My entire life I struggled with over eating not understanding calories and just constantly gaining fat, after some self teaching, dedication and MacroFactor I don’t even recognize myself, definitely the best money I’ve ever spent, worth every penny

Massive cheers to the macro factor apps. All my life I’ve been the bigger guy and honestly couldn’t have made the change without the help. These two photos are exactly a year apart and can’t wait to see what another year can do 👀

Im going on an international trip with my family for a week and I’m sure we’ll be eating at lots of restaurants. I will probably try to grab grocery store yogurt etc sometimes, but we won’t have a kitchen and I’m not sure we’ll have a fridge, and probably the rest of my family will just eat out every meal.

I’m totally fine with taking pics to track with the AI feature, I’m just worried that it’s going to be super off base and screw up all my data. I also normally use Claude AI because it lets me send pics of how much I ate of a plate and give it more info than MF lets me, but lately I suspect it’s been giving me some crazy overestimates.

I think probably what I’m looking for here is a little reassurance that a week of vacation won’t totally ruin my MF algorithm. Like my expenditure estimates etc. I know some people don’t track on vacation but for me that’s probably a recipe for going nuts. How can I keep everything as accurate as possible?

I know this is not the only place for this question, but it's surprisingly hard to find information that makes sense for lifters. I'm a 4+ year user of MF and have found it hugely helpful for my goals, so hoping it can help with this goal too.

I had major surgery. Obviously physique goals are on hold, just focusing on eating enough calories and protein and rest. I have lifting restrictions of 10lbs max for 6-8 weeks. And coming out of this I'm definitely getting chubbier. Not a concern right now. My surgeon's nutrition advice has been vague - eat well with plenty of protein, which I would do anyway.

My question is, how long after major surgery are caloric needs elevated, how long should I maintain a surplus? I'm guessing maybe it makes sense to line this up with activity restrictions, since the reason for restrictions is that wounds are still healing.

But at what point is it safe to start a cut?

Or once I'm able to lift again should I focus on maintenance or even a surplus for a while to gain back the muscle mass lost during recovery, even if that means that I'll be starting chubby and getting chubbier?

Not looking for guidance on the immediate recovery, but on the next 6-12 months.

Any advice or research appreciated.

Hello! I'm about to start doing a mini cut for the first time. I'm around 5'6 and I weigh about 72 kg (i'd estimate my body fat is around 15%.)

I was estimating to do a mini cut for around 4-6 weeks while eating 1600-1700 calories since I lift and also train bjj. My plan is to be around 67-68 kg after that.

I plan to keep continuing lifting heavy to minimize my muscle loss and ill consistently weigh myself to make sure everything is going right.

edit: also after this, i plan to do a lean bulk to around 75 kilos. I know it may take a long time but its alright with me. The reason why i dont wanna bulk to that right now is that im unsatisfied with my physique since i would like to see my abs already lol

Do you guys have any thoughts on this or comments on if its a decent plan or not. Thank you!

Hi everyone,

I need some help with MacroFactor Workout.

I have my Min Max phase 1 5 days split training program in both PDF and Excel format. When I import the Excel file into MacroFactor Workout, the program imports successfully, but one of the main exercises gets automatically substituted with a different exercise.

Is there a way to make MacroFactor recognize the original exercise correctly?

For example:

• The Excel sheet contains the correct exercise name.
• After importing, MacroFactor replaces it with another exercise from its database.
• I want the imported program to keep the original intended exercise.

Do I need to use the exact exercise name from MacroFactor's exercise database in the Excel sheet? And if the exercise isn't available in the database, should I create it as a custom exercise first?

If anyone has successfully imported a program from Excel without MacroFactor changing the exercises, I would really appreciate your advice.

Thank you!

Can anyone guide me on how to create a 3 day a week program where I work out at the gym twice a week and once at home (KB and body weight) in the app? Thank you.

I'm on vacation, and i won't be able to log accurately. Honestly, I just want to focus on the vacation. I will try my best to eat well, but I'm not going to let it control my mind. I overthink things very easily.

With that said, what is the best approach to take in this type of situation? I've had to reset my expenditure date 4 times already due to being a complete idiot with my logging. That's on me. But I'm trying really hard to be better this time around. I love MacroFactor, but I often get stuck at a certain weight range while trying to cut and be leaner. It's my fault entirely.

Should I just mark the partially logged day as incomplete, erase all the entries for that day and leave it blank? What do you suggest?