Monday, August 14, 2006

Diet Update

As the only member of the family not actually on a diet, I thought I'd comment on everyone else's progress.

The cats have been dieting for the last year. Zeus is actully looking thinner. The worm he had earlier this year may have helped. He also suffers from the "you snooze, you lose" syndrome, as Dante has usually finished both of their meals before Zeus gets around to it. Zeus spends most of the sunny days out hunting diet supplementation, mostly small mice, but occasional snakes and birds, too. He's gotten pretty good at this.

Dante has not lost weight by eating two dinners. He might have even gained a little. And every once in a while even dumb Dante gets a mouse.

Mac is doing great with running. The bonus point system for rounds of golf seems to be pretty good incentive. Unfortunately, Mac still has some trouble with carb cravings. Mac says he feels thinner, but he refuses to get on the scale and a recent pants purchase found him still in the same size.

Megan has successfully weaned from the bottle and the process was fairly pain free for everyone. We also did a good job getting her off juice. As feared though, Megan has given up milk completely. She'll take a rare sip from one of our glasses, but otherwise she is milk-free. So in place of the cow-juice we added calcium supplemented orange juice, which once again got Megan back "on the juice." Cutting out the milk calories has made a drastic difference in Megan's eating: she's gone from eating like a bird to eating like a horse. In fact, I would bet Megan puts more away than I do in a given day (Meg had two bowls of bean casserole tonight to my one!). Her little Buddah-belly doesn't look any smaller. Additionally, Megan has turned her nose up at " the candy of the meat world" (bacon) on multiple attempts. She is, however, doing a good job with cheese, yogurt, and beans (the candy of the veggie world?).

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