination of being too relaxed in that my way of eating was at its current best, and therefore eating too much to stave off cravings, and just being plain old off guard. I just wanted to test to see how it would work. Now I am not letting the weight come on anymore, and am slowly getting it off again.  SignatureDrop everything and do it my way :) >>Tonia, how did you regain weight? I am asking because I started >>maintaining my weight only recently. I am concerned about the [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > Now I am not letting the weight come on anymore, and am slowly getting > it off again. Thanks CM. i 223/177/180 > > When I lost weight before, I got to the point where my rings were falling > > off and I had them resized. The jeweler did an excellent job, by looking at [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > i By abandoning my good (for me) WOE and reverting to my old bad (for me) WOE. My DH starting begging for sweet stuff like pecan pies and other goodies and also to reinsitute our Friday night pizza "tradition" and I caved and totally stopped watching what I ate and weighing myself everyday. Not that I totally blame him, I wasn't strong enough to say no to both him and my cravings. It was easy for me to revert into my old bad eating habits and stop exercising. One reason I stopped exercising is that I became uncomfortable with the changes the fitness center I used (Pyramid Fitness for those fellow Lubbockites who are interested) made to the dressing room. They made it impossible to change clothes or dress after a shower without being in full view of anyone who might walk into the room. Also, the dressing rooms are downstairs in a rather secluded part of the Pyramid Plaza building and it would be easy for a rapist to sneak up on someone unnoticed since it's out of the main areas of the building where there are people around. The best excuses always do seem to have a rational reason for them. Another difficulty I have is that I sometimes find myself eating to keep my DH "company" while he eats. He has a very irregular schedule, what with working and taking classes and doing consulting work occasionally on the side. If I've kept track of what I've eaten so far in the day, I find it easier to not join him for a late night snack just to be sociable. There was a guy who used to post here, who said that you only had to be good enough for long enough. That's true if you consider long enough to be the rest of your life! What's good enough is a more dicey area. I haven't been able to figure that out yet. I'm trying to measure my portions so I know exactly how much I'm eating, calculating calories and carb grams, (trying to keep carb consumption at or below 35% of my calorie intake) and inputing that data into a spreadsheet. I actually didn't start keeping my spreadsheet at first but then I wasn't making much progress until I did. BTW, has anyone heard from Caleb lately? I was surprised when I came back that he wasn't in the midst of his pre-Thanksgiving weight loss exreme challenge. I suppose the kid, Grady, who was only going to eat one can of tuna fish a day for 100 days, died or went totally insane. But he probably just stopped posting and disappeared. Tonia Thanks. We have another person here who subsists on a diet of one particular cereal, skim milk, and bottled vitamins. i |
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