The person who celebrates your improvement deserves a place in the finished story.

Progress gets narrated afterward as though it were a solo effort. The retelling keeps the difficulty and the decision and loses the person who noticed the first small improvement and said so out loud, often before there was much evidence. That early encouragement is frequently the reason the thing continued at all.

Think back to who was pleased for you before it was obvious. Tell them what their belief did, in specific terms, and say it now rather than at some later milestone. Then do the same for whoever is currently at the beginning.