I'm F, 4'11, 70 kg, obese. I want to lose weight and be in the acceptable category, around 55-60 kg. The problem is, I don't exactly have the best control.
I'm Asian, so there's a lot of different contexts to consider. We don't have enough money, so protein and fat-heavy foods are not a viable option; we offset it by pairing it with starch, usually rice and bread. It's also in our culture too, so it's always present. I'm 21, but I don't have a job in order to buy my own food yet, still in college (not allowed to work). So I eat what is prepared, and make do.
I want to exercise, but the area I live in isn't running-friendly. I'd exercise in my own house, but I get uncomfortable doing anything within my family's sphere, especially in regards of weight-related activities. I tried to make a personal space for myself to do exercise, like last semester for PE, and I almost stopped when they peeked in my room and decided to film me and jokingly say that "I'm losing weight". It feels stupid, but I was so uncomfortable and stopped my routine-- made for almost half a year or more-- after the semester ended. Eventually went into a sedentary lifestyle. Not always lying down, but I've not exercised after that.
But this month, I got super aware of how I've been...wayward, lately. Mental health waned badly this year, far more than in 2020, actually. It really was this year that really went bad and crashed, and it was only because of my teachers that I somehow surviving my classes. So I started to take care of myself, in little ways, and besides sleep, I'm doing fine.
On the topic of food intake, for the past two days, I've been making myself eat smaller portions, and by eating with chopsticks. I noticed in the past I'd eat smaller, slower, when eating with them, so I've been doing it. I noticed that I do eat smaller, thankfully, but because of that, I get hungrier. I don't want to break the breakfast-snack-dinner routine, so I just wait for it to go away/stave off by drinking water. It's fine, I guess.
Family teases me a lot that what I'm doing isn't effective, and it crushes me that they're probably right. I'm the oddball with the slow metabolism in this family, and I know it's bad that I keep thinking about what they're telling me, but they're my family and I can't push them away (I don't want to, but even for privacy it's not much).
I need help in controlling what I can: is eating a cup of rice (or halved, depending) on a meal, and putting more meat/fish/vegetables good enough? Sometimes we need to eat processed food, so I try to limit that too. I drink more water and try to push away sugary drinks. I've started moving more, walking more around the house. I don't eat other snacks till it's one of the major three routine.
Any tips would be appreciated. Thank you.
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