It takes a while before you really start to believe in the positive changes your good habits create. In fact, you could do something for quite a while and need a stranger to point out when you’ve made real progress. We’re often just too close to see it ourselves.
Then there’s the period of time when you know you’ve made progress, other people have commented on it, and you are a bit taken with yourself. You may let your new habits slip a bit or admire your progress a bit too much for your own good.
Or maybe that’s just me. I’ll let you decide:
PS: I started telling this story to Warren and my friend Debb, and before I got to the punchline Warren grabbed the video camera and made me start over from the beginning. I don’t normally tape all my conversations with friends. 
About Betsy
Doesn’t mean you aren’t a HPOA.
Good for you for keeping up the running, girl. Hard work and something you can easily keep doing while traveling. I can’t remember if you’ve mentioned this before - do you have a Garmin Forerunner?
Hey, Shannon. I don’t have a Garmin Forerunner. I’ve been using the iMapMyRun app for the iphone, which uses GPS to track where I go and calculate pace, speed, etc. I’m giving up my iPhone service when we leave, though, so that leaves me without a map. Not sure how this will translate into running in other countries. I’ll have to check into this Garmin thingy.
Thanks for sharing such a truthful, fun story. There’s such a big difference between confidence and arrogance and being able to laugh at ourselves is the best.
JLouise, thankfully I learned to laugh at myself a long time ago. Then again, I give myself a lot of opportunities to learn how to do that.
You can’t take yourself too seriously, and when you do, life is always there to remind you to stop doing that.
LOL…I can so relate…I’ve also been feeling full of myself lately because I’m eating mostly raw and vegan, my skin looks great, I’ve lost a little weight….then I take my friend’s 5 year old son to the bathroom for an emergency run at PCC market. Well, I figure I may as well pee, too, while we’re there. So I pull down my jeans, and he looks at me with this shocked look on his face, and says, “Lala, your legs are huge! I mean, really fat!” And he crinkles up his face and makes a motion with his hands like he’s kneading lumpy raw dough. Little bastard! Anyway, I just laughed and said, “You’re right, Eli, they sure are!”. His tiny size 6 mother nearly died when I relayed the story back in the car. Very funny stuff!
Alisa, that cracks me up! Leave it to a little kid to burst any bubble you have created about yourself, huh? Why is it we have to be nice to them again?
Good for you for eating better and sticking with the program.
Great story and i love your new hair style! So chic and coastal.
Thanks, Cathy. Love your new avatar!
Well Betsy that is a funny story! I thought that you were going to say, that you were overtaken by a younger hotter POA and that was who the construction guys had been yelling at
At least it was just a bunch of tourists! Good story, thanks Warren for having the idea of videoing it! Have you had the tattoo yet? How did it go???
Hey Judy,
I am posting a new post tomorrow morning with pictures of the new tattoo. I look forward to your thoughts.
hehehehe…great story. Very funny. I enjoyed that, thanks!
That was so funny to watch!
I, too, love to laugh at myself when I catch myself doing something silly or embarassing. Which is often. I think’s it’s a good lesson for my/our kids to learn, not to take themselves so seriously.
And I also have come to learn that the minute I start feeling too over-confident … something will come along in life to remind me to be more humble.