Medical Director of Food Program Responds to Nikocado Avocado Weight Loss

Dr. Anthony Lim, Medical Director of the McDougall Program, commented on Nikocado Avocado’s dramatic weight loss.

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The YouTuber – real name Nicholas Perry – made headlines around the world this week after revealing that he had lost 250 pounds, much to the surprise of his fans and followers. For about eight years, Perry had become known for his “mukbang” videos, in which he consumes massive amounts of food at once while talking on camera.

Dr. Lim, who specializes in lifestyle medicine and nutrition, said he “congratulates” Perry on the weight loss. Speaking to News about plants (PBN), he added that if he were to talk to Perry, he would ask him “a lot about how he’s turning his life around” and “maintaining a healthy weight” through lifestyle changes.

Nikocado Avocado Weight Loss

In a video posted to his 3.9 million subscribers over the weekend, the YouTuber revealed a drastic change to his appearance to his millions of subscribers. The video, titled “Two Steps Ahead,” has been viewed 38 million times at the time of writing.

“I’m always two steps ahead,” he said at the beginning of the video, wearing a large panda mask to hide his face (he later confirmed that it symbolized that social media “isn’t as black and white as it seems”). Perry then added, “This has been the greatest social experiment of my entire life.”

After removing the mask, he said, “Today I woke up from a really long dream, and I also woke up having lost 250 pounds from my body. And yesterday people were calling me fat and sick and boring and irrelevant. Humans are the most fucked up creatures on the entire planet, and yet I still managed to stay two steps ahead of everyone else. The joke’s on you.”

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How did Nikocado Avocado lose weight?

The video attracted a huge amount of attention and speculation, partly because the weight loss appeared to have occurred in a very short time (videos from just a few months earlier showed him in a much larger format).

Perry has responded to the speculation by confirming that it took him two years to lose the weight, and revealing that he did everything he could to keep it from the public – including uploading pre-recorded content during that time.

“I’ve been strategically posting pre-recorded videos for the past 2 years, both on YouTube and TikTok,” he said NBC News. “I edited the videos to make them look recent so I could focus on healing my body behind the scenes,” he added. He shaved his head so people wouldn’t recognize him in public. He also had help from other YouTubers to hide his plan.

Speaking about the reasoning behind his social experiment, Perry said: “While everyone was pointing fingers and laughing at me for eating too much, I was in complete control the whole time. In reality, people are completely absorbed by internet personalities and obsessively watching their content. That’s where a deeper level of overconsumption lies — and that’s the parallel I wanted to draw.”

Nikocado Avocado and Plant-Based Diets

It may come as a surprise to some that Perry used to follow a plant-based diet. He added animal products to his diet back in 2016 and has since posted numerous videos of himself eating large amounts of meat and dairy.

PBN Founder Klaus Mitchell has expressed hope that he will return to a more sustainable, animal-free diet. “I met Nikocado Avocado in 2015 when he was thriving on a plant-based lifestyle,” he said. “Let’s hope this recent transformation brings him back to the positive and happy person I remember and I sincerely hope he considers going back to a vegan lifestyle.”

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