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Intermittent Fasting. Intermittent Fasting (IF) is way of eating that restricts *when* you eat, usually on a daily or weekly schedule. People engage in IF to reap the many benefits to health, fitness, and mental clarity. This is a place to share success, support each other, ask questions, and learn. IF is an 18+ community because the practice is not medically recommended to/for children. Founded 2012 · 1M members

1M members. The best post we have captured here reached 60.3K upvotes, which works out to 59 per 1,000 members.

59peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1Mmembers
60.3Kbest post
2.6Kmost comments
115posts we track

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What actually lands here

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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Image 91% Gallery 9%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

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What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

One year and 182 pounds down! [F - 29 - SW: 474 - CW: 292 - IF 18:6]

↑ 60.3K 💬 1.5K image 2020

I know its not alot but ive lost 41 pounds since april 15th, 2019 (321 lbs) vs. January 29th, 2020(280lbs) ive never felt better. (Still working at i…

↑ 59K 💬 2.6K image 2020

205lbs lost since June of 2018. Proper human diet and IF.

↑ 54.9K 💬 1.3K image 2020

I'd rather carry around these extra 100 lbs

↑ 54.1K 💬 606 image 2019

Posted face gains yesterday, you guys gave me the confidence to post my (fully clothed) body progress. 10 months IF & CICO

↑ 45.7K 💬 1.6K image 2021

Update - down 120 lbs...feeling great!

↑ 44.5K 💬 804 image 2019

August 2018 to August 2019 to today: 145lbs down and officially under 200lbs for the first time in my adult life thanks to IF

↑ 42.5K 💬 1.1K image 2019

RIP to my boobs, but hello to my future 💕

↑ 41.5K 💬 1.1K image 2019

It's been exactly 365 days since my friend took the picture that made me decide to change my diet, so today we recreated it. I'm fown from XXXL shirt…

↑ 39.3K 💬 1.2K image 2019

A year ago I couldn't get these buttoned. Down 120 pounds, 120 to go.

↑ 37.4K 💬 664 image 2020

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/intermittentfasting, in numbers

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What is r/intermittentfasting?
r/intermittentfasting ("Intermittent Fasting") describes itself this way: Intermittent Fasting (IF) is way of eating that restricts *when* you eat, usually on a daily or weekly schedule. People engage in IF to reap the many benefits to health, fitness, and mental clarity. This is a place to share success, support each other, ask questions, and learn. IF is an 18+ community because the practice is not medically recommended to/for children. It was founded in 2012 and has 1M members.
How many members does r/intermittentfasting have?
r/intermittentfasting has about 1M members. ViralHunt has tracked 115 of its posts; the biggest reached 60.3K upvotes, which is 59 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/intermittentfasting?
"One year and 182 pounds down! [F - 29 - SW: 474 - CW: 292 - IF 18:6]" reached 60.3K upvotes and 1.5K comments in 2020, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/intermittentfasting.
What subreddits are similar to r/intermittentfasting?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/Archaeology, r/illinois, r/economicCollapse.
What kind of posts do best on r/intermittentfasting?
Of the posts we hold, 91% are image posts and 9% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/intermittentfasting?
Across 115 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 17:00 UTC (29.2K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 15:00 UTC (26.4K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 01:00 UTC (25.6K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. 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/intermittentfasting?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/intermittentfasting has 30.3K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 13 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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