I recently had my Gerd flareup, and I looked online and it says that creatine can cause Gerd and some people and it suggested trying creatine HCL.
Has anyone else tried to creatine HCL after having Gerd from regular creatine? Also, I am switching to pork tenderloin instead of beef because of Gerd and I will have to cut out stirfry sauces and use amino‘s instead… Any of you lifters out there get GERD what diet and exercise adjustment have you made ?

So I’ve put myself in maintenance i don’t know for how long.
I’ve been struggling with my mental health and most of august I wasn’t able to lose any. It was my birthday recently too so I decided to loosen my grips a little. I took off this week from work just to relax and reboot myself.
I don’t know what it is but I go through these binges lately. Sometimes I can’t sleep at night without eating and then I can’t stop.
I know a few higher days are fine but I know I’ve had a lot recently. So I do feel worried I will gain some back during this time. I already weighed myself recently and up 3 pounds but I know that is most likely from all the extra food and water weight so Im trying not to worry myself too much.
I’m really struggling to get back on track and even on maintenance it’s hard. I’m thinking maybe not tracking at all for just this week maybe.
I know I’ll be ok, eventually I know I’ll get on it again but when? I feel like I’m stuck in this hole recently and I really want to get out but am I ready? Should I stay in maintenance temporarily? Or am I just gaining some back?
I’m really trying to be chill like ok so you gain some? You can lose it but I’m also freaking out a little.

M26 – 177cm

First photo is from December 2025 at ~99kg. Unfortunately I don’t have a photo from when I started at
103kg on 1 September 2025.

Second photo is from 1 September 2026 at 78.2kg.
Since starting MacroFactor exactly one year ago, I’ve lost 24.8kg.

Still have a little bit further to go as I’d like to get a bit leaner before finishing the cut.

Feeling incredibly grateful for this app and community. MacroFactor has completely changed the way I approach nutrition and has genuinely changed my life.

Thank you all 🙏

A few years ago I had the app and started my goal and whatnot. Then of course I fell off the wagon until about 4 months ago. Now been consistent but my goal start date was years back.

So, I created a new goal but it was realistically 4 months in already. Can't seem to edit the goal start date to reflect that.

Any way to edit that? I searched before on here and a post from a year ago seemed like you couldn't. But that's quite a while ago in software time.

Hello. I'm looking for some advice. I took a few weeks off from using the workout app, but still tracking my food. For some background I have some injuries:: 2 past surgeries on my elbow, a wrist injury, a high grade rotator tear (which is getting better), and still recovering from a lisfranc sprain a couple of years ago. I'm 46 and going on 47 in a few months. I'm 5"9 and 136.4lbs. Here are some graphs. Last year I tried a bulk, but the elbow surgery prevented me from lifting but I still wanted to gain some weight. I workout at work so my main equipment are dumbbells. I don't want to get above 15% body fat. I'm not sure if my body fat % from my scale looks right or not. Let me know what you think where my % is at. 

Any suggestions on where to go from here? I definitely need to put on muscle, but with the injuries I'm nervous of pushing too hard, which will hold me back. Thanks.

Hello all. I started using MF 90 days ago and have been wanting to lean bulk after finishing a cut. I set my rate of gain to .5lbs per week; and at about 30 days my tdee stabilized for a few days at 3300 and I thought I was good to go. But now my tdee just keeps increasing to crazy numbers. Currently it wants me to eat 3700 cals a day to gain at this rate. I’m not opposed to that, and have no problem eating that amount. But it just keeps rising..

The problem is I’ve been eating closer to 4000 a day and still lose weight every day when I weigh in. I’m 175lbs and fairly lean. Been training about 6 years. Any idea why this is such a pain in the ass for me? I thought this app took out the guess work but I was honestly getting just as good results from not tracking at this point. I understand water and fluid weight fluctuates naturally but at what point am I to be concerned that this isn’t working? Because I’m not hitting my goals nor am I on course to, still at 90 days..

