Thank you from a Redditor... About a year and a half ago I found /r/fatpeoplehate on Reddit and started reading it. At this time I weighed 185 at 5'4, technically obese. I agreed with all of the logic and all of the points I found on that subreddit and decided it was time to stop being a fat piece of shit so I made a post telling them as much and thanking them for the motivation... do you know what the top comment to that post ended up being: "Typical fatty, wanting praise before doing any of the work"... the other comments were right up the same alley. It stung at first, but I realized they were right, and I was aware of the whole thing about not announcing plans to do something positive because your brain gets the reward from everyone's positive reaction to it even though you've done nothing and then your less likely to go through with it... so I was just motivated even more than I was before. Today I weigh 135, have joined a gym and started lifting and have noticed significant progress in my visible muscles. I lost almost a third of my former weight and look better than I ever have in my life, and I KNOW this wouldn't have happened if it weren't for that subreddit and the guys and girls posting there. So, for anyone who is still around from back then: Thank you.