I've lost 15lbs since the last week of December, when my religious conversion happened, which puts me at 174. It's the lightest I've been in at least 6 years, but I don't own a scale so I don't track that closely. Eating vegan hasn't affected my lifting at all. I would say if anything I feel better, since I'm taking a lot of stress off my knees and heart. I'm old now, so I'm not going to compare myself to what I was like when I was 23 and lifting 5 days/week, but for my current situation (2 little kids, 37 yrs old), I'm feeling like a million bucks. (FWIW my wife always yells at me when I say I've lost 15 lbs in 4+ months by just going vegan. She's like, "IT'S NOT THE VEGANISM, YOU DON'T GO TO THE COFFEE SHOP TO EAT A 600 CAL MUFFIN FOR BREAKFAST EVERY DAY LIKE YOU USED TO, MORON!!!!" But then I'm like, "yOu DoN't GO to ThE cOfFEe ShOp...," and the argument continues.)