ETeSelle:
I love, love love the photos of you in the size 16 pants and that not even at your now weight. CONGRATS & TY for sharing your story.
Everytime I read a paralele to my story it gives me such hope and you have given us plenty to work with in terms of inspiration. Especially on the health end and you do look great, I'll up that, YOU LOOK ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC!
I am kind of laughing though about the size 16 pants, as relates to me. I am over 5'9" and started my slow weight loss having once bought something in size 20 (can you hear me screaming in terror to this day over that!).
I lost about 20 slowly and got back to size 16 doing non vegan things. Then I went vegan and started to see the changes as you did in all those health indicating numbers and lost another 20 pounds, mostly on MWL like you. But I am still wearing the size 16 pants! Grr...
Recently, I saw a post in one of our forums about vanity sizing and realized that the size 16 pants I am wearing today I bought in 1998! Sure enough when I measured the new (2010) 16 to the old there is close to 5 INCHES OF DIFFERENCE in the waist bands and they are the same maker and style (that is the waist is still at the same level).
So I am dropping size 16 as an indicator and relying on all the other REAL numbers - oh, except BP - who knows what the heck that number EVER means