I lived for a week on baby food – what my body did shocked

A YouTuber has become viral after he claimed that he lost a dramatic amount of weight in just five days – by eating nothing but eating and drinking that are designed for babies.

Michael Alves, based in San Diego, a former university football player, tried the so-called ‘Baby Food Diet’ in a self-imposed challenge posted on his YouTube channel, Killdozer.

The video has yielded more than 820,000 views and documents the 26-year-old who survives in bags, puree and formula bars for the best part of a week.

Before he starts, Alves explains strict basic rules: everything he eats must be made for babies or toddlers.

Drinks must come in children’s bottles and all meals must be consumed using Babyware-included a new cow-shaped ‘spork’.

Towards the end of the experiment, Alves claims that he has fallen from 18th 2 pounds (254LBS) to 17th 10 pounds (248 pounds) – almost half a stone – when he constantly felt him hungry, demoralized and sometimes physically unwell.

“This challenge is bad,” he says in the video at some point. “I really don’t want to eat baby food anymore.”

Alves, who has gained more than 500,000 subscribers for his humorous gaming and lifestyle content, seems shirtless at the start of the video for a weigh and ‘physique control’.

Michael Alves, based in San Diego, a former university football player, tried the so-called ‘Baby Food Diet’ in a self-imposed challenge on his YouTube channel, Killdozer

The video has since yielded more than 820,000 views and documents the 26-year-old who survives in pockets, puree and formula terraces for the best part of a week

He is optimistic and claims that baby food must have a lot of proteins because children need proteins … I think. “

But his enthusiasm disappears quickly. “There is nowhere in protein,” he says unbelieving while shopping at Target. “Do babies don’t need proteins?”

For five days, Alves monsters everything, from toddler snacks to baby formula and pinchable meat pures – with mixed and usually negative results.

Many of the meals let him visibly retire. The tackled carrots, he said, were ‘devils’ and added:’ Zero taste at all. And they melt in your mouth almost immediately. ‘

The macaroni and cheese did not do much better: ‘The noodles immediately fall apart … and the cheese? Not very tasteful. ‘

Even the baby formula he chose, turned out to be unbearable. After a sip he grinned: ‘What the hell do we give our children? This tastes like poison. ‘

Only one dish – made potatoes with beef and gravy – earned vague praise. ‘It still tastes like baby food, but it also tastes like beef. So it’s a double whammy. ‘

He adds: “These meals taste like they were made by alien beings.”

Before it starts, Alves explains strict basic rules: everything he eats and drinks must be made for babies or toddlers and all meals must be consumed using baby utensils

Many of the meals let him visibly retire. The tackled carrots, he said, were ‘devils’ and added:’ Zero taste at all. And they melt in your mouth almost immediately ‘

He gives the overall experience a score of 3/10 and notes: ‘If I didn’t have the snacks or pedialyte [baby formula rehydration drinks]It would have been one ‘

Alves, however, enjoyed preschools, including a package of garden salsa -puffs that he has awarded 9.2 out of 10, and called them the best he ate all week.

In addition to meals with a layer of calorie rich, he also regularly added exercises participation in walks in a weighed vest, gym sessions and long walks, often with his wife Jessica, 27.

Although the final weighting confirms that it is 6 pounds lighter, Alves says that he suspects that much of the weight loss can be water instead of fat.

With hardly any salt or carbohydrates, the baby food diet left his body away and burning through its energy reserves.

He adds that the pure lack of taste in most products he consumed made it impossible to eat too much.

“I’m hungry,” he says at the end of day five.

He gives the overall experience a score of 3/10 and notes: ‘If I didn’t have the snacks or pedialyte [baby formula rehydration drinks]It would have been one. ‘

Nutrition experts would probably not recommend the plan.

Towards the end of the experiment, Alves claims that he has fallen from 18th 2LB (254LBS) to 17th 10LB (248 pounds) – almost half a stone

Although the final weighting confirms that it is 6 pounds lighter, Alves says he suspects that much of the weight loss can be water instead of fat

Baby food is designed for small children with the development of digestive systems and contains limited salt, herbs and fiber – not not to mention the proteins, unless reinforced.

Alves notes that even the baby yogurt he tried were labeled as ‘not contain living cultures’, which means that they were plank stable and the intestinal -friendly bacteria in regular yogurt missed.

“I really thought this would be better,” he says. ‘Even the formula tastes like poison. What do we give our children? ‘

The challenge ends with Alves who rewards herself with a burrito and says, “We have to give them to babies.”

Alves has seen rapid fame in the past year and switch from sport to streaming.

As a former attacking lineman for UCLA, he started to post gaming content at the beginning of 2025 and to challenge videos under the name Killdozer.

His fanbase love-known as ‘dozer purists’-has praised the humor of the video, but even die-hard supporters do not seem to replicate the diet itself.

“Please don’t do the baby food diet,” he says. “I am so happy that I only did five days and not seven.”

The baby food stunt follows a new extreme diet challenge that waves waves earlier this year.

Alves itself has become viral, after he has consumed protein for a week.

And YouTuber Joshua Allard, 25, 25, received the attention of Oklahoma City after an attempt to eat 150 eggs in five days.

Allard said that the alone-egg diet blown him up, tired and eating up to 30 eggs per day, but also unexpected benefits, such as improved sleep and reduced appetite.

The challenge led online for enormous interest, along with warnings from nutritionists who said that such restrictive eating plans are untenable and have essential nutrients.

Just like Alves’ Baby Food Challenge, it showed how extreme diets can lead to weight loss in the short term but with side effects and should not be conceived as health advice.