I feel like I've seen this before.

If everyone ate like that, everyone would be fat. See those skinny girls with flat stomachs? They're turning down food. Here's how you do it. Either take one tiny bite and say you're on a diet. Simple. Or don't take any and say you're on a diet. Then toss in a light joke about getting fat. Make it self-deprecating. That's it. Problem solved.

Eat the food and work out like a man. Skip the rice.

I just kind of joke about it… about how fat I'm getting and how Filipinos all want to make me fat. They still try to guilt me into eating more, but I tell them the food is amazing and I just can't eat any more. I've also cut rice out completely unless I'm at a gathering. At home, no rice. All that got me up to 80kg. I cut out rice and dropped to 73kg pretty quickly. Didn't change anything else.

Lazing around and eating? What are you complaining about? I don't get it. Sounds like heaven where you are.

You'd have gotten fat in America too