Before I started eating less and working out, I bought a super cute pair of shoes on clearance last spring, intending on wearing them this fall. They fit, but were snug. I put them on one morning last week, and walked out of them. I've lost 41 pounds, and I've definitely gone done a 1/2 size or so.
I wish I could go down a size. I used to be an 8 in uk sizing (maybe 10 US?) That was right at the top of normal women's sizing here so there was less availability for styles, but I could find some in most shops. Now I seem to be a 9 mostly, although with some trainers or boots I can manage an 8. I think the arches got flatter, whether through being heavier in the past or with middle age and the process hasn't reversed now that I've lost weight.
I was a size 10.5-11 shoe...and now I'm a size 10.5-11 shoe. Sigh... 10 is too small and you can only rarely find 10.5, so mostly it is size 11.
Yup! Right there with you. My feet have shrunk a bit
so now I am actually a 10, so some of the 11's are too
big. If they were cheapo shoes I just ditched them but
others I could put insoles in. My feet were a 10 in high
school 20 years ago so I doubt they'd go much smaller.
I have a lot of shoes that were not cheap, and that I really
like so no way no how am I getting rid of them.
Coach makes almost every shoe in a 10.5 - I often get
them on eBay. Getting Coach shoes cheap is one time
when it pays to have ridiculously huge feet!!!!!
I mentioned this to someone at work, because my other friend at work went down to a size 6 from a 8 when she lost a lot of weight, and he used to work at a shoe store and he knew why.
He said that because we have less weight on us pressing down on our feet, the natural arch of the foot comes back, thus shrinking the foot. The heavier we are, the more spread out it becomes.
This makes a lot of sense. I'm a 9 1/2-10 right now and was at Lady Footlocker last week getting new gym shoes when I asked a clerk to measure my feet. She told me that technically I was a size 8 1/2 but I was buying larger sizes to accommodate the width of my feet. And to make matters worse, one foot is much wider than the other.
I mentioned this to someone at work, because my other friend at work went down to a size 6 from a 8 when she lost a lot of weight, and he used to work at a shoe store and he knew why.
He said that because we have less weight on us pressing down on our feet, the natural arch of the foot comes back, thus shrinking the foot. The heavier we are, the more spread out it becomes.)
I wish this were true for me. I was never extremely overweight but twenty years of jobs that involved a lot of standing and walking have flattened my arches and spread my feet beyond hope of shrinking. I wore a size 9w shoe at my highest weight and I wear a size 9w shoe now.
I went down a shoe size but I didn't even realize it LOL. I tried on a pair of shoes in a rush and they were a little lose but I figured they would fit with a thicker sock. I tried them on at home and they just fell off my feet. That's what I guess for shopping in a rush. They were non refundable too, darn
I went from a 9W to a regular 8 or 8.5. It is great not having to pay extra for a wide width.
Yup! I started in a tight 10.5 and now I have some 9's that fit. I was just noticing the other day that my toes used to be chubby and completely touch... now there is space between them! Crazy.
