>>251239Hey dude, here is what I did to make the former fatty lab you see in the picture healthy again.
I am currently pursuing a masters in dietary sciences, considering going for animal dietary sciences after the success that I had with this little experiment.
So, people and dogs have very similar digestive tracts, etc, both mammals you guys know these things.
So what I did was treat him like a person trying to lose weight. Typically, with people diet or exercise is not enough. Doing both is the way to go. I didn't put him on any special feed or anything, all I did was start feeding him one cup of food five times a day, spaced out every two hours instead of the three cups twice daily that the vet recommended. Like with people when you have three large meals a day, your metabolism is slower than when you have six small meals a day. Dogs I have found are very similar.
So, thus far, he is on regimen that is less food more evenly dispersed. The other thing I did was start walking him for longer than he was used to. Instead of an hour in the AM, afternoon, and PM, I threw in one walk before his final meal, and one after his final meal so that his metabolism would peak after his last meal.
this seemed to be highly effective.
The other thing, I disagree with what you are doing with the backpack. The thing that most commonly plagues big dogs is hip dysplasia. making an already overweight dog carry a backpack will likely bring that on that much faster. Besides the fact that it turns an aerobic activity to a more anaerobic activity. Aerobic activities burn more calories than anaerobic activities, so for these two reasons I feel like the backpack i a bad idea. Just MAKE time to walk him more, and change up his eating habits. You'll find great success.
