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EXCLUSIVE I gained 250lbs as an experiment. Losing it was easy..

. the health battles that've followed are so much worse READ MORE: How Nikocado Avocado fooled the internet By LUKE ANDREWS SENIOR HEALTH REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Published: 11:30, 15 March 2025 | Updated: 11:32, 15 March 2025 e-mail View comments Nearly a billion people have watched Nikocado Avocado gorge on grotesque amounts of French fries, pizza and noodles on YouTube .



The vlogger, whose real name is Nicholas Perry, first appeared as a mild mannered vegan in his first video about a decade ago. But he put on an extraordinary 250lbs over the following years, as his videos became increasingly extreme and he leaned further into his provocative, larger-than-life, online character, which was gaining him millions of views - and dollars. 'I said [to myself] I am going to keep shoving food in my face, getting as fat as I possibly can until I'm 30, and then, once I turn 30, I'm going to do a secret weight loss journey and shock the internet,' Perry told DailyMail.

com. True to his word, in 2022, shortly after his 30th birthday, he secretly lost all the weight he gained as part of what he calls a 'social experiment'. He dropped his weight from 411 to 158lbs, all while uploading older videos of himself from before to keep viewers in the dark .

Now, speaking exclusively with DailyMail.com, he revealed how he faced an entirely new health and social crisis after losing all the weight. Nicholas Perry, 32, from Florida, bec.

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