Yanet Contreras
7/31/11 WOW I CANT BELIEVE ITS BEEN SO LONG SINCE I HAVE CHECKED IN. LIFE TOOK OVER AND WELL BABY TOOK OVER AND I HAVE BEEN ON A NONE STOP ROLLER COSTER RIDE. I NOW HAVE TWO BEAUTIFUL SONS FERNANDO AND ORLANDO AFTER FERNANDOS BIRTH ON 8/13/09 I GOT PREGNANT A WHILE LATER AND HAD MY SECOND SON ORLANDO 10/13/10 AND ABOUT TO CELEBRAT MY BIG BOYS SECOND B DAY SOON. LIFE IS GOOD AND AM ONLY HAVING ONE MAIN HEALTH PROLEM WICH IS VERY BAD BONE PAIN. I HAVE BEEN GOING TO DR AND SPECIALISTS AND HEARING FROM ARTHRITIS TO FIBROMYALGIA? SPELLING SORRY SOO BAD AND DONT KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON YET BUT AM ENJOYING TO THE FULLEST BEING A MOMMY. I AM SO HAPPY TO HAVE BEEN ABLE TO HAVE THE SURGERY IF IT WAS NOT FOR THAT BLESSING I KNOW ONE HUNDRED PERCENT THAT I WOULD HAVE NOT HAD THE CHANCE TO GIVE MY BOYS A CHANCE AT LIFE.
12/11/08 Well everyone I had some blood test done yesterday to see if I was prego and I got the call today! I am pregnant. I was so excited and am now double to hear Irma is too! Way passed me. I just feel so blessed and know in my heart that if I had not made the decision to have the suregery I would of never been able to have this opportunity to be a mother. I am so so lucky and just feel so blessed right now. I'm so excited to get this new journey started and I just can already see my family soon completed with this baby. Its been me and my husband for 5 years this comming Valentines day and I love him to death but I needed a baby to complete at least one you know and I have finally been blessed with one. I weighed in at 228 at the Dr. yesterday. I was down to 219 lat month and went up but hey what better reason to go up I mean a baby my gosh!
04/09/08 Hello everyone hope you are all doing great! Well I have some news I have recently went up 50 pounds. I dont know... just playing around. I am down to 254. ha. I feel pretty good. My energy level is great! I mean I can get so much more done now in the day its just great. I have had some huge stress lately and even with that stress been able to keep up the weight loss. My hair loss has slowed down but my hair doesnt seem to grow longer. Everyone looks great! Congratulations to everyone.
02/20/08 Hello everyone. I hope everyone had a woderful Valentines day. My husband and I' anniversary is on Valentines day and we went on a trip that weekend to SF. When I was walking on those crazy muscle aching streets I was so ammazed! I could not believe what my body was able to do. We walked up this block that was like we were on a roller coaster and I made it! I pushed my short legs I was not dying to catch my breath I was not drenshed in sweat. I did break one but nothing like before i'm talking just little beads on my forhead. We walked so much and I totlay handled it. I felt so much bettter about myself I still get those long stares from certain people who I guess are just ammazed by my being overweight but those didnt even bother me or hurt me as much as before. On night we had already headed back to our room and I had to pull my husband the fit one of the two out of bed force him to put his shoes back on so we could walk to a store so we could get some things we needed! Me the one that would of been out of order till the next day was ready to go out walking again! I was tired but I just wanted to go out there again. I suprised myself. For the first time in my whole life I like being me. I am proud of myself you know and its crazy. I have never felt so good about my self and still be at such a high weight. I weighed in today at 267 I am trying not to compare my loss to other people because I find it hard to not weigh myself every single day! It kills me! ha
01/07/08 First of all happy new yearto everyone. I have been out of the 3 hundreds for a bit. I am 280 right now. I feel great. Things are so much easier. I can kind of cross mylegs now. Basic hygene is so much easier. I havent been around this weight since jr high. I have so much energy now. Ive had to cut my hair short since Ive been loosing a good bit of it. I figures cutting it short would keep it lighter and not fall out as much. I'm feeling great though.
