Whole lotta nuthin'... with questions

I don't have a whole lot for today. Yesterday was good until after dinner when I had a handful of peanuts, and that invited another, and then some wheat thins. Not horrible but not intended. Who was it that wrote that brilliant post about intention last week??? Oh - it was moi. I'm not even going to blame the Prednisone. In the moment I wanted it more than I wanted to not eat it. That's the real story. I was aware. I read a lot more of the book I discussed yesterday and used some of the strategies. I put off the extra eating longer than I have other times by considering and employing those strategies. I'll get it. I'm getting it.

I had a really good workout yesterday again which felt great. Then I fixed a great dinner that I took pictures of, just for some blogalicious variety. Inspired by Lyn at Escape From Obesity, I've been constructing my dinners from her Medifast dinners that include protein and 3 vegetables. Recall my food plan now is 4 oz of protein at lunch and dinner, plus 6 oz cooked veggies and 8 oz salad with 1 Tbs. olive oil on the salad. I'm modifying my plan a bit because if I have a big salad for lunch, I don't always want another for dinner, so last night I essentially cooked a salad!
Here are the items I decided to saute/stir fry: I used 1 tbp olive oil, a Tbs of soy sauce and about a half tsp. of sesame oil for flavor and stir fried the mix till crisp tender. With 2 sections of the frozen garlic from TJoe's, the flavor was amazing! The rest of dinner was leftover roasted veggies (which I make a huge pan of every Sunday to last the week), one Trader Joe's 110 calorie chicken sausage and 3 scrambled egg whites with a little yellow mustard stirred in for color and flavor. It was a fantastic dinner!
So good I didn't want it to end, and had a little extra of my salad stir fry. See...good food...Me. Want. More. But hell, I don't want to subsist on tasteless gruel in order to not be triggered to want more. And there is the ENOUGH factor again. I'm in process with all this. I'll find the right balance, and sooner than later I think!

Finally, have those of you with Trader Joe's tried these frozen herb products?

I just tried this garlic for the first time when I saw a woman getting some the other day. I asked her if it was good, and she raved about all the herbs made and frozen by this company. Was she ever right, at least about the garlic! I love garlic and use tons of it, but I have a hard time using it before it starts sprouting and getting the slightly bitter green sprout starting in the middle of the clove so soon after I buy it. Plus, chopping endless cloves for everything in which I want garlic is time consuming. I tried some of those jarred minced and chopped garlics at grocery stores and they don't taste fresh at all. They almost taste pickled! But this Dorot product tastes totally fresh. The woman who was buying the garlic that day said the other herbs she's tried are every bit as fresh tasting. I still like to use fresh, but this is a great substitute for quick dinners and such.

This brings up a question or 2:
1. Do you have any favorite similar products you can use in a hurry to have a fesh tasting dish? The frozen herbs, shredded cabbage and broccoli slaw, Purdue short cut chicken tenders - the unmarinated variety. Trader Joe's also has good ones, but sometimes the exp. date is too close for me to buy them. Probably because they have a lot fewer preservatives and crap than Purdue!
2. Non-food related question...Do you usually write the title of your post before or after you write it? Usually I write it after or during, once I see where my thoughts are going. Once in awhile, I know what I want to discuss, and get that title in to help me stay on course! And even then I change it sometimes. I have no idea what I'm going to call this post! How 'bout "Whole lotta nothin!"? Hmm, that may be it!
3. Have you always been a diary or journal keeper? I have - always have loved to write, and had the requisite diary with lock and key when in elementary school. I went for years without journaling, but about 3 months after my mother died and I was a true solo act in this life, I began writing in a journal again, and it became a saving grace. Not long after the journaling, I started seeing a counselor for the first time. The journey began......

Have a great little Friday, which is what a school teacher friend of mine calls Thursdays! And this is the one before a 3 day weekend. WOOT!