Blackcrusader
Contributor
For those that have a body type that gets you close to weight balanced with a standard setup, count yourself lucky.
This 300 pound fat fella has no problems getting his horizontal trim worked out. It does not matter what body shape you have you can always get into being properly weighted and balanced so you can dive comfortably in any position and being horizontal is dead easy. So is sitting like Buddha in the water.
Your issue is that you said you sink when not moving which means you are perhaps either over weighted or not using your BCD for what it is designed to do. Add more air. You need to put weights in your hands and dive with them in front of you and let that counter balance you to horizontal so you are not at that 45 degree angle.