08/07/07 Hey everyone. Well I havent been able to log on since my internet connection is still not set up. I am at 343 right now. Im not sure if that is too slow or its just right I know everyone is different but I feel like I should be losing more. I have been doing pretty good. I feel great. I have been seeing some more changes in my face and on my shoulders legs backside belly. My tops are getting too big on me and my bottoms are looser. OHH my gosh and after years of being too big to have a period I finally got a period last Wed. ! I was actually excited I felt so good that I had lost enough weight to finally start a cycle again. Of course after the first day I was over it. I cant stay on here very long but I will log on soon to write ev eryone a lil hello note. Hope everyone is doing great!
07/02/07
Hello everybody! I hope everyone is doing great! I had my one week post op today and I lost 11 pounds since last Monday! Wow. I'm now 363. Plus Im off the clear liquid diet and on soft foods had some apple sauce today had to eat it extreemly slow or else I get all this air in my belly awful! I'm doing pretty good. Feeling very good. My husband had all last week off to take care of me. I know thats why I am doing so well. He brought me ice to chew never had to reach or get up for a single thing! He was amazing I never thought he would be such a great nurse! My belly is a tiny bit sore. I had my apmt with Dr. Higa becasue Dr. Boone was not going to be there all week. I had to wait about twohours in the waiting room because he was triple booked and another half an hour in the room. I know he has lots of patients but as big as a thing this is and all Dr. Higa was just a very big let down for me. He came in said hello said let me see the incisions pointed at the litte sterile strips said those can comeoff gave me a paper of what I can eat now said follow those instructions asked me any questions? Not in oh do you have any questions but in a way of do you have any questions I hope not because i'm in a huge hurry. After the words any questions came out of his mouth he was already headed to the door! I had some quetions some worries but i'm such a whimp I just said no. Not even three min. I do however have an apmt in two weeks with Dr. Boone. You know it just feels so crazy to finaly be on my way down the hill. I didnt think I would ever make it to the top with the insurance stuff and all the dr. visits and now it almost seems so quick but it wasnt! I feel so different. Everything is differnt. When I walk I feel so good because I know that everything I do is going to make a difference. I'm going to get somewhere this time to a better life. I'm just so happy.
06/27/07
Hello everyone i'm back home. I had logged on Sunday before we left and wrote a long thank you to everyone for all the support but when I pushed save there was one ofthose errorsanderassed my message! I'm back home feeling pretty good. Some pain feeling very tired but I just wanted to thank everyone as soon as I could. It really meant so much to see all of the support thank you so much. Everyone helped me and you all helped me make it through the tough periods. I am so happy I found OH I cant imagine going through this without the support of everyone here. True caring people and I am so thankful to be able to get to know everysingle one of you. I will let you all know about everything after I get some rest.
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06/18/2007 Monday
Now I have one more week to go and I'm kind of nervous I guess. I get butterflys everytime I think about it. I'm actually so scared about something I shouldnt even worry about but I am very ..... i'm a bit of a cry baby and I am scared that they wont let my husband spend the night there with me. I have never ever spent the night away by myself! Im either with my family or my husband and I am just so scared they will make him leave after visiting hours and it makes me more nervouse since i'm going to be in Clovis and just adds more nerves being away from Modesto for some reason. Well anyways Leo (my husband) took me on a trip to San Francisco this passed Saturday. I am an absolute animal lover and he took me to the SF Zoo. I loved it and felt so normal you know. There are little tiny momments when I feel "normal" and dont have my weight on my mind but right away I was put back in my place. We where looking at the Zebras and some loud kids where running up and their all Marty its Marty you know like the movie Madagascar well one of them said look Gloria! ha The hippo! Oh my gosh I felt so bad! Plus they where like in Jr high so its not like they where little little kids that dont understand you can hurt soemones feelings but anyways through the whole time I was thinking this is probably going to be the last time i'm ever going to have to feel or be made feel likethis because ofmy weight. Through out the zoo I had people looking at me and snickering and I know I'm just more aware of everyone because I dont feel comfortable with myself and I pay extra attention to if people are looking at me Leo didnt notice anything but I was so worried about them Ihad to stop and just say tomyself screw them you know enjoy this time with Leo and it was so hard. Then we went to the beach. I have been working out and have deffinetly gotten my heart rate going but I was so tired after the zoo and the walk down to the water was killer and I would sink into the sand the dry part but had such a good time when we finally got to the water. Now the walk back up! Ijust wanted to roll all the way back up there. Leo helped me the whole time but my heart was going so fast! I started to taste like paint in my mouth! lol and my heart was just pounding out ofmy chest!ha. It was great though. You know I remember in school being made fun of and thinking I cant wait to be an adult because no one makes fun of adults but I never thought those kids grow up to be adults and keep thinking its funny to make fun of everyone. I have a lot to be proud of and nothing to be ashamed of Ijust let things get to me much more then they should. I have been wanting to write and answer my emails more but the closer I get to my surgery date the more time Leo keeps me bussy! He wants all my attention. He is nervouse about the surgery and is paying so much attention to me and taping me too silly things. He's the best. I usually have to do anything I want toget done while he's at work.
