Before my first bout with cancer in 2016, I weighed over 300 lbs. I'm sure as a child I must have started small, but in my memory, and in my (Health app) records, I have never weighed under 200. At that weight, of course I'm #Diabetic. Since 2016 and for many reasons, my weight has slowly (oh so slowly) been going down. For a while now, I've take a #GLP1, specifically for diabetes. I started on #Ozempic. I eventually moved to #Mounjaro, and have reached the full 15mg dose and been on it for a little over a month now. The combination of a Glp1 and the exercise I've been doing has finally gotten me down to under 200 lbs (well ... just under, I guess. Recently I was at 194.5). I can't tell you how happy I am. How great I feel. How weird my face looks in the mirror. How much my wife complains about my legs being way too skinny.

At this new size, none of my clothes fit. For shirts, that's not too bad. For pants, it's disastrous.

I **am** buying smaller and smaller pants, but in the meanwhile, I've been using a ratcheting #Belt; #RatchetingBelt. I love this thing. It's always the right size. It holds my pants up; and it's stiff enough I can hang my #Leatherman off of it. I recently added a flashlight, too! (My friend @jammcq
thinks I'm going overboard).
I use the #KoreEssentials webbing belt in black with an X5 buckle. Here's the page: https://www.koreessentials.com/products/x-series-buckle-usa-made-black-tactical-nylon-gun-belt-1-5?variant=42026049339451. This belt makes wearing my existing pants possible. Kind of "bunchy", but possible. And as I lose weight, I can cut the belt down to fit my smaller waist.

If you need any of these features: stiff, ratcheting, strong enough to hang stuff off of, good looking, one size fits all ... I **strongly** recommend this belt. I don't know if it's considered pricey or not. Never bought belts much before; but I **can** tell you I would have paid significantly more and still been happy.