For Redditors wanting to find a new source of weight loss, the calorie deficit diet is the best way. It's also the hardest and quickest way of losing weight. Whether by fasting, or reducing portion sizes, simple eating habits to reduce calorie consumption is the best way forward. This sub exists for users to post insight, articles, encouragement and/or support for others. Founded 2021 · 66.2K members
66.8K members. The best post we have captured here reached
37.6K upvotes, which works out to
563 per 1,000 members.
The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.
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What the ceiling looks like
The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.
Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.
What is r/caloriedeficit?
r/caloriedeficit describes itself this way: For Redditors wanting to find a new source of weight loss, the calorie deficit diet is the best way. It's also the hardest and quickest way of losing weight. Whether by fasting, or reducing portion sizes, simple eating habits to reduce calorie consumption is the best way forward. This sub exists for users to post insight, articles, encouragement and/or support for others. It was founded in 2021 and has 66.2K members.
How many members does r/caloriedeficit have?
r/caloriedeficit has about 66.8K members. ViralHunt has tracked 406 of its posts; the biggest reached 37.6K upvotes, which is 563 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/caloriedeficit?
"A year and a half of progress" reached 37.6K upvotes and 889 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/caloriedeficit.
What subreddits are similar to r/caloriedeficit?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/InvictaSolaris.
What kind of posts do best on r/caloriedeficit?
Of the posts we hold, 26% are image posts and 25% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/caloriedeficit?
Across 406 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 20:00 UTC (5.8K avg upvotes), Friday at 18:00 UTC (4.9K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 18:00 UTC (4.7K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/caloriedeficit?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/caloriedeficit has 5.6K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 41 posts from it in the last 30 days.
See what is climbing here before you write
ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.
Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/caloriedeficit, not everything the
community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is
weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.
Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed.
See how we measure.