What are expenditure modifiers?
The MacroFactor expenditure algorithm does a great job of estimating your Caloric needs based on your weight and nutrition data. However, changing your goal or activity levels may increase or decrease your energy expenditure sooner than those changes “show up on the scale.” The expenditure modifiers allow the algorithm to make predictive updates when your goals or activity levels change. If you’re interested, you can read more about these modifiers here.
What is the impact of enabling the expenditure modifiers?
If you enable “Step-Informed Updates,” your expenditure (and, consequently, your recommended energy intake) will increase a bit faster when your step counts are trending up, and decrease a bit faster when your step counts are trending down.
If you enable “Predictive Goal Adjustment,” your expenditure will increase more quickly during the first two weeks after you adjust or change your goal in the direction of losing weight more slowly or gaining weight more quickly (this includes reducing your target rate of weight loss, increasing your target rate of weight gain, changing your goal from cutting to maintaining, changing your goal from maintaining to bulking, or changing your goal from cutting or bulking). Conversely, your expenditure will decrease more quickly during the first two weeks after you adjust or change your goal in the direction of losing weight more quickly or gaining weight more slowly.
Do the modifiers improve nutrition recommendations?
Yes. Enabling both modifiers makes the algorithm about 6-8% more accurate month-to-month, and about 20% more accurate over longer time scales.
To enable expenditure modifiers:
Tap “More”
Tap “Expenditure” (under Feature Settings)
At the bottom of this page, you can toggle either or both of these modifiers
