YouTuber Nikocado Avocado has revealed the 'truth' about how he managed to lose 17 stone in just two years.
The content creator, whose real name is Nicholas Perry, became social media famous from his viral mukbang (eating show) videos.
Perry would controversially eat more to put on weight during his mukbang videos, and in turn, his subscribers went up.
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Last September, however, the 32-year-old shocked his followers after revealing that hadn't filmed a video in two years.
Showing off an insane weight-loss transformation, the YouTuber said: "I am always two steps ahead. This has been the greatest social experiment of my entire life.
"It's worrying, it's compelling, it's gripping to observe all these unwell, disorientated beings roam the internet in search of stories, ideas, rivalries where they feel encouraged, engaged."
Now, in a recent video he appeared to level with his viewers and told them exactly how he lost the weight.
"Okay, so I'm just going to come out with it... I did a procedure, another one. So y'all know about the face one. I couldn't stop there," he said.
"So, the truth is, when I came back to the internet... I was concealing something.
"Now, everyone was like, 'Show us your loose skin'.
"Most people around that time already thought that I'd had skin removal surgery. I didn't want to address it, and the reason was because I didn't have skin removal surgery and I had a lot of loose skin.
"I knew I would have some, and I was hiding it. I was hiding it in my clothes."
Perry explained that it took a long time to lose the weight, adding: "I lost 250lbs (17 stone) and it took a very long time. It took 2.3 years. And I did it very slowly, we're talking about eight pounds a month.
"I'm just going to come out with it - I plateaued for some months. Sometimes I lost nothing or I gained two pounds, then the next month I lost 10 or 11, so averaged around eight pounds a month."
He continued: "And at the end of it, I had a lot of loose skin on my belly, my arms, my thighs, my torso, everywhere.
"There was loose skin all over my body. When you take out the fluid and the fat, it's just skin. You can kind of tuck it under your pants and hide it, and that's what I decided to do.
"I did not want to get skin removal surgery at that time, I was like, 'I don't know if I can handle it.' I was really nervous for it."
But with the help of Dr. Timothy Katzen, he was able to remove 10 pounds of skin, which the social media star has called a 'superior version of a tummy tuck'.
"I am loving my results. I feel so good. I haven't felt this good for, like, ever in my entire life," he said.
Anish Vij