Badly need Motivation

Hello! I don't know much about Indian food (there's only one Indian restaurant in my town), but below are a few sites that look helpful. The tandoori chicken, tandoori shrimp, and veggie curries with low oil look like a good idea.

If your mother would allow you to cook some meals, you might be able to find some good lower calorie recipes. However, if you aren't allowed to cook in her house, then perhaps the easiest way to avoid calories would be to cut back on rice and bread, drink tea with no sugar or milk in it, and don't drink any other caloric drinks. And of course, if you can choose smaller plates to reduce your portion size, that might help you.

You can use MFP and other Internet sites to look up calories in certain Indian dishes so that you can eat more of the healthy stuff and less high-calorie items. That way, you won't bother your mother by asking her to prepare certain dishes for you.

Articles on Lower Calorie Indian Foods (these photos are making me hungry!):
http://healthmeup.com/photogallery-diet-fitness/healthy-foodie-top-15-low-calorie-indian-foods/14569/1
http://www.livestrong.com/article/401303-10-ways-to-eat-healthy-at-indian-restaurants/
http://www.weightlossresources.co.uk/recipes/low_fat/indian_curry.htm

How to Set your Goals on MFP:
Click Goals > Change Goals > Guided, Continue, enter in your accurate information and realistic goal weight, and click Update Profile. MFP will give you good information on how many calories you should eat each day to safely lose weight.

Direct Link: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/my_goals
BMI Calculator: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/tools/bmi-calculator
BMR Calculator: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/tools/bmr-calculator

Log everything, holding yourself accountable will help you tremendously!! Consistency is key, and exercise is a must, even walking helps. Good luck to you and your journey, also add friends on My Fitness Pal they will motivate you

Easiest thing to do is start preparing your own meals. Even if your not familiar with cooking, generally the healthier foods require the least amount of prep/work to make. Might require talking with your mom and making sure she understands that its not her cooking but your general health for not eating her meals anymore. I'd even ask for her help in preparing things such as meats as a way to still have her involved. Just some ideas, I know I've been in the same situation

What you lack is knowledge to make good decisions. Start by reading stickies on the forum and understanding how weight gain and loss work.

Then move onto getting the right mindset so you are prepared for whats involved. So you have on your ticker your aim of wanting to lose 62lb. As a rule of thumb lets say you want to lose 1lb a week, that gives you 62 weeks. i.e the task of losing weight to get you to your target could well take you a year of consistent dieting and exercise. You could lose faster, but sometimes you might lose slower, its just to give you an idea. You need a mindset that is prepared to commit and cope with that task for that period of time. Your expectations need to be realistic. None of this need to lose weight fast before new years mentality becayse you are setting yourself up for a fall. You could probably lose 6-12lb by NY if you did it properly.

You then need to learn how to use MFP and create/;pg your deficit properly.

Then you need to sort out diet and as you sau the challenges of being a vegetarian in India. there are manu dieters from India on this site so just get them on your friends list then you cna look at their diary, there are also vegetarian groups and you could join one of those. Rge biggest challenge I think is finding suitable sources of protein, but they exist.

Finally you need to sort out and decide what exercise you will do. Its 80% diet but exercise is a valuable tool for health and fitness plays if you do enough it cna help with weight loss as well.

Baby steps, get a good plan and then set easily achieveable realistic targets to motivate you to keep going. Day by day and week by week, its all about consistency and sustaining your effort. Look after those and the lbs/ sones will take care of themselves.

Imo he motivation has to come largely from you and wnating it enough plus being prepared to knuckle down and get on with it.