So I had a quick look at my posts from January 2013! It really is the same old same old with me, like a broken record I mention cereal, scales and chocolate pretty much the same as I have put this year just phrased differently and like I said the other day it’s all nonsense. I think the similarities need to stop here. Ok there are some changes which I would like to stick around but with regards to the diet and riding they definitely need to change.

I’m really not sure where last year went if I’m honest; the daily runs to take hubby to a station 30miles away haven’t helped or the pick-ups. And then there was a lameness issue going on, as well as my usual battle of the bulge and a very sedentary year was had by all. If I’m honest I’m still not sure Nas is completely sound, it’s hard to tell when he is so unfit. And I mean really unfit he has had almost a year off. He’s never looked this bad, sure we’ve had or lulls in the past but nothing to the extent of this.

I think I spun him a few times on the lunge last year nothing that amounted to much more than a head collar though, or to be any help in gauging his level of lameness. I do believe his fitness now plays an important part in anything that is going on; the new farrier has been brilliant in helping to get his feet back to how they were. So hopefully in the long run this rest will have done him some good. However we can’t go on like this, it’s time to bring him back into work.

In fact it started today I was on the yard most of the morning firstly grooming Nas and then Paris. Then I had a good clean up and swept out the hay barn. Once I get him in later I’m washing his legs off so hopefully we can get them clipped off tomorrow. His feathers really don’t help the farrier and they also get those scabby sores. Which I’ve yet to try the stuff I got from the vet last year for him. Hmm wonder if it’s still in date.

Diet is also a go, two meals and trying to avoid sweet temptations. I finally got the Wi-Fi scales I was after, they took some setting up but now it’s done they send the info to my phone or the pc and then I can forward it to twitter or Facebook if I want.  Not that I want them for that it’s mainly so I have a set record each day. Everyone has weighed  on them and I think the general consensus is we all need to lose a bit of weight (even the boy), well in their case they just need to move about a bit more but it’s good to have it saved so we can all see.