A 3500 Calorie Deficit = Approximately 1 Pound of Weight Loss. If you are trying to lose weight through calorie counting, you will need to know how many calories it will take to lose a pound of weight. Creating a calorie deficit of about 3500 calories should result in about 1 pound of weight loss. That is, if you consume 3500 calories less than you burn over a given period of time, you should lose around 1 lb of weight. To get an idea of how many calories you burn, take a look at our article on how many calories do I burn in a day.
My mother's cat went into Congestive heart failure about a year and a half ago and she is still with us. There are a fair number of us on here that have dealt with cats with this condition. Please do not hesitate to start a thread of your own if you have any questions or just need some support.
In all my years of cat rescue, it would often turn out that some of the sweetest cats were the ones whose lives were drastically shortened by one or both of these dreaded retroviruses. Like HIV/AIDS in humans, FeLV and FIV suppress the immune system and are easily transmitted from one cat to another. Once infected, a cat usually dies within about three years. However, some cats can beat the odds and live much longer. My beloved Major Tom was one such exceptional cat.