blakep82
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| posted on 21/5/10 at 08:44 PM |
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how do you measure for trousers?
like, i wear 34" waist jeans, but if i measure around me with a tape measure, its 40" around?! what am i missing?
tried my suit on for my brothers wedding in 2 weeks, and it don't fit... eek, need to get my tummy down, but need to know how much and how to
check without getting the whistle out
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ReMan
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| posted on 21/5/10 at 08:54 PM |
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tomgregory2000
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| posted on 21/5/10 at 08:58 PM |
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about 6" buy the soud of it  
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blakep82
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| posted on 21/5/10 at 09:00 PM |
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all very useful but i'm serious! how can i wear 34" jeans, if i measure 40"?! i mean i'm not fat, just need to lose a bit
of the belly to get this suit back on. I'm NOT buying another one ha ha
away out for a run along the river front...
[Edited on 21/5/10 by blakep82]
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stevebubs
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| posted on 21/5/10 at 09:00 PM |
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Does your belly hang over the jeans when you wear them?
Sort of useful...
http://www.menswear-discounts.com/cgi-bin/web_store/web_stor
e.cgi?page=fitting.shtml
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blakep82
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| posted on 21/5/10 at 09:03 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by stevebubs
Does your belly hang over the jeans when you wear them?
Sort of useful...
http://www.menswear-discounts.com/cgi-bin/web_store/web_stor
e.cgi?page=fitting.shtml
nah, doesn't really hang over, just sticks out a little. but see, i took the tape measure to me when i was wearing these jeans, and measured
around the waist band. weird. i tried like it says in that link too
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MikeR
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| posted on 21/5/10 at 09:13 PM |
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get to marks and spencers at 9am, find random bloke wandering around in the suit sections looking like he works there - talk to him.
They'll sort you out.
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Confused but excited.
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| posted on 21/5/10 at 09:29 PM |
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"doesn't really hang over, just sticks out a little"
I suffer from the same syndrone. I'm 17 stone.
It's called being overweight. Get over it!
Tell them about the bent treacle edges!
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zilspeed
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| posted on 21/5/10 at 09:47 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Confused but excited.
"doesn't really hang over, just sticks out a little"
I suffer from the same syndrone. I'm 17 stone.
It's called being overweight. Get over it!
Or sort it.
I was 19 Stone.
Now 13 1/2.
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cd.thomson
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| posted on 21/5/10 at 09:48 PM |
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hi bud, random fact of the evening:
i was full trained as a "tailor" at john lewis!
without getting a tape on you I cant be certain but it sounds like youre measuring around the hips rather than around the waist.
Also if youre doing it on top of clothes you need to subtract up to 2 inches depending on thickness of clothing.
Jeans are worn a lot differently from suit trousers and also they tend to deform as you wear them (ever washed a pair then tried to get in them?!) so
its possibly your 34" trousers are now more 34andabit".
Craig
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Nash
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| posted on 21/5/10 at 10:05 PM |
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To get technical for a moment you need to take into account your inside leg measurement. Get this right and it will place the waist in the correct
position.
I assume you know how to measure the inside leg? Measure from the. Centre line of the crouch to the trouser length require. Unless you are female in
which case make the lady wear a mini skirt, take a wooden 3ft rule, ram it up as far as it will go. Pull it down take the wet from the dry and add two
inches for the turn ups.
Hope that helps?
................. Neil
It's What You Do Next That Counts.
Build It, Buy It, Drive It:
Southern Kit Car Club
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Daddylonglegs
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| posted on 21/5/10 at 10:09 PM |
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Maybe the label on them is wrong? 
It looks like the Midget is winning at the moment......
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blakep82
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| posted on 21/5/10 at 10:31 PM |
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thanks craig and neil
just went out for a walk/jog for a total of 2.6 miles, which apparently used (according to the most scientific thing i've got, my phone with
GPS) 363kcal. if i was to make an effort to keep that up just ab out every night, i reckon that would make a difference. problem is i'm in
another job where i'm stuck sitting down for 11 hours a day. if i was off work for the next 2 weeks, i'd shrink right down again.
tomorrow day will be spent on the car i think, then back out tomorrow nite
took a total of 40 mins tonight, meh, the aim is to get that down to 30 by mid week?
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Paul TigerB6
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| posted on 22/5/10 at 01:33 AM |
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face it fat boy - you're a blimp!!!
[Edited on 22/5/10 by Paul TigerB6]
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 22/5/10 at 07:38 AM |
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While you're sat down if you stretch your legs out in front of you I find it pulls on your stomach muscles. May not be the most effective
excercise but if you can do it for 11 hours a day
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cliftyhanger
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| posted on 22/5/10 at 07:58 AM |
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yep, sit-ups is what you need...work up to 100 in the morning and again in the evening and it doesn't take long. Combine that with a bit of
running, press-ups and stay off the biscuits/beer
weight will go, stomach flatten. Simples! no rocket science to this stuff.
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mangogrooveworkshop
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| posted on 22/5/10 at 08:19 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by blakep82
thanks craig and neil
just went out for a walk/jog for a total of 2.6 miles, which apparently used (according to the most scientific thing i've got, my phone with
GPS) 363kcal. if i was to make an effort to keep that up just ab out every night, i reckon that would make a difference. problem is i'm in
another job where i'm stuck sitting down for 11 hours a day. if i was off work for the next 2 weeks, i'd shrink right down again.
tomorrow day will be spent on the car i think, then back out tomorrow nite
took a total of 40 mins tonight, meh, the aim is to get that down to 30 by mid week?
You work in a cube farm....mmmm
The bunch upstairs from our offices arrive as some nice slim newbies and just a few weeks later they are starting to put on the beef. No wonder
the local good food shop is some three miles away and all thats left is a vending machine in the building....loaded with sugary and fatty products. I
have regularly seen several quid being spent by staff on "food" out of this machine..... soon the slim girl that the boys talked about is
no longer slim....
Steve a guy who was stick thin got a driving job on the buses and he has piled on the pounds. Same problem long shifts and limited availability of
good food.
Oh dont fall for tesco pasta salads...they have as much fat in them as cheap sausages.....
Just have to eat less of the cr*p food and that is hard considering the west coast diet habits of high starch ,salt and fat.
Home of the deep fried mars bar and heart attack central.
good healthy food is expensive meat is tampered with and even the country crunch cereal has a load of fat added.....
read the labels and understand what the say.
You are what you eat..... it is true
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Peteff
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| posted on 22/5/10 at 09:02 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by blakep82
took a total of 40 mins tonight, meh, the aim is to get that down to 30 by mid week?
Where did you get those jeans, are they elasticated? I'm 5' 11" and weigh 70 kilos which is about 11 stone 2 lbs and I have a
34" waist. A friend of mine said he is still in a 36" waist but instead of 36" round it's now 36" under.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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Dangle_kt
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| posted on 22/5/10 at 10:46 AM |
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I work in an office, have done for years now, and have piled on the pounds.
Best thing I have found is to take food in at the start of the week.
I need something to make me feel full or I will be thrown to the vending gods.
So I take a pack of eggs and a loaf of bread.
Toast break, crack egg into a little water in the bottom of a cup, cover and bing in the microwave for 1 min in 20 second bursts. Poached egg on
toast. Filling, low fat, tasty and cheap.
Sure beats getting bent over by the butty lady for a salad which works out closer to £15 a week!
During the summer I have been taking in loads of salad stuff (not the pre chopped rip off stuff) and making my own salad each day. I find the heat
makes me less hungry.
all the best tubs...
[Edited on 22/5/10 by Dangle_kt]
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