{"id":221744,"date":"2025-06-28T16:20:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T16:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/221744\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T16:20:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T16:20:22","slug":"i-lived-on-baby-food-for-a-week-what-it-did-to-my-body-shocked-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/221744\/","title":{"rendered":"I lived on baby food for a WEEK – what it did to my body shocked me"},"content":{"rendered":"

A YouTuber has gone viral after claiming he lost a dramatic amount of weight in just five days\u2014by eating nothing but food and drinks designed for babies.<\/p>\n

San Diego-based Michael Alves, a former college football player, tried the so-called ‘baby food diet’ in a self-imposed challenge posted to his YouTube<\/a> channel, Killdozer.<\/p>\n

The video has racked up more than 820,000 views and documents the 26-year-old surviving on pouches, purees and formula drinks for the best part of a week.<\/p>\n

Before starting, Alves lays out strict ground rules: everything he eats must be made for babies or toddlers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Drinks must come in child-sized bottles, and all meals must be consumed using baby utensils\u2014including a novelty cow-shaped ‘spork’.\u00a0<\/p>\n

By the end of the experiment, Alves claims he dropped from 18st 2lb (254lbs) to 17st 10lb (248lbs)\u2014almost half a stone\u2014adding that the experience made him feel constantly hungry, demoralised, and at times physically unwell.<\/p>\n

‘This challenge sucks,’ he says in the video at one point. ‘I really don’t want to eat any more baby food.’<\/p>\n

Alves, who has gained more than 500,000 subscribers for his humorous gaming and lifestyle content, appears shirtless at the start of the video for a weigh in and ‘physique check’.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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A YouTuber has gone viral after claiming he lost a dramatic amount of weight in just five days\u2014by eating nothing but food and drinks designed for babies<\/p>\n

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San Diego-based Michael Alves, a former college football player, tried the so-called ‘baby food diet’ in a self-imposed challenge posted to his YouTube channel, Killdozer<\/p>\n

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The video has since racked up more than 820,000 views and documents the 26-year-old surviving on pouches, purees and formula drinks for the best part of a week<\/p>\n

He is optimistic, claiming baby food ‘must have loads of protein because children need protein… I think.’<\/p>\n

But his enthusiasm quickly dissipates.\u00a0‘There’s no protein in anything here,’ he says in disbelief while shopping the baby aisle at Target. ‘Do babies not need protein?’<\/p>\n

Over five days, Alves samples everything from toddler snacks to infant formula and squeezable meat pur\u00e9es\u2014with mixed and mostly negative results.<\/p>\n

Many of the meals left him visibly recoiling. The mashed carrots, he said, were ‘diabolical,’ adding: ‘Zero flavour at all. And they almost melt immediately in your mouth.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

The macaroni and cheese fared little better: ‘The noodles immediately disintegrate… and the cheese? Not very flavourful.’<\/p>\n

Even the infant formula drink he chose proved unbarable. After one sip, he grimaced: ‘What the hell are we giving our kids? This tastes like poison.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

Only one dish\u2014mashed potatoes with beef and gravy\u2014earned faint praise. ‘It still tastes like baby food, but it also does taste like beef. So it’s a double whammy.’<\/p>\n

He adds: ‘These meals taste like they were made by aliens.’<\/p>\n

\"Before <\/p>\n

Before starting, Alves lays out strict ground rules: everything he eats and drinks must be made for babies or toddlers and all meals must be consumed using baby utensils<\/p>\n

\"Many <\/p>\n

Many of the meals left him visibly recoiling. The mashed carrots, he said, were ‘diabolical,’ adding: ‘Zero flavour at all. And they almost melt immediately in your mouth’<\/p>\n

\"He <\/p>\n

He gives the overall experience a score of 3\/10, noting: ‘If I didn’t have the snacks or Pedialyte [baby formula rehydration drinks], it would’ve been a one’<\/p>\n

Alves did, however, enjoy toddler crisps, including a packet of garden salsa puffs which he awarded 9.2 out of 10, calling them the best thing he ate all week.<\/p>\n

To supplement the low-calorie meals, he also added regular exercise\u2014taking part in hikes wearing a weighted vest, gym sessions and long walks, often with his wife Jessica, 27.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Although the final weigh-in confirms he’s 6lb lighter, Alves says he suspects much of the weight loss may be water rather than fat.<\/p>\n

With barely any salt or carbs, the baby food diet left his body flushing out water and burning through its energy reserves.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He adds that the sheer lack of flavour in most of the products he consumed made it impossible to overeat.<\/p>\n

‘I’m starving,’ he says at the end of day five.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He gives the overall experience a score of 3\/10, noting: ‘If I didn’t have the snacks or Pedialyte [baby formula rehydration drinks], it would’ve been a one.’<\/p>\n

Nutrition experts would be unlikely to recommend the plan.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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By the end of the experiment, Alves claims he dropped from 18st 2lb (254lbs) to 17st 10lb (248lbs)\u2014almost half a stone<\/p>\n

\"Although <\/p>\n

Although the final weigh-in confirms he’s 6lb lighter, Alves says he suspects much of the weight loss may be water rather than fat<\/p>\n

Baby food is designed for small children with developing digestive systems and contains limited salt, spices and fibre\u2014not to mention little in the way of protein, unless fortified.<\/p>\n

Alves notes that even the baby yoghurts he tried were labelled as ‘not containing live cultures,’ meaning they were shelf-stable and lacked the gut-friendly bacteria found in regular yoghurt.<\/p>\n

‘I really thought this would be better,’ he says. ‘Even the formula tastes like poison. What are we giving our kids?’<\/p>\n

The challenge ends with Alves rewarding himself with a burrito, saying: ‘We’ve got to start giving these to babies.’<\/p>\n

Alves has seen a rapid rise in fame over the past year, transitioning from sport to streaming.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As a former offensive lineman for UCLA, he began posting gaming content and challenge videos under the name Killdozer in early 2025.<\/p>\n

His fanbase \u2013 known affectionately as ‘Dozer Purists’ \u2013 have praised the video’s humour, but even die-hard supporters seem unlikely to replicate the diet themselves.<\/p>\n

‘Please do not do the baby food diet,’ he says. ‘I’m so glad I only did five days and not seven.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

The baby\u2011food stunt follows another extreme diet challenge that made waves earlier this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Alves himself has previously gone viral, after consuming nothing but protein shakes for a week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And Oklahoma City based YouTuber Joshua Allard, 25, gained attention after attempting to eat 150 eggs in five days.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Allard said the egg-only diet left him bloated, tired and eating up to 30 eggs a day, but also noted unexpected benefits such as improved sleep and reduced appetite.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The challenge sparked huge interest online, along with warnings from nutritionists who said such restrictive eating plans are unsustainable and lack essential nutrients.<\/p>\n

Like Alves’s baby food challenge, it showed how extreme diets can lead to short-term weight loss\u2014but may come with side effects and should not be taken as health advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A YouTuber has gone viral after claiming he lost a dramatic amount of weight in just five days\u2014by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[92,105,16,15,1737],"class_list":{"0":"post-221744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-dailymail","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-youtube"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}