Ove the last month or two my pants size has gone up. I have been in denial, trying desperately to hold on to my old pants size and stuffing myself in what can only be called obscenely tight pants. I've burst the buttons on two of my pants in the process, sacrificing to the greater good beloved pants of yesteryear. And, alas, the purchasing of pants in the dreaded new pants size has begun.

I have been the same waist size for years and it is not like I am eating any differently or exercising any more or less. But the mid-section is getting thicker and it is starting to concern me a little bit. The pants size I am at now is depressing but to go beyond is unthinkable. I already had to face the misery or "husky" pants as a lad. Are "big and tall" stores next on the agenda?

It was so much easier when I was just wearing my wife's maternity pants...
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I kept reading waiting for the wife's pants thing to come up


I know how you feel. I need to take 4 inches off my waist, and my trainer told me it will take 8 months to a year to safely do it and still hold on the the muscle I want.

oh, that reminds me.

People who want praise for losing a couple pounds when they've been dieting for a week, its in your head.
You havent lost anything. Accept maybe a bowel movement.

Your weight fluctuates in about a five pound span.
Weigh yourself in the morning and you might weigh 147.
Weigh yourself before you go to bed and you might weigh 152.

It takes work and determination to lose real pounds.


The older you get the less you need to eat.
Those 2000 calories a day need to be cut down to 1200 calories a day.
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I think this is my last pants related thread. I may have covered every area of the pants genre.

Imago said:

4 inches? well, you can just ask me to remove my penis off your waist.

in the last year i've lost 20 pounds and i went from a 32" waist to a 30" waist.

i can't fit into my old semi-baggy pants anymore, but i'm wondering if i should keep them for fattie pants just in case this whole skinny bizness is a fluke.

Yay! Another pants thread
I love these!

ThreadCula said:

They are really only popular if I am a)cross dressing or b)caught in an embarasing situation vis a vis pants.

Anx said:

Don't tell me your secret is eating healthy and exercising--I wanna hear about a new diet fad!

Sounds like middle age spread. Your metabolism slows down as you age, so you either have to eat less or do more to stay the same.

IT SUCKS!!

I hate putting on last year's Spring/Summer clothes and having them be too tight. It's depressing. I can pretty much fit into last year's dresses and jeans, but my dimensions have changed a bit. Maybe it's not me, maybe it's the clothes...
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Imago said:

Me too!

That is one of my favorite org stories of all time!

live4lust said:

fine. i replace all my starches with heroin. sally struthers was talking about it on 'the view' and i thought what the hell -

i'm not 2 obsessive w/ weight - but i do have a number that i try to stay under. but i have great control of my weight- i still fit into clothes that i wore in middle skewl- 6 yrs ago.

but seriously-- its all dieting and exercising. i eat healthy and walk alot. i don't go 2 the gym but i get my work out from cleaning the house- seriously.

My obsession with pants disasters began when I was a child. Every year before school started there we would be at Sears, picking out my new clothes for the year. And besides the "husky" embarrassment I was somehow talked into getting corduroys of various pastel colors to wear. I think my parents thought they were cool or maybe they invested heavily in the cords industry. Regardless, the red chafed legs and the "scritch scritch" noise my legs made as they rubbed together are not exactly the fondest memories of my childhood. And now, damn it if I don't have this new problem of my metabolism slowing down to a crawl.

Makes a man wish he lived in a nudist colony without the need for pants...

applekisses said:

i'm right there with you gotta

i keep saying "i need to get back to the pool"
but now i really need to do it already!

Actually I had to deal w/ a similar problem. I had some pants from my teenage years (I'm 22 now) and the pants wouldn't go up my ass! Even though my stomach was flatter than it was then. My hips must've been smaller or something. I gradually got rid of anything that didn't go over my ass. Remember squeezing yourself into tight pants just makes you look fatter.