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Cable crunches kneeling on a bench (I HATE those!), weighted side bends, V-ups with a medicine ball (I actually need to incorporate those in my ab workout).

You can make a few meals over the weekend and portion them out for the week. What I have been doing lately is looking at cookbooks and stuff that I have in the house and I make a meal plan for the week. I make a list of what I will need for the meals and then grocery shop on Sunday and make whatever meals I've planned…

^^ This. The kind of equipment/rules that the gym has completely depends on who owns it. I've been to one that had Olympic bars and squat racks.

So because you don't see them any longer at the time you usually go means they "gave up"? They could be going at a different time of the day. Sometimes I go early in the morning, like 4:30 a.m. Sometimes I'm there around 5:30/6:00. Other times I'm there mid to late afternoon. And perhaps some people decide to get in shape…

I go there. I like it. It's a decent gym. My husband has the black card so I get to go for free which is a huge plus for me. He used to have an expensive membership at a fancy gym and the few times a month that I would go with him if I had the day off or I was working from home I had to pay the $20 "day pass" which after a…

Are you weighing/measuring everything that you put on your plate? If not then chances are good you're underestimating how much food you're actually consuming. It's quite an eye opener once you start putting things on a scale how small serving sizes really are.

That's probably because they don't know what they're doing because they're new.

This is awesome for abs. I just started using it again. Bonus: it's really inexpensive.

Too much. Typically it's about $150-$200/week. And that's just for my husband and I.

I take vitamins because even with the healthiest diet you can not possibly get all the recommended allowance of what vitamins your body needs through food alone. I would have a hard time getting my 7,000 IU's of vitamin D through food, not sure how much I'd have to eat to get my allowance of COQ10, or what plant my DHEA…

They actually do. My husband and I got a quarter cow last year and it was grass fed, no antibiotics, no hormones and the meat is the best I have ever had. The burgers are to die for and everyone who has had them have said that they are hands down the best they've ever had. We actually have a friend who wants to go in on a…

Why not just search for "crepes" and find one that was close to what you had?

When I got eggs from one of our neighbors they were brown, white, green . . . it took me by surprise but they were delicious.

Once a week: M: Chest/abs T: Back/Legs W: Shoulders/abs T: Tri's/Legs F: Bi's/abs

You're out running at close to midnight. I could see why he would follow you. Running at that time of night is pretty suspicious.