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Location: TN | I have been battling with my weight for a long time. I was comfortable riding up until 2003. I got pregnant and gained a lot of weight. I have yet to lose it. I am struggling with everything. I feel like my weight has set me back years in regard to competing. Most of it being mental and some of it physical. I am now, once again, trying to lose. I am down 11 pounds with about 60 more to go. I have never and will never want to quit riding but the time is now! I turned 50 this year and I really want to make some progress with my dream.....good luck to everyone trying..... |
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 Balance Beam and more...
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Location: 31 lengths farms | GLP - 2015-02-06 6:29 PM
I just wanted to thank everyone on this post. I just walked for 30 minutes and made a better choice for supper tonight! I think I will come back to read this post for motivation to keep me going. BHW is a truly special place! 
That's awesome!!! I haven't been as good this year about it as in the past but most the time in the winter when it gets too dark to ride by the time I get home and I'm having trouble making it to the gym and getting horses fed or something, any thing, done with them I try to combine the two and hand walk one or two of them up our driveway 10x each. Our drive way is about 100 feet long and steep, steep enough that even when it is dry I put the truck in 4-wheel drive to pull the trailer out of it just to be safe. I'll try to jog and have the gelding trot it with me at least 5 of his 10 trips, I can't keep up with CC and she gets mad about that and it just gets messy, LOL!!! The other thing I try to do is if watching a program, I will lay on the floor during commercials and do crunches or leg lifts or hold planks until the show comes back on. Just little things that help make bigger things and dont' cost you any time out of your evening.
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I just read the headlines
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| Today I am going to get a mat and do some planks and pushups during commercial breaks. Speaking of TV is anyone a Big Bang fan? Last night I bout teared up when Sheldon told Amy he loved her!  |
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Location: Back in MT BABY!!! | GLP - 2015-02-06 10:32 AM Today I am going to get a mat and do some planks and pushups during commercial breaks. Speaking of TV is anyone a Big Bang fan? Last night I bout teared up when Sheldon told Amy he loved her!
I like it...usually watch random reruns of it when I can't find anything else. That's HUGE for Sheldon!!!
Think I"'m going to try and do planks during commercials...that's a good idea. |
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| I've been stalking this post. I haven't posted yet but here it goes.
In high school I was as fit as a person could be. I had a BMI of 7 , yes really 7, but still weighed 150 pounds as a sophomore and wore a size 5. I was pure muscle. I worked my a$$ off every day. I rode for several hours every evening and then tied my practice goats for up to two hours. I stayed up late to make sure I got my practice in and my homework done every week night. It paid off. My senior year I was the state reserve goat tying champion. Yay me. I was "lucky" then. I could eat anything on the planet and not have to worry about the effects. I was rocking a body that people pay for. Then I graduated and along came college. I couldn't "afford" to eat right nor did I have the time to dedicate to the practice pen. I gained 15 pounds, OK I could live with that, I still looked OK. I wasn't super thin anymore but I still looked good in jeans and tight little top. I quit college and moved back home, got married and rented a place of our own. Adulthood sucked. With working and trying to keep a house up I lost even more time. I gained another 5 pounds. Then I lost two babies. One in the middle of the second term. In set depression and another 20 pounds. I let myself go and started hating the way I looked. That was 2009. 2011 I was blessed with my little girl but was able to shed the pregnancy weight I had gained and maintain 190. But pregnancy didn't do my body well and I noticed sagging where it shouldn't have been. I now absolutely hated the way I was looking. I started wearing sweat shirts in the summer just to hide. And it was all I could do to run my horse at a race. If pictures were taken I wouldn't post them or even buy them. I thought I looked horrible and I definitely felt horrible.
Then in 2013 I started having balance issues. I almost fell of my horse twice that year and got bucked off 3 times. I hadn't been bucked off that many times my whole life up until that point and used to break colts for a living. As my balance dwindled so did what little confidence I had. I rode at home but no longer wanted to go to races. Especially not in the state I live in at all. I went to a few in a neighboring state where I felt comfortable, it was more of a family environment and way the people were way less judgmental, or so I felt.
In the winter of 2013 I started feeling like I was no longer comfortable in the saddle. I have a really nice mare and I was feeling like even in practice I was always behind and hindering her. Could my weight be causing this much issue with my balance and ability? I assumed yes. I was to the point I was going to sell all my horses. I was doing them no justice when I took them to races and I didn't even like riding any more. I hated the way I jiggled.
