🏋️‍♂️ 19-Pound Cat Starts Hilarious Weight Loss Journey 🐱💪🍗

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Meet Meatball, the 19-pound kitty who’s trading treats for treadmill time! 🍗🐾 From cutting back on snacks to attempting zoomies, this chunky boy is trying everything to shed a few pounds — and he’s making everyone laugh (and cheer him on!) along the way 😂💚  His humans are helping him reach his goals safely and lovingly, and the best part? Meatball’s confidence is growing as fast as his belly’s shrinking! 🐱✨ Watch him wiggle, wobble, and win hearts on his purr-sonal fitness journey 💪🏽🎉   #CatWeightLoss #FatCatJourney #ChonkyCatChallenge #HealthyPets #CatFitness #TheDodoVibes #MeatballTheCat #CatGoals #FunnyCats #AnimalTransformation

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00:00Feathers, oh, with her feather toys, she just goes crazy.

00:02Her mouth opens up and she makes these crazy faces.

00:08At her heaviest, Swayze weighed 19 pounds.

00:11I was trying to find any way to motivate her to exercise.

00:14My entire life, I had cats always put the food in the bowl.

00:17They self-managed their food.

00:19With Swayze, that didn't happen.

00:21Her belly was literally dragging on the ground.

00:23If she was this heavy at this young, it was just going to get worse.

00:26I knew that we weren't heading in the good direction.

00:30Swayze is finally at a healthy weight.

00:32Alongside keeping her active, we're also introducing her to IAM's Healthy Weight Dry Food for Cats.

00:38It can help Swayze maintain a healthy weight and help keep her fit and playful.

00:44She was found in a sewer with her sister and I rescued her and Nana.

00:49She was really quiet. Her sister would do all the meowing.

00:52We learned really quickly that Swayze had a huge personality.

00:56She was funny, smart, and did this thing called the Swayze bag.

00:59She did it once as a kitten. I thought, I would never see it again.

01:02But she just kept doing it.

01:03I'm not 100% sure why she does it. Maybe it's comforting to her.

01:07She was thin.

01:08And then my mother was sick at the time.

01:11I was traveling back and forth to New Jersey and leaving Swayze and Nana in care of my family.

01:15And they did a great job taking care of her.

01:17But they free-fed her, too.

01:19She just got whatever she wanted.

01:21Her weight really affected her mobility.

01:23But I could also see that she wasn't as vibrant as she once was.

01:25So she couldn't reach all of her parts to keep herself really clean.

01:29You know, pretty quickly we realized that we need to get a whole handle on this.

01:33Swayze weighed 19 pounds and 11.

01:36Seemed like a good weight for her.

01:38We got her on a better diet and stopped refeeding her.

01:41But we also needed to find more ways to get her to exercise.

01:44Nice Swayze.

01:45You know, we tried a bunch of things. It didn't work.

01:48It was very difficult to get her to really go up and down the stairs.

01:53She would come up and go down, but she was a little unbalanced.

01:58She has always been a curious cat.

02:00And I realized to get her moving, we just needed an activity to engage her mind.

02:04Feathers. Oh, that's one of her favorite things, a feather.

02:08She runs around, and that's good exercise for her.

02:10And she's happy.

02:15And she also loves her little puff balls.

02:19There's a ton of little puff balls. They're all over the house.

02:22We would hide the balls in spots where she'd have to work a little bit harder to get them.

02:26Always picking them up.

02:27She carries them around in her mouth slowly.

02:2917 pounds, 16 pounds, 15, 14.

02:32And now we've kind of hovered around 11, I think.

02:34But she's way healthier.

02:35When she lost the weight, they could really see the difference in her.

02:38And she was playing so much more.

02:41I'm always looking for new, wonderful toys for her.

02:44Something that's going to keep her active and happy.

02:46And we just got her a treadmill.

02:47And we're going to see how that goes with her.

02:49I can't wait until she tries it out.

02:52Oh, spicy.

03:17Swayze is just happy, and I think she feels better.

03:39Her joints feel better.

03:41She's more active.

03:42She's going to have a longer, healthier life.

03:44She's been to brushing her.

03:58She's getting one.

04:02She's been to destroy me.

04:07She's been to eat.

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