[10gallonhat]

Spex - excellent, it appears as though mine do have the extra material. I've attached some pictures below.

One thing I find strange is that the jackets still seem to fit alright. Does weight gain just not impact jacket fit as much?

Il Signor Crispone - No offense taken. I gained weight intentionally as I took up bodybuilding; as a relatively short man (5'7") I prefer to have a little extra weight on my frame. I suppose I could cut down on the fat, but most of my new shirts are now sized to fit this larger size so then I would have to buy even more things! Most of my clothes fit me perfectly and would likely end up being far too large if I dropped 10-15 pounds, so I am not even sure if I would want to. If only clothes could be sized up and down at the press of a button.

 

[10gallonhat]

Searching Best Fit - thanks for the info. I'll have it sized up and see how it fits. It's not too bad now, it's just not something I'd want to be wearing all day if I cared about comfort. About how much would it cost to have a tailor enlarge it?
Regarding bodybuilding, my goal is of course to build muscle and lose fat, but I've also gained fat while gaining muscle due to just eating more, and probably not as clean as I could be doing. I have gone through the cycles and lost fat in the past, however once I got to my current weight I've mostly been maintaining it and therefore have sized all of my new clothes to fit this size, which makes me not really want to lose too much weight because then nothing would fit anymore. It may help to know that I used to be *extremely* skinny, so going up a couple of waist sizes put me more on par with the average as opposed to making me "fat."

 

[10gallonhat]

I have one pair of pants taken in on waist for about $20 CDN. To enlarge it, the tailor needs to perform the same tasks so I imagine that is probably right in the ballpark.

If you gain fat, that means you get more energy intake that what you consume every day, and that translate into fat. Eat more protein and less carbohydrate to reduce your energy intake while building muscle. That ways, you can gain muscle while not taking fat. When you have more muscle, you can eat more because your body need it. You don't have to eat more to gain muscle, you do, however, have to lift weight to gain muscle. Using weight as your guide is simply misleading because you are not counting the weight as fat or muscle. Feeling the fat around your waist and the muscle on your bicep is the true measurement of fitness.

Less fat, more muscle.

Do you bodybuild? If so, my question is: if I want my body to stay at exactly the same size (not necessarily weight, but physical size), with the only difference being my waist becoming about 1.5 sizes smaller, about how much fat needs to be lost to go down that number of sizes, and what ratio of muscle to fat would need to be gained in order to retain the same size everywhere else? ie. if I want my chest, shoulders, and arms to stay the same size they are now, but I lose a noticeable amount of fat, would I need to gain back the same poundage in lean muscle or would I need much more muscle to equal the same volume of fat? I don't actually want to lose any size/volume, because then all my clothes would be too big.