800 Pound Man's Date Ruined By Mishap

  This is a funny story but at the same time it isn't so funny.

  Manuel Uribe was ready to celebrate his having lost 440 pounds, bringing him down to 800 pounds, over the last 2 years. He also had a date with his girlfriend to celebrate the weight loss, but, this was not to be.

Washington Times

Uribe was halfway to a picnic near his Monterrey-area home on Sunday when one of the posts holding a sun-shielding tarp over his bed hit an overpass.

Uribe's blood pressure dropped so much his doctors advised him not to go on and the celebration - being documented by about two dozen photographers and reporters from around the world - was canceled.

"We were going to celebrate that I've been losing weight for two years and that it was my girlfriend's birthday," Uribe said in a telephone interview. "The saddest part was that I couldn't fulfill my dream of taking my girlfriend out to eat."

Uribe says that after losing weight on a high-protein diet he started two years ago, he's down to about 800 pounds.  

  To lose 440 pounds in 2 years is a major feat in itself. To lose that weight while living in Mexico is an act of God! Trust me on this, they do know how to eat very well south of the border. Congrats to you Manuel.

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