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Winning the Daffodil Arabian Horse Association High Point 40 & over Championship Award for the 2010 show season is not the only news going on around Rising Rainbow Arabians lately. While it was exciting to see the name of my stallion, Scandalous Legacy, plastered across the award certificate and even up on the club's website news page and on their FB page , I must admit it was equally as exciting to find I could get into my skinny jeans. An accomplishment I discovered this week as well.

Now, I am not making light of our award by any means because it's a big deal to me BUT, at my age, loosing enough weight to make that stack of new but outgrown jeans up high on my closet shelf finally useable again is quite an accomplishment too. Even if the cause of my weight loss has been that stomach issue that started during the business with Storm, my excitement at being able to fit into those jeans is not diminished.

Those jeans are an additional two inches longer than my fat jeans, thanks to some not so smart executives somewhere who must think that sizes of 12 and up are only required by short legged women. The scab I have on the inside of my right calf because of a riding up pant leg during a session on a disobedient horse speaks to my need for that extra length which I can only get by fitting into that smaller size jean. I am thrilled to have my longer pants back although I'm hoping the stomach issues that caused my weight loss will disappear any time now.



Another plus about my weight loss just happens to be those custom hunt boots of mine I've been unable to wear. They were made for me back when I first started showing. They were very expensive and are still in great shape but I've developed so much more muscle in my legs because I've learned to use my legs properly I couldn't get the darn boots over my calves making them useless to me.

I've been dreading the thought I might have to have a zipper and maybe an elastic panel added to salvage these boots. Doing so would definitely be cheaper than getting a new pair but it just didn't seem right to do that to such a quality boot not to mention how the boot would be compromised if it turned out the alteration didn't work. I was really struggling with this as an option but since hunter looks to be in my show plans for next year something needed to be done.

When I realized my skinny jeans once again fit, I couldn't help but wonder if just maybe the hunt boots would now fit too. Deciding I really needed to know, today after my shower, I slipped on my breeches and my boot socks to see just exactly what I had.

Surprise! Surprise! not only did my breeches look much better than last time I wore them but my hunt boots slid smoothly up my calves. I guess that's what losing thirty-five pounds will do. While I could really stand to lose another fifteen, I am extatic with the fact that BOTH my skinny jeans (of which I had four brand new pair sitting up on that shelf waiting for me to get my act together) and my hunt boots fit.

Talk about a great week! Legs and I won the high point award AND my jeans and hunt boots fit. I'm pretty pleased and I'll bet you Legs is just as happy about my weight loss as I am.

This picture of Legs is the championship win in the select rider class at the Daffodil All Arabian Spring Horse Show.

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