New and Noteworthy
New article: The Connections Between Sleep, Weight, and Exercise
Sleep plays a key role in both body composition and performance. And slightly pun intended, but its importance is often slept on, despite it being a free and available aid.
In this article, we explore how sleep influences hunger and performance, and how training and nutrition, in turn, impact sleep. If you’re trying to optimize this part of your life, take a moment for this one. You might pick up a helpful tip or two.
What you’ll learn in this article:
- How sleep duration and quality could affect weight regulation or lean mass retention
- The impact of sleep debt on hormones or recovery
- Which types of performances are affected by loss of sleep (skill vs. strength, endurance, etc)
- How exercise and weight loss influence sleep quality and duration
- Practical strategies to improve sleep
To read more, check out the full article.
The Connections Between Sleep, Weight, and Exercise
Case Study: How Ryan Built a Routine and Brought His Family With Him
Ryan, a 35-year-old father of three, knows what it means to put in a day’s hard work. He regularly juggles the demands of three jobs while trying to be present for his wife and kids. That leaves him with very little time to focus on his health or nutrition. Trying to find the balance, Ryan decided to use the 100-Day Challenge and found the structure he’d been missing.
“MacroFactor pulled me out of the quicksand,” he said. “It not only changed me, but the lifestyle of my family of five who follows my example every day.”
Check out this new case study featuring Ryan’s story to see how he achieved his goals.
How Ryan Built a Routine and Brought His Family With Him
Case Study: How Molly Rebuilt Her Relationship With Progress
Molly is a 34-year-old who travels often for work. For years, she battled lifestyle and health problems, and was diagnosed with androgenetic alopecia after slowly losing her hair for years. She had cycled through countless apps, challenges, and restrictive eating plans, and was ready for change. The problem? She still hadn’t found a system that allowed her to make progress without feeling miserable in the process.
“Even when I ate something ‘healthy,’ I felt like I was doing something wrong,” Molly said. “I couldn’t enjoy food at all. I was surviving, but I wasn’t living. And I definitely wasn’t healing.”
Check out this new case study on how Molly changed her story.
How Molly Rebuilt Her Relationship With Progress
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
The Apple Watch app has been in beta testing and is the next feature down the pipeline. We’re looking forward to sharing it with everyone soon.
Next month is MacroFactor’s 4-year anniversary, which means we’ll be sharing our Annual Report. The purpose of the Annual Report is to document the changes and improvements we’ve made in the app and as a business in the last year, as well as to give you a peek behind the curtain at our plans for the future. (Here are our prior reports: 2022, 2023, and 2024.)
In this year’s report, we’ll be sharing an update on MacroFactor Workouts, our new app that is scheduled to be released in January.
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.