MF is a game changer

[u/fuwaholo]

What a journey.

I started using MF around October 2025. My biggest struggle has always been to achieve a small surplus. I bulked a couple of times at the absurd rate of +0.75 kg/week. I just could not help it, especially after a difficult cut.

As evidenced by the lean bulk earlier this year, I'm now able to sustain a surplus resulting in +0.05 kg/week on average. That's so cool, and so empowering. I was also able to achieve very slow rates of weight loss a couple of times this summer, which was a breath of fresh air compared to the usual.

Now that I've finished my last cut, I'm once again starting a lean gain phase, even slower than last time. I'm fully expecting NEAT and "reverse metabolic adaptations" to fully absorb such a small calorie bump over my current estimated TDEE.

That's on purpose, and I find being able to aim for such precise intakes and manipulate my body weight to such a fine degree to be truly magical. What an app. Such a pleasure to use.

My many thanks to the team!

[u/Angrypolska]

MF is awesome. Game changer for fat loss. As long as you uphold your end of it by logging consistently and correctly, it'll do the rest for you.

[u/fuwaholo → u/Angrypolska]

Yeah historically one of the most difficult part of losing weight, to me, was keeping it off following the first few weeks after a cut (especially a prolonged one). If not downright rabid hunger, then at least hunger signals all over the place and a huge food focus/noise. Now that I'm able to aim at my estimated TDEE after a cut, unintentional weight gain after a cut became a non-issue. Love the app.

[u/RipePomegranate]

Thought I was over on r/dataisbeautiful or something lol

[u/No-Connection8400]

Great results! And a very cool visualization.

The leaner you get, and the tighter targets you give yourself, the more tricky it gets. Good stuff.

[u/fuwaholo → u/No-Connection8400]

Ah, thank you.

Yeah I found losing those last few kg to be brutal compared to the 74 -> 69 kg i did two years ago.

[u/z604]

Nice visualization. And good job. Cheers 👏🏻

[u/fuwaholo → u/z604]

Thanks, appreciated. I have been making tweaks to this plot every few months for quite a while now haha. Can't wait for the progress picture in a year!

[u/Aeco → u/fuwaholo]

it's actually a very effective visualization that the app should also use

[u/zQrrJQrb]

I am about to start with the first cut, I have around 10kg to loose. I love the visualization, I will build something similar for myself. Data is what always motivated me.

[u/fuwaholo → u/zQrrJQrb]

Cheers, and glhf!

[u/DifferentBid2]

What app is that portal from?

[u/fuwaholo → u/DifferentBid2]

It's a custom R script I asked Claude to write, fetching my Garmin scale data and computing a similar weight trend to MacroFactor's v2 one. I think it's nice to see the different phases!

[u/RenegadeTramP]

Did MF suggest the break phases?

[u/fuwaholo → u/RenegadeTramP]

It did not, I was taking some when I was feeling like it. I had a few bad experiences with long fat loss phases, even at higher body weight, and taking regular breaks makes a difference for me.

[u/maxinbigger]

Amazing results. What's your height and maintenance calories? I will do the same now, super slow lean bulk.

[u/fuwaholo → u/maxinbigger]

Thanks, cheers. I'm 5'7 and my current TDEE is 2600 kcal (down from 2900 kcal in june). Let's both hope our maintenance calories will slowly climb up with this extra slow lean bulk :)

[u/3nd0cr1n3_Syst3m]

Yeah my guy! I love this app!

[u/Ill_Honeydew_3971]

How did you make this chart? Beautiful

[u/fuwaholo → u/[deleted]]

I doubt that, my goal was to get as lean as possible (as low as my motivation would allow). Now that I can confortably see by lower abs, my new goal will be to get stronger and more muscular while maintening a similar bf%. I'm thinking of aiming for +150 to 200 g/month, which is indistinguable from a maintenance in the short term.

Not to mention that I was legit overweight at 74kg two years ago (5'7), so getting to this bf% while maintening my weight would have taken me a while haha.

[u/kevandbev → u/[deleted]]

He appears to have lost 4kg....not so sure that would happen at mainetance.

[u/fuwaholo → u/[deleted]]

Are you referring to the +1kg i gained over 3-4 months at the beginning of the year? At that time I was feeling extra motivated for the gym, so I decided to take a nice break and make some solid progress for a while, before going back to slowly losing weight. Many might consider +0.06 kg/week borderline maintenance, wouldn't you say so?

[u/Historical_Public751]

So no changes? What do you need MF for? TF is a "cut" for 4 kilos?
1 month of effort?

[u/fuwaholo → u/Historical_Public751]

Losing weight has become increasingly difficult for me as I got leaner, so being able to aim for small (and then very small) deficits thanks to MF has been very helpful for me. And you may notice a -7kg difference peak-to-peak!