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Lose 200 pounds!
(AP)
Updated: 2006-06-28 16:42

Doctor Barry Sears,left, and Manuel Uribe, poses during a press conference in Monterrey, Mexico on June 26, 2006. Manuel Uribe weighed 1,235 pounds when he made a desperate plea for help on national television in January. Uribe, 41, has lost 200 pounds since February following the high-protein diet. But he is not discarding having gastric bypass surgery. 'People think that I can eat a whole cow but it's not just overeating, it's also a hormonal problem,' Uribe said Tuesday.[AP]