Me, too, on the shoe size. Weird.

Don't hang all your hopes on a flat tummy, though. Even when you get down to goal weight, you can still have pooches of fat here and there. The only way to reshape your body is through weight training. Without regimented weight training, you'll lose pounds, but you'll end up simply a smaller version of the shape you were in before. If you had flabby arms before, you'll have them after. If you were a pear shape with hips and thighs disproportionately larger than your waist and shoulders, you'll have the same shape after losing pounds, just smaller.

I don't mean to discourage you. If you're interested, Body For Life is a great program. There's a whole forum on it in the Exercise area of this board.