Has anyone gone down a shoe size?

KeriA
KeriA Posts: 3,345 Member
edited October 1 in Success Stories
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.
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  • ItsMeLori
    ItsMeLori Posts: 346
    Yup that happens.... your feet get skinny too LOL NSV!!!
  • midwesthiker
    midwesthiker Posts: 144
    Yep. None of my shoes fit any longer. I have lost a half a size.
  • Katbaran
    Katbaran Posts: 605 Member
    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
    FoamyRiver Posts: 276 Member
    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
    missbuterfly Posts: 18
    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
    v_addison Posts: 114 Member
    Absolutely, I feel like i'm a kid playing dress up in her mommy's shoes half the time! LOL
  • beatlemom
    beatlemom Posts: 250 Member
    I went down half a size and all of my flip flops are loose!
  • lorjill
    lorjill Posts: 104 Member
    yup, all my shoes are slipping off my feet!!
  • mamax5
    mamax5 Posts: 414 Member
    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
    KeriA Posts: 3,345 Member
    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
    MCYoung Posts: 49 Member
    :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
    Tangerine302 Posts: 1,509 Member
    I've also heard that as you age your feel shrink. :)
  • Howbouto
    Howbouto Posts: 2,121 Member
    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
    Delicate Posts: 625 Member
    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
    koluvsmusic Posts: 81
    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
    springtrio Posts: 429 Member
    I've lost over 100, and my feet are still huge. Lucky to those of you who are fortunate to have gone down.
  • AMarlene
    AMarlene Posts: 31 Member
    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
    Dabbles Posts: 367
    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
    brendacs21 Posts: 180 Member
    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
    SouLThinking Posts: 308 Member
    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
    missb92 Posts: 200 Member
    YES! :) I went down a size aswel and my family thought I was mad! Glad im not the only one :D
  • maserati185
    maserati185 Posts: 263 Member
    Yes!!! My original shoes were slipping off of me. Had to buy a 1/2 size smaller, now a full size smaller.
  • KeriA
    KeriA Posts: 3,345 Member
    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
    moejo3 Posts: 224 Member
    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
    AndyS201022 Posts: 1
    But wouldn't your shoe sizes only go down because your feet aren't as wide? The length wouldn't change would it?
  • laineybz
    laineybz Posts: 704 Member
    I've defo gone down a size. Shame as all my shoes are lovely! lol.
  • earlnabby
    earlnabby Posts: 8,171 Member
    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
    PunkyRachel Posts: 1,959 Member
    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
    earlnabby Posts: 8,171 Member
    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
    bradsbaby1996 Posts: 154 Member
    I've alsi went from a 10 1/2 to a 9. Even some 8 1/2!!
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