Manuel Uribe Garza a 42-year-old man from Monterrey, Mexico. As a small boy, Uribe was a chubby kid and weighed more than 250 pounds as an adolescent. In 1992, he said his weight began ballooning further. He has been recorded in the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s heaviest man has also been certified by doctors as weighing 1,235 pounds. After being unable to leave his bed since 2001, doctors has helped him to loose 395 pounds since he began a high-protein diet a year ago. He now weighs about 840 pounds.Although still unable to leave his bed, he celebrated the milestone with six people pushed Uribe’s wheel-equipped iron bed out to the street as a mariachi band played and a crowd gathered. Then, a forklift lifted him onto a truck and the 41-year-old rode through the streets of San Nicolas de los Garza, a Monterrey suburb.
With dozens of reporters and photographers in tow, Uribe traveled along, passing the town’s plaza and church and waving at clusters of people eager to get a glimpse of him. Uribe has also been featured on “World’s Heaviest Man,” a television documentary about his bedridden life and attempts to lose weight.
He even has his own website and has started the Manuel Uribe Foundation to spread the word that weight loss for obese people is possible - and permanent. Manuel says his aim to get down to 120kg, or 264lb. It means losing a further 260kg, or 572lb.
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