Starting weight (7/15/08):    279.8    (1/8/08):    285.2
Calories/Carbs Goals (limits):       1400  / 30.0
Yesterday’s calories & net carbs:  1099 / 32.7
Yesterday’s exercise:  nada, nothing, zip
Weight Yesterday:  253.6    Today:  254.6
Change today::  +1.0 lbs.   Loss-so-far:  25.2 lbs.  /  30.6 lbs.

Wooohoooo I played the DDR game for a full hour tonight!!! 

Like I said I would, I didn’t do the jumps at all.  It affected my score most of the time, but I didn’t care!  Today I was there for the exercise, not for the score.  After about a half hour, my oldest son Eric came out and joined me.  I don’t know why, but it’s so much more fun when you have someone with ya!  He doesn’t play often so he got mostly D’s but he just kept right on going anyway.

My knee hurt a little when I started but after about 20 minutes it was warmed up and the pain went away.  I can feel it’s a bit swollen now but no pain at all, so that’s a happy thing.  My scale showed a full pound gain this morning and it’s been quite a while since I had that see-saw thing happening, so I’m really happy to be able to get back to my daily DDR!!

My mom invented these weird ham-and-cheese melt things when I was a kid.  They honestly have no name - if and when we have to refer to them, we just call them “those ham-and-cheese-melt-things,” LOL.  Well anyway, it’s the kind of thing that a person either hates or loves and I’ve always loved them.  It occurred to me this afternoon that I could probably have those things for dinner, if I used my low-carb bread.  So yummy!  I made myself a nice romaine salad and a couple of the melty things. 

There ya go, there’s a name:  “melty-things”  … I’ll have to inform my mom.  =D

My husband and I went to my hometown in Wisconsin this past summer and stayed with my aunt, who one evening invited her adult children and their children over for dinner so they could all see their Florida kin.  Anyway, you’ll never guess what she served for dinner…  Didja guess?  Yep!  Melty-things!  Ha!  She told the story of how she visited my mom in Florida last year and my mom made these things and auntie loved them so she came home and made them for her extended family and they loved them too.  And did they ever…!!  They ate a LOT of the melty-things!  I sat there amazed as I watched Paul (50-year-old cousin) down SIX of them.  Me, I was officially off my diet at that point, but still, I only had room for two.

Okay so now that I’ve rambled on and on about the melty-whatever-they-are, I suppose I should at least give a brief description.  Honestly, it’s not that big of a deal (now that I’ve made such a hoo-haa about ‘em).  The ham and cheese part is just ham salad (you know, ham, sweet relish, onion, and a little Miracle Whip) with some American cheese blended in.  And then you spread it on bread and bake it in the oven.  When the bottom is toasty, then switch it to broil and take it out when the cheese starts to brown.

On my low-carb bread, each one of these little suckers is 200 calories but only 4 carbs.

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