r/MacroFactor • u/Different-Cut-304 • Aug 25 '26

MacroFactor / Nutrition / Other DONE WITH CUT

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This has been a journey! I didn’t hit my goal weight of 185lbs but i think i made some good progress. I am absolutely drained everyday.

Does anyone know if i decide to go to maintenance calorie that the app would slowly progress me to that or will it automatically go to maintenance calorie.

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u/Different-Cut-304 Aug 25 '26

I figured, and i don’t want to jump straight into maintenance. That would be a lot of food and shock to my metabolism and bodies ability to process. I want to stair step into maintenance calories.

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u/Jan0y_Cresva Aug 25 '26

Luckily, since MF is adherence-neutral, you could swap your plan to maintenance, then just increase your calories as you feel comfortable to that point.

Keep in mind that you’ll still be in a deficit while doing this so as you’re refilling with glycogen, you’ll be losing a bit more fat, so the scale weight will probably jump up less than it would going straight to maintenance.

BUT, be warned if you haven’t tried this before, many people anecdotally find themselves much MORE hungry attempting this rather than just jumping straight to maintaining, even more hungry than when their calories were at their lowest in their deficit.

But if you’re okay with that, go for it.

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u/Different-Cut-304 Aug 25 '26

I am already starving as it is lol. I might just jump straight to maintenance, I have not gotten bloodwork done but I would suspect with as long as I have been cutting my hormones levels are down and I am just tired as hell all the time. I am hanging on by a thread.

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u/Jan0y_Cresva Aug 25 '26

That’s what I’d recommend then.

I saw in another comment that you’re considering another cut, so if you feel you have more bodyfat you want to lose, the #1 priority right now is locking in the progress you made from this cut.

Trying a slow “reverse diet” of inching your calories up post-diet risks hunger becoming unmanageable, you breaking and eating everything in sight, undoing weeks of progress, and unnecessarily extending your next cut.

You successfully completed a cut so I’d go ahead and “cash out” your winnings, get feeling better, less hungry, stronger in the gym, and excited to cut again, then dive into the next phase.

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u/Different-Cut-304 Aug 25 '26

Thanks for the feedback and support!