It's been a busy couple of days!
First of all, just wanted to thank everyone for the comments and great advice. It really helped to put things in perspective. I'm going to try not to freak out so much about how my skin looks, and maybe get a bit creative with some new lingere.
And I'll have to convince hubby that for my benefit it's better to leave certain things on if they make me feel sexier knowing the gross, saggy parts are covered up.
The kids didn't have school yesterday and I took the day off from work. Since we just sold cattle we decided to pack the kids into the pickup and drive up to the city to do some shopping that we've been putting off for a while. Since my birthday is next week Tuesday hubby told the girls they could pick out a present for me. The 3 year old twins thought I needed this big barbie dollhouse type thing. The 7 year old thought I needed a nintendo DS that I could maybe share with her. My 9 year old is the only one that thought to ask me what I wanted for my birthday. I told them that they could get me some new pajamas. So we turned them loose in the women's lingere section. While they were busy picking out the ugliest fuzzy moo-moos you ever saw in your life, hubby was busy pointing out some lingere that he thought I should come back later for when the kids weren't with.
It would be awesome if I could find something that he picked that actually fit me because some of them would help cover up my problem areas. But I've always had a hard time finding stuff like that to fit me. He tends to favor corset style lingere, but if I find something to fit my waist, my boobs don't even come close to fitting. If I find something that the boobs fit into, the waist part is WAY too big.
So, thanks to guidance from my oldest, the girls did end up picking out a pair of pajamas I like. It's a 3 piece set that came with leopard print shorts and pants, and a top that says 100% ANIMAL on it. WAY better than the tents that the little ones were favoring.
Since my birthday is coming up we decided to go out to supper to celebrate. I let the kids pick where as long as it wasn't McDonalds. They chose this all you can eat buffet place because they love the dessert bar there. I decided that I wasn't going to count calories at all, and wasn't going to limit myself. I figured that it wouldn't ruin everything I've worked so hard for because it takes 3500 calories to gain a lb of fat, and that would be a LOT of food. So I had shrimp and steak, mashed potatoes and gravy, and I even had dessert! I was so miserable afterward because I'm not used to eating so much at once any more.
We had bought a new generator and a fire proof 16 gun safe (hubby's anniversary present) that had to be unloaded when we got home. The stores loaded them for us, but we were on our own to unload them. I had to help hubby carry that gun safe down into the basement to his 'man cave'. My muscles were screaming by the time we got it carried in and put away.
When I woke up this morning I was really sore from carrying that safe, but since I pigged out last night at supper I figured I'd better run a little extra today to burn some of it off. I had just gone a little over 6.5 miles when hubby came in and said I should get dressed in some old clothes because he needed help. The water pump for the cows wasn't working. I had to help him pull it up out of the well and replace the pump (it had burned out). Then after we lowered it back down into the well we found that it was too low because it was sucking mud (which is probably what caused the old one to burn out). The pump is held in position by a rope that's tied to the pump on one end, and tied off at ground level with the other end. To raise it's position we had to lift the pump up, then I had to hold it while hubby untied the rope and retied it off shorter. I don't know how much the pump and all that pipe weighs, but it was HEAVY!!! And to have to hold it there that long so that it could be retied was agony, especially since my muscles were already sore from moving the safe, and then from running for so long right before that. But I did it! I don't think I would have been able to if I hadn't been lifting weights these last few months. But this evening I'm so stiff and sore! I'm not looking forward to how much this is gonna hurt by tomorrow morning....
SO depressing to see that. I haven't been drinking much water the last few days and I've eaten WAY too much salt. 
SO embarrassing!