 Man loses 200 pounds, Hopes to lose 770 more |
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| Man loses 200 pounds, Hopes to lose 770 more |
 Jun 28 2006, 08:41 AM
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Source: CNN
QUOTE MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) -- Manuel Uribe weighed 1,235 pounds when he made a desperate plea for help on national television in January. Unable to leave his bed for five years, the 41-year-old mechanic in the northern industrial city of Monterrey longed to move again and get help for the lesions on his legs, which he kept bound together with duct tape to keep the infections from getting worse. His plea was answered by doctors and nutritionists who prescribed a high-protein diet and suggested gastric bypass surgery, and Uribe has lost some 200 pounds since February. "I feel better now. I can stretch and move a bit more," Uribe said Monday, flanked by Dr. Barry Sears, creator of the Zone diet, who came to check on his progress. "Before I would eat 4 eggs, rice, beans and tortillas for breakfast," Uribe said. "Now, I'm learning to eat the right way." The lesions on his legs have also healed. Still, Uribe said he has just enough energy to sit up and move the sheet that covers his body. His goal is to lose 770 more pounds. Uribe was a chubby kid, weighing more than 250 pounds as an adolescent. Starting in 1992, he said, his weight began ballooning further. "By then my gut was getting in the way, and I saw a lot of doctors and did a lot of tests but they never found anything wrong," Uribe said. Sears said it would take three to four years for Uribe to drop to 260 pounds. "It's going to be a slow process but if he loses another 200 pounds he can become ambulatory," Sears said. Uribe drew worldwide attention when he appeared on the Televisa television network in January. Two months later, an Italian doctor visited to offer him gastric bypass surgery. Dr. Carlos Ballesta of the Laparoscopic Center in Barcelona, Spain, also visited Uribe on Monday to discuss possibly performing the procedure. "The goal is for him to keep losing weight, because if his morbid obesity responds to the diet then there is no need for the surgery," Ballesta said. "We'll intervene if his medical treatment fails." For the last five years, Uribe has been bedridden, relying on his mother and friends to feed and clean him. "People think that I can eat a whole cow but it's not just overeating, it's also a hormonal problem," Uribe said. "For now, I'll keep doing the diet and if I get stuck I'll consider the surgery." I think he should keep the weight and join the circus. --------------------  QUOTE (jonathan83 @ Nov 16 2007, 09:22 PM)  |
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Jun 28 2006, 10:49 AM
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Jun 28 2006, 10:54 AM
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 Oh baby bring me down  Group: Agents Posts: 4,115 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Way out yonder Member No.: 68 |
I never felt sorry for these people
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Jun 28 2006, 11:00 AM
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 Group: Members Posts: 1,761 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Lubbock/Dubai Member No.: 57 |
yeah no shit, im not exactly skinny, but nor am i fat, i know its my fault i am this way and can do something about it, i dont complain to other people about it....its my own fucking fault. what pisses me off are people that blame other people for their own weight (ie mcdonalds/fast food/large food portions at restaurant). if you cannot control yourself when you get the food, you are a fucking retard and should not be permitted to go outside
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Jun 28 2006, 11:21 AM
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 Group: Members Posts: 10,620 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Houston, TX Member No.: 48 |
The bigger you are the quicker the weight flies off when you actually start doing stuff right.
On this guy... I think it's amazing that these people are even alive. I mean it's sad, but you'd think your bones couldn't handle all that weight. I don't feel sorry for overweight people, but I also wouldn't call them a "fucking retard" for not being able to control themselves. At least not any more than I would smokers, drug users, disease ridden nymphos, alcoholics, or any other people addicted to something. |
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Jun 28 2006, 11:24 AM
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Group: Admin Posts: 6,906 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Austin Member No.: 9 |
QUOTE (impala454 @ Jun 28 2006, 11:21 AM) I don't feel sorry for overweight people, but I also wouldn't call them a "fucking retard" for not being able to control themselves. At least not any more than I would smokers, drug users, disease ridden nymphos, alcoholics, or any other people addicted to something. I think people this fat are fucking retards. I think the other people in your list are retards too. -------------------- |
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Jun 28 2006, 11:50 AM
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 The Transient Aggie Group: Members Posts: 546 Joined: 22-February 06 Member No.: 21 |
NUH UH, ITS HIS METABOLISM GUYS AND ITS GENETIC
THATS WHY ALL HIS LAST NAME IS HALFTON ! --------------------  A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have. |
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Jun 28 2006, 12:45 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 10,620 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Houston, TX Member No.: 48 |
well yeah i'd agree people who get so fat they can't stand up are retards.
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Jun 28 2006, 06:32 PM
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 monogamous gays & stem cells Group: Members Posts: 3,789 Joined: 22-February 06 Member No.: 8 |
would anyone else like to jump into that guy's gut and swim around like you're on a living memory-foam mattress?
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Jun 28 2006, 06:39 PM
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CHEE CHEE Group: Members Posts: 5,026 Joined: 23-February 06 From: trapped in the hoezone layer Member No.: 39 |
QUOTE (lamont's lament @ Jun 28 2006, 06:32 PM) would anyone else like to jump into that guy's gut and swim around like you're on a living memory-foam mattress? YES! no one understands my desire to do that. lay in his belly fat and make skin angels. slap his thigh and ride the wave into his butt -------------------- Little monkeys making money
Naked monkey looking funny Mighty males are strong and free Female monkey, not so lucky Rocking monkeys, funky monkeys Monkeys sticking other monkeys Monkeys wrong or monkeys right Mostly flexing monkey might |
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Jun 28 2006, 07:27 PM
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monogamous gays & stem cells Group: Members Posts: 3,789 Joined: 22-February 06 Member No.: 8 |
QUOTE (Testm0nkey @ Jun 28 2006, 07:39 PM) YES! no one understands my desire to do that. lay in his belly fat and make skin angels. slap his thigh and ride the wave into his butt i bet he would giggle like a little girl if we did that. we could give him treats. |
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Jun 28 2006, 07:58 PM
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 DEATH TO ....something? Group: Members Posts: 5,618 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Parker, CO Member No.: 55 |
how is that possible to become that fat?
I mean is that a genetic disease? what the fuck ... -------------------- I r Ur Gawd!
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Jun 28 2006, 08:03 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 1,761 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Lubbock/Dubai Member No.: 57 |
QUOTE (Dogmeat @ Jun 28 2006, 07:58 PM) how is that possible to become that fat? I mean is that a genetic disease? what the fuck ... enchiladas are just that good -------------------- bored...so i did this
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Jun 28 2006, 08:06 PM
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CHEE CHEE Group: Members Posts: 5,026 Joined: 23-February 06 From: trapped in the hoezone layer Member No.: 39 |
sounds like he was more of a fan of the breakfast burrito. i cant blame him
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Jun 28 2006, 08:11 PM
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 POTATO OLES Group: Members Posts: 1,602 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Newark, NJ Member No.: 17 |
Atleast when you're that big you don't need plates. You can just lay everything out on your stomach.
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