The first week and the second week
"I'm obviously not two hairs!"
It's our virtual protagonist again. She eats 70 grams of buffet every day and longs for six kinds of fish. Let's not talk about reducing food intake. First, change her eating habits, from self-help to dinner. She usually eats 70 grams, so she divides 70 grams into three meals, breakfast, dinner and bedtime meal. How to allocate the proportion is arbitrary, but she must give up eating self-help, not only to get the fat cat at two hairs used to it, but also for herself.
The second stage: reduce food intake and add food.
Third week
After two weeks, you must be almost used to feeding by meal. We are going to reduce the amount of food this week. Remember what her RER is for twenty cents? Yes, 5x30+70=220kcal, which is about 57 grams of yearning for six kinds of fish. From now on, you can only eat 57 grams of 20 cents a day, not 70 grams. If your cat used to eat more than RER, you should pay attention to your spirit after reducing the feeding amount. Too fast calorie reduction is very dangerous for super fat cats, which may lead to fatty liver. If necessary, add meals to his daily intake two days before losing weight on weekends, but this behavior can only last for one month at most.
Fourth week
Starting this week, it's time to urge myself to weigh the cat every week. Has twenty cents lost weight in the last week? If it is not much, don't worry. Cats should not lose more than 1% of their body weight every week. Losing 20 cents a week may be only a few tens of grams. A drop of 3-4% a month is enough. On the contrary, losing weight too fast may be dangerous. This week, in addition to weighing, we will also try to replace some high-protein and high-moisture foods for Ermao. If you are not prepared to balance self-control, then I suggest you give some canned staple food. Remember how to look at the heat? Yes, look at the packaging yourself, or calculate it yourself! Remember: the total calories still can't exceed.
Fifth week
We won't make many changes this week. If the cat can't accept new food well, then give more old food. The heat can't be exceeded, and it can't be less for the time being. If the cat can't eat enough calories (RERx 1.0) designed by us, it is necessary to change the pattern on the food for him to eat. To lose weight, he must eat first!
Week six to week seven
Have you paid attention to monitoring your weight every week? If all goes well, a fat cat like Ermao should be thinner. Keep on insisting, always remind yourself not to be tempted to give more food and snacks, and continue to give high-protein food, even if he doesn't eat, he only gives a little (all kinds of cooked meat). This is to get him used to it, and eating or not is not the key. Get ready, we will use the new feeding amount from the eighth week.
The third stage: further reduce food.
Eighth week
From now on, we will reduce the intake to RERx0.8 or 0.9 again, that is to say, we can only eat 176- 198kcal from 220kcal. Still need to pay attention not to lose weight too fast, mathematical formulas can't replace reality. Again, if the weekly weight loss rate exceeds 1%- 1.5%, then this speed is too fast!
The third month
Is the cat thin or fat? If it goes up, think about it. Did you give snacks and meals? Do family and roommates give cats extra food? How about changing food? Can cats accept a higher proportion of meat and canned food? If all goes well, after the above two months, the cat should have lost 6% or more. Adjust the feeding amount according to the actual situation of the cat this month. If cats like meat and canned food with high protein and moisture very much, they can relax their intake appropriately. Still ensure a steady and slow weight loss.
Stage 4: Fluctuating eating
Fourth month
Starting from this month, we will try to lose weight in fluctuation/interval, and this method will continue until we lose weight to normal weight. The so-called fluctuating/intermittent weight loss is to eat more and eat less alternately, to some extent, "cheat" the body, and reduce the overall calorie intake while maintaining a high metabolic rate. Experiments show that this method is much more effective than the traditional simple eating less (citation 7). In the first half of this month, we slightly reduced the RER to 60-70% on the original basis (RERx0.8 to 0.9). Recover 80-90% RER in the second half of the month. Half a month, half a month alternately, more than two weeks, less than two weeks, and so on.
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