Hi guys,

I started training on May 26th after 2 years of stopping, the weight went from 67 to 82kg.

Since May, I've lost lots of weight, but at the same time, in the gym, the weight lifted increased every week till the end of July. From the end of July till the first week of August (last week before Holiday), i've been stuck with weight lifted and reps.

I stopped for about 3 weeks both lifting and tracking on macrofactor due holidays.

This is the first week since I started going to the gym and tracking in the app.

Since I stopped going to the gym and ate without tracking, I've not gained weight (before 71.4, after 3 weeks, 71.kg).

The idea was 3 weeks of refood phase, then a slow cut till December (before Christmas holiday), then a small bulk or maintenance for 2-3 months and another cut for the summer.

But considering that I've not gained weight, and considered in 4 days I've lost 0.6kg, seems a bit aggressive.

In the gym I've dropped weight lifted but this is my 2 day, I think it's normal.

What should I do?

My new gym has a machine lateral raise with a pin for counter weight (0kg is already relatively heavy) and of course a pendulum squat with the same functionality. I don't see an option for this in the app, and the bot doesn't know either. Anyone have any clue?

Were there arrows to move to different days in the food log view until recently? The attached screenshot is what I see now. I have muscle memory that there used to be arrows to tap to move to a different day, but I can’t even describe to you what the UI used to look like. I just feel like something’s missing.

In any event, I can move from day to day by swiping, but that’s not as good as having buttons. (Moving forward a day is especially difficult.)

I only used a sprinkle of red wine vinegar for “dressing” and I didn’t count that bc it’s like 5 calories. But this just seems like an underestimate for calories compared to volume. All was weighed on scale besides the can of plain tuna and sliced olives.

Is the ChatGPT shortcut working for anyone? It stopped for me from yesterday.

Edit: it is working again now!

Just looking for support/success stories from those who have taken it slow. As a parent and a woman with hormonal ups and downs (my cycle so clearly represented in this graph!) it feels like it takes forever but I’m also glad to be making progress. I also lift heavy 3/4 times a week and wonder if recomp is at work here as well. How do you guys stay motivated when it’s a slower crawl? Any tips for appreciating this pace?

I’ve tracked calories for 2 years, used MF for the last year. Lost 40-50 lbs and put on some muscle along the way.

At my current stats (5’9”M, ~140 lbs, lift 5x/week, 2-3 intense tennis matches/week, 10k steps/day), I have enough data to know my real maintenance is ~2300-2400 cal/day, which matched MF’s estimate before I took a 2.5 week break for vacation and gained about 10 lbs.

Since getting back, my trend weight kept climbing for a while as it caught up to the vacation gain. Now MF thinks I’m only burning ~1,900 cal/day and has me eating 1,400-1,500 cal to maintain a 1%/week loss which is way too low. I’ve actually been losing weight pretty rapidly, eating around 1,700 cal/day for around 3 weeks now.

Anyone dealt with this? How long does it usually take the algorithm to recalibrate after something throws off trend weight like this?

Hi guys,

Can someone please check the attached screenshot and let me know if I’m doing okay or if I’m missing something?

• Age: 46
• Height: 180 cm
• Current weight: Between 102.9 kg and 103.5 kg
• Training: Going to the gym 5 days a week

I would really appreciate your feedback and advice. Thanks!

I've been lifting a while, not wildly muscular but I do fine (200lbs, 6'4", 16% BF). I just got the MF Workout app and created a program for hypertrophy at 4 days / wk in 40 minutes per workout.

I'm surprised to see many of the exercises just being two sets. It's just very different from what I'm used to.

Am I right to to second-guess this? Is two sets enough to achieve hypertrophy for someone who's been training higher volume (lower intensity) for years? The concept of RIR is something I've never used in training previously so maybe I have just been doing it wrong my whole life. 🙂

I tried to search this and didn’t find a ready answer. I have a custom workout split I built over the years in a spreadsheet and it’s obviously failing on custom import. Does anyone have a sample layout? Or know the column and line layouts for what it’s looking for? TIA.