I started having very sever headaches and was diagnosed with a brain defect in the summer of 2014 and so came brain surgery to repair it. I wasn't able to much of anything but walk for the first 6 months. Well, I can walk all day every day and not lose a single ounce. I gained another 23 pounds last year.
I decided I didn't want to be this person anymore. I lost a few pounds here or there with a drink that I had seen several people have success with. Then around Thanksgiving I got lazy and stopped taking the drink. I ate like a king through the holidays and then noticed that because I got lazy, I gained back a few of the pounds I had lost.
This winter I started roping again. The surgery worked and I am gaining my balance and confidence back :-) My husband's heel horse is very small and takes very good care of me, so I decided for him I would lose my excess weight. I got serious about losing the weight in the last 2 weeks and two days. I set my goal to lose 20% of my weigh rather than pounds and broke my first down to 10%. I started drinking my drink and watching what I ate. I started exercising at least 20 minutes a day and I am happy to report that as of Wednesday I was down 8 pounds! I have almost lost my first weight loss goal.
I see a lot of people that have commented they want to lose their weight but they have a certain poundage goal which is fine. But if I could make any suggestion it would be to stop thinking in pounds and start thinking in percentages. Start small like 10%. Then after you lose that 10% go for the next 10%. My cousin was a fitness coach for a while and said goals like this seem much more obtainable to the brain than saying "my goal is to lose 50 pounds". I have to say I agree. I have almost met my first goal in just over two weeks and I am feeling accomplished for it. Set your goal high but break it down into smaller ones that is easier for the brain to digest!
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Balance Beam and more...
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Location: 31 lengths farms | Over the years a friend and I have joined a few fitness camps here and there, more for someone else to be in charge of what we do working out than anything else. Its kind of like going to a clinic on your horse...you ride at home by yourself and your horse does everything you ask nicely but your results at races still aren't what you had hoped for type thing. You go to a clinic to get another perspective, we went to the fit camps for some one else to say "instead of doing 100 crunches at once, try doing 4 sets of 25 really slowly"same thing a different way . I know I drive the fitness experts nuts in these cases because I refuse to be weighed or measured. I do not need a tape measure or a scale to tell me how I'm doing. I can feel how I'm doing, I can feel it by how my clothes fit, how my body feels getting on my horse, by the way I don't obsess over how my shirt lays on my stomach. I let the scale freak me out years ago,again on the high and low end of it and monopolize my life because of the number that showed. I wasn't any happier at 110 than I was at 185+. At least at 185 I could move a bale of hay into the truck to go to a race, LOL!!! I know some people need that number, some people need that measurement but for me it just always seemed to fuel a compulsive responses in me. |
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| Aim for progress............not perfection!  |
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Balance Beam and more...
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Location: 31 lengths farms | Absolutely! I can remember when I was at my thinnest and a good 20 lbs or so underweight I realized one day that no matter how thin I got that my body is what it is, I'm long bodied, short legged and thick thighed and making myself nuts trying to be "thinner" was never going to change that nor was it going to ruin my "modeling" career,, LOL!!! I really did learn to love my body, not the parts of it but what this body could do. It can haul hay, it can ride 3 horses in an afternoon at 50 years old, hurts like heck the next day but it can by God do it and love every minute of it. It can run a 5K in 29 minutes and change and still spot gymnasts on skills that require me to lift and hold them. With that change in mindset came some changes in my eating habits but I still am the kind of person that would rather run and extra couple of sprints if need be and eat the cupcake. That is just what works for me, some people do better not having the cupcake and I admire those people too. |
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| what type saddles does everyone run in? I'm looking for something new that holds me in better |
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Location: Nowhere Land | hlynn - 2015-01-30 9:19 PM
Trying to find a good quality 16 inch saddle without having to custom order one. That's the biggest struggle.
I'm ok with knowing I need a 16. Others need to accept that fact and stop trying to squeeze an 18+ butt into a 15 inch saddle. No bueno.
Oh and treeless. No one over 160 or so should be riding in a treeless. Period. End of story. Do your horse a favor and just get the tree.
People thinking your horse sucks and can't run faster than 3D when in actuality it could totally kick everyone's butt f your own butt wasn't 12 sizes bigger than the average little can chaser.
And finding nice jeans in big girl sizes is pretty much impossible unless you enjoy your jeans doubling as a bra.
That's about it besides the obvious. :) LOL
I have a Kelly Kaminksky Circle Y 16" .. i think they make 17" too. |
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