Mexico?s Manuel Uribe, once the world?s most obese man, celebrated his 43rd birthday on the day before, with a very short trip outside his house. In only his third outing in six years, Uribe, sitting on his huge reinforced bed, was dragged outside his garage bedroom and onto the pavement outside his house in Monterrey in northern Mexico.

Still weighing the size of three hefty men, Uribe sat on his bed wearing only a bedsheet, drank a beer and chatted to his mother, girlfriend and neighbors in the cool evening air, waiting for a cake. ?I?m happy that it is my birthday,? he told reporters interviewing the man who weighed 324 kg in May after losing 235 kg since March 2006 on a diet of grapefruits, egg-white omelets, fish, chicken and vegetables. Uribe is still unable to move his swollen legs and his dream is to walk again and visit the mountainous countryside around Monterrey.