My poor ache-in back!

My oh my is all I have to say about this weeks newest fitness extravaganza. Ryan's mom and I (Kathy) are starting this new work out routine to both achieve different goals. My goal being that I want and desperately need to regain all that muscle I once had and put some more weight on me. Kathy's goal being that she wants to just loose some extra lbs and get in shape. Our goal :

To work out for 1 hour 5 days a week

We take turns choosing the activity or fitness exercises

One day I drive to her house, The next she drives to mine

Start working out at 10 am completed by 11 and showered for our day by 12

We are a bit new to the workout/fitness scene so yesterday as we did not have any weights to work with we raided the pantry at her house to find the heaviest soup cans we could. We ended up with good ole chili! Emily was sitting back watching us looking at us like we were crazy. We were blasting tunes from You Tube on the computer with such selections (by yours truly) You Tube Search: Aerobic Super Mega Dance Mix!

Here's the kicker. I do fairly well these days with my new medicine and inhalers to walk, enjoy life, not be so out of breath that i have to sit and take breaks but when I  get up and dance or work out which I have ALWAYS loved to do, I get very very very low on oxygen. So low that I need to wear my portable o2 while working out. This gets in the way and weighs quite a bit to carry around so I'm thinking about making like a portable backpack apparatus that looks "cool" and slightly inconspicuous! My hope is that I don't come to spin class and get made fun of like back in grade school like, "Hey look at the nerd with the rocketeer pack on her back!" :) i don't think that will happen though ...... BUT IF IT DID , They don't stand a chance against the cans of chili I pack in the front compartment! I will post pics of my superpack once its completed.

I'm trying harder than ever to gain gain gain weight but nothing seems to be working. After our workout yesterday I ate a half a pound of bacon, 3 eggs, 4 fried potatoes, and a protein shake! Now that's some serious calories. I don't care which little food group they come from I just want to put on the pounds on for goodness sake. What I'm trying to get at here is the difference in taking care of my body with all natural foods and eating well for my cancer treatments and now I'm working out and eating anything I can shove in my face just to gain a lb! I'm kinda loving it. Its very labor intensive though. The more I work out the hungrier I get so that means more time in the kitchen, just to cook for myself. I love to cook and would much rather cook for everyone. Ryan says he has gained 17 lbs since he stopped chewing at Christmas and that my new DIET :) is not helping....... this should make for an interesting next couple months!