YouTuber Nikocado Avocado Loses 250 Pounds in 2 Years
YouTuber Nikocado Avocado is shocking fans with his dramatic weight loss, which he's highlighted in repeated recent posts on his social media pages.
The social media star — known for his videos that show him eating large quantities of food — shared in a YouTube video on Friday how much weight he'd lost, and revealed his dramatically changed appearance compared to his most recent post from seven months prior. The difference is stark because he hid his weight loss, he told NBC News via email.
"Today, I woke up from a very long dream, and I also woke up having lost 250 pounds off of my body. And just yesterday, people were calling me fat and sick and boring and irrelevant,” Perry, 32, said in Friday's YouTube video titled "Two Steps Ahead."
"People are the most messed-up creatures on the entire planet, and yet I’ve still managed to stay two steps ahead of everyone. The joke’s on you," he continued.
It took Perry about two years to lose the weight, he told NBC News. At his heaviest, he weighed 411 pounds. He now weighs 158. He added that he's 6 feet tall.
To hide his weight loss,"I have been strategically posting pre-recorded videos for 2 years, on both YouTube and TikTok," Perry told NBC News. "I edited the videos so that they would appear recent, allowing me to focus on healing my body behind the scenes. I shaved my head so that people wouldn’t recognize me in public. A handful of fellow YouTubers also helped to keep my secret."
He said he posted a YouTube video in 2022 subtly marking the beginning of his weight loss journey. The video was originally titled "The Best Burger I've Ever Had," but he since renamed it to "Two Steps Ahead - Original 2022."
In posts earlier this year, Perry alluded to his weight loss journey not going well.
Three months ago, he said in a YouTube video: "Oh, well, some people are fat. Get over it. You think we’re plopped down on this Earth to just starve and count calories and restrict carbs? I’m over it; it doesn’t work. I keep trying; it doesn’t work. I have accepted that I’m fat. And I think most people just should, actually."
He also said in a TikTok from April that he was "no longer trying to lose weight."
The goal of hiding his weight loss was to highlight that what you see on the internet isn't necessarily reality, Perry explained.
"While everybody pointed and laughed at me for over-consuming food, I was in total control the entire time. In reality, people are completely absorbed with Internet personalities and obsessively watch their content. That is where a deeper level of over-consumption lies — and it’s the parallel I wanted to make," he told NBC News.
"I also wanted to remind some people to take the internet a little less seriously. Not everything is as it appears."
Maura Hohman
Maura Hohman is the senior health editor for TODAY.com and has been covering health and wellness since 2015.
