Moving back home soon need advice
I started a weight loss journey last year and was able to lose 20kg, going from 82kg to 61kg. I’m incredibly happy, not just with the weight loss, but with finally having a healthy relationship with food through therapy and being proactive about my health. Before, I had a bad overeating problem. I was constantly overeating, even when I was full this can be emotionally eating, stress eating or just eating out of boredom food was like a comfort to me. It didn’t help that I was in a home that encouraged this habit of mine and, in general, also had an unhealthy relationships with food.
My parents are concerned with the weight loss, claiming that I’m not okay and stuff, but this is the best I’ve ever felt. I also have a sibling at home who suffers with eating issues, which I think is triggering my parents when they see me they view my eating habits now unhealthy but my eating habits before as fine (even though I see them once a month and when i do I eat anything). But I can’t be unhappy to please others? Anyway, I was able to lose the weight because I was away from home for university. I was able to buy things for myself, opt out of unhealthy snacks that would trigger binges, and work out more. I graduate soon, which means I’ll be moving back home, and I’m dreading it.
I fear that I will regress and that all my hard work will be undone because the way I’m living cannot be sustained over there. My parents don’t seem to understand at all how unhappy I was when I was heavier and in my families culture the idea of a ‘healthy body weight’ is distorted which doesn’t help. They think I’m too skinny, even though I’m within a healthy range, and before I was considered obese. I’m finally so content with my appearance and my lifestyle. It’s just a bad space for me to be in they fill the house with stuff that triggers me to binge.