Has anyone gone down a shoe size?

KeriA

I have an interview and I needed some shoes for my outfit. I tried on some shoes in my size and they fit but the back was sort of slipping, I tried on another pair same thing. I got the first one that felt best. I went to another store and found some really comfortable and pretty cheap shoes. I tried on my size again same thing. I thought are these shoes all a bit too long? I tried a half size down - the size I wore before having my kids. They were slightly tight but didn't slip and when I walked around in them they really felt good. Has this happened to anyone? I am not even at the weight I was before my kids.

ItsMeLori

Yup that happens.... your feet get skinny too LOL NSV!!!

midwesthiker

Yep. None of my shoes fit any longer. I have lost a half a size.

Katbaran

At my heaviest I wore an 8 1/2 or a 9 wide. I just bought a pair of sandals last week that are a little big but they are a 7. They were on sale, there was no 6 1/2 and I really needed a pair of sandals for a thing we went to. I love it!

FoamyRiver

I haven't shopped for new shoes yet but I have noticed that most of my sandals and one pair of tennis shoes are feeling bigger now. But you can lose weight in your feet too. I worked in a shoe store all through college and I had one customer who bought about 10 new pair of shoes one day. She had lost so much weight that she had gone down 2 shoe sizes.

missbuterfly

Yes Ive dropped 105 lbs in 16 months and from a size 20 to a size 2-4 and in shoes I dropped 2 and 1/2 sizes!
I tell people and they think Im nuts! but its true!

v_addison

Absolutely, I feel like i'm a kid playing dress up in her mommy's shoes half the time! LOL

beatlemom

I went down half a size and all of my flip flops are loose!

lorjill

yup, all my shoes are slipping off my feet!!

mamax5

hmmm, I'm wondering if my feet are fat...I've gone up 2 shoe sizes as I put on weight. I always tought it had to do with having kids.

KeriA

Thanks, my daughter always shares my shoes but hers were always just a bit too small for me. It just may be payback time soon!

MCYoung

:flowerforyou: LOL ~ well THAT explains alot!!!
I have been walking around with my toes curled up to keep my shoes on for the last month!
Guess I better add that on to my "must have" list huh???!!!

Tangerine302

I've also heard that as you age your feel shrink.

Howbouto

I really pray this happens to me. I have alway wore a 10.5 to 11. But the last few years I've need 11.5 to a 12! Thats entirely too big for womens shoes!

Delicate

Yes

I went down 2.5 sizes so far

Think by time I finish it will be down 3 sizes

Noone believes it at the start, b ut a few people have done it

Its a bit annoying buying a new shoe collection though, especially when you have dead pretty ones

koluvsmusic

I'm looking FWD to me shoe size going down a size. Thanks for sharing. I didn't know it was possible until now.

springtrio

I've lost over 100, and my feet are still huge. Lucky to those of you who are fortunate to have gone down.

AMarlene

Yes, that happened to me, when I hit 30 pounds lost. Thank goodness cause it's really hard to find cute shoes in an 11...not that 10 is much better but it does help. Great job!

Dabbles

I don't know if I've went down a size, but I was just noticing last night that my running shoes I can't seem to get them tight enough. We'll see on my next pair if I have to go down a half a size. That would be sweet!

brendacs21

Ive always wondered this and my husband thinks im crazy ! i used to be a 6.5-7 before kids and weight gain. im now 7.5-8. i wouldnt mind going down to a 7 again

SouLThinking

Yep, count me in. I was a 8 1/2 and now I can wear all the way down to a 7 in some shoes..oh and I also lose like 2 ring sizes too!

missb92

YES! I went down a size aswel and my family thought I was mad! Glad im not the only one

maserati185

Yes!!! My original shoes were slipping off of me. Had to buy a 1/2 size smaller, now a full size smaller.

KeriA

Yes, that happened to me, when I hit 30 pounds lost. Thank goodness cause it's really hard to find cute shoes in an 11...not that 10 is much better but it does help. Great job!

hmmm I just hit 30lbs lost.

moejo3

The last 3 pairs I have had to go from an 8.5 to an 8...I have been an 8.5 since my daughter was born 24 years ago and I was much much thinner...seems weird that when I was much smaller (like 50 pounds smaller) my feet had grown. I had been a 7 or 7.5 until I was 20 now at 43 my feet are shrinking..so weird

AndyS201022

But wouldn't your shoe sizes only go down because your feet aren't as wide? The length wouldn't change would it?

laineybz

I've defo gone down a size. Shame as all my shoes are lovely! lol.

earlnabby

It happened to me but, for me at least, it was really a loss of water weight that caused puffiness. Buy a pair of insoles and see if they fill up enough of the extra room so that the shoes no longer slip. I have also used those pads that you stick on the shoes inside the back of the heel.

PunkyRachel

yep, I used to wear size 10-11 women. Since I've lost so much weight, I'm now wearing 8-9 women's shoes. I ended up donating a bunch of my shoes :-( I had a really pretty pair of converse that were were green with flowers in the shape of a a peace sign. I called them my Hippie shoes lol, but they are clown shoes now, so had to get rid of em so very sad

earlnabby

I've also heard that as you age your feel shrink.

Just the opposite. Your feet tend to flatten more as you age which puts you in larger shoe sizes.

bradsbaby1996

I've alsi went from a 10 1/2 to a 9. Even some 8 1/2!!