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shittyhambrgers

01-21-2007, 03:40 PM

(Jan. 17) -- Manuel Uribe hasn't left his bed or his apartment in Monterrey, Mexico, in five years. That's because less than a year ago, at 1,200 pounds, he was considered by many to be the heaviest man in the world.<img src="http://cdn.news.aol.com/aolnews_photos/0a/03/20070121100909990001" border="0" width="320" height="240" /> Currently on a diet -- he's following The Zone -- he now weighs 800 pounds, but still can't stand on his own, and spends his days in a special industrial-size bed. "I had an obesity problem for many years, a very significant one. I was gaining and gaining weight. I was on every diet you can imagine," Uribe said. "I used to eat normal, just like all Mexicans do. … Beans, rice, flower tortilla, corn tortilla, French fries, hamburgers, subs and pizzas, whatever regular people eat. I worked as a technician, repairing typewriters, electronic calculators and computers. So I worked on a chair. It was a sedentary life," he said. Uribe is beyond the kind of overweight that comes from fast food and lack of exercise. Doctors call it morbid obesity. According to the National Institutes of Health, obesity means weighing 20 percent or more than your ideal body weight, and it's a health risk. Morbid obesity is altogether different. Sometimes called "clinically severe obesity," it means you're 100 pounds or more over ideal body weight, with a body mass index of 40 or higher. Uribe doesn't gain weight like the rest of us. Brain chemistry, genetic mutation, addiction, psychological pain -- or an unhappy combination of all of them -- makes morbid obesity one of the biggest mysteries of medicine. Dr. Jaime Gonzalez makes house calls to Uribe once a week. His goal: to help his patient lose 1,000 pounds. Uribe's legs and lower body are massaged daily to improve blood circulation. "Our main concern currently [are] his lower extremities," Gonzalez said. "There are large volumes because of the amount of fluids retained here." Incredibly enough, in spite of his enormous weight, Uribe says he is in good health. "Yes, I have accumulated fat, but I'm healthy," he said. "I don't have sugar, cholesterol, triglycerides, diabetes or high blood pressure. My heart works perfectly fine." "We don't have an explanation," Gonzalez said.  there's more at:<a href="http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/heaviest-man-tries-to-lose-1000-pounds/20070121101709990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001" target="_blank">http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/heaviest-man-tries-to-lose-1000-pounds/20070121101709990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001</a> 

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FUNKMAN

01-21-2007, 03:50 PM

You Don't Have To Call Me Norman...

Team_Ramrod

01-21-2007, 04:14 PM

1000lbs???????????That's alot of shittyhamburgars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kevin

01-21-2007, 04:20 PM

That poor bed.

Bulldogcakes

01-21-2007, 04:23 PM

I'd fuck him. Right in that big mexican ass of his.

shittyhambrgers

01-21-2007, 04:24 PM

my fav part is this: "I used to eat normal, just like all Mexicans do. … Beans, rice, flower tortilla, corn tortilla, French fries, hamburgers, subs and pizzas, whatever regular people eat." --- he lists ALL bad food, not one salad or vegetable.

trackstand

01-21-2007, 04:30 PM

my fav part is this: "I used to eat normal, just like all Mexicans do. … Beans, rice, flower tortilla, corn tortilla, French fries, hamburgers, subs and pizzas, whatever regular people eat." --- he lists ALL bad food, not one salad or vegetable. NOR DID HE MENTION 15 OF EACH AT A TIME!poor Slob!Glad I only resemble Dale Dribble.

sr71blackbird

01-21-2007, 04:30 PM

I am on the Zone now.  I had previously lost 75 lbs on it, and kept it off for 5 years, and then went off it and slowly put it back.  I am hoping to lose my weight again

flavopop

01-21-2007, 04:34 PM

Sorry if this sounds a little pissy, but how the fuck can that animal weigh a 12 hundy (well, 8 hundy now) and be in "otherwise good health"!  I am 6'0" and weigh about 270 and was athletic all my friggin life and I have Diabetes and ungodly peripheral neurapthy in my feet!  No sugar or cholesterol?   Come on will ya?  I hope that bed implodes and that Sanchez gets a splinter somewhere he cant reach, which is most everywhere.  Sorry, but that gets my goat!

flavopop

01-21-2007, 04:37 PM

Good luck blackbird!  Is the zone like Atkins?  I did that about 5 years ago and also lost 75 lbs but I swear to this day that the Atkins diet triggered my diabetes.  Its a great diet if you want to lose 20 lbs to fit into some cloths or a suit or something, but as a lifestye, I dont think so.  My stomach was a mess when I tried eating any regular food after that.  And 6 months later, I was diagnosed with Diabetes.  F the skull of Dr Atkins, and I applaud the ice that caused him to fall on his noggin.  Yean, Im a tad bitter!

ralphbxny

01-21-2007, 04:38 PM

He must not have seen his dick ...ever!!

