Good job! In more than one way. Congrats on the career success and congrats on successfully expressing your feelings to H. Imagine if you had just let it lie instead. It would have festered and made you miserable and both you and H would have had to deal with fallout. Sucks to grow up and take responsibilty for our reactions to things doesn't it? So often we interpret a reaction from our S and it is nowhere close to what they mean. Anyway, good job.
Congrats on the weight loss too. Personally, I also believe it is the effort more so than the appearance. The appearance is a perk of the effort. My H is huge on acts of service - when he sees me bust my @ss he just gets tingly all over. When I'm exhausted and flop on the couch from stuff he can't see (like things at work) that lack of energy seems to actually transfer to him. I can't explain it. It just is.