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    Has your shoe size changed after your weight loss?

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    • Posts: 77 Member
      I am having a hard time finding shoes that fit now. Growing up thin, I always wore 11.5 or 12. When I gained a lot of weight, I went up to a 13. Now that I've lost my feet are somewhere between 12 and 13 and very few shoe manufacturers make a 12.5 so I'm having to wear an older pair 12.5 I found that are about worn out.
    • Posts: 5,396 Member
      Same length (sz 8-8.5) but I have very narrow feet (AA) at my best weight. I could wear 'normal' medium width shoes with only 1 insole when I was 30+ lbs heavier. Now I have to get rid of a few pairs and stuff the others with thicker or double insoles. I have over 80 pairs not including boots & sport-specific footwear. They have their own room with floor to ceiling storage shelves. My dad was a shoemaker in Italy - so I come by my collection genetically, lol. He's the only man I know with a shoe collection too.
    • Posts: 2,839 Member
      for me 85 lbs meant I lost a half a shoe Size and a Width.

      I went from a 9.5EEEE to a 9EE ..

      And I think the only reason I was at the 9.5 was for a little more width, not length.
    • Posts: 29 Member
      After losing more than 57 lbs, my feet shrunk two sizes :laugh:
    • Posts: 340 Member
      I went from a 9, sometimes 9W to an 8.5. It's pretty weird.
    • Posts: 72
      My first 30 pounds lost, I went from a size 12W in women to 10.5
    • Posts: 116 Member
      The size length ways hasn't changed but I'm finding that I need to tie my laces a lot tighter.
    • Posts: 51 Member
      Yes my feet went from wide to normal & went down 1 & 1/2 sizes !!!
    • Posts: 343 Member
      I didn't think it was possible.. There's more motivation for me, just incase it works! ;)

      This lol
    • Posts: 94 Member
      I went down from 8 1/2 wide to 7 1/2 to 8 wide depending on the shoe. If I had bunion surgery, I might go to a normal width but I don't want any work on my feet.
    • Posts: 369
      Same size... I just dont need Wide or Wide Calf boots anymore. Mediums fit me great though!
    • Posts: 1,168 Member
      Before I gained my weight I was a size 7. I totally forgot about that fact. I gained the weight... Size 8 most of my adult life. Lost the weight... Back to size 7!!!! I was THRILLED!!!! Called my mom to share. She was laughing at me because it's the little things that excite me!
    • Posts: 221 Member
      My shoe size kind of changed. I have always had narrow feet, so that normal width shoes are too wide, but narrow width shoes are too narrow. After losing some weight, my feet are now comfortably size 5.5 N. I love it.
    • Posts: 1,155 Member
      Yes
    • Posts: 39 Member
      Was a 7.5-8 until I gained a lot of weight in 2006...then went up half a size with each pregnancy (2008 and 2012)...so I was 8.5-9 for a few years. Now that I've lost 65 lbs and I'm smaller than even at my pre-pregnancy weight, I'm back in 7.5-8.
    • Posts: 66 Member
      My feet grew when I started working out. 1/2 to a whole size depending on the show. But they haven't shrunk with the weight loss.
    • Posts: 4,572 Member
      Yes. I lost a full shoe size. And I've always had boney feet. My arch is even higher than it was before.
    • Posts: 62 Member
      OMG thought I was crazy thanks so much for posting this!!! Had to buy all new shoes my foot is much more narrow now. :laugh:
    • Posts: 236 Member
      My feet were small to start with. 6 to 6.5 depending on the brand/designer. However since I've been losing weight I haven't noticed a change in my feet, my hands are a different story though. A ring that used to be tight on me I now have to think about taking it to get resized because it's getting to be big on me.
    • Posts: 26,368 Member
      Nope.
    • Posts: 36 Member
      I am so pleased to see this has struck a chord with so many of you! Glad I posted my curiosity.
      Seems like anything from no change to two sizes smaller is possible. I am hoping that losing weight will end up giving me a desirable "side effect" of getting me out of the wide sizes at least!
      Best to all of you and GOOD LUCK!
    • Posts: 517 Member
      Nope. My feet have always been "bony" without fat. No change in size.
    • Posts: 116
      Yes. So annoying. I've been an 8.5 all my adult life and now all my shoes slide up and down on my heel. I just bought a new pair of 7.5s.

      :sad: I love all my old heels.
    • Posts: 322 Member
      OMG!!:ohwell: I hope this doesn't happen to me! I'm a size 5 (their loose) in women or a size 3-4 in girls depending how their made. The size 5 is so hard to find but if I just shop in the kids department my shoes look silly at work. If my feet shrink then I wont have a adult option anymore. :frown: yup, that wont be good! Lol, my husband already teases that I look like I'm a participant of foot binding. :laugh:
    • Posts: 87 Member
      Oh wow, didn't know this was even possible! I'm a womens size 11, so here's to hoping that my shoe size drops on this journey - size 11's are often very hard to find!
    • Posts: 872 Member
      Yep - I always used to be a 7.5 Australian then went up to an 8.5 over the years. I was complaining to the shop assistant and he said as you get older and gain weight your feet do get bigger (I knew him well and he was very tactful about it). When I lost weight I came down from an 8.5 to an 8 - and not long before I had bought half a dozen pairs of really comfy shoes .... which have now gone to the charity shops woohoo :laugh:
    • Posts: 1,422 Member
      My shoes went down two sizes, from 9 to 7. Definitely a plus!
    • Posts: 109 Member
      I was a 9.5-10 now I'm a 8.5-9
      I'm glad to see this post as I was wondering the same thing.
    • Posts: 201 Member
      I lost a size too. Total shock when I went shopping!
    • Posts: 1,364 Member
      I am not done yet, but I have gone down half a size, from 8 to 7.5. Although I could be 7.5 in some shoes if they were wide, I have been 8 in sneakers for years, now I am 7.5. My shoe size up to about age 35 was a 7, so maybe I will go back to that, still not done losing yet.
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