People will probably disagree but I think nick, if he wanted too, could actually lose weight. I feel like he’s only this massively fat because he’s so immersed in mukbang money and because of his YouTube. His drug is the attention that being a disgusting fat ass gives him - not the food itself. Chantal, lifebyjen, Amberlynn, ect... I feel like they actually want to lose weight but are shitty crash dieters and have been crash dieting their entire lives and don’t know how to escape their behavioral cycles. Even if they tried their hardest without professional help they will never escape their cycles. Nick, however, I feel like he’s not really trapped in a cycle like that - he’s more of a narcissistic that gets off on being fat and gross and if for whatever reason actually wanted to lose weight and left the mukbang shit show he would easily lose weight. Where with amber and them even without YouTube I feel like they’d still be fatasses stuck in a cycle. I don’t feel like nick would be this fat without outside motivation (money ect...)
IMO, Nick suffers from a personality disorder just like the rest of them and that is the core of all of their issues. Food just happens to be the drug they chose to cope. The difference between Nick and the girls is that his PD is histrionic flavor.
I kind of agree with both. Logistically, I think it would be easier for Nik to lose a lot of weight quickly. He's a guy in his 20's and the weight gods tend to favor men, especially young men who are fat, but not binge eaters (nik binges on camera, but I have no doubt he doesn't eat poorly when not mukbanging). If he stopped the mukbangs and just ate like a normal person, and used his treadmill more, he'd be regular sized or even on the thinner side in 6 months. But as both indicate, the mukbanging and attention and shock value from it is his drug of choice, not the actual food eaten, as it is for chantal. Also, if you really watch nik's mukbangs (gross and boring, I know), you'll see that there's some sleight hand/mouth/display going on and he doesn't really eat as much as his display would have you think. He definitely overeats, but it's nowhere near what his grandiose displays would imply.
BUT, and here's where I'm kind of adding on to what
@chantalisfat is saying. Nik was originally a fruitarian/raw vegan/vegan. IMHO, these things, ESPECIALLY fruitarianism and raw veganism is an eating disorder by a fancier name. So this may mean nik has had disordered eating for a very long time. It's also possible that he got off on the uniqueness of these diets, rather than it being a front for an eating disorder, which would play to his PD. But I'm going to assume it was an eating disorder, he got really thin, so he wasn't eating regular shit off camera, did he just swap one eating disorder with another? That would put him with the chantal and ambers of the eating world.
Honestly, I really can't narrow down the puzzle that is nik's eating/weight. It's one thing to gain and lose, and eat crap on some days and not others, and if he wants to look fat, even flaunt post-meal protrusion. But STRETCH MARKS ARE FOREVER FOLKS!!! That's the very baffling thing to me. I want to say his vanity will kick in at some point, but he's already gotten himself a road map on his stomach, where do you go from there?
