The View From Kalamazoo

No cardio yesterday – craaaaaamps from hell. (yeah, yeah – it’s oversharing. get over it) Plus my chest hurt – that chest press ran me over but good. I was feeling decidedly bad at lunch and decided that I wanted, WANTED, a Qdoba chicken quesadilla. So I had one. With guacamole on the side. HA! It was pleasing. It feels really, really good to be bad once in a while, and I have been pretty damn good for 5+ weeks, let me tell you. I was in a mood to be good again by dinnertime and had skipped both of my snacks to donate the calories to lunch. Homers: Guaaacaaamooooooole..mmm….*drools*

Today still feeling like something slightly better than death warmed over. Olga put me through my regular circuit – upped the seated leg curl another 2 lbs. Increased my reps. for biceps – two sets of 20 each arm, and increased my sets for triceps – two sets of singles, one double. She was relatively kind with the crunches because of the cramps – three sets of 15 + 10 with the heavier medicine ball, no weird reverse crunches on Big Wiggly Ball for me today. I did a shortened cardio afterward because I was just feeling really wrung out – 5 min. brisk walk, 1.5 min. jog, 5 min. brisk walk. Today’s weight – 273.7.

In yesterday’s Kalamazoo Gazette Letters to the Editor:

Mothers invited to Nurse Out

ProMoM (Promotion of Mother’s Milk,Inc.) encourages all breastfeeding mothers to go out during World Breastfeeding Week August 1-7 and breastfeed in public. We don’t mean your regular routine; we mean go out specifically to nurse in public.

What makes a Nurse Out different than a “nurse in”? Nurse Outs are for all nursing mothers to heighten awareness of nursing in public by casually blanketing large areas without use of signs, pickets or protests. The purpose of a Nurse Out is to increase visibility of nursing in public in a casual manner, while a “nurse in” is geared to protest or change policy, generally by asking nursing moms to nurse in clusters in front of a specific business or government building.

Why participate in the National Nurse Out?

ProMoM hopes that by promoting the image of breastfeeding in this way, more people will accept breastfeeding as a natural everyday occurrence and the normal way to feed and nurture babies. “Nursing Out” is also a way to encourage expecting mothers by showing them that it is possible to breastfeed in public without anyone being embarrassed!

What you can do:

# Nurse in public as much as possible the week of Aug. 1-7, and then continue to pursue that freedom on your own as necessary for your baby.

# Participate in your local nurse out.

WHEN: Sunday, Aug. 3 between noon to 2 p.m.

WHERE: Nurse throughout downtown’s Bronson Park and the Kalamazoo Mall, then meet at the park’s flower peacock at 2 p.m. to visit with one another.