My engagement rings

The first time I was engaged, I was significantly larger than I am today. At that time, my engagement ring size was 9.5.

Flash forward 4 years and I'm engaged again. When my fiance proposed, the rings hadn't been fitted to my size because he didn't know what size I was and it turned out, neither did I. The ring looked so tiny in my hands, like a pixie wore them (his grandmother is a little thing). The ring only went down to my knuckle. I figured I needed to have it enlarged by 1 or 2 sizes.  I was at least accurate about that.

I took my new ring to my jeweler who measured them and told me they were a 5.5. And I thought to myself, "no way, they have to be smaller than that because they come to my knuckle." Then the jeweler turned to me and said, let's measure you. I told them there was no need because I knew what size I was: 9.5, just like my shoe size. I was shocked to learn that my fingers had shrunk to 7.5!!!

It took me weeks to wrap my head around the fact that my even my fingers has shrunk! They didn't look like they had changed: still short and chunky as always.

Now, it's been two months since my ring has been fitted to my finger. In the past two weeks, my ring has become so loose that I've become afraid that it might slip off at any given moment. It is a constant reminder of the work I've been doing. I'm very proud of myself for loosing an additional .5 size (my guess). I'm going to need my engagement and my wedding ring adjusted again before the wedding and that is just so mind blowing to me.