New and Noteworthy
New feature: Favorite foods
Earlier this month, MacroFactor launched its new Favorites feature.
It’s a convenient way to save and organize your staples, complete with your preferred serving sizes.
To favorite any food, simply find it using search and tap the heart icon on its Food Detail page. The next time you need to log that item, it will be ready to go in your Favorites Bar—with the exact serving size you chose alongside it. No more fiddling with portion sizes each time. Your favorite foods remember how you like them.
Heart Your Favorites: Find your favorite food in Search, and then tap the ❤️ icon on the Food Detail page to favorite it. Your chosen serving size is saved with it.
Multiple Presets: Need different sizes? No problem. Favorite the same food multiple times with different quantities (e.g., 16oz latte in the AM, 12oz in the PM).
Quick Access: Your Favorites will appear in a bar above your smart Go-To Picks and Latest foods in Search.
Reorder with Ease: Customize your Favorites Bar by heading to Library → Favorites and using the Reorder icon.
Coming soon: Favorites will also be part of your Food Logging Shortcuts in a future update.
Read more about the new Favorite Foods feature here.
More in-app enhancements
The Favorite Foods update also came with several other design and interface enhancements.
Comfort Food Tiles: There’s a new “Comfort” tile option for the food tiles in your log, featuring larger fonts, more spacious design, and a three-line layout for easier reading.
Plate Banner: The plate banner now automatically adapts to your screen size to fit the most important information—no more manual tweaking needed.
Expandable Recipes: You can now expand recipes in your plate without exploding them. As you adjust ingredients in the recipe, the recipe’s calories and macros will change as well. On the flipside, as you adjust the quantity of the recipe, the quantity of the ingredients will also adjust to match.
New Articles
We also published several new articles on macrofactorapp.com this month.
Tips for Hitting Body Comp Goals When You Have a Bad Schedule
It can be frustrating when you’re working hard toward body composition goals and come up against an unforgiving schedule. For many, the choice is between sticking to their program or waiting for better times. While taking a step back is the right choice for some, others would rather find ways to make it work.
In this article, we will dive into practical tips for progressing with your body composition goals, even when your schedule isn’t on your side. Hopefully, you’ll find a strategy or two that clicks, and progress will start to feel within reach again.
Tips for Hitting Body Comp Goals When You Have a Bad Schedule
How Sugar Substitutes Can Help With Weight Loss
As overall food consumption has increased, so has a need to satisfy our desire for sweetness without calories — hence the increasing use of sugar substitutes.
In this article, we cover whether using sugar substitutes for weight loss is helpful and what to look out for when utilizing them as part of weight management.
How Sugar Substitutes Can Help With Weight Loss
Understanding Nutrition Data: Why It’s Not Perfect, But Still Useful
Questions about nutrition accuracy, food labels, and how to actually estimate food energy come up a lot for people trying to track and log their intake. Some common ones include:
- Are nutrition labels allowed to show zero Calories when Calories are present?
- Why do the same items have different nutrition data in different databases?
- Does cooking change Calorie counts?
- If we can’t accurately count Calories, should we bother trying?
While precise Calorie counts might seem ideal, the real question is: How much does this actually impact results?
In this article, we will explain how to determine nutrition data, the variables that affect its accuracy, and why most of the time, the biggest thing to worry about is your consistency.
Understanding Nutrition Data: Why It’s Not Perfect, But Still Useful
Success Story: Jace Mott
Jace Mott is a 24-year-old who was starting a family and decided it was time to turn his health around.
“My goals when I first started using the app were to lose some fat and understand how to gain muscle with proper nutrition. Also to actually track my food I was eating and not just guessing how many calories/ macros I was at for the day.”
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
We are currently rolling out the Open Beta version of our new MacroFactor AI feature.
When you get the new release, you will be able to test drive the MacroFactor AI and log your foods simply by snapping a photo.
MacroFactor AI is in Open Beta and will remain in Beta while we improve its accuracy and refine related workflows. Once the Beta release is fully rolled out, we will make a separate announcement with details about the new features, pro tips, and practical examples.
Learn more about MacroFactor AI and discuss the Beta with other users in this Reddit thread.
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.