Whenever I'm overweight the last thing I want to do is take pictures.  Who really likes those "before pictures" anyway?  When you see that picture right after it is taken and realize "that's what I look like?!" than you feel awful, embarrassed, and depressed at how you really look and know it's time to change.  The camera might add a couple pounds, but it sure doesn't add 40 lbs!  So you take that picture and cry and than you tear it up, hide it, or throw it away.  If you are ready to change that dreadful "before picture" into a pretty picture than keep it.  One day that awful picture will become a success story and a reminder of how you will never look again.