Nysse is, on the one hand, hungrier than ever. Spending many hours outdoors every day, he works up a good appetite. We’ve had to increase his portions because he was losing weight.

At the same time he is more relaxed than ever about his food. He now actually leaves food when he is done. He doesn’t go crazy any more when he sees us get out the cat food, or try to climb up my body to get into the food container. I used to have to measure up his food while holding all the containers in the air in the middle of the room so he wouldn’t be able to reach him. Eric used to just shut himself in the pantry for serving up the cat food.

Now we can both trust each other more about the food. Nysse can trust that he will get food and the food will not run out. We can trust him to ask for food only when he is actually hungry.