In artificial environments where cats and dogs are fed huge amounts of human made food, the problem of obesity in these animals is as real as in your case.
Putting on weight is simply a product of eating more than you are burning.
Every start of the year for the last three years I have tried to lose weight, reducing my calories and doing exercise and then I just feel so exhausted and hungry that I have to stop and so just gain weight again. How do I get the determination to just do what is needed to cut weight?
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On the face of it, yours is a very simple question, whose answer is simply that you must put more effort next year and not give up so easily. As a rider to the answer, one might give you the comfort that you are not alone, and many millions of men and women can, and do relate completely with your pain.
This, however, is a superficial position lacking in critical analysis and just to explain how complex and complicated your question is, we start with the story of the mouse. The story is told of the person being as poor and skinny as a church mouse.
Indeed, if you are a mouse and live you in a church, chances are that you will have very little to eat, and will remain nice and trim without any fear of putting on weight. If on the other hand you move to an estate full of dirt and left over food, the biology of your body changes and rather than putting on weight, biology tells you to “breed like rats” to reduce the amount of food available.
The more food available the faster the rats reproduce, pure and simple. Just so you know rats reach sexual maturity in four to five weeks, have a gestation period of 21 days, produce up to 14 offspring and have no breeding seasons, meaning they reproduce up to five cycles per year. It is thought that this method of reproduction is nature’s way of dealing with obesity in some animals. One female rat can have 15,000 descendants in one year!
Let us now look at a meat eating animal, the cheetah, which survives only by being faster than the food it has to catch. Now imagine a cheetah with your type of problem! It would soon either die of hunger, or lose enough weight to hunt again. For the cheetah, nature has determined that it will only live for as long as it does not have your problem. A fast cheetah will pass on the genes for speed to its offspring. The slow ones will die out.
When you visit any of the national parks, you will begin to appreciate that in the wild, animals are by nature fairly trim. A slow, fat gazelle will be a perfect dish for the leopard. Only the fast and agile pass on their genes for speed and a trim body. Slow ones become food.
Many people think that the elephant is fat. Zoologists tell us that in fact the elephant is, in relation to its size quite trim! All it has is a big tummy because it eats so much indigestible food.
So, in the wild, it is difficult to find animals that have your problem. Obesity is a consequence of a new way of life for man.
In artificial environments where cats and dogs are fed huge amounts of human made food, the problem of obesity in these animals is as real as in your case. This tells us that it is possible to “cause” the problem by living in the kind of environment we live in today. Even animals can become like us.
Putting on weight is simply a product of eating more than you are burning. If only one could follow this simple rule, nobody would suffer your problem. Get your ideal weight and make sure you either eat less, or burn more calories, and life would be blissful!
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