*sigh*..... i'm dreaming of the possibility of one day have having feet half a size narrower so I can buy lots and lots of glamorous shoes.. right now I have to go to large feet shops

Have any of you had experience with dropping shoe sizes, I'd love someone to tell me are my flippers gonna shrink any?



Kim

Oh yes it does happen, I was a size 9 ladies before Atkins, now I'm comfortably wearing a size 8. Hopefully I can get into a 7, but thats only a dream right now.

I love shoes! Especially boots!

I'm the type of person that when I gain weight I gain it everywhere (face, neck arms hands feet etc.) When I weighed 137 lbs I wore a size 6 ring (on ring finger) and a size 8 shoe. At my heaviest I wore a mans size 11 ring and a womens size 10 shoe. My fingers don't look fat, but I now where a size 10 ring and a nine shoe. So I would think that if you tend to gain weight all over then you will probably loose some of that weight on your feet too.

Kim,

When I got married 2 years ago, I was at my heaviest. I had to buy 7 1/2 shoes for the wedding when I normally wear a size 6 1/2. Since I have lost almost 40 pounds now, I can get my feet back into my "normal" shoes that I was wearing before my weight gain and I noticed I now have to have my wedding rings resized as well.

So your feet will get "skinny" as you lose the weight I also noticed my feet don't swell or hurt anymore either. Which is a major plus!

Picturing men reading this thread shuddering in fear, I'll rush to assure them that males do not undergo this sort of "across the board" shrinkage everywhere!
(Besides, how fair would that be to those who, before their weight loss, hadn't seen "it" in many years? )

I agree Bill. Its not the size that matters its the quality of the shoe!

...mmm that explains why my shoes are getting floppy!
...and boys...I hear you. I have always been generously endowed "up top" and as I shrink they seem to be even more prominent!

......you could see some apparent growth yourselves

lesley

they say Italian shoes are the best.

I had a friend tell me once about a thread on another board where the males were swearing they had experienced . . . um . . . bigger . . . feet . . . on an adequate protein/low carb diet. I'm with K-Louise, at a size 9 1/2, I'm hoping for the pitter-patter of my little feet, not bigger ones!

On the topic of shrinkage of a less than desireable kind...I just saw an ad in Muscle and Fitness Hers for a topical ointment that contains a drug that will convince the fat cells in your breasts to not release fat as fuel. It is touted as a solution to the "I'm losing weight...which is great...but now my breasts are sagging! problem.

I'd rather have sagging breasts and 50 fewer pounds myself! Isn't that what a good bra is for?

Lisa

Yes Kim dear, there is a smaller shoe size possibility...as I am now buying 1/2-1 full size smaller and am not 1/2 way there yet...was 7-1/2 now am 6 sometimes 6-1/2 and have gone from wide width to a medium or standard width also! I hope you experience this also!

Good luck guys but it all sounds encouraging...and ladies the sagging retreats if you start waking up those muscle....thats one of the first things I noticed in starting BFL....like where did those come from....much more managable.

Bsayne

I thought it was just me! I wear 61/2 wides and I have noticed in the past week that my feet hurt because they are flopping around in my favorite shoes! Guess I'll have to go shoe shopping this weekend. Bummer! Hee! Hee!

I've only lost about 8 pounds or so, so far, but my boobs have definitely shrunk a bit! Actually its a good thing.....the girls have always been pretty big, but now instead of being a D (which I was in complete denial about, still stuffing them stubbornly into my 36C's)....they are a lovely PERKY C! They really perked up. I don't know if it was just the weight loss, my age (22) or the fact that I weight train a little, but I am thrilled...

PS: The lat pull is the best workout for breasts: it works the breast muscles AND the lower back. I get this annoying back roll right under the bra that I am constantly trying to get rid of.....two birds with one stone!)

Cheers!

I wear birkenstocks, so cal inhabitant donchya know , and they are getting floppier than even I wear them! YES!! BTW I used to wear a 6 and my last birkies were an 8 so I'm hoping they will shrink more cause I could prolly wear a 7 now.
Jo

All I can say is that my toes are startin' to look pretty skinny! ...Let's hope the rest follows!