Stop Snoring Now!

How can I put my cat on a diet w/o her hating me or whining all day?

I was just looking to see if my cat’s snoring is harmful and it’s often associated with being fat. The Mexican guys who came to work on my shower called her fat too.
I would like to thin her up but I don’t know how to do it without her hating me. She’ll tell me when her food and water is empty. Or, more likely when the food she didn’t eat isn’t fresh enough for her. . .
I need to lose some weight too so we could go on a diet together!
Anyway, she is very strong willed and I can’t have her mad at me! Crazy expensive food isn’t the answer! Though i think i have seen weigh management
Help!
Lots of good nutrition info here but that’s not what I was asking – it’s how to deal with her being very pissed off that i’m not giving her as much food. And waking me up at night whining for more, etc. Because of certain circumstances I’m just concerned about her being mad at me. She’s got a personality just like me. . .

Firstly, how old is this cat? If this is an older cat, you are going to have to proceed SLOWLY. If an older cat loses too much weight too rapidly, it can cause a life threatening illness called Hepatic Lipidosis or Fatty Liver Disease. It CAN happen to younger cats too, if they drop weight too fast because of anorexia from an illness. But in older cats, just cutting back the food too quickly can bring it on.
So, you will want to stop free feeding your cat. (And please tell me you change her water every day and not when she runs out?)
If she is drinking alot of water, you need to take her to the vet. She may have developed diabetes.
If she is healthy other than the obesity, start feeding her 4 times a day. DO NOT free feed. Give only what she will clean up in one feeding. If there is any left over when she walks away pick it up and throw it away. I usually feed my cat at 5am, noonish, 5pm and right before I go to bed.
As to your question about her bothering you during the night, I trained my cat when she was a kitten not to wake us up. She would come tearing through the house and leap on the bed full bore and whoever she landed on was collateral damage. I remedied this by catching her in mid air several times and putting her in the bathroom. Her food, water and litterbox were in there and there was a rug she could lay on. We couldn’t hear her yelling and she quickly learned that 3am was NOT the time to play or beg for food. She would also get into things on the dressers and make a general nuisance of herself. I remedied this by throwing a small stuffed animal at her. It was no bigger than the size of my hand, so it wouldn’t hurt her or anything else it hit, but had enough weight that if it did hit her she would know it. Between these two things, it took her about 2 months to learn not to wake us at 3am. She will do it only occasionally now, because she can see the raccoons and possums from the front and back yards going past our bedroom window. The headboard is in front of the window, so we know if she comes running and leaps up looking out the window there is something outside.
I hope this helps. Cats ARE trainable, just not the same as dogs.

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