Karen Lloyd's Blog

I’ve Been Bad!

karenlloyd — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 04:20:31 +0000

Well the past few weeks have been a bit of a rollercoaster. Since being diagonised with a heart murmur I have been unable to exercise at the same intensity that I would normally. Hopefully this is just temporary. My echo, ECG and treadmill test have come back normal so now it seems the amemia I have is actually possibly causing the heart murmur. So because my iron is so low it’s placing extra stress on the heart and with a lack of oxygen the heart is pumping abnormally to feed the muscles. So I have another procedure in a couple of weeks to see if anything sinister is going on internally. If not it’s iron injections to boost my levels and then hopefully the murmur will settle down.

I have been eating semi normally for the past few weeks also and it’s not good. I just can’t cope with the foods I used to eat anymore. My body certainly tells me all about it and again it just goes to show, fresh is best! I so know that’s the way to go but sometime I just feel like I’m missing out. Quite ridiculous really when you think about it, missing out, what does that mean? How can eating crap food be considered missing out??? I guess my mind still has some of the old programming left in. So I have made myself accountable for the past few weeks, emailed D my food diary (despite deleting the email several times before finally hitting the send button) and again it’s back on the wagon 100% for this girl.

Setbacks just make us stronger!

karenlloyd — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 06:27:14 +0000

Well it’s been a while since I blogged, no real reason, just never enough time these days.

Having been diagonised with a heart murmur a few weeks ago has made me think about what may have been if I was still sitting here at 109kgs, scary thoughts enter my head. My ECG and treadmill have come back normal but the echocardiogram of my heart shows a narrowing of the right valve where the blood exits the heart from. For now it’s just monitoring but the last few weeks have been a little scary. I still have questions for life going forward which will hopefully be answered when I visit the doctor on Thursday. I am guttered that I haven’t been able to run, not being able to train for the Auckland Quarter marathon has been a little hard. Before the murmur I wasn’t too phased but now, now that I haven’t been able to train for it, I’m guttered. I still plan to do it, just at a slower sedate pace now.

My goal of 68kgs is still eluding me but my food has been really good and I am proud of the choices I am now making, and the conscious decisions I make not to buy something like looks oh so tasty, or to accept something like a big box of chocolates that someone kindly gave me the other day at work. Well in saying that I do accept the gift, but then I give it away so I am not tempted.

It’s all about the Plan

karenlloyd — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:58:52 +0000

It’s been a good week, lost 800 grams and my food was really good, Damian was happy with it so it’s gotta be good!

People at work are frustrating however. I had a salad with fish and heated it up in the microwave and someone just had to make a comment “Who’s heating up fish” blah blah blah. I came back snappy and said it was me, sorry for the healthy food I was eating!!!! Here they are chowing down on some of the most disgusting unhealthy food I’ve ever seen and they have the nerve to bitch about my food, argh some people!

So my plan for the next 10 weeks leading upto the Retreat is “The Plan”, stick to the food as best as I can, keep up with the exercise and drinks lots of water. That combined with my stubborn determination should see me moving more and hopefully achieve goal by then.

So for now it’s onwards and upwards (well actually downwards) but you get the idea!

Making it “Click”

karenlloyd — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 06:13:23 +0000

Well it’s been a little while since I blogged so thought it about time I blogged again.

Something has happened in the past few weeks, something has “clicked” and things appear to be falling into place, and falling off me! In the past 2 weeks I have re-focused on my food and exercise and have lost 1.6kgs, yay! I have no real idea what has changed but I’m pretty happy about the changes. It has been so so long since things moved in the right direction for me.

Have this week off work so I booked PT sessions for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday with my regular session on Thursday, phew! Yesterday (Monday) I did PT, spin and treadmill. Today I had PT, treadmill, spin, ABT and zumba, double phew! I am knackered but really want to use this week to boost myself and have a great loss, will keep you posted.

My goal of 68kgs by the retreat is within my grasp, watch me go!!!!!!!

Lloydy

The Journey Continues

karenlloyd — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 07:02:39 +0000

Well here I am again, contemplating what to do. I am still sitting at 77kgs, still 8kgs from my goal and have been for soooooooooooo long now. I am so frustrated by the lack of progress, I actually doubt if I have actually lost any weight since I started the challenge back in Feb last year! I am so embrassased by this despite me trying. I’ve tried eating everything in sight, eating nothing, exercising till I drop and not exercising at all, drinking gallons of water a day, drinking no water at all. I just don’t know what is going on. I feel like I have lost my way, that I no longer understand or am in tune with my body and now every day is a fight and struggle with myself. I refuse to give up, this is the easy way out and I just can’t do it. I can’t imagine making that call to Damian to say I have given up and that I am happy with my 77kgs cos I’m not, how can I be. I want this so much, I really do and it doesn’t seem like such a feat when I hear of others dropping kg after kg with little or no effort. Why can’t I, why?????

