A changed habit can be real before other people stop expecting the old one.

Change happens inside you first and inside other people’s expectations much later. They are not being unfair. They are working from a longer record than your last few weeks, and that record has been reliable for years. The lag is normal, and treating it as evidence that nothing really changed is where new habits usually die.

Expect to be seen as the old version for a while, and decide now not to argue about it. Let the record accumulate. Being believed is a slower project than changing.