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.
Lowered Heart Rate. Depending on its age and what its doing, the average cat's heart beats 120 to nearly 200 beats per minute. As the cat's heart weakens and the animal is closer to dying, the heart rate drops dramatically to just a fraction of its normal rate. Near the end, there are longer and longer pauses between each individual beat, and the pattern becomes very irregular until the heart completely stops.