<human>: Can you summarize the given text in a few sentences?

M/20/5'9  SW:210 CW:161 GW:140?

I want to thank everyone here because this is the first time in my life that i have been able to lose a significant amount of weight and it's because of this subreddit and all the motivational posts.

I was always overweight as a child but once I left school I stopped  being active so I lost all my muscle and put on about 35lbs of fat because I never checked the scales so I didn't realize how much I was putting on. I hated it, I always felt uncomfortable in public, I had no self confidence so I decided to make a change and the first step was finding this subreddit.

I didn't want to get active because I'd always feel self conscious out in public so I decided to stick to a 1200 calorie diet and drinking water. It was hard for the first couple weeks(feeling hungry a lot), but I had to convince myself that I could do it and this time I would do it. To begin with I had huge self control because some people in my family thought I wouldn't make a change so I wanted to prove them wrong, I ate less when eating out, I stopped snaking and I even skipped having cake on my birthday! So I kept going and recently I've picked up running and I'm doing muscle training at home, which I never saw myself doing a year ago.

So here is my face progress, unfortunately I didn't take any side photos so there isn't much for me to compare with: 

Feel free to add me on MFP too: atunnard
<bot>: I wanted to make a change and the biggest motivation for me was /r/loseit and changing my mindset to believing in myself and really wanting it.