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Speaker 1 (00:12):
I heard podcasts, year more Kiss podcasts playlists and listen
live on the free iHeart app.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
It's Robin and Kip now with Coreot on Kiss ninety
seventy three. Now we have a very special guest in
the studio. Her name is Cody McGovern. There's a number
of ways that Cody's been around on TikTok, but also
Coorey and mail around a story about you. Cody, Welcome
to the studio.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
The thank you so much and thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
So your story is that you have You've lost an
incredible amount of weight.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
What was the startweight I reckon when I first tipped
the scales? I was one sixty five, but I think
I'd already been doing a bit of training eatting, so
it might have been closer to one seventy.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Yeah, so pretty crazy.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Can I ask you how did you get to that
one seventy and then why did you decide to lose it?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I mean I was always a little bit chubby as
a kid, you know, like Kurvey girl, and that was okay.
I think one of the things I ended up in
a bit of a negative relationship, and through that formed
a lot of really negative habits, and I wasn't working,
I wasn't training. I was also at university and working
full time. So I think there was a lot of
things that got there, but being in that really negative
(01:18):
like headspace and being in that environment really like, I
had no idea I was that heavy. I know that
sounds really funny, but I was in absolute shock. I
had no idea In terms of what turned it around.
I think I could tell I lost a lot of
who I was. I wasn't really out there anymore. I
was really isolated, didn't have a lot of friends, and
(01:39):
I'm sure you can probably pick up you know, that's
probably not my vibe now. But when I did leave
that relationship and I was finishing university, I looked in
the mirror and I was like, who are you? I
just couldn't believe what I had turned into, and I
was like, I don't want to be this person. I
want to be fun, vibrant, active, healthy, all the things
(01:59):
I was when I was that little bit younger.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
It's an incredible achievement. That's incredible.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I've just picked under eighty now with the skin, Yeah, well.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
You've got a excess skin now because you've lost all
this weight. It doesn't just go away, it just sort
of suck back in.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
No, it doesn't. And look, some people a much lighter
amount probably sucks back in. And I think I am
so lucky that I am still young and I've been
really fit along the way. So I've got some muscles
that helped buff me out a little bit. But there's
an amount that just doesn't go past this skin, and
it feels different to normal skin, right, like there's an
amount that just can't come back, or you know, people
talk about fat freezing and stuff like that. I'm well
(02:37):
past that point. My only option now is surgery. And
that's exactly what my surgeon said as well.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
The option, that's it, that's the only thing.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Wow. But when I finally got to the point where
I was like, all right, you know, maybe i've lost
enough weight. I know that gold private health and everything
has you won you waiting period. So I engage the
surgeon and that's where I started this year.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
So did he say, how much like kilo is how
much skin excess skin you have?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Yeah, he reckons, I've still got about eleven to twelve
kilos of skin on me. Look, I wear things that
hid it well, but yeah, when you take all off,
it's pretty obvious. You stretch me out like an accordion.
There's no other word for it.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Maybe that must be so demoralizing, like to have gone
through this huge transformation and you know in your head
when you're bigger or whatever, you go, okay, I want
to wear a bikini or I'm gonna look amazing. And
then there's this thing. It's like after childbirth. I guess
you have. You've just got these rolls of skin and
(03:35):
that's your life now.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Absolutely, And you think I've done the hard work. I
lost the weight I should be on like in Greece
in a bikini, and I'm still not living that life. Look,
I mean compared to I feel so much better here
I am. You know, at that weight, I didn't wear
shoes that had shoe laces because I was scared about
having to bend over and tie my shoes up in
front of people. And that sounds so silly, I mean,
(03:59):
let alone getting on a plane. So now I don't
have those limitations in my life, but there's so many more.
I try and do a burpie at the gym and
the skin comes out, or.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
So what do you have your pants?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah, and the surgery is painful.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Why aren't you doing it? Why aren't you getting this surgery?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I'm looking at it about one hundred thousand dollars and
that is with my private health, So I'm still paying
my you know, one hundred and fifty bucks a fortnight
for the privileged, you know, to pay for my hospital cover.
But my surgeon and anethetis costs are about one hundred grand.
And so when I got that at the surgery, I
got back in the car and I just cried.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
So I think there'll be a lot of people listening
who have been in your situation, who have over years
gotten bigger and are listening to this and going, what's
the point?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Yeah? Sorry, to keep going.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
So my question to you is what is your message
to them? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Look, keep going. You know, pain is power. Everything you've
already overcome. You are becoming exactly who you were meant
to be, and we will figure out a way to
fix everything after that.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Right.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
I really hope that by sharing my message and getting
it out there, we can really start to talk go
about our options. But you will one hundreder ccent still
have a better life than you were a kin with
that big.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Well, thank you for sharing your story, and we'll get it,
get it further out there as much as we can
watch your TikTok. By the way, if people do want
to follow.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I've got the way to becoming with an underscore. Then
it was on the shirts as well, so the weight
of becoming. That's just my way of sharing that awareness.
