Frustrated, disencouraged...

First of all, I'd like to apologize for such a negative-sounding topic. But here's the story. I'm age 24 and 5'7 in height. I started my weight loss journey in mid-July of this year, at 210 lbs, and now, in mid-October, I'm at approximately 183 lbs. I lost the most during the months of August to September (14 pounds). I'm mainly frustrated and feeling like giving up now because after a near 30 lbs loss, people aren't noticing.

I visited my relatives yesterday, only two of them said that my belly had gotten flatter. One of them instead of talking about my weight, said I had gotten some acne. I found that really disencouraging because I was hoping to get some notice about my weight loss, but instead I get comments on an acne breakout. My parents have said I lost weight, but my frustration is, they don't react the same way as several years ago, when I went from 210 to 185. Back then, they said how skinny my face looked, and were raving about my total change in looks. In fact, it wasn't just my parents, my uncle and other relatives also noticed and raved about that 25 pound loss. So it makes me wonder why, at 183 lbs now, they're not reacting the same way. How is it that I lost the same amount of weight as years ago, but apparently I don't look as slim as I did then. I find that strange. I told them about this and they were like 'well, I don't know...,' and had no explanation as to why I didn't look the same as when I lost the same amount of weight. There is one thing that I can think back and say about my previous 25 pound weight loss years ago that people noticed... I did cut down on carbs a lot, pretty much making them non-existential in my diet for two months (the timeframe it took me to lose the weight). In my current journey, I'm still eating carbs, and also doing more strength training. But my body is showing me that I've lost fat, a body fat detector said I lost some percentage, and I can see it in the mirror. So why...

I can't be doing something wrong if more than one scale shows that I've lost nearly 30 pounds. When I look at myself in the mirror, I see that I've lost a lot of belly fat, meaning I look slimmer than when I was 210 lbs, but I can't tell for sure if my face has gotten noticeably slimmer or not.

This is bad, I know, but I just ended up eating some cheesecake that I've avoided for months, due to all the frustration. I just have feelings of giving up, like there's no use in struggling and trying so hard to lose weight if people won't notice. I know I'm doing losing weight for them, and that I'm doing it for myself and my own health, but some feedback and compliments would motivate me and keep me going, which I'm not getting. It makes me feel like my efforts are of no use.

Sorry for the rant, and thank you for any advice or suggestions as to how I can deal with this.