New and Noteworthy
New Feature: Log By Macro
With the new Log by Macro feature, you can now specify the Calories or macros you consumed via a food and have MacroFactor calculate the serving size for you.
There are a few use cases for this, but here are the two most popular ones:
Easily determine the exact serving size for the macros you want to hit: Let’s say you have some dietary fat left for the day, and you want to eat enough peanut butter to hit your fat target (or calorie target). You can go to MacroFactor’s food search, find peanut butter, and then choose to enter 200 calories of peanut butter instead of figuring out the serving that corresponds to 200 calories. With this new feature, MacroFactor will estimate the serving you would need to eat to consume 200 calories of any food.
Find Common Food versions of branded products to enhance micronutrient reporting: If you track your micronutrients with MacroFactor, we recommend using Common Foods because they have full micronutrient reporting (brands are not required to report full micronutrients, so that data is missing for most branded foods). So, if you are eating a particular branded food, you may choose to log a common-food equivalent of the branded product instead in order to have complete information in the Nutrient Explorer within MacroFactor.
To see a few use cases in action, check out this quick video Greg Nuckols shared on MacroFactor’s Instagram.
Log by Macro is available from the Food Detail screen. To use this feature, tap the “swap” icon to the left of the Serving Name Toolbar above your keyboard.
New Feature: Goal Celebration
A new goal celebration screen made its way onto the scene! Created by our talented animator, Kirill, You will be able to access this new celebration screen from the Strategy page once your scale weight reaches your target weight, or once your trend weight reaches your target.
New Article: How Much Fat Should I Eat Every Day?
In last month’s MacroFactor Monthly, we shared Leigh Peele’s fantastic primer articles on protein and carbohydrates:
Since then, we’ve rounded out that series with a similar article all about dietary fat.
This article explains the various types of fats — saturated, unsaturated, and trans fats — and their health implications. It also outlines current recommendations, emphasizing the intake of essential fatty acids and the importance of including fat in our daily diet. Lastly, it covers whether eating fat leads to weight gain and ideas for fat sources.
How Much Fat Should I Eat Every Day?
New Article: Protein Quality: Why It Matters and How to Maximize It
Ever wondered if the quality of your protein matters? In this new article by Leigh Peele, we dive into how protein quality is rated and how cooking can affect it. We’ll also look at why some populations, like vegans, might need to pay extra attention to getting a variety of amino acids.
We’ve got practical tips, some interesting cooking facts, and fun protein-quality content for you.
Protein Quality: Why It Matters and How to Maximize It
Success Story: Aaron Rosenberg
Aaron Rosenberg used MacroFactor as his guide for both bulking and cutting.
Aaron said he “lost 25lbs initially, bringing me down to the lowest weight in my adult life. Perhaps more impressively, I turned around and started bulking without feeling like I was undoing all the hard work I had done to get there. Eventually I decided that I would try to have visible abs for the first time in my life, a vain goal but a great motivator! It took about 10 months for the initial cut, initial bulk, and minicut.”
Aaron says his biggest win has been gaining the power to control the direction that this weight goes.
Check out Aaron’s full story on the MacroFactor Instagram post here.
In Case You Missed It
We share a lot of informative content on our Instagram and in our groups on Facebook and Reddit throughout the month.
Here are some of our favorites from the past few weeks, in case you missed them.
What We’re Working On
Last month, we announced that we were working on an updated version of MacroFactor’s expenditure calculation.
We’re still putting the finishing touches on this update, but we are almost ready to begin a beta testing period. In the next few weeks, we’ll share how you can participate in the beta and get early access to Expenditure V3 in our communities on Facebook and Reddit.
As a reminder, Expenditure V3 will allow your expenditure (and, as a result, your program recommendations) to be considerably more stable and tolerant of short-term weight fluctuations, without making it slower to respond to actual energy expenditure changes.
V3 will also be more tolerant of missing data, so your expenditure calculation won’t pause as frequently when you miss days of food logging, and it will be able to start updating sooner after a pause.
To learn more about what we’re working on, check our public roadmap to see our plans for new features and improvements. You can also submit features for consideration and vote on the upcoming features that are the highest priority to you.
