for me to lose it any weight.
I just thought that that was my life.
At my heaviest it was in the early 400s.
When I was in my early 20s I started making changes
which has led to the most dramatic part of my transformation.
but I didn't know to the extent that it would affect me.
So this here is all excess skin from the weight Loss,
There's never not been a time when I wasn't overweight.
I was told that I was morbidly obese In high school.
When I was a child I would eat an entire loaf of store bought Bread
and then I would eat something after that.
I would, I would eat till I vomited.
I do think that sometimes my overeating
was just a way to cover myself.
I think it was kind of like a cycle like I was eating
because I was overweight
and I was overweight because I was like eating so much.
At my heaviest, I was in the early 400s,
after that I just never kept track.
It's not something that you want to hear like you know,
it's not good for you.
When I was in my early 20s, I started making changes to my diet,
not to lose weight, but just to be a bit more healthy.
Because I always thought that it was impossible
for me to lose it any weight.
I just thought that that was my life.
So the big dramatic turning point it was four years ago
is when I started working with my personal trainer, Nansi.
I lost 10 pounds, I lost 20 pounds, I lost 30 pounds.
Last 18 months, I've lost the last 100 pounds,
but also incorporated exercise and weight training into that,
which has led to the most dramatic part of my transformation.
I've lost approximately 250 pounds.
Nansi: Remember when we used to train at the beginning,
we were in the studio and you'd be like, I can't do this.
And you ‘d be like no, no then you just kind of lunge and you can't do it.
And then now it's like, okay, you like doing all this ****
in front of like, all these people on the track in Williamsburg.
It's amazing. You should be so proud of yourself.
Corey: Yeah a little.
But I wouldn't be at this point right here like,
don't listen to her she's really humble.
but I would not be at this point right now without having her there.
So yeah she won't admit that, but it's 100% true.
It would not even be a possibility.
Nansi: Thank you but yeah, it's a two is a two is a team this team effort.
Corey: Yeah, it is, it is a team effort.
I always knew that I was going to have excess skin.
But I didn't know to the extent that it would affect me.
There was a particular moment where I just realised that
this was not the feeling I expected to have.
I realised that this was actually making me feel worse
and because I had envisioned, what I would look like in my head,
and I did not look like that.
So this here is all excess skin from the weight loss
that I'm going to have taken off.
They're removing, I’m having all of my abdomen done.
From the bottom all the way up to the top of my ribcage.
My surgery takes place in six days.
Having skin removal surgery, it just for me,
it's like closing this chapter of my life
and I feel like I could just completely move on from it.
Corey: Yeah, I'm completely terrified.
The surgeon estimated that he removed approximately 10 pounds of skin.
When the bandages first came off
the first thing that I noticed was
how completely flat my stomach was.
Pretty much every morning when I wake up,
the first thing I do before I get dressed is just
look myself in the mirror because it's not so much an exciting thing,
for me as it is just kind of like a surreal thing for me to have
none of that excess skin kind of just folded over.
It's going to take me quite a while for me to get used
to the fact that it's not there.
It's kind of just kind of like have how I have like, kind of Phantom fat
where I still think that it's there.
And then I'll just like sometimes rest of my hands like on my hips
and just be like, okay, like that's flat.
it's still very weird to get used to.
There's been plenty of times where I completely
dropped everything that I was doing and gained weight back.
There was even a point where I gained back 65 pounds,
but then I lost it again, and then some more.
So just keep going, stay consistent.
And don't be discouraged when you fail at your diet.
Because you will always fail at your diet.
You just need to know when to get back on it again.
And I did happen to find this tucked away in my closet
somewhere that I didn't even know I still owned.
This was my old winter coat,
which was an extra extra large.
Alright let’s see if the buttons fit.
It's weird because I don't remember ever being this size.
Probably fit another two of me in here with this jacket.
Extra small yeah my current jacket is an extra small,
so yeah come a long way.