Does your feet get smaller as you loose weight?

silhouettes
silhouettes Posts: 517 Member
edited September 27 in Health and Weight Loss
I have a strange question.. do your feet get smaller as you loose weight? I didn't notice it before... but when I went to buy new shoes for my new dress I got a pair of 6's.. my walking shoes at 8 1/2... so did my foot shrink or is it just that I got sandal's instead of walking shoes?

If they shrunk that's a very surprising NSV lol I never imagined that happening.
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  • SarahWrittenThin
    SarahWrittenThin Posts: 595 Member
    Mine have shrunk a little, my boots that used to be hell to get my feet in now slide on easily. When buying dress shoes or sandals vs. sneakers your dress shoes will be about a half size smaller than your normal day to day shoes. So most likely you're feet shrank some :)
  • Noctuary
    Noctuary Posts: 255
    Actually for me, yes. Maybe I just had fat feet?!
    I fluctuate from a 9 to an 8. On the same shoe. So it's not a different style or brand. Weird.
  • epj78
    epj78 Posts: 643 Member
    That's quite a big jump --- I don't think either option explains it. I can vary by a size or so based on manufacturer of the shoe and width of the shoe, but not 2 and a half sizes! That is odd.

    I actually have the opposite happen, my feet got bigger. The theory is from all the walking/jogging. I went from a 7.5 to an 8 in tennis shoes and a 7 to a 7.5 in all others.
  • lanie13
    lanie13 Posts: 55
    I went from an 8 1/2 to a 7 so i would say in my case, yes
  • Mads1997
    Mads1997 Posts: 1,494 Member
    My feet have not shunk as in a lesser shoe size but they have most definitely lost weight.
  • ChelseaRW
    ChelseaRW Posts: 366 Member
    Yes...the weight forces your feet to spread...the loss in weight causes less pressure on the tendons allowing ( a little "bounce back" so to say! Also any fat deposits and water retention in the feet get better from the weight loss! Its just a great win win situation. Of course it is sad to say goodbye to some favorite shoes in the closet, but on the plus side?? a new trip for NEW SHOES!
  • DrBorkBork
    DrBorkBork Posts: 4,099 Member
    Weirdest weight loss phenomenon-- SHRINKING SHOE SIZE!

    No joke. Happened to me.
  • BrandNewMia
    BrandNewMia Posts: 461
    I went from a size 10 to a size 9 shoe! It can happen :smile:
  • ATT949
    ATT949 Posts: 1,245 Member
    I have a strange question.. do your feet get smaller as you loose weight? I didn't notice it before... but when I went to buy new shoes for my new dress I got a pair of 6's.. my walking shoes at 8 1/2... so did my foot shrink or is it just that I got sandal's instead of walking shoes?

    If they shrunk that's a very surprising NSV lol I never imagined that happening.
    I certainly did. And that can be quite annoying when it comes to expensive motorcycle boots.

    I had to buy 12 EEE motorcycle boots when I ramped up my Iron Butt rides back in '09. As of January of this year, my feet flop around in them when I put them on so I had to stuff paper in the toes!
  • cappelgate
    cappelgate Posts: 10
    Went from a 10 to an 8.5! It is crazy!
  • erikmsp72
    erikmsp72 Posts: 137 Member
    What I have noticed is that my feet are now narrower. When I was growing up, I always was a "Narrow" in men's shoes. When I was at my heaviest, my feet spread to a B width. . . but now that I'm less-heavy, I apparently am back to an A. Thank goodness I didn't spend much $$ on shoes before! (But I might buy some nice ones now.)
  • pippywillow
    pippywillow Posts: 253 Member
    I hope that happens to me, I'm a 10 1/2 :)
  • KimLee76
    KimLee76 Posts: 89
    Yes they do and noticeably so depending on how much you lose.

    My adult foot size which I'd say I reached in high school was 8 to 8.5. After that, I spent so many years in a 9 that I started to consider it my shoe size. It didn't stop there though, oh no,...later I had to shove my hocks in a 10.

