Former world's most obese man celebrates birthday in special bed
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| Manuel Uribe with his girlfriend and the special diet cake she made for him |
Mexico: Mexico’s Manuel Uribe, once the world’s most obese man who is now vying for a different record - the human who has lost the most weight - celebrated his 43rd birthday on Wednesday with a very short trip outside his house.
Uribe, who weighed as much as a small truck at more than half a tonne, is dieting while confined to a reinforced bed that he has left only thrice in the past six years because he is so heavy.
He has lost 518 pounds since March 2006 on a diet of
Now weighing 717 pounds - the size of three hefty men - Uribe is still unable to move his swollen legs. But he managed to celebrate 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.Uribe sat on his bed wearing only a bedsheet, drank a beer and chatted to his mother, girlfriend and neighbours in the cool evening air, waiting for a cake.
“I’m happy that it is my birthday,” said the man who weighed 324 kg in May after losing 235 kg since March 2006.
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 1,235 pounds (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
