I weighed myself yesterday and as expected, I didn’t lose weight .  I am still heavy at 136 lbs., which is my starting weight.  I am quite sad but I somehow knew that eating out a lot will have its consequences.  I mean, when I can, I always order a bowl of ravioli noodle soup and Chinese food is packed with sodium and fat.  It is not as if I was expecting that Chinese dimsum place I frequent to to use low-fat stock for their noodles.

And with the noodles, I always have iced black jelly with lots of syrup in it.  I always request the waitress to lessen the amount of  syrup they dump into my drink but they don’t.  And inasmuch as I would want to have nothing but water when I eat out, I just need to have something stronger to get rid of the aftertaste.  I used to drink diet soda  but since I have given up soda this year, I am stuck with sugar-packed drinks.  Maybe I’ll have unsweetened fruit juices next time.

Furthermore, another factor that contributed to the weight gain is my consumption of unhealthy amounts of white rice.  Our local supplier do not carry brown rice all the time so there are long periods when  I have white rice everyday.  The thing is, I cannot seem to control myself whenI have white rice.  I just need to have more.