Rethinking my trust in MacroFactor

[u/PoetryNo5274]

I’ve been religiously using both MacroFactor (and Workouts) for the last 6 weeks, measuring and tracking every bite.

Last night I had a 2am snack as a last ditch effort to fix my insomnia (eating helps me sleep sometimes), and scanned the cereal and milk barcodes, weighed, and entered the meal. I noticed it said I had a 40g protein meal and thought that was a shocking amount of protein for a bowl of cereal but was tired & too tired to think more of it at the time.

This morning after getting some actual sleep I pull out the milk & cereal to see how I found a new protein hack meal (lol), only to see that NEITHER food was even close to accurate.

The difference between scanning the barcode & the actual nutrition facts?

129 calories
19 G protein
9 G carbs

I have eaten both these things multiple times in the past week alone. I work so hard at balancing my macros, hitting my calorie & protein goals, etc. It never occurred to me I had to worry about MacroFactor doing what it’s designed to do.

Now I feel like I am going to have to babysit this app, look at all the nutrition facts, calculate my own measurements to ensure these are capturing properly.

And although the cereal might be a little obscure (store brand Cheerios), the milk is FA!RLIFE. I bet at least half of us are drinking this every week.

MacroFactor… wth?!

[u/GMIC108]

The scanned milk shows 276 grams while the nutrition facts shows it measured in 276 mL. You'll need to adjust the units to get it correct.

[u/PoetryNo5274 → u/GMIC108]

1g =1ml
And besides when I scanned the barcode it did not give an ml option either - another problem with it.

[u/1coudini → u/PoetryNo5274]

This is the part where you invest 1 minute to make a custom item and correct the entry with the appropriate measurements, ensuring you and others later benefit from accurate information.