How heavy am I? pics

I didn't see that thread Brighthair, but I don't go in NL very often.


PoppyAnderson said:
16 stone???? Get out. There's no way. Did you have bricks in your pockets when you got weighed? Seriously, 16 stone is like, size 20 odd and you're not that.
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I am roughly size 18 (lower half) and 20 (top half)

I have always been fairly 'heavy' even when a lot slimmer and fitter I don't go much below 11.5/12 stone.
 
experimental said:
I didn't see that thread Brighthair, but I don't go in NL very often.



I am roughly size 18 (lower half) and 20 (top half)

I have always been fairly 'heavy' even when a lot slimmer and fitter I don't go much below 11.5/12 stone.
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x posting on here. I'd say I was around 15 stone something in these (5ft11), and the bottom photo is me on a lightweightish 15.3hh TB

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Brighthair, do you get the same reaction of people not believing your weight?

Sometimes I find it very tempting to just say I'm 12 & a half stone!
 
experimental said:
Brighthair, do you get the same reaction of people not believing your weight?

Sometimes I find it very tempting to just say I'm 12 & a half stone!
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yep. Apart from a miserable nurse who weighed me and told me if I lost 2 stone I would lose 2 dress sizes. So I lost about 1 1/2 stone and am still the same dress size :confused:

The next nurse tried 3 sets of scales before believing me, and not the scales
 
Hi, around 12 stone, I work in a very large riding school and you could easily ride, T.Bs, cobs, warmbloods ect just about anything suitable for your height. People have gone overboard on weight your weight is not an issue to me,
 
experimental said:
I didn't see that thread Brighthair, but I don't go in NL very often.



I am roughly size 18 (lower half) and 20 (top half)

I have always been fairly 'heavy' even when a lot slimmer and fitter I don't go much below 11.5/12 stone.
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You really don't look sz 18 believe me. You look the same as me, I'm 6ft and am sz 12/14 but size 10 up top and I weight 12 stone ish. Maybe a bit more as iv got a bit off a belly coming which will get sorted, had a recent craving for cadburys whole nut but big bars at a time. So bad but oh so nice.
 
wow. I am shocked. I used to weigh 15.7st before i lost 4 stones and I looked WAY bigger than you - I was a size 20. and although I had a chunky ID I looked big for her. (perhaps its just all my weight must have been on thighs and boobs!!!! lol and i am only 5.5") You dont look 16st - your height must hide it well.
 
brighthair said:
x posting on here. I'd say I was around 15 stone something in these (5ft11), and the bottom photo is me on a lightweightish 15.3hh TB

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To me you look a nice healthy weight for your height. I'm sorry but I don't like really thin people you look just right. But would never say you were 15 stone. No way
 
Well you do not look 16stone! I'm almost 16 stone now. I managed to get down to 13 stone 10 at the end of summer last year but then I had a fall and fractured my back and due to various problems I havent been able to ride much this year so far so i've put loads of weight back on!

I've just bought a 15.2hh ISH who is a bit on the cobby side with a good amount of bone. I have no worries that he'll be able to carry my weight.
 
Wow, I would NEVER have believed 16 st! I would have guessed between 11 and 12 st, based on my own appearance when I weighed 11st. I think too much attention is paid to weight, though, and I think a lot of people underestimate what normal weights are, especially those of men! I think you look fine: you could stand to lose a few pounds, but you are proportioned so that you carry them very well. I wouldn't be worried about putting you on any normal sort of horse.
 
This issue is definitely something I can identify with!

I have always been a big girl, but even so, my doctor has always told me I weigh heavier than I look. I've gone up one dress size since I was 12 years old (used to be an easy 12, am now a 14 in virtually everything except skirts, where I am still a size 12). However, I have put quite a lot of weight on over the past 6 years or so. I am actually three days into the Slimfast diet at the moment as I feel I need to do something about it, for Ellie's sake if nothing else!

Anyway, I have had a similar experience to Experimental. A couple of years ago, we went on holiday to Cornwall and decided to go for a beach ride. When we booked in, we were asked to give our weight. I did so, and on the day discovered that I had been assigned to a 16.3 Shire mare. I kid you not - I was like a pea on a drum up there, my feet didnt even come halfway down her ribs. My brother, on the other hand, who was 5'9 and weighed a stone less than me, was given a 14 hand pony to ride and his feet were brushing on the floor! :confused: However, the year before that, I had some lessons at Talland, and was given various horses ranging from a 14hh Welsh pony through to a 16.2 TB to ride - no one questioned my weight at all.

See if you can guess my current weight. Not the best pic, but one of the most recent - last weekend - and it shows me in all my flabby glory, lol! :o I am 5'2, size 12-14, Joddy size 30. My horse is 15.2hh.

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Very interesting to hear that you are sixteen stone given the picture. As others have said, you certainly don't look it :)

I'm five eight and just under fourteen stone. Lost just under a stone and cannot shift any more no matter what I try. Ah well. I have a 16.3hh DWB, she certainly doesn't struggle to carry me (vet, physio and saddler concur). I think that it's the same old story of people not appreciating what horses can carry, especially with a well fitting saddle.

This is us last weekend (we're both just learning to jump so be gentle with me lol):
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You hold your weight extremely well! Id have said 13st max.

I seem to be alot heavier than i look too :o i posted a pic in the other thread.
 
