I’m a veterinary nutrition assistant and I keep seeing weight-loss stalls that come down to portion accuracy — switching from cups to a gram scale and feeding to a calculated daily calorie target can help. This week we weighed a kibble labeled 380 kcal/cup and the cup came out to 110 g; if you’ve tried gram-based feeding, what changed over 4–6 weeks, and do you want help setting a safe calorie plan?
Switched to grams; ‘380 kcal/cup’ bag measured 125 g, not 110 g; 6 weeks: -1 lb; treats still matter.
I weigh the full day’s ration into a jar each morning and pull treats from that pile so the day stays on target; marking my scoop at the per‑meal gram weight made it brainless. Just recheck when you change bags since density can shift; if you want, @OP, I can convert your kcal/kg to grams and double-check the target — just drop the bag info?
I started taring the bowl and weighing the kibble dry, then adding water after so the grams are only the food — “weigh dry, add water after.” That + a tight treat budget took my beagle down 0.9 lb in 6 weeks, and she seemed fuller. Small caveat: each new bag ran a different grams-per-cup, so I re-checked once per bag.
I’ve adopted a “new bag, new weight” rule — one bag measured 110 g/cup, the next was 118 g, and that small shift stalled progress until I tweaked the gram target. I also spot‑check the scale with a nickel (5 g) because my cheap one drifted and made my measuring cup look honest by comparison. If weight’s not moving, re-weigh a fresh cup each bag and adjust before changing anything else.