Weight-loss by Min Pin

[trulygreat]

OK, this is gonna sound funny, but I have found a great way to lose weight!

LOL Get a dog that needs to be walked 2-3 miles a day or he drives you nuts!

For the last year I have had "good intentions" about exercising, but rarely got around to it. A few weeks ago I was given the gift of a 5 yr old Min Pin. He is fantastic, but Min Pins are high energy dogs. For the first 3 weeks, I walked him every day and we got along great. Then, starting last Thursday, I made up excuses not to.

"Its raining, I will wait."

"Oh, I need to run to the store, maybe later."

I had a boatload of excuses! Then, yesterday, he started to drive me nuts. He would not sit still for longer than a nano-second. By 7PM I was about to pull my hair out when I thought about exercising him to exhaustion.

Well, I think I got more exhausted than he did, but it did the trick - both for him and me LOL.

Added to that is that in the 3 weeks I walked with him, I lost 6 pounds!. (I need to keep that in mind!)

Well, I don't know if it would work for you (LOL), but if you have a high energy dog, they can definitely be a motivating factor for exercise

 

[Mila2]

Hey Trulygreat,
I (well the family I work for) have a puppy, he is 9 months old and a spaniel (King Charles), in the winter he was a bit of a pain, but now that the weather is nice I love going out with him to run to the park etc... it does both of us good!!

Another option, for men only though which I am not (because for females it includes an initial weight gain!), is to get yourself a 2 year old human (otherwise known as child or toddler)... they also need heaps of energy and man, running behind one of them across a park makes you burn calories galore!
Love, xxMilaxx