r/loseit rules, stats, and what to post

This is a support community for people of all sizes who want to lose weight in a healthy and sustainable way. The description says you are welcome whether you need to lose 2 lbs or 400 lbs, so the room holds beginners and people on very long journeys side by side. People post about their progress, their victories and milestones, their methods, and their questions about doing this the healthy way. The rules make the tone clear too: be good to one another, critique constructively, and keep everything on topic. This is a peer support space first, and the moderators guard that hard.

The rule that decides everything for a founder is “No Self Promotion”, which bans linking your own content to generate views or traffic and bans posts, comments, and private messages promoting a product, service, or business. “No AI, low effort posts, spamming posts.” matters just as much, because AI written posts and comments are not allowed, low effort posts that pad a minimum word count are not allowed, and reposting something stuck in the queue makes the wait longer. “SV/NSV, Progress, Milestone Posts Need Details” means any victory or progress post must include details that help others reach the same result. “No Accountability Partner Posts” removes standalone posts searching for accountability partners and bans posts advertising accountability groups of any kind, pointing everyone to the Track With Me Thursday recurring thread instead. “No Surveys” is a flat ban, so market research posts are dead on arrival. “No Promotion of Diet Cash Pools/Requests for Money” bans selling items, asking for donations, and linking crowdfunding. “No Standalone Weight Loss Medication Posts” removes standalone threads about medications like Ozempic, Mounjaro, Wegovy, Zepbound, and Phentermine, and bans sharing sources or prices. “No Promoting or Encouraging Unhealthy Weight Loss Methods” bans discussion of methods that damage the body or need medical supervision, including very low calorie diets, extended fasting, and disordered behaviour. Finally, “No Politics / Stay On Topic” keeps every post on healthy and sustainable weight loss and sends rants elsewhere.

The honest answer is that there is almost no marketing lane here, and that is the point. What works is showing up as a person who has real experience with healthy weight loss. If you have a genuine progress story, write a progress or milestone post and pack it with the details of how you did it, because the rules say details are what make these posts valuable to others. Answer questions in threads where you actually know the answer, with no links and no product mentions. If you run a community or group chat and want to invite people, the only sanctioned place is the Track With Me Thursday thread. Write every post yourself, in your own words, with enough substance that nobody could call it low effort.

Do not link to your own content or promote your product, service, or business anywhere, including in comments and private messages. Do not post anything written by AI, and do not pad a thin post to hit a word count. Do not post a progress or milestone story without the details of how you did it, because solo victory posts need specifics or they get removed. Do not make a standalone post looking for accountability partners or advertising a group chat, use the Track With Me Thursday thread instead. Do not post surveys. Do not ask for money, donations, crowdfunding, or try to sell items. Do not start threads about weight loss medications or share where to get them. Do not discuss extreme or medically supervised methods, extended fasting, or anything that touches disordered behaviour, and remember this is not an eating disorder support space. Do not derail threads into politics or post rants. If you share photos of your progress, mark anything shirtless, underwear, or swimsuit related as NSFW.

What strikes me most here is rule 11, because it says a progress post needs details not to measure how big your win was but to measure how useful your post is, and that tells you exactly what this community rewards. I also respect that they spell out the AI ban so clearly, which means a founder who shows up with a ghostwritten story will get caught fast. My honest read is that this room gives you nothing for selling and everything for teaching, so bring your actual method or bring nothing.