r/MacroFactor

Just came across this. Anybody used v2?

Spent half the day’s calories at a Korean/french pastry shop eating to my heart’s desire. Ended the day with a burger, sweet potatoes and a ninja creami. Resting energy at 1,900 calories and active energy at 1,600 calories. Great cardio session this morning, walked and biked everywhere.

The numbers look crazy but I got not a single regret right now. Still love tracking on days like these.

I just noticed this feature today. You can use AI to scan a weight stack and it will auto populate into your exercise. This should help folks that have wonky weights stacks. A single step instead of creating separate ranges. Very cool!

To be fair … I’m not good at noticing things. So maybe it’s been around for a while.

hello, im 18m, 192cm/6'3 100kg/220lbs (started at 118kg/260lbs - started using MF at 109.5kg/241lbs) , and i just reached my first weightloss goal with macrofactor!! during the last 63 days i lost 9.5kg and im so proud of myself and i have so much drive to continue on. i want to thank the amazing people behind this app for creating such an epic tool and Jeff Nippard for his content that genuinely saved my life.

One of the most rewarding things about my weight loss journey is when I can buy clothes in a smaller size. Not that long ago, I was nearly 110 lbs heavier and wearing mostly 3XL (even a few 4XL shirts).

Today, for the first time since college (maybe even high school), I wore size L!

I still struggle with body image issues, so the shirt shows more than I’d prefer. But the shorts are bang on for size, and both are plenty comfortable.

I’ve been cutting for roughly 6 months. At this point I’m just exhausted.

At 5’10, 40 years old I believe I maintained a decent amount of muscle. I don’t know whether to keep going or start to maintain for the rest of the year. My original goal was about 180 but as definition came clearer I moved the target to 175. With summer almost over by the time I hit 175 it’ll be time for light hoodies and long sleeve shirts.

Part of me believes to move to maintenance and recomp what’s there, starting again in January if I wanted to get lower. The other part says keep going and hit the 175. I don’t want to start hearing the “you’re too skinny” comments but I never wanted to be too big.

What would you do?

​2 years, a lot of sweat, and even more consistency. It didn't happen overnight, but looking back at where I started makes every early morning worth it.

Hey everyone,
I posted something similar earlier, but it got removed because I didn’t include a photo. I wanted to make a new post with more context and include a picture this time, because I think it’s much easier to judge the situation visually rather than just from numbers.

For context, I’m around 170 cm, currently about 66 kg, and I’ve been cutting for roughly 5–6 months. My highest bodyweight during my bulk was around 80 kg, so I’ve already brought my weight down quite a lot.

I’ve been training for a long time, so I’m not coming from a beginner or zero-muscle starting point. I do think I have a solid base, and I know I’m already fairly lean and in decent shape. My abs are visible, I have definition, and overall I’m happy with the progress.

But I’m trying to reach that extra level of leanness. Not necessarily stage-lean or extreme bodybuilding condition, but I would like to get as defined as realistically possible at least once. I feel like I’m close, but not quite at the point I had in mind when I started this cut.

The main issue is that MacroFactor currently has me at around 1200 kcal, which feels extremely low for my height, weight, and training background. I’m keeping protein high, but my carbs are very low most days, and I definitely feel flat and depleted. More importantly, I also think I look much flatter and more depleted than I would with more food/carbs in me.

I don’t really feel full in the gym or in my physique most of the time. My muscles don’t have that pumped/full look, and I feel like my physique can look smaller or less impressive because of how depleted I am. When I do eat more carbs, I notice I fill out pretty quickly and look noticeably better, which makes me wonder how much of what I’m seeing is actual fat left versus just low glycogen, low carbs, and being very depleted from dieting for so long.

