My weight loss secret

Bikini season is almost over, just as I’m finally getting into shape.

On Sept. 8 I weighed 6.75 pounds — down from an all-time high of 8.44 pounds on April 23. That’s almost 2 lbs.!!! I’m no mathematician but isn’t that about 25% of my body weight? Whoo-hoo. Let’s celebrate with a piece of filet mignon.

How did I do it? Not by exercising, that’s for sure as my owner still doesn’t walk me as much as she should. And I didn’t do the Zone Diet, drink only lemonade or eat only cabbage soup. And I didn’t pop any pills or have Lap Band surgery. No, I did it the right way. I changed my diet and went on Hill’s Prescription Diet r/d canned food. Now I’ve been on r/d before. I ate the dry stuff for a couple of years in New York and kept putting on weight, despite being walked a few times everyday. Finally, my mommy quit forcing me to eat it. I didn’t like it and only ate it when I was starving.

I tried a variety of dry foods for the last year, including Paul Newman’s Premium Organic and Dick Van Patten’s Natural Balance reduced calorie formula. So much for celebs. Nothing helped. I kept getting pudgier.  Exasperated, my mommy started telling people I was big-boned, not fat. Then she decided to go back to r/d dry. But thankfully for me the vet didn’t have any in stock when she left me to be boarded so she allowed them to give me wet food for the first time in my life. Boy, is it good! And it works.

So what if it costs a little bit more. My health is my priority, not my mommy’s wallet. And in the long run, I’m going to save her money because I’m no longer obese.  I’ve heard that 40-50% or dogs are overweight. The other day I saw my mother’s friend Shindana for the first time in a long time. She commented about how fat I am. It’s true, I can still stand to lose another pound. But if she had seen me a few months ago, I was a real porker. Now I’m almost ready for a bikini.

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