IMessage sending from email not phone number from my Mac?

So I bought a macbook pro and i at the time had an iphone 4. When i started the messages app on the macbook, it prompted me to sign in and everything and then i could send imessages as if they were from my phone number. Then, i got an iphone 5 and all of a sudden the messages from the macbook were being sent from my email, not my phone number, and I have no idea how to get it back to sending from my phone number. HELP?!

Associate your mobile number with your Apple ID, if you haven't already done so.
From the Messages menu bar, select
Messages ▹ Preferences ▹ Accounts
and choose from the menu labeled
Start new conversations from:

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