At the same time, I feel like there may still be 1–3 kg left to lose if I really want that final sharper look. That’s what makes this difficult. Part of me thinks I should keep pushing and finish the job, because I’ve already spent months dealing with hunger, low energy, low carbs, and sometimes being in a worse mood. I don’t want to stop right before reaching the look I wanted.
But another part of me wonders if I’m now at the point where more dieting might just make me look smaller, flatter, and worse overall, even if the scale keeps going down. I’m trying to figure out whether I’m genuinely still holding enough fat to justify pushing further, or whether I’m just too depleted to see my physique accurately right now.

So I’m trying to decide between:

Keep cutting for a few more weeks and try to get that final bit of definition.

Slow the cut down / reduce the target rate of loss in MacroFactor because 1200 kcal feels too aggressive.

Take a maintenance break with higher carbs to see how I look when I’m not so depleted.

End the cut and transition into a lean bulk, accepting that I’m already lean enough and might look better with more food, carbs, and fullness.

I’m not asking because I think I have no muscle or because I’m starting from scratch. I know I have a solid base. I’m more trying to figure out whether I’m genuinely still a few kilos away from the look I want, or whether I’m just too flat, depleted, and low-carb right now to judge my physique properly.

For people who have been in this situation near the end of a long cut: would you push for the final bit of leanness, take a diet break, increase carbs for a while, or start building again?

Any advice is appreciated.

4 years lifting. History: 160→134 (first cut) →150 (year-long lean bulk)→ sat at ~140 for 2 years (college, inconsistent eating, no real surplus) → 127 today.

Photos are May 24 (137lb) vs today (127lb). Waist is visibly tighter, but arm/shoulder size looks like I kept the muscle on, plus my strength has stayed the same if not increased!

Now, where MacroFactor fits in: given the photos, is 127lb too low to be second guessing more cutting, or could there realistically still be more fat worth chasing before bulking? And does 2 years of near-flat bodyweight sound like a surplus problem or something else? And since I am light, but have a decent amount of years under my buckle, what should I set my caloric surplus to be on the app? Blunt takes welcome.

EDIT: As of July 3rd, 2026 - I've heard the feedback and will be stopping the cut. Hopefully I can come back here after about a 6mo-1year of slow gaining with hard training to show better results.

23M, 5’5”, 140lbs. I’ve been lifting for ~4yrs or so consistently.

I’ve been cutting for the past 3mo from almost 150lbs, but I’m not sure if I should keep cutting or if I should try to recomp or what. The next 6 weeks, I will have too many family gatherings plus vacation, so I’m accepting that I will not lose any more weight then. But after that, should I keep cutting or recomp? The original goal was 135, thinking I would have visible abs by then, but I’m realizing now I def won’t, but I’m wondering if that could also be because I don’t have a ton of mass in my abs.

I also do have a goal of being able to bench 225 by the end of the year. My PR is 205x5 which I hit back in Feb or Mar, but have since been doing more hypertrophy. I’ve been having shoulder pain on all pressing movements for the past 1.5mo or so as well (any advice on this?) so I want to take it easy for a bit and work on form.

I am also wondering, is there any muscle group I should prioritize for hypertrophy? I feel like I should be focused on shoulders and chest, but am not sure. Unfortunately, I injured my foot running last week, so I’ll have to take a couple (hopefully no more than this) weeks off from squat / deadlift / really anything that requires me to put weight on it, though I do feel like I need to work on my legs a bit.

If it’s helpful, these are my current top sets for more major lifts:
Squat: 265x4
Bench: 175x10 (haven’t done in a month or so because of injury)
RDL: 235x9
Pendulum squat: 80x7
Chin ups: 40x9
OHP: 85x7 (haven’t done in a month)

Btw my current macros (3mo avg) are ~1663cal/day, 162g protein, 147g carbs, 44g fat. The calories would be a bit lower if I didn’t have family outings, normally I eat 1400 SunMtTh and 1550 WFSat. I had started running a couple months ago (whoever had commented on my last post in this sub, shoutout! this has been very helpful) which has increased my TDEE by ~100-150cals so it is at 1870 right now.

Any advice is appreciated!