Birthday boy ... Manuel Uribe has lost 235 kg
since March 2006 on a diet of grapefruits,
egg-white omelets, fish, chicken and vegetables.
Photo: Reuters
MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters), June 13, 2008:
Mexico's Manuel Uribe, once the world's most obese man,
celebrated his 43rd birthday on Wednesday with a very
short trip outside his house.
In only his third outing in six years, Uribe, sitting
on his huge reinforced bed, was dragged outside his
garage bedroom and onto the pavement outside his house
in Monterrey in northern Mexico.
Presents of suckling pig and lamb arrived.
Still weighing the size of three hefty men, Uribe sat
on his bed wearing only a bedsheet, drank a beer and
chatted to his mother, girlfriend and neighbors in
the cool evening air, waiting for a cake.
"I'm happy that it is my birthday," he told reporters
interviewing the man who weighed 324 kg in May after
losing 235 kg since March 2006 on a diet of grapefruits,
egg-white omelets, fish, chicken and vegetables.
Uribe is still unable to move his swollen legs and his
dream is to walk again and visit the mountainous
countryside around Monterrey.
Uribe spent the 1990s eating pizzas and burgers in the
United States where he worked as a computer repairman.
Addicted to junk food, he eventually tipped the scales
at 560 kg back in Mexico, bingeing on greasy tacos.
His bulk made him the world's heaviest man and won him
a place in the 2008 edition of the Guinness World Records.
Reuters
