Okay, not really. I truthfully hadn't realized the time that has gone by with my last weightloss update. So I've been around the same area. I weighed in at home at 256.00 as of right now that means I lost eight pounds. Not bad if you ask me! But let me explain my absence. School has been SUPER stressful! Observations came in and I wanted to go ahead and head out there to get them DONE, which is completed as of TODAY! (WHOOYA!) And it conflicted with my going to Weight Watchers meetings. Last Wednesday and this Wednesday (today) I had observation until about noon, which is when the WW meeting is and I had already missed all that work, so I opted to go ahead and not go. I haven't been keeping up with my points, but I haven't gone to eating horribly, or even badly... no weight gain. Today I'm starting to keep track of my points again and am starting full force right now. I'm trying to work in some walking time with myself and possibly my precious babygirl to join me. I'm not so much thinking about doing a MAJOR workout, but just doing SOMETHING will be beneficial. Then I'll already have that time set aside for it. But let me just say it might sound like I'm slacking to the passer by, but let me break down all the things my life consistes of and then what I've accomplished is quite a feat! I have to work 20-25 hrs a week, attend 15 hrs of school (not counting studying and school work), I have to take care of two dogs (alone during the week) which believe it or not takes up quite a bit of time, then add in that one of them is 1 and LOVES to play so she aggrivates and irritates you until you play with her, normally not a big deal but when you're in the middle of school work it's quite distracting, then add in visiting with friends and family (I love them all I have to spend time with them!) and my hobby (crafting) then the blog(s) that I'm trying to keep up with, OH and that dang addicting game Farmville on Facebook, then researching things for my hobby and trying to find time to talk to my sweet hubby, then planning for the next semester of school, and trying to cook and eat healthy all inbetween... I'm doing a DANG good job at balancing it all. The difference this semester than last I would say is I'm not so analytical. Shocker I know! You'd think this is analytical... but compared to my previous semester it's no where near it. Matter of fact I'm more likely to do something rather than ponder about it for weeks only to give up the thought entirely. I don't know completely why this change has happened, but I don't think it's worth finding out either. I'm happy where my life is headed and can't wait till I read ALL of my goals. Weight loss is about the biggest one, and will take the LONGEST to achieve! I'm determined though!

And more good news... I started adding more water into my diet. I had my husband start to ask me in the mornings, "Have you had your water yet?" which 1) reminds me I need to try and drink more water, brining it to the front of my mind and 2) keeps me reliable to my plan to have a glass of water before my diet soda! So I'm working towards it, slowly but surely I'm getting there! My mom said she could tell that I looked thinner in my face and in my stomache area. I feel better as well. I was able to, in the past week, able to get up between 5:30 and 6:30 at least 4 out of the past 7 days without being super groggy and mopy! How exciting is that! OOOHHH!! And I forgot to update about the walk!! My family and I did do the walk/run that was held last saturday and it was a BLAST! we had lunch at Ihop afterwards (they now offer TURKEY bacon!!!) Which I had of course, as well as my sweet husband. And turkey bacon is NOT bacon, but it's a great substitute when I'm craving it. Oh how different my eating and going out habits are compared to six months ago... it's crazY. So I've been struggling with walking lately. I've gone for a walk three times in the past week and a half and my shins are KILLING me and feel like they're about to break in two after just 10 min of walking! How crazy! I can't stand it! I'd go longer if my shins just weren't hurting so bad. So my friend has challanged me to walk more often, which I'm trying to work into my schedule. I really want to be able to do better at the next marathon walk that I do. I'm not going to do these marathons for competition but I really felt great after doing it on Saturday. Now when I got home my hubby and I took a nap that was suppose to last for a hour, but ended up being three :). I accidentally (for real) set my alarm for AM instead of PM. Anyways, if anyone is debating on whether to do a marathon or not I HIGHLY recommend it! Even if you just do the walk part until you can make it to the run part I highly, highly, HIGHLY recommend it!!! I guess I've written a novel and will leave you be.

This was on the yahoo top 30 thing they do. It's about the only "research" I on topics posted on the internet not realted to crafting, but this one caught my eye and I thought I'd sare! Thanks for your support!!!
http://shine.yahoo.com/event/makeover/five-weight-loss-myths-1106336/