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MY NAME is TOM AND I AM AN OVER EATER

The Electronic Swagman
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Well It had to come out. I have hinting at it in my last blogs. I AM A CHRONIC OVER-EATER.
I feel I can share it all now because I have just come back from getting weighed at the vets and I am 25.6 kilos. That's down from 29.9 kilos about 3 months ago. It hasn't been easy. I love food. I crave it. Even when I am shoveling breakfast down I am wondering where the next feed is coming from. When it's finished I chase the empty bowl around for 10 minutes with my nose in the hope of some more food. I look like a trained seal.
It gets worse every year. When I say I've lost weight it's not because I went on a diet, it's because each day Dad only feeds me one small bowl of fat-reduced chicken pellets for Dogs Prone to Obesity. Prone? I only have to look at a chicken neck and I put on a kilo.
I am always hungry whether I eat all day long or once a day. It doesn't actually give me enjoyment. I am just an over-eater and no amount of cognitive therapy or support groups will change that. There is no part of me that can say "Oh no thanks. I don't think I should try any more of the chuck steak." I'd eat the bull.
Anyway, I do feel better. Especially in my joints. It was getting so bad I couldn't walk or jump into the back of the Toyota. I felt like an old man being lifted up and down by Dad. Especially since we will be on the road full time soon.
Now I am chasing birds again and I don't have to listen to people endlessly saying:
"He doesn't look like he needs a feed for a month."
Then they would laugh and one of them would say "or a year."
They think it's funny but I think it's hurtful. Especially when they are usually built like a Sumo wrestler in the off-season.
So. Dad is happy and I am hungry but happy. We are back safe and sound from the trip. We had to wait for the waters to go down in some places and sloshed through in others. This is first time we got back and it felt a little less like home. The road is starting to feel like home now and that's good. We will have our camper soon.
Woof Woof
Tommie xx
Ps. Dad talks about Gundagai and his past life in his eSwag Blog.