What do you think about old "fat" pictures?

Exactly This. 

I may have been fat, but I was still happy the day the photo was taken.  I was with people I love, and who love me no matter what size I am.  I have tons of photos with my babies, professional ones too, my wedding photos of a size 26 bride are hanging in my home.  I was happy when I took those, not as healthy as I could have been, but still happy.

The old photos only make me think "why didn't I do WLS sooner?" but they don't make me sad.

When I am done losing, I am putting a before/after side by side on my fridge or in my bedroom so I see it everyday as a reminder of where I was and where I want to be - as motivation to continue to make good food choices.

That's pretty much my stance. I haven't had my surgery yet but I love who I am right now and don't hate my body. In fact one of my biggest fears is that I won't recognize myself anymore after I have lost the weight. I plan to keep all of my older pictures right where they are now. Too many good memories that I can't get back and looking forward to plenty more just a different body.

They make me very sad for having done that to myself (I used to be thin before I became MO), as well as having put my family through that heartache and illness. 

I have no pictures from back then. Not because I was SMO, but because I was a vampire. Everyone knows you can't photograph a vampire.

Damn you!  Now I'm the crazy person laughing out loud at work!

I have tons of pictures of me heavy.  Many on the walls of our home.  They are an important moment in the memories of my family.  I'll never hide or destroy them.  They are who I am, who I have been and most importantly a moment in my children's lives. 

I completely relate to the OP.  

There are many pictures that I keep, especially those with family and friends.  But if I run across one that makes me look terrible, I just destroy it.

When i look at old pictures of myself i get MAD. I think about the 30 years i have wasted in life doing these things to myself! Now that I am starting to finally grab a hold of life and live it it just makes me mad. I'm only 2 months post op ( I've lost 84lbs) so i am still at the beginning of my journey. But even already i can see such a big change in my pictures..So i think to myself, a year from now, how mad will i be then to look at those pictures because hopefully, I'll be a lot smaller by then. It's just frustrating. Buuuuuutttttttttt after the anger clears I kinda get excited to see the progress I made. So its a 50/50 thing for me. but BROWNBLONDE you truly look amazing! But then again, i think you were also amazing looking before surgery! So keep it going!                                               Andy

It is a mixed bag for me as well.  Just too much time spent unhappy, settling for less...  wanting more and convincing myself that I deserve it despite the negative emotional impact of self-objectification.  I do not have many pictures of me at my heaviest...  only allowing pictures to be taken when I was dieting.  I wonder what I will think about these pictures when I eventually hit my goal weight...  will it be with disgust, fear of possibly going back there, sadness...  hmm.