    Now I'm back to the 8 to 8.5 range and it's been so long since I was here that I constantly have a confused look on my face when I'm shoe shopping lol. It feels the same way as shopping for clothes in a smaller size which is definitely an ago boost, but I still always have the look of "well I'll be darn, it actually fits" on my face in the dressing room.
  • samitapio
    samitapio Posts: 3
    Shoe size can definetly change. It's not always the size per say that changes but the width. Before i hav extra wide feet and usually requred 1 size bigger shoes to fit in. When my feet got more narrow i could go down in shoe size.
  • lalaland82
    lalaland82 Posts: 176 Member
    Mine have too. I was very glad too, they went up from a 5 1/2 to a 7 as I got bigger, they have gone down to a 6 again now, and I'm finding heels easier to walk in again which is a lovely bonus
  • PlayerHatinDogooder
    PlayerHatinDogooder Posts: 1,018 Member
    No.

    They just got less fat.
  • maecrocker
    maecrocker Posts: 56
    My feet have definitely gotten smaller. Not only did I have to buy a whole new wardrobe but I had to buy all new shoes. I was amazed. However, the last 3 weeks or so my feet had been killing me. Then it dawned on me one day during my morning workout -- I hadn't bought new workout shoes in over a year and a half. My feet were swimming in them. I had them tied so tight the tops of my feet were killing me and I was still sliding in them so my toes were pushing against the fronts. I bought new workout sneakers last week and it is a world of difference.
  • ILiftHeavyAcrylics
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics Posts: 27,732 Member
    Mine did. I went from a size 8 to a size 7. So now, not only do I not have clothes that fit, I don't have shoes that fit either.
  • papillon71
    papillon71 Posts: 92 Member
    I have noticed this! I am down a shoe size since starting my weight loss in January 2013....and boots that I wore are too big now on my now skinnier calves...but yes, apparently you can lose a bit of fat off your feet, bizarre. I remember when I was pregnant and had a lot of fluid retention I went up a shoe size then.
  • shikiwiki13
    shikiwiki13 Posts: 16
    YES! None of my old sandals fit me!
  • Delicate
    Delicate Posts: 625 Member
    My feet went down 2 and a half sizes

    it was just annoying to keep having to buy shoes
  • zazielascaux
    zazielascaux Posts: 35 Member
    Think it does. I used to be a 5.5-6 and now I am 5-5.5 having lost 40lbs. A former colleague lost over 130lbs and went from a 6 to a 3. She said she lost one shoe size fairly quickly and then the final two all at once when she got really close to her goal weight. Makes sense that the more weight you are carrying the more the bones in your feet get pushed out and apart, as well as the fact that there could be a little fat padding there.
  • momzeeee
    momzeeee Posts: 475 Member
    Mine went down half a size.
  • queencat3
    queencat3 Posts: 30
    Yes, mine did. Now I need new shoes!!!
  • wpbmommy1
    wpbmommy1 Posts: 58 Member
    I hope it happens to me. I'm an 11.
  • LifeJacketWaterJogger
    LifeJacketWaterJogger Posts: 231 Member
    Yes, i have gone from a 9 to 8 1/2
  • chinalavy
    chinalavy Posts: 104
    I was a nine , now size 8 so yes they do.
  • Cynduck
    Cynduck Posts: 255 Member
    Mine have went down a size just from a 50# loss. I'm hoping they I down another size by the time I am done so I can wear all the cute shoes lol
  • wtfusernameisnttaken
    wtfusernameisnttaken Posts: 192
    Like clothing, shoes depend on the "cut" and "style" as well. Your feet may have gotten a little smaller, but it's generally not that drastic a change. It's more likely just the manufacturer runs differently.
  • Lindaspencer
    Lindaspencer Posts: 226 Member
    mine shrank some - about a size in some brands - but about a half size in most
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