350LBS ONLY GOES UP TO 350 
120LBS05/18/07
I know this is going to look allmixedup sincemy last entry was down at the bottom of this page but I didnt want to go cut and past all of it and all of that. I just wanted to say that after two weeks and a day of my last visit with Dr. Boone they had asked for the ok from the ins. and I got the paper in the mail. I called his office and they said they had not recieved anything so I faxed it over. Then a week later she called me (the schedule lady) andgave me the pre op apmt and surgery apmt and post op apmts. I havemy apmt for surgery as you can see up there on June 25th of this year! I cant believe it! I'm kind of nervouse but Im very excited. I just wanted to update everyone since I have been so busy I havent beenable to log on.
My name is Yanet and I am 26 years old. My BMI is 67 I think from what I have come up with. I have been considering wls for a few years now. I have been overweight all my life I was like fifty pounds when I was four years old. Im at my highest right now I have ever been. I currently weigh around 380lbs. I have to go by what I remember being weighd at another surgeons office since my regular Dr.s scale does not reach my weight! So 380 give or take. I dont have any kids I cant due to my weight. I have stones in my gallblader and is what lead to my actually taking some action in actually having wls. I needed to change insurance since my husbands insurance would not cover any weight loss treatments even if medicaly necessary so since I weigh so much my only option was Major Risk Program and am insured with Blue Shield sutter gould. My Dr. asked for me to be reffered for Bariatric surg. here in MOdesto but since my BMI is over fifty they will not preform the surgery. So I was put on the Atkins diet but due to the pain I have everyother day from the gallstones I couldnt stay on that diet cheese and meat make it worse. So I was feeling very depressed and just tried what I could to loose wieght. Its all of the sudden become nearly impossible for me to loose weight. I am 26 and cant do what some 40, 50, 60, and some 70 year old people can. Some things happened and just made it clear that I needed to find a way to have this done. I went to my Dr. and asked to be reffered outside Modesto. After a week my insurance asked for the notes form the last Surgeon and proff they would not be able to help me. In another week they sent me the Ref through the mail to ALSA in Fresno CA. I went to the seminar and they gave me a check list of things to have done. I have not had my official visit tht is in December 5th! So I am hoping to have my check list done by that time I have an appmt with my regular dr. tomorow for lab work and a general physical, I have my physc eval on Friday already filled out my tests for the visit. I still need to make an appointment for the nutritionist. So this is where I am now.
11/09/06 I went to my visit with my Dr. so she could send me for the labs and the check up I need done on my checklist. Tomorow I have my appointment for my Psychological eval. Im not really all that nervous. I know I will be tomorow though. Today was kind of a rough day for me. I didnt sleep much last night and woke up early for my appmt. today. I made lunch and dinner for my family and I feel like I have been walking all day long from just standing in the kitchen. I am in such bad shape. I had zero energy today and felt just awful about how tired my body was. Well I am going to get some sleep so I can be nice and rested for my eval tomorow.
