# Weight gain and feet size.

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 11, 2003, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-gain-and-feet-size/212590 "2003-11-11T12:27:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![crazy\_grady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dbc845/32.png) [@crazy\_grady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crazy_grady)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2003, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-gain-and-feet-size/212590/1 "2003-11-11T12:27:51Z")

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I was wondering if a grown man gains 100 lbs or more, what happens to his feet size? If a 150 pound man becomes a 250 pound man 5 years later, does his feet get bigger, or fatter, like his stomach and his waist?

My wife and I are debating this. I tell her that feet and the penis never change size no matter of weight gain. So what’s the answer?

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**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2003, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-gain-and-feet-size/212590/2 "2003-11-11T12:53:30Z")

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I had bariatric surgery in April of 2003 while at a weight of 389 pounds and a shoe size of 13 wide; now I’m at 260 pounds and I’m back at the shoe size that I was in my early college days: size 12 regular.

As for penis size; potentially there is some change in the size of the erect penis due to improved circulation after weight loss or diminished size due to poor circulation after weight gain, although I don’t know of any hard evidence for that (rim shot). However, an increase in overall body fat may produce the _appearance_ of a smaller penis size since the fat will cover some of the base of the penis.