SubscribeObese Man Leaves His Home
For the first time in five years, Manuel Uribe, who once weighed half a ton, left his house Wednesday. He was greeted with a band and wheeled down the streets after being forklifted into a truck.
Uribe had been bedridden since 2002, relying on family and friends to care for him.
He was reportedly chubby as a child and reached 250 pounds as an adolescent. His weight only increased from there.
Originally weighing 1,235 pounds, Uribe has since lost down to 840 on the Zone diet. His goal is to get down to 265.
In the beginning of 2006, he pleaded for help on national television. Two doctors offered gastric-bypass surgery, but he chose to work with Mexican nutritionists to help him start his high-protein diet.
"My goal is to leave the house on my own but I know that will be a long process," he said. (MSNBC.com)
According to doctors, it will take about 3 to 4 years until he reaches his goal.
I think that it is really good that this guy can actually leave his house.
ReplyIt must suck to be in bed for 2 yrs strait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
iI would not be able to do that.
i would go crazy!!!!!!!!
i believe in Manuel, i know he can lose the weight he wants to. I realize it has taken him a while to want to take action, but i know he wants to lose this weight. when i was in middle school at 4'5", i weight a whopping 160 lbs. It took kids slamming my head in a locker to realize how big i actually was. I know they didn't care for my health, but it took that much to realize that my health was definitely in danger. It has saved me from a chubby adulthood. Manuel will endure and he'll reach his goal and beyond if he is anything like the people who visit this site often :)
ReplyIt always mystifies me as to how these people get so big. Once you get to the point where you can't get your own food, you wonder who's enabling these people. I've told my husband that if I ever get that big, he's supposed to help me get thin again.
ReplyMy thoughts are the same as Spectra's - Manuel's family and "friends" were obviously enabling him. What kind of person continues to supply high-calorie food to someone who is so overweight they can't get out of bed? IMO it's a form of abuse.
On the positive side, Manuel must have the heart of a racehorse, so I'm betting he'll pull through.
ReplyI hadn't realized he did it without surgery! Wow, that's great.
ReplySure does that person had that weight trouble problems.
I had weight trouble, and still struggling today. I was up to 245 pounds two years ago. Even though I am lighter today, I am still having weight problems, even though I am well under 200 pounds today.
But I have a person in America that weighs in at over 1000 pounds, and get this: He eats a large bowl of sugary cereal, six pancakes, and 12 sausages in the morning, along with 5 to 6 strips of bacon, eats a whole supreme pizza plus a foot-long sub for lunch, and eats 6 pounds of meat, along with lots of cheese and several potatoes for dinner, and two whole half-gallon boxes of ice cream for dessert. For snacks, he eats dozens of bags of chips, several twinkies, lots of cake and brownies, and even 30 to 45 cadbury eggs on a single day around easter. Talk about massive portion sizes, that even though I have weight problems, I can't even eat a single meal in a single day according to what this guy eats.
And the sad truth is that many people around the world are suffering the same sickness as these guys are...a 750 pound Turkish person west of Ankara Turkey, a person in Australia weighting in at 995 pounds and eats 10 pancakes for breakfast, and the sad thing is: as trans fats and interestrified fats are being consumed more, this illness will become epidemic.
ReplyI actually saw a program on Discovery Health about some people that were 500+ pounds and they interviewed them. One woman said "I don't really eat all that much", but then they tallied up her calorie intake for the day and she was really eating about 10,000 calories a day. The foods weren't that filling, so it seemed like it wasn't "that much" food. Her breakfast was 1-2 cinnamon rolls with one of those Starbucks 400-500 calorie beverages and a Nutrigrain bar, plus a can of soda. Then later she'd eat a couple of brownies and a bag of potato chips. Then she'd eat about 3 pieces of pepperoni pizza, 2 more brownies, and another LITER of soda for lunch. Snack was another bag of chips and 7 or 8 cookies and a big glass of milk. Dinner was fried chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, roll with butter, another soda, and another brownie. Then before bed she ate another bag of chips and a bowl of ice cream. Yikes. I bet a lot of heavier people out there do underestimate how much they're eating though...there are probably a lot of folks that get in about 3000-4000 calories a day and think that they're only eating about half that.
ReplyAwesome! He got to this point, but he's fixing it through good old fashioned dieting... not subjecting his already stressed body to surgery. Good on him!
ReplyGod! I am so sick of hearing about gastric bypass. It's dangerous people! I'm very happy for this guy to lose weight naturally and not from some "fad" where you get butchered and get to eat...maybe 3 olives at a sitting (if you are that fortunate).
Replyno wonder they aint got no food over there now is there
ReplyDamn! How could you be that fat? Fat people are such idiots and a burden to this very world itself.
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