Ruminations on Shoe Size and Dieting

lgfrie
lgfrie Posts: 1,449 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Now for something a little different ...

So I bought some new shoes for the first time since I started dieting in June, 2019.

I've always had big feet, men's size 15 4E (that's extra wide, 2E is normal "wide")

I've lost 72 lbs and apparently I am now a size 14 2E, the 15 4E's I ordered are huuuuuuuuge.

I have analyzed my feet extensively in the past hour to figure out if there was anywhere that fat was being stored, as is easy to find on a stomach, rear upper arms, etc. I can't find anything on a foot that looks like a fat depot. My feet look like they've always looked except now they're ... smaller!

Anyone else experience this?

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  • KrissFlavored
    KrissFlavored Posts: 327 Member
    My feet shrunk too when I lost my weight last time too..from size 8 to 7
  • KrissFlavored
    KrissFlavored Posts: 327 Member
    edited May 2020
    It's because your arches are not as flat due to the extra weight
  • papayahed
    papayahed Posts: 407 Member
    Yep, I have a really cute pair of espadrilles, I put them for the first time in over 6 months and the were downright floppy same with another pair of sandals.
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,254 Member
    Yup, 0.5 size and 3 to 4E to wide fit
  • corinasue1143
    corinasue1143 Posts: 7,464 Member
    Yep
  • Wendyanneroberts
    Wendyanneroberts Posts: 270 Member
    I was a uk size 5 (ladies) for over 25 years. My weight fluctuated multiple times over this period. With upto 70lb lost/regained & lost again. With no difference in shoe size.

    The last time I regained, I did gain more weight (115lb). My shoe size did also change, went upto a size 6 & wider foot.

    Even stranger, since loss of 59lbs, and maintenance at this weight. I'm now only a size 4.5. So fraustrating as its difficult to get half size. But I'm still 50lbs heavier, then my lower average. But smaller feet.

    Obviously weight gain and loss each time, has distributed fat differently.
  • bmeadows380
    bmeadows380 Posts: 2,981 Member
    I'm still in women's 11W's though I think depending on the shoe, I might be able to get into some 10's and maybe some regular 11's now. Course I rarely buy shoes because it's so dang hard to find my size in a store these days.

    I ordered a pair of New Balance cross trainers in March and a pair of running shoes last month, and got both in 11Ws and they fit fine, so I guess in my case, the answer is no, not yet.
  • spiriteagle99
    spiriteagle99 Posts: 3,743 Member
    I wish! After i lost most of my weight, I started running. After getting a couple of blisters on the tip of my toe, I had to go up a size. My feet had already gotten longer and wider from years of long distance backpacking, so that wasn't happiness. In the last few years, I have developed bad bunions, so now I needed really wide shoes. It is not easy to fit my feet.
  • Duck_Puddle
    Duck_Puddle Posts: 3,237 Member
    spiriteagle99 wrote: »
    I wish! After i lost most of my weight, I started running. After getting a couple of blisters on the tip of my toe, I had to go up a size. My feet had already gotten longer and wider from years of long distance backpacking, so that wasn't happiness. In the last few years, I have developed bad bunions, so now I needed really wide shoes. It is not easy to fit my feet.

    Same. Although I lost my weight while running. My feet are now 1/2-1 full size larger (length) and due to a neuroma, I need really wide shoes too.
  • ExistingFish
    ExistingFish Posts: 1,259 Member
    edited May 2020
    I lose 1/2 a size, some of my shoes still fit and some don't. I buy a size smaller now.

    I'm back to my pre-pregnancy size, my feet went up a half size with my first pregnancy and didn't go back down until I lost weight.

    I resized my wedding ring after my first was born because my hands got bigger and did not get smaller after the child was born. Now they are back to my pre-pregnancy size, it's a small enough difference resizers make them too small, but they are still too lose to wear.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,225 Member
    My feet got a little smaller, from 50ish pounds of loss - used to require wide width most of the time, now medium mostly works, not as much change in size as width. (Ring finger went from around a 13 to about a 10, too . . . and yes, I'm female, just with giant man-hands. :lol: ).
  • Lillymoo01
    Lillymoo01 Posts: 2,865 Member
    My feet got 1/2 size smaller after a 70ish pound loss and my wedding rings no longer fit on my fingers so I wear them as a necklace instead.
  • bmeadows380
    bmeadows380 Posts: 2,981 Member
    now my hands have lost weight. I used to wear about a size 11; lately, I've noticed that my size 9's are too big and I think it was back in February that I stopped by a jeweler and was sized at about an 8 1/2. With what I've lost since then, I think I may be able to fit a size 8 ring by now. I've noticed how much smaller my wrists have become, too - I can almost touch fingers when clasping one hand around one wrist; I can't even remember when I could do that before, if ever!

    What's interesting is that I'm losing weight in places differently from where I gained it; clothes that fit when i was in high school are too big now, and mostly because of the bust - I'm 2 full cup sizes down from what I was then, when I weighed approximately the same as I do now.

    would be nice, though, to be in a size 9 shoe instead of a size 11! OR even a size 10, for that matter......
  • PAPYRUS3
    PAPYRUS3 Posts: 13,259 Member
    Yes for me too - shoe size is down and fingers...lost some of my rings. That sucked.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,225 Member
    bmeadows380 wrote: »
    now my hands have lost weight. I used to wear about a size 11; lately, I've noticed that my size 9's are too big and I think it was back in February that I stopped by a jeweler and was sized at about an 8 1/2. With what I've lost since then, I think I may be able to fit a size 8 ring by now. I've noticed how much smaller my wrists have become, too - I can almost touch fingers when clasping one hand around one wrist; I can't even remember when I could do that before, if ever!

    What's interesting is that I'm losing weight in places differently from where I gained it; clothes that fit when i was in high school are too big now, and mostly because of the bust - I'm 2 full cup sizes down from what I was then, when I weighed approximately the same as I do now.

    would be nice, though, to be in a size 9 shoe instead of a size 11! OR even a size 10, for that matter......

    Keep in mind that if your fingers are slimmer, the same length fingers will touch around a wider circumference than they used to, because the extra thickness of the fingers used to effectively increase that circumference. (I'm not saying your wrists are not smaller, I'm sure they are . . . just saying it's complicated. I was aware of this more because of being a jewelry maker: A beaded bracelet made with big beads needs to be longer to go around a wrist of a particular circumference, compared to a bracelet made with small beads.)

    How this weight loss stuff works out in practical terms is weird, in some ways: For example, after losing weight, I had to move my car seat forward (i.e., as if I'd gotten shorter), because I didn't have the fat-padding on my back pushing me that little bit forward on the seat anymore. But I had to move the seat of my spin bike at the gym upward one setting (i.e., as if I'd gotten taller), because my skinnier rear had brought my foot closer - too close - to the pedals. 🤷‍♀️

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