11/10/06 I had my visit with the phychologist and he said he would approve of me having the surgery! So only two move steps and i'm ready for my first visit with Dr. Higa!
01/10/07 Well its been a while since I had my visit on Dec. 5th. I thought it was going to be with Dr. Higa but it was with Dr. Boone and he was very nice. He explained in a lot fo detail the basics pretty much the same as the seminar. Answered any questions I had. The visit was so much different then the one I had here in Modesto at Central Valley. They weighed me and I have had in my mind I was around 375 most 380 and all the scales I have been on go around there and when I went in the first thing they did was weigh and measure my height. Well I just about dropped! Good thing there was a bench right next to the scale so I could sit down I weighd an awful 402 pounds! I had to try so hard to keep all these emotions down. I cannot believe that I weight that much. I still cant believe it. I dont have the words to express what that makes me feel! I was shocked and so upset with myself. Yes 380 is a lot but still there is a huge 4 in front I was still dealing with the fact that my weight had a big three and now this! Well Dr. Boone felt around my belly and said I needed to go get my check list done the nutrionist visit and some labs done and try to loose from 30 to 40 pounds and wrote down some suggestions on some weight loss pills that could help me with that. I went to my dr. and she gave me a rx for wellbutrin not great at spelling it but sounds right well. I felt no big difference with that its supposed to help with some depression too but no help in that either. So my appointment is almost here I have it on the 30th of this month. I have been doing good with the food Ive been eating I studied the booklet they gave me im going to be quized on it so I did that. I have my appointment with the nutritionist tomorow and is the last thing I have to get done. Then just wait for the 30th and see what he tells me. I am trying not to think too much about it because I just give myself so many butterfly's! I'm excited though so this is my update! I will try to log on tomorow about how my nutritionist visit goes.
01/11/07
I had my appmt with the nutritionist and it was pretty quick. She just told me the basic things I would have to be eating after surgery and she gave me some tips on what to have during the time I would have to be on liquids. She was really nice gave me a bunch of info and that was it. She said she would send everything to DR. Boone tomorow! So now I just wait till the 30th and see what happens then!
03/06/2007
Well I havent been able to log on. I'm back now though. I went to my appmt and I lost 13lbs and have to go back on the 27 to see if I have lost anymore. I'm doing good though. Feel pretty good and am still excited. I'm glad though i'm not feeling that gitty cant wait feeling because I get so impatient. I celebrated a birthday on the 3rd. I am now 27 and I am in a hurry to get this help to be healthy enough to have some kids and this birthday just gave me the huge kick in the pants to hurry!!!
04/26/07
I had my appmt with Dr. Boone on Tuesday. I lost six pounds. He said he will send the request to my insurance and now I just need to wait for them to call me with the date! He has put me on a no food diet. From now till the date of surgery I will be drinking three slim fast shakes and a vitamin no food! Im thinking he is thinking I wont be able to do such a diet able to handle it and so Im using that as a motivation to suprise him and stick to it. He's very nice and the apmt last month I gained weight well he didnt make me feel .... I dont know like he didnt seem upset or anything like that. I remember when I went to the office of Dr Coates my goodness I hated thinking about going they made me feel so awful and I am just so happy with Dr. Boone. So now that I am waiting for my date I am thinking ok this is going to happen. I wanted to write a list of things I am looking forward to after surgery. Kind of like a goal list. I didnt want to write a list and then have this not happen. So here it goes.
1. Have a neck! I cannot wait to be able to see my neck!
2. Not have to worry about a shirt being long enough to cover the bottom of my belly! My husband calls it my pooh.
3. Cross my legs.
4. Not feel my pooh laying on the top of my legs! awful
5. Being able to laugh, cough, move, breath withought needing to pee!
6. Being smaller then my husband!
7. Being able to sit on a chair or step on a step without thinking am I going to break this?
8. Have a single chin.
9. Have my breast finally be seperate from my belly!
10. Not have my breast disappear into my belly when I sit and sink away when I lay on my back!
11. Not have to be the most flexible person in the world just to shave my legs or put on lotion or take a shower ect. div>
Much much more to come.....
