I'll take that as a compliment!

Yesterday I met with an underwriter that I had not seen in a few months. The last time I saw her was at the beginning of the year probably before I lost weight. When she came in to the office yesterday she commented on my weight loss. We had a nice conversation about my running and my eating and little things like that. She said that she had recently started walking and was trying to walk 2 miles a day, which is exactly how I started out and I told her that. I always feel a little weird about talking about weight loss with people because I am really not any kind of an expert. I never know if people walk away thinking I am an idiot after me telling them what worked for me.

But, today I received an email from her saying the following:

"Just wanted to let you know that you are an inspiration. I did my 2 miles
yesterday in 33 minutes. Remember I am older and not as fit --- but working on
it.
Goal today is to do it in 32 minutes. And to keep up my “days in a
row”.
You rock girl ----- I am impressed and you definitely motivate
me.
Have a great day and weekend. "

How sweet is that!? This made my day! I admit that it is a lot of pressure being 'inspiration' because what if I mess up and gain some of the weight back? What if I revert back to my old ways and start couch surfing instead of running? But, I figure I can use this as motivation for myself too. If I think I have somebody keeping tabs on me then I might be less apt to slip up.

Hopefully I can keep my mind off of the pressure and just take the compliment. It is things like this that make it worth it. Well, that and my husband telling me that I have a 'hot body!'

I say that this compliment is the best way for me to start my weekend off. I am going to put this one in my pocket and live off of it for the weekend!