Jenz28 - thanks, don't worry someday someone will be saying the same thing to you!

A pound and a half a week is a good loss rate. You lost more during induction because some of that was water weight - (low fat diets cause us to retain excess water during the switch to low carb, your body lets go of that water)

The leather pants will come in their own time (hee hee- that might be the photo you want to post for us!!)

The loss of inches without the loss of weigh IS a mystery, isn't it? Well the fact is that your body is a living breathing thing... a loss of weight isn't like carving off part of your thigh. Your inches can change even if your weight doesn't just depending on a million things from exercise, to TOM, to time of the day (we are taller in the morning). We lose weight and skin tightens, we start to stand a bit straighter. Some things dragged down before, are now lifted (think of things like boobs and butts), we are enthused and start to exercise and tone - even without knowing it - energy goes up and we are more active.