Sudden fame struck Khalid Shaari of Saudi Arabia in 2013. Then the 22-year-old’s name was entered in the Guinness Book of World Records as the heaviest man alive at the time.
Khalid’s record weight was 610 kilograms, and the young man had not left his apartment for several years because he simply did not fit through the doorway.Who knows how much longer Khalid would not have been able to leave the house, if not for King Abdullah Al Saud of Saudi Arabia.
It was him, who, upon learning that the record-breaking 610-kilogram man lived in the kingdom, ordered to help the lad get rid of excess weight. He also paid in full for the treatment and took care of all related expenses.
But even getting Khalid to the clinic in Riyadh was no easy task. It took a team of movers, fitters, doctors and construction workers to help the 610-kilogram kid get to the clinic. Specialists dismantled part of the wall of the building and then lowered down on a forklift a specially designed bed on which Khalid was lying.
As it turned out, the cause of Khalid’s excess weight was not only overeating and improper diet, but also genetic defects, which had to be eliminated as soon as possible.
As a result of a series of procedures and the coordinated work of many specialists, Khalid was able to get rid of almost four hundred pounds of excess weight in three years.
He was now able to move around on his own and even do some of the physical exercises he needed to lose weight.
Khalid Shaari is now 31 years old and weighs about 72 kilograms. He is actively engaged in sports and leads a healthy lifestyle. The man is ready for anything, just to never get into the Book of Records again. At least not with his own weight record.
Khalid is very grateful to Abdallah Al Saud for giving him a ticket to a new life. Unfortunately, the king passed away in 2015 and did not get to see the end result of his weight loss.