From where I'm sitting I would never believe you are 16 stone.
You look a nice weight, just out of curiosity do yo do much exercise, ie anerobic as compared to areobic? What I'm trying to get at is that muscle ways more than fat which is why you look a nice weight. :)
(or you don't do exercise and you just hide the weight really well)
 
I'd have never guessed 16 stone! I'm the same height and weigh around 14 stone but I look *a lot* heavier than you do in these pics. You look pretty fit/toned whereas I am the total opposite.

The RS where I help out with RDA weighs all new riders & RDA pupils. I know the RDA school groups are weighed at the start of every term, I don't know if other riders are ever re-weighed. Several of the older kids are on the verge of being classed as too heavy & will most likely not be able to continue after the summer :(; I think their limit is 12stone as many of them ride a lot heavier whereas it's around 13-14 for everyone else.
 
I'm about 5 ft 8, weigh between 10 and 10 1/2 stone, like 60 kgs, and would say that i actually look pretty similar to you! Although I do think I have a slight issue with my body image. I would never have thought you were 16 stone, probably guessed about 12 1/2! I would put you on anything 15.2 + and reasonably chunky, and something lighter, tb or wb, if it was 16.2 +
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I'm really staggered. I think you look a touch thinner than me but you're taller and a good inch or three less round the bust, and I'm 13st which is why I thought you were that max. A lot of people are surprised when I say how much I weigh as I've always been heavier than people expect (as is my daughter). Mind you, there's a LOT of difference between a well balanced rider and a sack of potatoes. As you're obviously fit and well toned for your weight I'm sure you'd ride lighter than you look. Someone that's never ridden and would bounce about in trot is bound to feel heavier to the horse.
 
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I can't believe you weigh 16 stone!!!!!! I would have guessed at somewhere between 12 and 13 stone max.

I'm about 2" shorter than you and weigh approx 3 stone less than you but certainly don't look as good as you in those photos - and no, I don't mean that in any pervy kind of way!
 
monkeybum13 said:
From where I'm sitting I would never believe you are 16 stone.
You look a nice weight, just out of curiosity do yo do much exercise, ie anerobic as compared to areobic? What I'm trying to get at is that muscle ways more than fat which is why you look a nice weight. :)
(or you don't do exercise and you just hide the weight really well)
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I wouldn't say I exercise a lot, I use an exercise bike a few times a week and go for walks at the weekend, but nothing strenuous - due to some health issues, I am supposed to stick to low/medium impact sports. I'm nowhere near as fit as I'd like to be, I probably need to get back to horse-owning and mucking out daily to regain my fitness!
 
You must have a very high bone density or something as you NO WAY look 16 stone, I am 5 ft 10 and weigh about 12.5 stone and ride, currently a 15.2 slight tb. He copes just fine. Horses cope very well with weight as long as you dont ride and i quote 'like a sac of potatoes' if you hold your weight, they cope better. I have not ridden now for nearly 3 weeks and am getting fatter, Joy. But the good news is all the drugs I am on to stop the pain stop me from eating too. so bonus. :)
 
i think this thread just goes to show that appearances are VERY deceptive :)
OP i would NEVER have thought you were near 16stone. my guess was around the 12 stone mark- you must have a lot of muscle- clearly you are not flabby...just heavier than you look. the other poster who put pics on as well doesn't look anywhere near their weight... i reckon in future just lie and tell them you are 4 stone and a size 0 and they'll let you ride anything :D
 
I certainly wouldn't have put you at 16 stone!

I had a similar encounter to you - I'm 6'2", a dress size 14 and weigh approximately 13 and a half stone - a couple of years ago I had a youngster which I was about to back, and thought it would be beneficial to have a couple of lunge lesson before getting on my youngster - I was told no, as they have a weight limit of 12 stone!!

I have been riding all my life and ride 'light' - I was both upset and out-raged that they made this assumption without even seeing me!:mad:

ps. I own a 17hh MW type sports horse
 
I can understand why they were confused! And yes, I think weighing scales might be a good idea (you may not lie about your weight, but others do).

Also have a feeling that perhaps nowadays people are underestimating what a horse can carry. Last time I rode out (at 5ft 11 and 11 stone) I was on a Barb/Arab cross who must have been 15.1hh or thereabouts, and I have never gone so fast on a horse (didn't push her at all). I'd begun to think that I should always be riding giant warmbloods.
 
experimental said:
Very interesting indeed.

Well, I phoned up the riding school a month or two back, asked if I could book a lesson and told them my weight, they said no. Out of interest I was passing the other day, went in and asked if I could book an assessment lesson, which they were quite happy to do, and they happily showed me the horse I was likely to ride, a very nice 16hh-ish MW warmblood. No mention was made at all about my weight.

I weigh 16 stone (100kg - as weighed at the hospital just 2 weeks ago)

Would you still let me ride?

I told them my weight, they didn't seem to believe me and still booked me in for next week. I fully understand why riding schools have weight limits, and I will most likely phone and cancel tomorrow. It just struck me as odd that somewhere with a weight limit didn't have any scales & relied on their own estimate or their clients' honesty!

I think a set of scales would be a useful addition to most riding schools!
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That is interesting - and shows how wrong people can be about weight height. I was going to guess 12st too, but then your legs look very muscly which always adds weight. Often fit peope weigh alot more due to more muscle mass.

I am 5'4 and about 8 1/2 stone. I have a friend who is 5'7 and at least one or two dress sizes bigger than me, but about the same weight. She doesn't do any exercise. I assume its because although I am smaller in size, my legs etc are more solid and have heavier muscle mass.
 
Wow.. I to cannot (and will not.. lol) believe you are 16st. I honestly thought that when the others were quoting 13st that was way too much.. I had you down for about 10.5-11st, serisouly.

Well i never.. lol

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