What a difference a year makes....

So one year ago I was sitting around feeling pretty awful everyday...tired and sore.  I thought to myself - it's probably because you work too much and have four kids that you feel like this.  But I decided I would try and give up sugar and carbs to see if I felt any better.  12 months and 30 pounds later - my pains are all but gone, my sciatica no longer throbs, my knees don't swell and I don't fall asleep in the middle of the afternoon everyday.  The only downsize I can see - is that I can never go back to eating the way I was...primarily because the couple of times I have had sugar in the last year I have broke out in hives.  D'Oh!

I had the kiddos recreate one of my least favorite pictures from a year ago to look at the difference in the size of me and subsequently them too. :-)