Don Stugots

01-21-2007, 04:57 PM

people, hello, pizza is a veggie, it has sauce.  this is my greatest fear, waking up one day and being this guy. Blackbird, good luck!  i am back on fat smash diet 100% today.  i have 30-50 pounds to go down.

SatCam

01-21-2007, 05:02 PM

Bulldogcakes wrote: I'd fuck him. Right in that big mexican ass of his. 

which one?

lleeder

01-21-2007, 05:02 PM

Is it ok to jack to that picture?

angrymissy

01-21-2007, 05:02 PM

Fat Smash is evil.  I was ready to eat the cats after 3 days with no meat.  And yeah, I tried those veggie burgers and they do not compare to delicious hamburgers.

shittyhambrgers

01-21-2007, 05:06 PM

i wanna fuck that little fat bubble peaking out of his shirt.

Don Stugots

01-21-2007, 05:12 PM

angrymissy wrote: Fat Smash is evil. I was ready to eat the cats after 3 days with no meat. And yeah, I tried those veggie burgers and they do not compare to delicious hamburgers.  missy, nothing compares to some delicious red meat but since it is now on the "dont not eat" list, it will have to do.

sr71blackbird

01-21-2007, 05:19 PM

flavopop wrote: Good luck blackbird!  Is the zone like Atkins?  I did that about 5 years ago and also lost 75 lbs but I swear to this day that the Atkins diet triggered my diabetes.  Its a great diet if you want to lose 20 lbs to fit into some cloths or a suit or something, but as a lifestye, I dont think so.  My stomach was a mess when I tried eating any regular food after that.  And 6 months later, I was diagnosed with Diabetes.  F the skull of Dr Atkins, and I applaud the ice that caused him to fall on his noggin.  Yean, Im a tad bitter! It is a hormonal diet.  Basically, it is the diet of someone with diabetes, so it cant cause diabetes.  I just eat meat, fruits and veggies.  No bread, past, rice or corn or sugar.  I eat it in a ratio.  Slightly more non-meat than meat.  I eat a palm sized piece of meat and a palm sized plus two fingers size fruit/veggie combination.

brainwart

01-21-2007, 05:45 PM

I wonder if this guy has a retarded son who climbs water towers.

flavopop

01-21-2007, 06:13 PM

Blackbird, I understand what is on the diet, no carbs, no sugar, but my thinking was that after doing Atkins for about 6 months, my body was somehow damaged by the severe change and forgot how to produce insulin on its own.  I sure as shit know that once I had regular food like a slice a pizza, my stomach was doing flips, gurgling, gas pains, it seemed that since I deprived it of carbs and sugars for so long , it didnt remember how to break any of those foods down once I started to eat them again.  Do ya think this is possible or am I just making "CRAZY TALK"?

Coach_Mac

01-21-2007, 06:26 PM

The craziest part was where it sai "morbid obesity" is being 100 lbs over your ideal body weight. The recomended ideal body weight for a 6 foot dude is like 170-175. Wow. I better lose some weight before I get into the morbily obese range!

FUNKMAN

01-21-2007, 06:54 PM

i bet he has some schweaty balls not that i stay up nights thinking about it

A.J.

01-22-2007, 03:20 AM

shittyhambrgers wrote: "Our main concern currently [are] his lower extremities," Gonzalez said. "There are large volumes because of the amount of fluids retained here." I lost my appetite.

PhishHead

01-22-2007, 03:27 AM

Don Stugots wrote: angrymissy wrote: Fat Smash is evil. I was ready to eat the cats after 3 days with no meat. And yeah, I tried those veggie burgers and they do not compare to delicious hamburgers. missy, nothing compares to some delicious red meat but since it is now on the "dont not eat" list, it will have to do.  Isn't that a double negative so you can eat it?

shittyhambrgers

01-22-2007, 03:28 AM

A.J. wrote: shittyhambrgers wrote: "Our main concern currently [are] his lower extremities," Gonzalez said. "There are large volumes because of the amount of fluids retained here."I lost my appetite.really?  i'm starvin!  earl, we got any large volumes of fluid back there?