Re: bandas in People Mag

[Guest guest]

Hey that is pretty cool, thanks for posting this. I'll still have to get

the mag. I had to laugh at the end of it when they mention that is

single . . . he will probably have ladies writing him like mad . . . . it

could be kind of like Sleepless in Seattle..... well not quite but maybe.

Great story and great job!

Joanie

Lap RNY 08/13/02

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bandas in People Mag

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> Bandas

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> • two tummy tucks

> • four liposuctions

> • brow lift

> • removed bump on nose

> • eye lift

> • suction to chin and jowls

> • fat removed from upper eyelids

> • skin removal on arm and lip

> • hair transplantation

> • gastric bypass surgery

> • fat injection from buttocks into left cheek

> • abdominal scar removal

> • breast lift

> • chest lift

> • laser of lower eyelids to smooth out wrinkles

> • dermabrasion

> • face-lift

> • microsuction to cheeks

> • total cost: $126,000

> While growing up on a farm in Temple, Texas, Bandas and his five

> siblings all struggled with weight problems. " I was morbidly obese, " says

, 51.

> " I was the funny, fat kid. " Some of that excess weight was hereditary;

some

> of it was the result of poor eating habits. " We ate a lot of down-home

> cooking, " says his older brother Rick, 60. " We had lots of chicken-fried

things. " It

> wasn't until took off for college that he began to feel acutely

> self-conscious about his girth. He shed 125 lbs. through diet and exercise

and then, at

> age 26, had his first plastic surgery, a tummy tuck. After that, he

recalls,

> " clothes fit better, things just worked better. It encourages you to do

more

> things for yourself. "

> As his weight bobbed up and down, those " things " added up to 45 major and

> minor surgeries. Bandas has tucked and liposuctioned excess skin from his

face

> and body; lifted his eyelids, eyebrows, chest and breasts; removed moles

and

> skin tags; and transplanted hair to his balding pate. " If I weren't

financially

> successful, " concedes the unattached Bandas, who owns a

tax-consulting-services

> firm in Austin, Texas, " none of this would have been possible. " Of his

> $126,000 tab, only the $14,000 gastric bypass surgery, which he underwent

in 1998

> after tipping the scale at 320 lbs., was covered by health insurance. Now

a trim

> 190 lbs., the 6' Bandas says, at last, " I'm done. I'm happy with where I

am. "

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