Let's talk real food and real behavior.  What did you have for breakfast today?

Leave your answer in the comments.  We can build up a pile of menus, good, bad, mediocre, great, indifferent and see what we come up with. Looking at the reality of what we do can help us make helpful adjustments.  And it's could be a lot of fun.  Recovery doesn't have to always be serious.  Important yes, but laughter, surprise and sharing is part of the journey.

For breakfast this morning I had: a bowl of low fat yogurt mixed with sliced strawberries and blackberries, sprinkled with left over flax seed. I had one cup of caffeinated coffee with soy milk and stevia as a sweetener.  (I used the flax seed because I didn't want to waste it, even though I know it works on lowering cholesterol in men, but not women.)

What did you have for breakast this morning?  Check in to see what others have to say.

Yes, you can check in every day with a different real food breakfast report!

L.A. Times is running a great photo series of yoga poses that show you clearly what do to and not do. These thirteen photos show you popular poses with clear descriptions of how to do them and how to care for yourself as you move into the postures. This is particularly helpful for people with eating disorders.

More evidence is coming in showing a strong connection between sleep deprivation and weight gain. Reuters Health is running an article called,

"Sleep restriction could be one of the environmental factors that contribute to the obesity epidemic."

Getting this information to people with eating disorders is essential.  If you have an eating disorder you do what you can do relieve yourself of tension,

A woman wrote asking if she could cure herself of bulimia on her own because she doesn't want anyone to know about her bingeing and purging.  Then she goes on to say that she's lost 40 pounds. She wants to keep her condition secret yet in one year she developed these symptoms: