r/dechonkers

So on another community I asked if my cat is fat. I got an overwhelming amount of comments saying he is fat indeed.

He is a neutered male cat. 6 years old. 22in long excluding the tail. Ribs are not visible, but easily palpable. I can see a waistline when he's standing unless im biased on that

He has an automatic feeder that feeds him 4 times a day. Each portion is 7g. I weighted each portion yesterday as it got dispensed to verify. The food brand is Nulo Hairball Manegement which is about 94 calories for 27g if i did my math right. He used to get 5 portions, so 35 g previously but I cut it down to 4

He gets half a can of Weruva wet food. Each can is between 54 to 66 calories per 3 Oz depending on the flavor. He only gets half. He also gets temptation treats with his wet food. About 5 treats.

In the evening, not every day, I'll give him another 10 treats hidden in a puzzle toy

If I'm doing my math right, he's getting 140-160 calories a day.

3/4 automatic feeding portions, I supervise him and his sister to make sure he does not steal her food. Even if he steals the portion I do not supervise, it would change much on his calorie intake

He'll occasionally get 5 black beans whenever i make beans at home and 1/3 slice of turkey deli meat which is not very often.

When i do the feeding calculator, it says his recommended intake should be 277-231 calories. Based on that number, it seems I'm actually underfeeding him?

I already scheduled a vet appt for next month. But i was going to try to reduce his food intake by 10% before then, but now I think i shouldn't. Perhaps I just need to play with him even more? Or should I actually increase his food?

Is our cat emoji in need of a diet? for context hes male, 5 years old and neutered. his diet mostly consists of dried food and water(very rarely treats or anything else, since he is extremely picky and doesnt seem to like wet food, so we don’t even bother trying to feed that to him anymore) we usually refill his bowl when it is empty and it lasts pretty long? i‘d say about 18-20 hours, we also currently do not know his weight sadly😅

hi guys. i have 2 cats that are overweight and have been instructed to lose weight. first one (luna) shown is at 16 lbs, and the second one shown (summer) is at 14 lbs. we've put them on diet food and feed them mostly wet food as per our vet's recommendation, but we still can't get them to lose weight. i am assuming it is because they are quite inactive, ESPECIALLY luna as she will sleep in the same spot for an entire day sometimes and only move to eat. i bought a walking pad hoping it would help, but it is really hard to get them to use it! i am wondering if anyone else has had this problem and what they have done to overcome it. any suggestions are welcome as i have no idea what to do at this point.

Whenever I switch him to wet food so I can control portions he gets diarrhea. He also eats wet and dry food very fast compared to my smaller cat and bullies the other cat to eat her food too.

So what I did was leave unlimited food out so the other cat can eat too but this lead to my boy in the picture growing in size.

I adopted mollie in January, and she has been an absolute trooper with her diet. When I first got her, she could barely even walk up the stairs. Now, she zooms all around the house just like the other kitties.

13lbs with a primordial pouch :) is she too chonky? we’ve been trying to get her down to 10-12lbs

They r constantly asking for food. I feel guilty not and giving them more food 😭😭😭. They have a vet appointment coming up but asking because I’m anxious. They are both a year and four months old

This is my baby papaya. She’s around 4 or 5 years old and has always been the fluffiest baby. She also has a pretty large primordial pouch. Last vet visit she was about 12 pounds and my vet has never mentioned any issue with her weight. However, she’s chonkier than a lot of kitties in this thread so I need to post this for my own sake (intrusive thoughts suck). I also want her to live forever and I know excess weight is not good for cats.She can jump wherever and is able to groom herself

My kitty lived with my ex for about 3 months last summer and rapidly gained weight and developed behavioral issues/depression. My ex finally agreed to give him back and this is where he is now! There’s a 2 pound weight difference between the photos. I love my baby.
Here are all the lifestyle changes we made:
Wet food (Purina pro plan or purina one) with added water
Probiotics (Fortiflora)
Psyllium husk
Fish oil
Food puzzles
Leashed walks and trick training

the vet kinda has mixed thoughts because my cat is pretty tall/long. vet isnt too concerned, because she can still reach all her areas to groom, can still jump around, and ribs can be felt. in fact, vet was surprised at how well she's doing as a 12 y/o kitty. she's currently 7kg. vet said maybe to lose half a kg, just to prevent arthritis in the future, but isnt too worried. i think maybe shes like a 5.5 or 6 on chonk scale but unsure. as yall can see, she has a noticeable pouch!

so, what do we think? is she ok or am i delulu?? 🤔

He's gone from 2.5 heads wide to 2 heads wide, and 25lbs to 18.5lbs! 9 to a 7 on the chonk scale.

Goal weight is 15.5lbs

Adopted @ 25lbs at age 7, now 8yo.

He went from a lazy lump who occasionally played with wand snakes to an absolute menace with all the energy in the world. He's always jumped but now has no hesitation in his leaps to places he shouldn't go, like counter tops and cabinets. And he can do the twisting thing in midair like a normal cat!

He can also lick his own butt now. Good but also bad because he had a gland that needed expression and licked it raw while I was at work so I had to get it expressed properly/cleaned out and he had a cone of shame then donut of shame for a while

Diet:

1 tsp regular wet food 4x/day on slow feeder mats

1/4 cup dry food 2x/day

Up to 10 greenies OR 1 lickable treat

My female cat is three years old for context.

Orange chair/wheelchair pic is NOW.
Bent foot photo is after we got him back.
Rest are when we got him.

EDIT: Salmon/fish is the worst for his allergies and skin conditions. If that narrows it down at all.
We got Percy 2-3 years ago and he was thin. He is allergic to every protein but chicken.. even then he’s still very scabby just not bleeding all over the place anymore. Vet at the time didn’t show concern as his history showed he came from a pretty bad house and said he would even out as he got better care. We ended up having to give him to my boyfriend’s parents (vet swore he had ringworm and we had to separate him from Misha… which he never had ringworm… but we spent hundreds on steroids, anti fungals etc). Once we got him back (only 4ish months later) from my boyfriend’s parents he was 16-17lbs and his parents were CONVINCED that was healthy for him. His poops turned awful (greasy orange and gray), he wheezes, can’t clean his booty, etc. They were feeding him a cup or more a day with HANDFULS of treats. We fed him 1/3-1/2 depending on if he started eating random stuff lol. I wonder if the drastic increase from his parents could have hurt his metabolism?

We got a new vet who agreed he is overweight and to feed him less. We dropped amounts of food for a few months slowly and changed to a high protein diet so he wasn’t starving (he started trying to eat dust). In a year he only dropped 1 lb so we got labs done. His glucose was 1 point elevated, so the vet pretty much just said “sometimes cats really hold weight”.
We’re down to only 1/4 cup of food (brand and type recommended by vet) He’s 15lbs now, still breathes loudly, waddles (not sure if that’s a weight thing though…he’s waddled for as long as we’ve known him, but i guarantee weight isn’t helping), and we have to clean his bum for him. He’s so hungry that he will eat anything he gets his hands onto, so much so we’ve had to lock him up when my other cat is eating. It screams health problem to me given his health history… but he’s seems so uncomfortable and I hate watching him struggle to breathe. I wanna help the poor boy :(

He's doing so well 🥰 Vet says that he still needs to lose more weight, so we're working on it! My boy is 8 years old, 6 kilograms and had several urinary surgeries over the years, so we were warned not to stress him to much. Slow and steady ☺️

He’s got a cunty waist from the top but looks chunky from the side, it’s hard to assess his weird ass build