Taking stock at 6 months

I'm now 6 months + 1 week into the great vegetarian experiment. A couple of thoughts:

• Stock/broth is maybe the hardest part. Chicken stock is in lots of good stuff. And apparently "veggie stock sucks". :-)
• Although the goal of this experiment wasn't about health, and I'm not into measurements, my size 3X pants are definitely fitting more loosely now. I might even be at 3X-2 at this point. My guess this that this isn't explicitly caused by not eating meat, but is instead indirectly a function of the limited access to french fries that typically accompany hamburgers.