Manuel Uribe, better known as 'Meme' who weights around 310 kilograms (700 pounds), wipes his face inside a trailer holding his specially designed bed on a trip to a lake while children look at him in Monterrey, northern Mexico, on Sunday. Uribe, 43, who once weighed half a ton, has been largely confined to his home for the last six years.Photo: AFPA 700-pound (310-kilogram) man once considered the world's most obese person left his home for the first time in five months Sunday with the aid of a forklift and a platform truck.
Manuel Uribe travelled to the shore of a lake in northern Mexico without ever leaving his specially designed bed. A forklift hoisted the bed onto the truck, which then hauled him to the lake, where he snacked on fish and vegetables and joked with a local boat operator.
Looking at the boatman's small craft, Uribe joked, "Too bad I can't get on it it would sink."
Once considered the world's fattest man when his weight hit over half a ton, more than two years of steady dieting had helped Uribe drop to about 700 pounds (310 kilograms) as of June 550 pounds (250 kilograms) less than his former Guinness record weight of 1,235 pounds (560 kilograms). He did not say what his current weight is.