I’m so grateful for the knowledge I have gained over the past 3 years since making contact with Damian, I know I will never EVER revert back to the “junk food” such as McD’s etc, and I may even be a little OCD about the food I eat now yet my goal still eludes me. Why can’t there be a “Biggest Loser” angel who can come down, sweep me up for a few weeks, take me away and control absolutely everything I eat and exercise me till I drop, cos I know that once I reach goal I will be able to maintain it. Hell, I’ve been maintaining 77kgs for so long now I’ve become an expert! So until an angel appears to whisk me away, a mini Damian becomes available to sit on my shoulder 24/7 or until something miracle like happens that allows my body to release these last 8kgs I guess I will continue. Thanks for listening.

Yours in good (great) health,

Lloydy

Before and Now

karenlloyd — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 06:34:06 +0000

Just had to remind myself as to how well I have done on my journey. Still a little way to go but having not gained any weight I have lost since I started in November 07, I think, is a huge achievement.

Doing It Tough

karenlloyd — Thu, 27 May 2010 08:25:06 +0000

Well today marks the end of my latest 21 day Body Blitz challenge. I’ve been going great, losing 1.8kgs in the first week, a few more hundred grams in the second but then STOP! I stood on the scales on Monday, I had put on all of it, what the!!!!! I couldn’t understand it, nothing had changed, yes I had done a great week of exercise and my food had been just as damn impressive and a gain, a gain, what! I have racked my brain, looked at my diary and I can’t see where it went so wrong. Tomorrow is the official weigh in to complete the 21 days and what will be will be. Confident I won’t weigh the same as Monday it’s just a matter of how much I’ve managed to lose. So tomorrow is the start of another 21 days cos I’m gonna do this, I’m going to get to my goal of 68kgs, on my own or with support i will do it, I will, I will, I will!!!

I am one very determined stubborn and committed Lloydy!

Update from “Day 7 & Rockin It”

karenlloyd — Fri, 14 May 2010 18:40:15 +0000

I lost 1.8kgs, whoop whoop!

The End of Day 7 and Rockin It!

karenlloyd — Thu, 13 May 2010 09:10:56 +0000

Well I’ve made it a whole week on the Body Blitz without a single slip up, not one, not even a little tiddly bit, nought, zero, zippo!!! I am actually quite proud of myself, I have been tempted but had the willpower to say no to that little Lloydy sitting on my shoulder saying “go on, it’s only a mouthful, it won’t do any harm, go on, do it!”. But I must admit I have been really feeling it the last 2 days, craving carbs, sugar or really anything that I am not allowed but I have resisted. It’s been great having my friend Denise on board with me, texting me daily to see how I’m going and her confessing to eating too many nuts. She a PT so she knows about exercise and nutrition etc and has had me out doing “walks” with her almost every day since we started. I have short legs, her walks are more like jogs for me!!! But burning through the calories, knotching up the km’s and hopefully dropping weight at the same time, weigh in is tomorrow, watch this space.

Had my PT session tonight and man was I grumpy, even Andrew (my trainer) picked up on my grumpy mood. My energy levels are certainly taking a hit also, perhaps the detox, perhaps the first week back at work after 2 1/2 weeks of leave or perhaps cos my dear 18 year old kitty is waking me up at all hours of the night so I have only had 1 decent night’s sleep since last week! But I’m one stubborn determined Lloydy and despite being completely knackered most nights I am still getting out there as I know the result is going to be so so worth it.

Watch for the next blog to see how much I have lost this week. Until then, bye bye

Lloydy : )

Here we go again but it’s all good

karenlloyd — Thu, 06 May 2010 21:24:51 +0000

Yesterday I went to a boxing class at the gym which was run by my usual spin instructor. We went out for breakfast afterwards and got talking about the Body Blitz as my spin instructor has been following my progress and, as it turns out, has actually done the Body Blitz once before. Didn’t stick to it 100% but still lost a few kg’s (and put it back on shortly afterwards). So as we chat she asks if I would be keen to do it again and, thinking about the holiday just completed and the fear of what I had gained, I said “hell yeah”. So she says “OK let’s do it, starting tomorrow!”. Well talk about putting me in a corner! But it’s actually a great opportunity to do the 21 days with someone else. So last night I pulled out the information which I had from the last time I did this and checked off what I had and what I needed to get. Then it was off to the supermarket to purchase the required goodies and this morning I weighed in. We are going to keep in daily contact and try to tee up some extra walks with each other to keep us both motivated and on track. I have updated my ticker, now 9.6kgs to go.