30 pounds - Now I see a difference :)

I started losing weight during/after last summer - slowly but surely 30+ pounds have come off. I see the difference in my clothes, having gone from a 36 (or 16) to a 32 (12) in pants and an XL (mostly to hide my tummy and muffin top) to a M in shirts. But when I look at myself now, I don't see a big change. I mean, I definitely feel better and more comfortable in my clothes but I think I was in denial as to how overweight I was. I am/was hardly in any pictures and shy away from the camera and have been really self conscious for a couple of years now. More so after I had baby #3 than any other - I gained the least amount of weight with him but was quite a bit more overweight when I got pregnant with him than my first two daughters. So anyways - I had decided heading into winter that my biggest goal was to not gain weight. The 2 oldest kids are in hockey and we spend at least 5 days a week at the rink if not 7 - and most rinks don't really have healthful eating in mind! Well, winter is gone and I have not lost another pound and was beginning to get discouraged. Between working 50 hours a week and trying to run a house and raise kids and farm I don't have a lot of time for exercise - my exercise is whatever I get at work and 3 runs a week (I try - but I enjoy doing it so that's not the hard part) so healthful eating plays a major part in maintaining and losing for me. The problem is with the craziness of life/kids/working/farming right I find it so easy to slip back to old habits. When I voiced my discouragement to my husband he said I think you should come take a look at this. He had dug out some of the few pictures of me that we had from before and now, and it was shocking to me - I hadn't looked at them in comparison to now. Wow! I finally see it and it was just what I needed to remind myself why I need to stay on track with the eating.

This is 9 mos preggos with #3


About 10 days post delivery - tummy for sure but it didn't disappear much more for a very long time - like 2 years lol


Before - 1 year ago/Now of my face


Full Profile Before - 1 year ago/Now - crappy quality pictures but you get the idea. I remember my daughter taking the picture of me a year ago and I hated it. I looked at it and thought ugggh you should just stay home. But I promised her I wouldn't delete it and eventually forgot about it until my hubby pulled it up a few days ago.