"Before" Photo, Wellbutrin, and Weight Watchers

Well this is a little late, but below is my "before" photo, which was taken 1/6/14.  It's actually not the worst photo I've ever seen of myself, I think because it was taken by my husband at a downward angle since he's half a foot taller than me.  I'm thinking about taking measurements as well...but those are hard to face.  In the interests of full disclosure, this also isn't my highest weight.  The highest that I've ever seen on the scale was 385.  I lost some weight last semester when I started grad school and had to walk a lot more (around campus, to and from my car at the end of campus, etc).

In addition, I started taking Wellbutrin about 8 weeks ago, and it's definitely had some weight-loss benefits. At first it was just the anti-anxiety benefits (which are AWESOME, btw.  I know a lot of people have the opposite effect on Wellbutrin but it has made a huge difference in my anxiety), and the benefit of almost entirely solving my IBS problem (which I've had for a decade).  The quality of life improvement has already been enormous.  In the last couple of weeks, I've noticed a mild appetite suppressant effect as well, and the anti-anxiety effects have had an indirect weight loss effect as well--even when I'm hungry, I no longer get that panicky, out-of-control I must eat now feeling. Now its more like I'm hungry but eh, not a big deal if I don't eat.  As a result, I skipped a bunch of meals last week and actually lost 6 pounds in a week.  Obviously not a safe rate of loss, and it was before I started Weight Watchers again.  With Weight Watchers at my current weight I have a lot of daily points, so I have to eat all three meals.  Hopefully I will keep losing, at a more reasonable rate.  On a related note, my treadmill is being delivered tomorrow, yay!

Without further ado, the "before":

Current weight: 359 lbs