{"id":80,"date":"2021-05-07T20:25:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T03:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vsg.aliciapurl.org\/?p=80"},"modified":"2021-05-07T20:25:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T03:25:42","slug":"6-weeks-post-op","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vsg.aliciapurl.org\/index.php\/2021\/05\/07\/6-weeks-post-op\/","title":{"rendered":"6 weeks post-op"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(Above photo credit: Anastasia Purl) Two days ago, I hit my 6 week mark after my surgery! I am feeling pretty good and as of today, I am officially on a REGULAR diet!! The volumes I can handle are still pretty small, but I can have whatever I want now (within reason, obviously). I am establishing a new relationship with food. The sweet cravings, unfortunately, are still there. But, I am doing my best to not sabotage myself. Allowing myself some grace to navigate this next chapter of my life \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week I have been discovering and enjoying new flavors (and revisiting some old standbys). I have been enjoying vegetarian meatballs, eggs, mushrooms and green bell peppers. I even tried some black bean spaghetti! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My incisions are healing beautifully! I know that they will fade some more. Pretty happy with how they look! \"\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am getting very close to “onderland,” meaning I am almost under 200 pounds for the first time in MANY years. I have lost 20 pounds since surgery, and 28 pounds since I started my pre-op diet! Wow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Above photo credit: Anastasia Purl) Two days ago, I hit my 6 week mark after my surgery! I am feeling pretty good and as of today, I am officially on a REGULAR diet!! The volumes I can handle are still pretty small, but I can have whatever I want now (within reason, obviously). I am … Continue reading “6 weeks post-op”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[10,5,9,4,12,3,2,8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vsg.aliciapurl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vsg.aliciapurl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vsg.aliciapurl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vsg.aliciapurl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vsg.aliciapurl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vsg.aliciapurl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/vsg.aliciapurl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vsg.aliciapurl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vsg.aliciapurl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vsg.aliciapurl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vsg.aliciapurl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}