“The first stage after the op you have to eat pureed food, and you have two or three teaspoons and you are full.”
He underwent the surgery on 23 June 2020 - “It’s changed my life.” “For three weeks before (the operation) I had a very low calorie diet, it was just two protein shakes a day and some water.” This restricts food intake and stimulates hormones in the gut that suppress hunger. The procedure involves by-passing the stomach and about one metre of the small intestine. He had it done privately and paid for it himself. He investigated and then decided on a gastric by-pass.
“I’d done all the dieting yoyos, I tried every diet known to man.” He had recently become a father and decided something had to change. “I was eating Maccas and all the crap under the sun….and could drink 4-5 jugs in a night and I thought this is not right.” Two years ago Bray had something of an epiphany. “I got as light as 81, and now have settled to what I am now, about 87,” says Bray. “I was travelling a lot, eating a lot of fast food, a lot of hosting and hospitality, living large, made me bigger and bigger.”Īccording to official measures he was “extremely obese”įor those who have followed the sales in recent years they have seen Bray, one of NZB’s main auctioneers, almost become half the man he was, losing over 60 kgs. "I was a slob," says the 35-year-old who will again be at the podium cajoling bids from prospective purchasers at the upcoming NZB Standardbred yearling sales at Karaka and Christchurch. The new version of Cam Bray doesn't shy away from what he was. Auctioneer Cam Bray is used to being front and centre at the NZB Standardbred Yearling Sales sales, but in recent years he’s changed so much that some people don’t recognise him.