And I want to build this community of sharing other
people's stories and driving change.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
And you are absolutely thank you, guys.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I really appreciate the time. Thank you
I heard podcasts, year more Kiss podcasts playlists and listen
live on the free iHeart app.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
It's Robin and Kip now with Coreot on Kiss ninety
seventy three. Now we have a very special guest in
the studio. Her name is Cody McGovern. There's a number
of ways that Cody's been around on TikTok, but also
Coorey and mail around a story about you. Cody, Welcome
to the studio.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
The thank you so much and thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
So your story is that you have You've lost an
incredible amount of weight.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
What was the startweight I reckon when I first tipped
the scales? I was one sixty five, but I think
I'd already been doing a bit of training eatting, so
it might have been closer to one seventy.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Yeah, so pretty crazy.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Can I ask you how did you get to that
one seventy and then why did you decide to lose it?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I mean I was always a little bit chubby as
a kid, you know, like Kurvey girl, and that was okay.
I think one of the things I ended up in
a bit of a negative relationship, and through that formed
a lot of really negative habits, and I wasn't working,
I wasn't training. I was also at university and working
full time. So I think there was a lot of
things that got there, but being in that really negative
(01:18):
like headspace and being in that environment really like, I
had no idea I was that heavy. I know that
sounds really funny, but I was in absolute shock. I
had no idea In terms of what turned it around.
I think I could tell I lost a lot of
who I was. I wasn't really out there anymore. I
was really isolated, didn't have a lot of friends, and
(01:39):
I'm sure you can probably pick up you know, that's
probably not my vibe now. But when I did leave
that relationship and I was finishing university, I looked in
the mirror and I was like, who are you? I
just couldn't believe what I had turned into, and I
was like, I don't want to be this person. I
want to be fun, vibrant, active, healthy, all the things
(01:59):
I was when I was that little bit younger.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
It's an incredible achievement. That's incredible.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I've just picked under eighty now with the skin, Yeah, well.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
You've got a excess skin now because you've lost all
this weight. It doesn't just go away, it just sort
of suck back in.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
No, it doesn't. And look, some people a much lighter
amount probably sucks back in. And I think I am
so lucky that I am still young and I've been
really fit along the way. So I've got some muscles
that helped buff me out a little bit. But there's
an amount that just doesn't go past this skin, and
it feels different to normal skin, right, like there's an
amount that just can't come back, or you know, people
talk about fat freezing and stuff like that. I'm well
(02:37):
past that point. My only option now is surgery. And
that's exactly what my surgeon said as well.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
The option, that's it, that's the only thing.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Wow. But when I finally got to the point where
I was like, all right, you know, maybe i've lost
enough weight. I know that gold private health and everything
has you won you waiting period. So I engage the
surgeon and that's where I started this year.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
So did he say, how much like kilo is how
much skin excess skin you have?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Yeah, he reckons, I've still got about eleven to twelve
kilos of skin on me. Look, I wear things that
hid it well, but yeah, when you take all off,
it's pretty obvious. You stretch me out like an accordion.
There's no other word for it.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Maybe that must be so demoralizing, like to have gone
through this huge transformation and you know in your head
when you're bigger or whatever, you go, okay, I want
to wear a bikini or I'm gonna look amazing. And
then there's this thing. It's like after childbirth. I guess
you have. You've just got these rolls of skin and
(03:35):
that's your life now.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Absolutely, And you think I've done the hard work. I
lost the weight I should be on like in Greece
in a bikini, and I'm still not living that life. Look,
I mean compared to I feel so much better here
I am. You know, at that weight, I didn't wear
shoes that had shoe laces because I was scared about
having to bend over and tie my shoes up in
front of people. And that sounds so silly, I mean,
(03:59):
let alone getting on a plane. So now I don't
have those limitations in my life, but there's so many more.
I try and do a burpie at the gym and
the skin comes out, or.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
So what do you have your pants?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah, and the surgery is painful.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Why aren't you doing it? Why aren't you getting this surgery?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I'm looking at it about one hundred thousand dollars and
that is with my private health, So I'm still paying
my you know, one hundred and fifty bucks a fortnight
for the privileged, you know, to pay for my hospital cover.
But my surgeon and anethetis costs are about one hundred grand.
And so when I got that at the surgery, I
got back in the car and I just cried.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
So I think there'll be a lot of people listening
who have been in your situation, who have over years
gotten bigger and are listening to this and going, what's
the point?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Yeah? Sorry, to keep going.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
So my question to you is what is your message
to them? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Look, keep going. You know, pain is power. Everything you've
already overcome. You are becoming exactly who you were meant
to be, and we will figure out a way to
fix everything after that.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Right.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
I really hope that by sharing my message and getting
it out there, we can really start to talk go
about our options. But you will one hundreder ccent still
have a better life than you were a kin with
that big.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Well, thank you for sharing your story, and we'll get it,
get it further out there as much as we can
watch your TikTok. By the way, if people do want
to follow.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I've got the way to becoming with an underscore. Then
it was on the shirts as well, so the weight
of becoming. That's just my way of sharing that awareness.
And I want to build this community of sharing other
people's stories and driving change.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
And you are absolutely thank you, guys.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I really appreciate the time. Thank you
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