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Constantly have to pull up (belted) jeans

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#1 ·
Jeans / sport coat are standard in my office.

Normally I pull it off very well but I've noticed a problem lately. Due to a touch of middle aged spread pushing my belt down, I find my jeans ride too low now & I have to constantly pull them up.

Any recommendations (other than lose the extra lbs which I'm already trying)? Should I give low rise a try?

I'm 6' 197lbs muscular build if that matters.
 
#5 ·
This is a common affliction for which higher rise pants is probably the answer, with suspenders being optimal.

Good look finding the higher rise jeans. Levi’s shrink to fit can come close, but are inconsistent. Wranglers have higher rise but look like Wranglers.

After I good deal of looking around I actually discovered a chain called Dillard’s actually sells well made khakis or chinos or whatever you want to call them under the Cremieux brand that actually rise high enough to be worn comfortably with a belt and stay up.
 
#8 ·
I'm just going ignore etiquette and pass along advice my cardiologist gave me: when your body starts asking you for a more generous wardrobe, *don't listen*.

Just suffer the indignities of pooled pants-legs until you get that spread under control.

Once you accommodate "middle aged spread" - which is hardly the inevitability it's made out to be - there's no going back!

DH
 
#12 ·
[W]hen your body starts asking you for a more generous wardrobe, *don't listen*. Once you accommodate "middle aged spread" - which is hardly the inevitability it's made out to be - there's no going back! DH
So true about middle-age spread not being inevitable. A relatively slim waistline can be maintained throughout life, though doing so will probably mean that you'll need to habitually eat less than in your younger days.

The actor Gary Cooper said that whenever be noticed he was gaining weight, he'd simply cut back on the food until he was down to the weight he wanted. "I push back from the groceries" is how he put it.

Jack Lord, the star of "Hawaii Five-O" (the REAL "Hawaii Five-0"--the one that ran from 1968 to 1980) always looked in shape. He said that whenever his wife noticed that his waistline was thickening, she'd feed him nothing but papaya for dinner until he had slimmed back down.
 
#13 ·
^^Hmmn...The Papaya diet? I had not heard of that one, though I have used the orange diet and the cabbage diet. I think the only real majoc related to those "one item" diets is that you get so sick of that one item that you largely quit eating all together! LOL. ;) Gary Coopers "push back from the groceries diet maks workable sense.
 
#15 · (Edited)
Low rise jeans will likely solve the drooping jeans issue but it's going look terrible as your waistline will be pooling over the top of your jeans - the dreaded muffin top look ( left).
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High rise jeans are better alternatives but the best one is simply to lose the weight which is easier said than done.

Middle age spread is not an inevitability. In university I wore 32" waist paints. Thirty some years later I'm still a 32. My secret - exercise, eat sensibly, avoid processed foods, and watch my weight. If it starts creeping up its time to start reducing my food intake.
 
#23 ·
I thought about this and find that pants that have high enough rise to go above my ilium (I looked it up) will stay up with a belt. Anything else will fall to my hips.

I read an article the other day from the era when suspenders were being supplanted by belts, in which a doctor wrote that belts themselves cause “distended” stomachs.

When you see people with large stomachs extending over tight belts, you think he might have a point. I know that I have much better posture when wearing suspenders.
 
#27 ·
I find that the jeans that fit me best and don't ride down have a bit of plastic in them (2% polyurethane at least in the pair I am wearing now) and somehow manage to hug my body so that they don't slip. Among other things if you have a bit of an ass you can use that to help keep your pants up (so that there is some resistance to slipping is not only from your hip bones but from some meat in your rear). For those with no glutes and a gut then braces are the only option to keep them up unless you can work on the dreaded double bulge - higher rise trousers with a belt that squeezes mid gut and pushes enough below the waist to act as a barrier to slippage. Not particularly attractive either but better than the full gut over the belt look.
 
#38 ·
@toplel - I shall now recap all of the fine recommendations our distinguished members of have shared to assist you with your original question.

...this should be fun...
  1. Get new pants @SG_67
  2. Wear Khakis @Flanderian
  3. Read the Keep pants up tips thread @mikel
  4. Wear high rise pants @richard warren @London380sl
  5. Buy a new belt @Howard
  6. Dump the belt. Wear braces (suspenders) instead. @eagle2250 @JBierly
  7. Don't listen to your body's request of a more generous waredrobe @Dhaller
  8. Wear custom/bespoke jeans @WA
  9. Diet/exercise @Charles Dana @paxonus @delicious_scent @Shaver @Hebrew Barrister
  10. Have beefy buttocks @JBierly
  11. Wear stretch jeans @JBierly
  12. Abstain from alcohol @Mike Petrik
  13. Abstain from food. Drink only alcohol @paxonus :)
  14. Pick up your falling down pants @Howard
  15. Juice (not the drinking kind) @JBierly
  16. Drink straight alcohol, no mixers, beer, wine, etc. @Hebrew Barrister
Well, that WAS very enjoyable.

Quite a fine list of suggestions if I may say so.

@toplel - thoughts?
 
#40 ·
@toplel - I shall now recap all of the fine recommendations our distinguished members of have shared to assist you with your original question.

...this should be fun...
  1. Get new pants @SG_67
  2. Wear Khakis @Flanderian
  3. Read the Keep pants up tips thread @mikel
  4. Wear high rise pants @richard warren @London380sl
  5. Buy a new belt @Howard
  6. Dump the belt. Wear braces (suspenders) instead. @eagle2250 @JBierly
  7. Don't listen to your body's request of a more generous waredrobe @Dhaller
  8. Wear custom/bespoke jeans @WA
  9. Diet/exercise @Charles Dana @paxonus @delicious_scent @Shaver @Hebrew Barrister
  10. Have beefy buttocks @JBierly
  11. Wear stretch jeans @JBierly
  12. Abstain from alcohol @Mike Petrik
  13. Abstain from food. Drink only alcohol @paxonus :)
  14. Pick up your falling down pants @Howard
  15. Juice (not the drinking kind) @JBierly
  16. Drink straight alcohol, no mixers, beer, wine, etc. @Hebrew Barrister
Well, that WAS very enjoyable.

Quite a fine list of suggestions if I may say so.

@toplel - thoughts?
Clearly you missed one - hormone replacement/supplement therapy.

And to add one - Liposuction.
 
#39 ·
At 17, I graduated from high school weighing about 110. I'll be 67 in September and weigh about 210. 20 pounds per decade. 2 pounds per year. Guess that ain't too bad, 'eh?

Jeans? Cargo shorts? Don't even wear them much around the house, khakis much more comfortable!
 
#46 ·
What I have found best for me is one bite less for a few weeks, then another bite less, and so on. This way the stomach shrinks very slowly, and I don't notice. Plus, the habit of putting tooo much in my mouth diminishes over time better this way. If I try to loose weight to quickly I end up benge eating, which defeats the attacks.
My weight seems to be going up (breakfast is to blame).
Think ideal weight would be 145-150. If I ever get there, I'll know.
Thanksgiving and Christmas are the enemies for losing weight this past year.
 
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