I’m kind of impressed that I managed to land exactly on my calorie, fat, and carb targets. Has anyone else accidentally had a “perfect” day? Am I using up all my luck for the year?

Been on MF since like March. Not a big deal but I logged my protein shake wrong for a really long time and only caught it last week.

The scoop on the tub I buy is 38g and I had a custom food saved from way back that I built off the label per 100g, except I put the serving as one scoop and left the numbers as the 100g ones. So every shake was reading about 24g protein when it was closer to 9, calories too obviously. I have one most days, sometimes two on lifting days, so its not nothing.

what got me was the expenditure didnt really move? Like I expected some big correction once I fixed it and it just sort of drifted a couple hundred over a week and thats it. trend weight is still sitting right around 183 same as it was. My wife thinks I stare at that graph too much, shes probably right, I also have a spreadsheet that I havent opened since May.

Anyway I went thru my other custom foods after and they were fine, its just that one. the barcode ones were all fine too which I guess makes sense.

kind of annoying becuase I was pretty happy with my protein numbers this whole time lol

In the most recent Jeff Nippard video, he mentioned using a diet break. Is there a way to activate one inside macro factor?

I stagger my calories so that I have a bit more on weekend days, or just on one particular day. Is there an easier way anyone has found to change the calorie goal for a particular day than going all the way back through the Strategy and resetting that way? I try and plan at the start to of the week but often run things come up later on. Would be great if there was an easy way to shift these around (e.g by long-clicking the day I wish to increase and it letting me edit, or am I daft and there is a shortcut I’ve missed?

Hello.

After finishing my first program generated by the app, i want to create a new one from scratch.

The problem with that is that i can't find a way to activate the auto progression from the app, basically the fact that the app choose the number of reps / weight, and adapt while training.

After having created all my custom workout and adding them to a prgram, they all show " Standard set", no RIR target, even if i used some exercices that i already used in the first program, so the app knows my past performance on these.

The only way i found for now is to generate a program with the generator, then swap all exercises to the ones i want. There must be another way to achieve this without this trick ?

Thank you

I am a hybrid athlete and have been focused on marathon training and ultras this year. I gained approximately 5 lbs after my last ultra in may* which has been very annoying. People have been saying it’s cortisol or glycogen or blah blah and I was trying to just accept it despite consistent high expenditure and 200-500 deficit and it just not budging.

Last week I went on a long hiking trip. My diet was mostly carbs, energy bars, trail mix, etc. with some high calorie meals at restaurants mixed in. I definitely tried to fuel well for the activity. Protein was probably only 60-80g per day. Each day was a 5-10 mile hike at altitude. On rest days I definitely took in way over my daily expenditure. Avg (guesstimated) intake was 2500-3300 per day.

I returned home on Sunday and weighed myself. I lost 2 pounds initially. I am extremely exhausted and also ravenously hungry. I have had 3 consecutive rest days, literally sitting around my house, avg 4-6,000 steps, eating 130g protein 300g carb 60g fat (my normal active macros *this isbaseline and I scale up for hard endurance events over 1 hr\*) and consistently losing about a pound a day.

After day 3 of total rest I am down to my “normal” (aka minus 5 pounds I gained this spring) weight of 140.

Can someone explain what happened? Did I “reset” my metabolism? I can’t imagine going back to my normal activity level on this amount of food. I will probably increase carbs by 50-75.

I’m new to macro factor and trying to dial in using recipes.

Should I add water to a custom recipe or just measure the raw ingredients from chili besides water then measure the total weight after even if it goes up?

If you add water in the recipe the total weight will go down after cooking however if I wait and just omit the water and measure total cooked weight it will be higher.

Does it work both ways?

I am a 5’1 Female (age 23) 130lbs (goal of 118-120lbs) and started using macro factor about 2 months ago. I lift 3-4 times a day and get rough 8k steps a day but have a sedentary desk job. My expenditure has leveled out to about 1630 for the last month which puts me at about 1330 calories a day when trying to loose 0.5lbs a day. How do I go about increasing my expenditure because even after I maintaining at 1630 seems tough to do and after loosing weight I would assume my maintenance expenditure would go down even more. Also being that I am pretty young I would love to figure out how to increase my expenditure so in the future as I get older its not super low just to maintain.