A Mexican tipping the scales at 560 kilograms (1,234 pounds) will be listed as the world’s fattest man by the Guinness Book of Records, while a loss of 200 kilos (440 pounds) may make him the man who lost the most weight.
“I’m glad to be in the Guinness Book as the fattest man. I am also happy to have lost 200 kilos,” Manuel Uribe, 41, told AFP.
Uribe was able to leave his home in Monterrey, northern Mexico in March aboard a trailer to celebrate his weight loss.
Guinness has recognized his weighty achievement with a glass plaque.
“They gave it to me, I have it in my hands,” said Uribe, who founded an organization to help overweight people.
Uribe’s photograph appears in the 2008 Guinness Book of Records alongside a description of the treatment he has had and offers of surgery he has received.
Uribe said the editor of the book had promised to visit him next year, and held out the possibility of appearing in the 2009 edition as the man who had lost the most weight.
Uribe appeared on television in 2006 seeking help for his excess weight, which has plagued him for more than 20 years, most of which he has spent in bed.
March 6th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
i understand what the man is going through i myself is big but not as big as he is, there is this need to always eat but you have to make up your mind and then things will start to go your way, i was weighing 250 pounds and after dieting weight 175, but i gain it all back. but i know that if i put my mind to it i can do it again, i mean i did it once you see, i come from a family that is big by that i mean obese so all my life there was this notion that you are big boneded i do not even believe in the word because if i can loose it before were did this you cant loose it because your family is big went, you know what i mean. i have proven myself and i will do it again. but one thing you must have a strong mind there will be those around you who would offer things to eat. and say take a little that little piece cant put on no weiht it stars there. so i wish you loose it like i said i know it is hard i am emailing from trinidad in the west indies just pray bye