Contacts are seeing my email address and not my name when texting.

Two to three days ago my 4s has started sending out text messages with my email instead of my phone number.  It is confusing when your friends do not have your email address under their contacts and they have no idea who it is.  Also, I am receiving text messages under emails instead of the contact name.  Yesterday it deleted all my contacts then put them back on.  We upgraded my Mac to Lion a couple of days ago and I do not know if their is any correlation.  I am starting to get really aggravated.
Oh and this is what I have done:
I went to messages and it is forcing me to start new messages from my email and not my phone number. 

You also may have to look at your iPhone 5s too...
Settings---> Messages---> Send & Receive---> (make sure your phone number is selected) as well as the (start new convo from)
If for some reason you can't select your phone number on your phone. Follow these instructions...
Turn off iMessages.
Click Home key Sleep/Wake key at the same time until the phone reboots. About 20 seconds or so.
Return to the iMessages and turn it back on.
After that, you should be able to select your phone number.
KOT

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