“I’m pretty much happy where I’m at right now,” she says, adding that she’s maintained her weight loss for “a couple months.”
Shannon says she encourages daughters Alana “Honey Boo Boo”, 11, and Lauryn “Pumpkin”, 17, to lose weight, but “they’re teenagers” so she doesn’t push it.
As far as her confidence, Shannon admits she’s always looked in the mirror and seen the person on the inside, and that the outside just matches that image now.
“I see myself now as I’ve always seen myself mentally, so for me it’s kind of like everybody’s getting to see my outside body the way I’ve always pictured myself,” she says. “Because when I look back at old pictures, I’ll be like, ‘That’s not me.’ ”
“I’ve always seen myself as being a smaller person,” she adds.
This article originally appeared on PEOPLE.com