A woman who stopped riding her horse because she felt “too fat” and feared she would crush it, lost nine stone to get back in the saddle. Abbi Newton, 25, weighed 23st 3lbs and struggled to squeeze into a size 24 at her heaviest after piling on the pounds when she lost her job in December 2021.
After seeing a photo of herself on a boat trip with her family and partner, Rich, 44, a van driver, she was horrified and decided to make a change to her lifestyle. Abbi, a keen rider, had stopped going out on her horse, fearing she would be too heavy for her Warmblood, May, eight.
Abbi lost nine stone in total, is now a healthier 13st 13lbs who can slip into her size 12 jodhpurs with ease, and is back up on her horse. Abbi, a HGV driver, from Bodmin, Cornwall, said: “I felt too big for my horse.
