I weigh 145, I'm 5'7, and I have this issue with my D loop belt. I have chosen to ignore it.

Boom you killed it with the fat jokes, I'm dead.

Yes. I'm afraid. I'm beginning to have the same problem myself after I've stopped working out and starting to grow a belly instead of muscles.

I'm in shape...round is a shape. My solution was to stop wearing belts.

I've got furniture disease. My chest has fallen into my drawers. I'm about 212 now. Several years back my waist got up to 42 and I was about 225. I said to myself, "Self, this will never do." I am still trying to get below 200. When was the first/last time your waist size and your age coincided? I think for me it was around 29.

Hmmm... I really don't want to go up to a 44 inch waist tho.

I suffer from this problem....its a combo of your build and the length of the rise of your pants. The rise = the length of the groin area of the pants...you have regular rise(sits just below the belly button), mid rise and low rise. Every inch larger in waste the rise increases in length, hence when you see a very overweight person their wearing their pants pulled up to their arm pitsI wear suspenders under my shirt and then I can wear the pants where I want.