Eating unhealthy food from home country

Im not sure exactly what you mean by indian food - but I cant see how this is any different to western food, in terms of wieght loss.

Control your portion sizes, weigh everything, use the recipe builder for home made meals, cut down on high calorie components of the meal - eg just as a person might need to cut down on chips in a western diet, you might need to cut down on rice.

Indian food isn't unhealthy. There's nothing wrong with carbs, and the fats in Indian food are usually healthy fats. I cook a lot of Indian dishes, mostly following Madhur Jaffrey's recipes, and they are among the tastiest and healthiest dishes I prepare.

It's just a matter of portion control. If you are cooking the food yourself, create recipes with the exact amounts of ingredients you are using. When a dish is finished, use your food scale to measure it by weight, which will let you determine calories per 100g. If you follow the same recipe in the future, you can easily figure out calories. Or you can divide the finished dish into individual servings.

One thing I have discovered is that many recipes are just as good if you use 25-50% of the ghee or oil to cook, especially if you have a non-stick pan. And if cream is required, you can substitute American light cream, or even milk.

What you might consider is having less rice, which is not as filling, and doing more cooked greens. Cabbage braised with fennel seeds (one of Jaffrey's recipes) is delicious, very filling, and has very few calories. (Sauerkraut is a similar western dish.) When I go out for Indian and Chinese food these days, I try to take a little bit of rice and then more of the other dishes.

Well I made myself butter chicken for lunch today. Totally fit my cals and was delicious.