Gastric Sleeve Gurl: November 2009

Thank you Nola for the complements!!

My mum and dad actually live in Samoa, in the worst hit village of Lalomanu, so she's been over here for the past 5 weeks having a much earned break.

I'll be sleeping a couple of nights in Lalomanu (the first weekend that I arrive) as it happens to be mum's b'day on the Sunday, so we'll be having a big family lunch for her...and I'll get to catch up with extended family while I'm there...but otherwise come Monday morning I'm heading back into town :) Will be staying at mum's place in Apia.

I've been to Samoa several times, LOVE THE PLACE!! My trips always see me spending MOST of my time in Lalomanu (which is 1-1.5 hours drive from Apia) working in my parents shop...which is lovely but I've had enough!! This trip will be the first ever trip that I have vowed not to work in that shop - this is a REAL HOLIDAY!

I plan on staying in town, eating mangoes, pineapples (which are both in season right now (YAY!!) pawpaws and drinking coconuts until I BURST!!

I've got a couple of Tess Gerritsen books I'll be taking over, gonna buy some duty free alcohol...drink and be merry they say...lol.

Seeing also as I have well and truely reaching a real milestone in my weight loss...GETTING UNDER THE HUNDY!! I will be celebrating by buying myself a piece of gold jewellery, Hawaiian Heirloom style, while I am in Samoa (strange I know to be buying Hawaiian Jewellery while I'm in Samoa lol) but I don't know anyone I trust in Hawaii to buy it for me and ship it over, and I know it's prolly over priced in Samoa, but the exchange rate is working in my favour a wee bit - so we'll see what I can get. The last piece I treated myself to was a gorgeous pair of earrings, 14kt yellow gold, in the shape of three frangipanis with the black enamel...till of course I got wayyy too drunk and somehow lost one of them...was heart broken for months! I still have the other one, I plan to turn into a pendant one day :)

So that will be my only major purchase while I am there...the other thing I'm after too though, is some island printed fabric to make me a summer dress and a traditional Samoan two piece when I get back to NZ. Samoa have been producing some gorgeous fabric prints lately, simple ones of maybe a large breadfruit leaf...or a single hibiscus...will have pics to show when i get back lol.

I am going to Samoa with my 21yr old brother, 14yr old daughter and of course my mum. So brother dear decided he'd like to shout us diner....fine by me, yesterday was one of my 'working' days, so I welcomed the idea! Asked mum what she's like to have (she's been living on fresh fish , vogel bread and porridge while she's been over here, and she isn't fussy, but of course, in true Samoan style, she requested KFC LMAOoOOOOOo!!

So off we went and $60 later, enough food to feed 8 people for one night (I could feed 8 people for one week on $60 - but hey, I wasn't paying for it!!) ANywhoo...I ate two hot wings and a couple of spoons of coleslaw - that was fine, felt ok.

Hubby got home from work at 1am, woke me up to come and hang out with him (as we usually do) while he eats his diner, thought I'd heat up another piece to nibble on and within 15 mins I felt CROOK!! Hubby was fine...

STOP READING NOW IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE GROSSED OUT!!!

the next hour saw me on the toilet seat violently spewing and #2'ing at the same time OMG I thought I was gonna die - and when I got off the loo...I thought I was dying...there was so much blood!

Ok...so since having my gastric sleeve surgery, I've been battling constipation basically. SOMETHING REAL BAD!! I've never taken anything for it...blah blah blah, think I'm a hero...she'll be right attitude...and for the past 2-3 months, I bleed every time I do poo's...soft or hard...it bleeds. Like a REALLY light period. But last night...there was a lot of blood...prolly a couple of spoons worth, enough to turn the watter red - TWICE!

So what do hero's like me do...jump onto google and self diagnose themselves LMAOooOO!!

I've decided I have anal fissure...basically I've torn the inside of my arse when I've been trying to punch one through LMAooOOOo!!

I promise I will see the doctor when I get back...in the mean time, I am just going to put up with it...*hits myself for being so stupid...) but yeah...holiday first, doctors second. I really should have gone and seen the doc sooner but I didn't....*sigh*

So no wonder I am down to 99kgs even this morning!! Friday is my weigh in day, but I'm not gonna have time tomorrow to blog, so have updated today :) Maybe tomorrow I'll be 98 - OMG!!

You know, I haven't been under 107kgs since giving birth to my first born child 14 years ago!!
I remember being 6 months prego and the nurse weighed me and looked at me and told me off..."Louise, you have hit 100kg!!" I never turned back LOL. After each child (and I have 4 of the buggers) I just got bigger...and bigger and bigger...till I just didn't know what hit me!!

I had tried though after giving birth to loose it...just couldn't do it and keep it off. One stint at Weight Watchers saw me go from 127kgs down to 107kgs, but I gained it all back and some...even then I cheated and was using diet pills LMAO.

So to be under 100kgs...it's just surreal. I still have days where I feel as fat now as I did at 153kgs. Crazy head stuff!!

it's only 10am and so far today I have had a small bowl of porriage and I have just finished a bacon sandwich (minus the crusts - I don't do crusts lol)!!

Managing to keep that down too - just!! 2 slices of whole meal, 1 slice of bacon and overload of beetroot...scary how much I can eat these days :(

So...I bought a couple of bras of Trademe last week, they arrived today and I really LOVE THEM and they fit perfectly (was a bit worried about they fit seeing as it's hard enough to get a good bra to fit when ya buying them from a store - but these are perfect :)!! They were new without tags - so they aren't ickky 2nd hand ones!! I paid $12 plus a little bit extra for postage...and that's for all 4 bras, so a REAL baragin!! Will take some pics when I get back from work :)

In lead up to my holiday in Samoa later this week, I had a HUGE clear out of old clothes, made well over $800...mama needs spending money yanno lol. Anywho...about $100 of that was never paid - useless traders who get into bidding wars then don't complete the trade - WHO THE FARK DOES THAT!! Well apparently at least 6 people do that, cos on Monday I gave out 6 REDFACES! I have emailed all at least three times, got a reply and promises of payment from about 2 of them...trades finished over 3 weeks ago...so stuff it - stuff them...TIME WASTERS!

Will have some goodies to re-list when I get back, so that's cool :)

I've also had a revalation...next year I'm going back to school...kinda...lol.

Long story so I might leave it for when I get back from work...stay tuned :)