day 24 - started standing bow pulling pose

I think that the pose is called "standing bow pulling pose," I'm not sure. I have been holding off from trying to lift my leg and reach forward because I couldn't get too far without falling out, but today I did it for a small amount of time. I got my leg evenly over my head and concentrated on stretching forward. I thought that my body isn't changing much because the scale has gone up about 3 pounds. I stopped counting calories about a week ago and I will start again soon because I won't be able to lose weight without being conscious of the calories. But, even thought I went up 3 pounds and am still wearing the same clothes (but looser) my coworker complimented me yesterday on looking better and it meant a lot to me. It was really good timing because I was starting to feel discouraged, but now I feel encouraged and like I will lose weight and get stronger and everything I want (health-wise). My legs are a lot more solid. During pranayama breathing (I think it's called "pranayama") I stand pretty solid. I tensed my legs yesterday at work to see how I'm doing and it's pretty rock hard all the way up through the thighs. So, I'm overweight - but I'm building tons of muscle. I think that I wrote about being too big to buy yoga clothes... but I feel encouraged that as I build muscle I will increase my metabolism and lose weight. And also, when I start to write down my calories again, I will continue losing fat. It's not really ok to slack off because that's how I became overweight. I really, really got heavy. I got heavier than I ever thought I would, I got to some big numbers (about 60 pounds overweight, I think). I am supposed to weigh between 113-130 on height-weight charts (I have a normal frame at 5' 2") but I got over 180 recently. Now I'm at 177, according to my wonky scale. But I'm thinking some of that might be period water retention... if I'm lucky.