My feet have shrunk! WTF?!

Did you know that when you lose weight, your feet shrink? I had no idea! I knew that my feet had been growing over the past several years, but I thought it was the fish bowl syndrome. You know how they say if you put a fish in a tank, and there is room for it to grow, it will grow to a size to fit the tank? Well, I believed feet do the same thing. Yeah; I have always had wide feet anyway, and since so few shoes are available in wide widths, sometimes I'd have to go up a size to get one wide enough for my feet. I used to be a size 8. Then it was an 8 1/2. When I was at my heaviest, sometimes it was even a 9. It seemed what I really needed was an 8 3/4, but they don't make those.

Well, I bought several pairs of shoes when I started the diet. This particular shoe here, I had bought in an 8 1/2, and I could barely squeeze my foot into it. And since I had no intentions of reducing my foot size by way of Aschenputtel, I opted instead to purchase a pair in a larger size. Alas, they were still a rather tight fit.

Today, I took a nostalgic tour of my closet, trying on old clothes to see what I can get back into. I spied the shoes and thought, "I forgot about these." Naturally, I had to try them on and see how they fit.

They don't. Oh there's plenty of room now! I get that my feet are much more slender, but how the heck did they get shorter too?!