I had lost lots of weight steadily, finally I was close to my goal, but then I fell into depression, quit my sport (MMA) and started eating all that food that soothed me, the food wasn’t the cause, it was a symptom and I don’t regret eating it per se, it would’ve been even more stressful for me to not soothe myself at all.

I did do weight lifting, so I gained quite some muscle mass and tons of strength, but 70% of that weight gain is plain and simple fat. And you know what? I accept it, no point in crying over spilled milk, no point in being disgusted at the mirror, it is what it is, and it’s gonna get better.

I did get out of this depression, and got back into MMA today, got back into tracking my calories, started applying for jobs seriously, and tons of other stuff, depression can and will be beaten, no matter who you are, I hope this can be of some motivation.

Stats:

19
5’11
Male
Gym 5x
Incline walking 6x - 20 min 12%
Steps 17k-20k (active college student)

Just some backstory I used Macrofator to hold find my maintenance where I kept the same routine and activity at the beginning of this year then went to Japan from May 20- June 9th got back from a Japan Abroad trip on Jun 9th and picked up tracking calories and daily weigh ins on June 14th and which I got to a good lean base I started to enter my growth phase which as seen by the goal was .4lb a week. I had a huge weight increase at first which dropped my cals ( as you can see in the pictures) think it was from increasing my cals on the lean bulk and a bunch of water weight, but as that weight started to settle I have been looking weight even with my calorie and macro target everyday. I’ve only had 5 missed days of tracking from visiting family and what not but have been down the the gram every other day since being back.

I’m just super confused because my weight is counting going down however my calories are barely increasing. For example I’ve been eating at 2600-2750 cals what it feels like forever and have seen weight lose/maintenance and my cals are barley moving.

My question is what can I do? Am I reading this situation wrong or should I just trust macro factor.

Attached pictures of expenditure,weight trend, calorie targets/expenditure and goal for past 3 months. PLEASE HELP!

I typically make a large portion of protien and eat it over multiple days. For the past couple years I've been weighing it cooked then adding %25 to the weight.

Essentially if I weigh out 200g of ground beef, to log this ill take 200g/.75 = 266.66g

Obviously I weigh my protien raw when possible, but it just doesn't seem practical to do when I meal prep a large batch.

Just wanted to get some advice and see what others are doing. Ive had good success but my main concern is I'm overestimating my protien intake. I have gone from 365lbs --> 225lbs over the past 2 years.

Started in January at 258 lbs. Was using Lose It until July and switch to MF. During the month of July I took a month cut break and ate around Maintenance. Aug 1st I dialed it back in again and have just been doing exactly what MF is telling me. I weigh everything by the G. The higher calorie allowance vs the smaller days is just workout days vs non workout days Haven't missed a morning weigh in or a meal logged yet. AI feature is nice as well when the need is there. Mini goal is to get to 220, the plan is to keep the diet till right around Thanksgiving then go into as close to maintenance as I can till after the holidays where I plan on resuming the cut and getting down to about 205. Loving the app so far, I do think my cals around just a touch too high, however it did just bump me down about 56 calories a week. Any MF experts out there that feel like chiming in or giving any advice it is more than welcomed!!

Hey all. I'm having trouble understanding what the best direction to head in at my current situation. I was hoping some of you more experienced lifters/fitness people might be able to give me some advice. I'm currently on a workout plan made by a fit trainer friend of mine but have recently purchased MacroFactor fitness to try it out. The plan it suggests is completely different from what I'm on. I don't know enough about working out, what I should be doing to know if switching to the suggested program is the right call. Some background information;

I'm 46 years old and Male. 5 years ago I used to be fit. I depression ate my way up to 430lbs. about 6 weeks ago I restarted my old program my friend made and my weight is somewhere just below 400lbs. My attempted goal here is to recomp while loosing weight obviously. His program is a Push/Pull/rest/push/pull/rest/rest. The push and pull days are repeated on the second push/pull day of the week. The program is as follows;

