My vet nutritionist calculated calorie intake for Crickette...she is allowed 114/cal/day.....and I am the one that is having a horrible time with this!!! I HATE to see anything hungry, and she looks at me with those soft, pleading, starving eyes, and I just HAVE to give her more...so the vet said for dinner, she can have french cut green beans, 1/4 cup.......it helps me because french cut green beans LOOK like a much larger amount for the number of calories you are giving, and that helps me, help her. Then for exercise he suggested we walk down to the end of the street to get the mail everyday...but I do not take my dogs off my property so, I counted the number of steps I take walking to and back from the mailbox, and we walk around the fence line in the back yard, that many steps. Over the last 8 months, she has gone from 7 lbs down to 4.5! |