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I realized that many of my shoes are now too loose. When purchasing a new pair of boots I had to keep sizing down. For that particular style, my shoe size decreased by one full number! Some styles are only a half size too big. Totally unexpected. I assume that carrying all of that extra weight also causes the foot to spread out further. On another positive note, I no longer require wide calf boots.

Anyway, I was just curious to see if anyone else has experienced this. Carry on. 😊

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Absolutely, the tops of our feet tend to store a lot of fat. That's an exciting Non-scale victory, congrats!

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Same, I even had an assistant in a shoe shop describe my foot as narrow 🤣 me ! Old fat foot that had a wide foot now narrow?? Who would have thought. Even wearing heels is doable now.

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I've read this so many times and kind of expected it but never experienced it! My shoe size is pretty much exactly what it was 120lbs ago. Weird!!

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Maybe I'm hungry or something, but I keep reading the title of this thread as food shrinkage, and I think, duh, what did you think would happen when your stomach shrunk!

That's all. You can all go back to talking about feet now. :)

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it seems to happen to most of us.

My size didn't change, but I went from a wide to a medium. But a lot of people go down a size - or a half size - too.

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Size didn't change too, but normal width now. I remember looking at some pictures when I was around 295ish, and thought wow, even my feet even look fat. Looked like my tennis shoes were stuffed sausages. Not just my feet but my fingers, hands, wrists, neck and unfortunately, I lost a lot of facial volume.

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Your feet get fat just like the rest of you so when you lose weight you loose it on your feet too. I usually was a 38.5 but then went to a 39 when I gained my last 15kg. Now I wear a 37.5/38.

Wait till your rings start to slip off your fingers cause, yep, even your hands & fingers get thinner.

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WOOHOO! Nothing wrong with that.

I wish my feet would shrink! I hate having big feet. lol

My dress shoes do fit looser now but even when buying new shoes, still the same size. BOO!

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Absolutely. I was wearing a 10 wide or extra wide and often that didn't fit. Now I wear a 9 wide or extra wide. Unfortunately for me, my feet have always been wide. I actually just went to Fleet Feet to get new walking shoes and they do a scan and show you how wide your feet are in comparison to other women. Yeah. Mine are at top. [emoji849]
That being said, they were also wider at my highest weight, so how they're just my "normal" wide width. Lol And I can see the bones and veins in my feet!

I am a shoe junkie and had a lot of really nice, expensive shoes I had to get rid of, which made me a little sad, but I sure have enjoyed buying new ones. [emoji12]

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