I feed her, mostly Friskies pate, but I also feed her fancy feast, classic pate, and sometimes fancy feast flaked meals… I only recently started mixing in fancy feast, but only wet food from Dr. Pearson‘s list that has 7% carbs or less basically.
I try to stick to two cans a day, because they’re about 165 to 170 cal each can (I treat fancy feast as half a can since it’s 3 ounces versus Friskies 5.5 ounces and the calories per ounce are similar.)
I’ve seen different numbers of how many calories a cat should eat to maintain their weight. I’ve seen 20 to 30 calories per pound/day I’ve seen 25 to 36 calories per pound/day…
I was using 27.5 cal per pound/ day because originally I saw from 25 to 30 per pound, so I use the average, and e a is 14.5 pounds. So they gave me 398 cal so it was like 2.25 cans a day, but Wendy said that her 14 pound cats are fine on like 250 cal a day so since I don’t want.Xena to gain weight and make things worse, I figured I’d drop it a little. So two cans is about 350 cal, but that Hass to be spread out over 24 hours so it’s one can per cycle I don’t stick to it like it is set in stone, if she seems really hungry, I’ll give her a little extra, but I mainly try to give her a small meal at preshot, so she can have a little bit bigger meal around two hours after preshot when the insulin is kicking in, and I try to give her another decent size meal I like +6 and ideally that would be her last meal till the next preshot since theoretically the insulin isn’t as strong in the second half of the cycle. This type of feeding schedule is what was suggested to me by the admin’s here, and it seems to make sense I know you really don’t want to be feeding them anything for at least 2 or 2.5 hrs before the preshot test, because you want a number that’s not affected by recent food intake.
I’m not gonna focus on trying to get her to lose weight while I’m trying to get her regulated, but I don’t want her to gain weight or have a whole bunch of extra sugar in her system. And like they say ECID, every cat is different… And some diabetic cats don’t eat that much so ideally, you want to give them some food with their pre-shot to make sure they’re going to eat some thing, but you don’t want to give them too much so that they won’t eat at the onset of the insulin… When they get to the right dose in their numbers, start coming down into the greens and possible limes, that’s when you really need to make sure they’re gonna eat some thing at the right times. Right now I know Xena will eat whenever I feed her so it’s not a huge issue at the moment (worrying about her, not eating on the insulin kicks in.) however, there was two days there that she did start leaving some food on the plate and not eating. Every time I fed her which was totally out of character, and I thought it was because she was getting close to regulated but now she’s back to eating everything.
Like I said once before, I don’t know if her numbers were low because something was bothering her and she wasn’t eating as much or if she wasn’t eating as much because her numbers were low. It’s strange that it only lasted a couple days. Maybe she didn’t feel good, I don’t know she’s keeping me on my toes, just like Allie is keeping you on yours.