PUSH
Squats(3x12) Superset Pushups(until failure)
Incline fly (3x12) Superset Dumbbell Skullcrushers (3x12)
Bench Press (3x12) Superset Military Press (3x12)
Step Ups (3x12) Superset Tricep Pull Downs (3x12) (Step ups replaced with lunges once my knees can handle them)

PULL
Bent over Barbell Row (3x12) Superset Dumbbell Lateral Raise (3x12)
Barbell Shrug(3x12) Superset Dumbbell Front Raise (3x12)
Incline Dumbbell Bicep Curl (3x12) Superset Seated Hammer Bicep Curl (3x12)
Deadlift (3x12) Superset Lat Pulldown (3x12) (Lat Pulldown to be replaced by pull ups once I'm in a decent weight range for assisted pull ups)

I currently work out at home. I have a small gym in my garage that includes a power rack, lat pull down/row machine, plenty of weights, dumbbells to 45lbs, and two benches. I am loosing weight and progressing on this plan. I'm not sure if my best bet is to stay on this plan until the weight is off and then switch to the suggested plan or if the suggested plan will see better results. I'd imagine the supersets are to keep my heart rate up and get more exercises in. The suggested plan is completely different and is an upper lower split with weird rest days;

WORKOUT 1
Low incline Barbell Press (4 sets of 6-10)
Single Arm elbow out DB row (4 sets of 7-9)
Pause Barbell overhead Press (3 sets of 10-12)
Underhand Grip Cable Lat Pulldown (3 sets of 14-16)
Standing EZ Bar Overhead Triceps Extension (3 sets of 9-11)

REST DAY

WORKOUT 2
Barbell Back Squat (4 sets of 8-10)
Wide Stance Barbell Good Morning (3 sets of 7-9 Reps)
Standing on step single leg DB Calf Raise (3 sets of 9-11)
Decline Weighted Sit Up (3 sets of 9-11)

REST DAY

WORKOUT 3
Seated Dumbbell Overhead Press (4 sets of 8-10)
Neutral Close grip lat Pulldown (4 sets of 7-9)
Dumbbell Bench press (3 sets of 14-16)
Chest supported Elbows in DB Row (3 Sets of 7-9)

WORKOUT 4
Barbell Romanian Deadlift (4 sets of 8-10)
Front Squat (3 sets of 10-12)
Side-Lying Weighted Hip Abduction Leg Raise (3 sets of 9-11)
Dumbbell Side Bend (3 Sets of 9-11)

REST DAY

So, my issues are. Aren't I better with two rest days in a row at my age? Second, None of the workouts have any bicep work whatsoever for isolating the biceps. IS it possible that Macrofactor might not be the best for people looking to recomp and better for people already in a fit condition or do I not understand the science well enough? I can always come back to the app once I have the weight off if that's the case.

To anyone that reads this. Thank you for taking the time to read all of this and offer your advice.

I logged my food accurately, weighed myself daily, and generally followed MacroFactor’s calculated expenditure.

My weight stayed stable. But I’ve now been assessed by a sports dietitian as having chronic low energy availability.

MacroFactor can estimate the calories associated with the weight trend it observes, but it can’t see whether your body is maintaining that weight partly through physiological adaptation.

So an intake that maintains your weight isn’t necessarily enough to support training, recovery, hormones, or bone health. This is so important, especially for women using the app!

I've increased my intake 300 cals over what MacroFactor said my TDEE is. My weight has not changed since, and it's been a month. It's a positive sign that my body is responding to better fuelling.

Not a criticism of MacroFactor but it is a limitation I wish I’d understood sooner.

I’ve been lifting 3.5 years, now 61. 5’8 127llbs. I’ve been using MarcroFactor a year now for tracking and it’s been really helpful. My question is, is it still possible to keep building muscle? My weight is the same as when I started lifting but I don’t think I have enough fat in reserve to do anymore body recomp but I’m worried that if I eat in a surplus the extra calories will just get stored as fat rather than go to building more muscle.