Taking a break

Hmm..I'm skipping practice today..I reckon I already don't observe moondays and 6 days a week practice and practice almost daily, so perhaps I need to give my body a break. I really should start observing moondays etc. Its not that I'm tired out, but I've recently lost a lot of weight..from my own and everyone else's observation. I'm not stick thin, but my pants are definitely loose and baggy now...

Today I bumped into someone who asked me if I'm ok, cos I lost so much weight since the last time I saw him..I'm not particularly obsessed with my weight, but seems if everyone is saying this, I might really be overdoing things and need to take some days off.

Just went to the scales...hmm..according to the scales, I'm about 117 pounds, about 53 kgs..which actually is not much different to how much I've weighed most of my life...and at 5 feet 6, I think I'm normal, its just that I seem to have lost a lot of fat and put on muscle... wow who knew having muscles instead of fat makes one look so much thinner!

So anyhow, apart from this weighty issue, my practice last few days has been so so. No progress yet with jumpbacks..from sitting or from bakasana. However, I remember the days when I couldn't get down in bhujapidasana and when my feet couldn't get through the arms, and I thought I'd never be able to do it, and now its kinda easy...surely if I could get past that, the day will come when I can also jump back!??

I'm going to do some internet research now and see if any of the message boards have good tips for me for jumpbacks...