I gotta admit, as the kinda guy who rides a draft horse because I’m a big guy, I got a little chuckle out of that. “One whole bale, eh?”
I went from a 22 BMI to a 24 after having my second child (he is 1 now.) At my last Dr. visit, she told me straight out that I had to start working on my weight and that now that I was over 30, I had to watch things more carefully. She went over a plan to do that with me, including calories per day and activity. When I have told other people about that, they expressed surprise or seemed upset that she would say that to me. I am 5’11" and can gain/lose 10 pounds and stay the same pants size so I don’t think people noticed the weight. (Especially because, after being 9 months pregnant, you ‘feel’ small in comparison after having the baby so it is hard to be an accurate judge of what your body is supposed to look like. )
But I was actually glad she was so straightforward. BMI was a useful tool for that. It was not about how I looked, it was about what was healthy for me long term.
Honestly, it was too easy to tell myself, “it is only a few pounds, I am only borderline overweight, no big deal.” But 5 pounds turns into 10 and 10 to 20 too easily, and IMO, she is saving me the trouble of continuously gaining and then having to work it all off later. By stopping it now, I can adjust my habits accordingly for long-term maintenance instead of starting a gain-lose cycle. Hearing it from my Dr. was a wake up call since I can’t ignore that I have been flat out told to watch my weight.
Probably because there are still Holocaust survivors around (I’m 27 and I have friends who have grandparents who are survivors) and comparing your non-tortured and starved body that’s in a normal healthy weight range to actual prison camp survivors goes beyond hyperbole and into disrespectful and offensive territory.
There are plenty of breeds that are common in hunters/jumpers and easily hold larger riders though, such as several of the heavier boned warmbloods and some quarter horses. Why she does does dressage is really a question that only she can answer though.
And there are hunter/jumper riders that can muscle around hay and do barn work. There are also those who can only sit on a trunk and crap talk other riders while paying someone else to do the work. I can make a guess at which ones she might have been referencing.
Notice I didn’t write “concentration camp” but prisoner camp. Nazis did not invent prison camp. If I had wanted to say *concentration camp I would have said so myself. You don’t need to help me with the typing.
Prisoner camp is more neutral. Gitmo is a prisoner camp, btw, but not a concentration camp, at least not as the term is used now.
Mighty Girl for such a smart group of people, we sure seem to be overly sensitive. Almost as if we don’t have a sense of humor. I think that’s more THEIR problem than yours.
Well, at least nobody would have had a similar problem with an equally hyperbolic comparison on the opposite end of the weight scale.
This difference being, one was said in jest and the other said because it’s true?