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{In The Kitchen} Couldn’t-Be-Simpler BBQ Chicken Pizza

Are you a fan of The Young Mommy Life on Facebook? Join us for daily conversations about what it means to be a young mom.  Two weekends ago, I decided to make pizza. I love all the neighborhood places around us, but we had my nephews over (two teen boys with big ol' appetites) and I wasn't trying to spend $40+ to feed everyone. I figured, I'll just make it myself! Only problem was that I didn't … [Continue reading...]

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{Tales From An Emotional Eater} I Only Eat Dessert On The Weekends Now

I eat my feelings. We're talked about my emotional eating before, but here it is again. I eat when I'm happy, I eat when I'm sad or when I'm stressed or when I'm tired. I eat to make myself feel better, to pass the time, to reward myself, to acknowledge how hard I work. At the end of a day filled with obligations—driving my daughter to school, cleaning the house, working, studying, writing, … [Continue reading...]

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Mid-Run Thoughts Of A Kinda Newbie Runner

I recently started running again. I haven't made too big a deal about it because this time, it's just something I'm doing for me. I'm not looking to get "likes" on my running updates, or "You go girl!" comments here on the blog. But it's just about me and the road in front of me. It's about getting healthy. It's about finding an outlet for stress, which had started to get out of hand two weeks … [Continue reading...]

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Why Is It So Hard To Lose These Last 10 Pounds Of Baby Weight?

Over the years that I've been writing here, I've written about my weight loss struggles. And it's not even like I have a ton of weight to lose. I'm 4'11 and roughly 140 pounds. I should probably be in the 120-135 range, realistically. So let me lose about 10-15 pounds and I'll be straight. I spend a lot of time online and I see all these stories of people losing 50, 60, even 100 pounds and I … [Continue reading...]

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3 Summer Recipes You’ll Love

If you've been following along on the Young Mommy Life Facebook page (and I'm going to assume you have, because don't you love me?), you'll see that I just started a new workout DVD, Jillian Michaels' Ripped in 30 Days. Now, I've done her 30 Day Shred before and got decent results. (Click here for my before and after photos of my last hardcore workout regime.) I also started running again, … [Continue reading...]

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My First 5K

I have one motto in life: Go big or go the hell home. I don't like doing ANYTHING for the sake of just doing it. It's all  or nothing. I either want to be KING OF THE WORLD or I want you to leave me alone and let me lounge in pajamas all day. There is no "medium" in my world. But when I signed up for the 5K a month ago, I kind of knew I wouldn't be setting any records. As I said in my last post … [Continue reading...]

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Mid-Run Thoughts Of A Newbie Runner

I am training for my 5K (officially less than three weeks away) and I have a looong way to go before I can even think about running the race in a respectable time. But oh well, I'm doing it anyway. I started running the Couch to 5K program which is supposed to get you in 5K shape in eight weeks. Since I had about four weeks and some change, I tried to start on week 4. Epic fail. I realized slow … [Continue reading...]

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I’m Running A 5K Next Month. Someone Hold Me.

Last summer I told you all about my quest to become a runner. The goal was to have something that a stress relief for me, a way to lose some of this damn baby weight that's STILL hanging around (ugh), and to get my days off to a better start. But what happened? The same thing that always happens. I start working out, it seems to be working and I like it, but then life gets busy and I postpone a … [Continue reading...]

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