Blogging really makes me think before I eat

I'm still eating but before I do I remind myself that it goes not only in my personal diary but on the blog too.  Weighing food has also been an eye opening exercise. 30g of cereal is barely satisfying.  100g of yogurt is ridiculous.  I used to laugh at Brian Regan's outrage at "serving sizes", and perhaps I wouldn't eat an entire tub of icecream and call it a serving, but I certainly eat more than two dessert spoonfuls which is what the 49g serving size on the carton seems to be.

For some reason I am reluctant to get too near the 8000kJ limit I have set myself.  I am sticking somewhere around 1000kJ below that limit most days.  But I am still eating the same food my family eats more or less.

I had what is basically Just Right for breakfast with 25g of chopped dried apple added to it.  I was surprised to discover that I add 125mL of milk to my cereal in the morning. 
Breakfast was a little late this morning so I didn't feel the need for morning tea.  Lunch was 3 corn thins (and I admit I got this notion from Michelle Bridges and like them enough to keep eating them, not necessarily with her suggested toppings though).  I had cream cheese on one (my favourite), peanut butter on another (meh) and butter, cheese and tomato on another - that little grind of salt I added was too much for me, but it was nice and I would do it again.
As usual in the afternoon the hungries hit me. 
I ate a nectarine, a hard boiled egg figuring the protein would help me feel full (didn't happen), 160g of yogurt (a far more realistic serving) and then shortly before dinner a slice of bread with olive dip.
Dinner was butter chicken curry with indian inspired side salads. 

That brings me to a grand total for the day of roughly 6900kJ.

At least I finally feel full tonight.  I did get a bit of exercise in today in the form of gardening.  That'll teach me toremove that horrid plastic trellis wire - once I had gotten rid of it I kept going until every bit of  ivy was removed from the fence too.  I don't even know where it came from.  It wasn't there a year ago when we were building the house.

I am checking my weight (I know I shouldn't but I am) and I am definitely losing weight.  I am encouraged by the progress. 

Body fat % down to 32.1  Have to hit less than 30.

Oh and I did have a small serve of eton mess last night which was about 900kJ added to my food for yesterday.