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Dashboard

Get to Know Your Dashboard

Understanding the Widgets at the Top of the Dashboard

Expenditure

Weight Trend

Change Rate

Quick Edit Your Nutrition for a Full Day

Track a Fasting Day

Track Your Period

Log Your Weight

Edit or Delete Past Weight Entries

View Weekly Nutrition Averages

Interpreting the Energy Balance Widget

How to Customize your Dashboard

How to Import your Step Count

Food Logging

How to Log Food in MacroFactor

How to Configure Your Food Logger

How to Log to Any Hour on the Timeline

Log Food to Future Days

Log Food to Previous Days

Multi-Add Foods

Quick-Add Calories and Macros to your Food Log

Log Foods with Describe

Switch Between Consumed and Remaining Views

Favorite Weight and Volume Measurements

Food Logging Style

Food Timeline

How to Configure Your Food Timeline

View Your Micronutrient Intake, and More Detailed Information About Your Macronutrient Intake

Copy and Paste

Move Foods to a Different Time on the Timeline

Delete Foods From Your Timeline

Edit Quantities of Foods You've Already Logged, and View Nutritional Values for Foods on Your Timeline

View Past Days of Eating

How to Show or Hide Food Details

How to Show or Hide Empty Hours

Add Notes to Your Day

Custom Foods and Recipes

Create and Add a Custom Food

Edit a Custom Food

Create and Add a Custom Recipe

Edit a Custom Recipe

Prepare a Recipe

Explode Recipes

Import Recipes from Link

Import Recipes with AI

Duplicate a Custom Food or Recipe

Copy to Custom

Create Recipes from Foods on your Food Timeline

Strategy

Weekly Budget

Program Styles

Set a New Goal

Edit a Goal

Create a New Macro Program

Edit a Macro Program

Change your Check-In Day

Delete a Prior Goal

Balanced Macro Program

High-Carb and Low-Fat Macro Program

Low-Carb and High-Fat Macro Program

Keto Macro Program

Body Metrics and Progress Photos

How to Log Body Measurements

How to Add Progress Photos

Configure Body Metric and Progress Photo Tracking

How to View Body Measurement Progress Over Time

Tips for Taking Good Progress Photos

Tips for Taking Good Body Measurements

How to Create and Share Before-And-After Photos

Other Settings/Miscellaneous

Integrations

Connect Health Connect or Apple Health

Weight or Nutrition Source Priority

Force Data Syncing

Export Your Data

Set a Manual Initial Expenditure Estimate

Change Your Expenditure Start Date

How to Change Your Expenditure Estimate from Dynamic to Static

Opt Into Displaying Calorie and Macro Overages

Disable Alcohol Tracking and Display

Switch Between Dark and Light Mode

Nutrition Fundamentals

What are Calories?

What is total daily energy expenditure (TDEE)?

How many Calories should I eat to reach my weight goal?

What are macronutrients?

How much protein should you eat?

How much dietary fat should you eat?

How many carbohydrates should you eat?

How much fiber should you eat?

How to track alcoholic beverages and sugar alcohols

How much water should you drink?

Nutrient Explorer

Pin Nutrients to the Dashboard

How to View Micronutrient Intake Over Time

How to Log Foods with Complete Micronutrient Information

View Top Food Contributors to Calories, Macros, and Micronutrients for the Day

Learn More about Your Nutrient Timing

What is the Nutrient Completeness Score?

Set Custom Nutrient Goals

View or Edit Your Micronutrient Goal History

What are the Micronutrient Floor, Target, and Ceiling?

Nutrients

Calories

Protein

Dietary Fat

Carbs

Net Carbs

Fiber

Starch

Sugars

Sugars Added

Cysteine

Histidine

Isoleucine

Leucine

Frequently Asked Questions

Where Can I See Water, Net Carbs, Fiber, and Other Micronutrients?

How do I Adjust my Macro Targets?

How Should I Interpret Changes to my Energy Expenditure?

Does MacroFactor use Energy Expenditure Data from my Wearable Activity Tracker?

Why Don't My Macros Add Up to my Total Calories?

Are Default Food Weights for Cooked or Raw Food?

How Robust is the Database Coverage in my Region?

Does MacroFactor Support Refeeds, Diet Breaks, or Carb Cycling?

How Would I Pursue a Reverse Diet in MacroFactor?

Contact and Support

Join our Communities

Email Support

Report a Bug

Request a Feature

View our Public Roadmap

Coaching

Introduction to Check-Ins and Coaching Modules

Coaching Module: Partial Logging

Coaching Module: Weigh-In

Coaching Module: Fasting

Coaching Module: Logging Break

Coaching Module: Program Update

MacroFactor Watch App

How to Log Food in the MacroFactor Watch App

How to Log Weight in the MacroFactor Watch App

How to View Your Trend Weight on the Watch App

Navigating your Food Library on the Watch App

How to Instant Log from Your Food Library on the Watch App

How to Remove a Food Entry from the Timeline on the Watch App

How to Copy and Paste a Food Entry on the Watch App

Changing the Serving Size for a Food Entry on the Watch App

How to View Your Daily Nutrition Overview on the MacroFactor Watch App

Food Search Database

Time Logging Preferences

Delete a Food From Your Hourly Go-Tos

View a Summary of Your Nutrient Intake with the Nutrition Overview

Label Scanner

Plate Banner Builder

Tips for Logging Food More Accurately

What Is Partial Logging?

Log by Calories or Macros

How to Submit New or Updated Foods

Favorite Foods

AI Food Logging

Share Custom Recipes and Custom Foods

Tips For Creating Recipes for Dishes Comprised of Multiple Servings

Save a Meal For Later Use

Does Editing a Recipe or Custom Food Item Affect My Food Log History?

How to Reorder Recipe Ingredients

Vegetarian or Vegans Diets

Intermittent Fasting

Reopen a Previous Goal

Change Your Body Fat Percentage

Change Your Activity Level

Change your Cardio Experience

Change Your Lifting Experience

Expenditure Version

Manage Your Subscription

Change Your Subscription Length

Change Your Email Address on File

Change Your Password

How to Get a Refund

How to Sign Out of the App

How to Permanently Delete Your Account and Data

How to Configure your Shortcuts and Toolbar

Use Long-Press Actions From Your Homescreen

Troubleshoot Internet Connectivity

iPhone Widgets

Android Widgets

Google Fit to Health Connect

How do I change my Expenditure Version?

Expenditure Modifiers

How MacroFactor Subscriptions and Bundles Work

GrapheneOS

What about time-restricted feeding and intermittent fasting?

Are processed foods bad?

What about vegan or other vegetarian diets?

What about the carnivore and paleo diets?

Should I count macros and Calories from supplements?

What about low-Calorie sweeteners?

Lysine

Methionine

Phenylalanine

Threonine

Tryptophan

Tyrosine

Valine

Monounsaturated Fat

Polyunsaturated Fat

Omega-3 Fats

Omega-3 ALA

Omega-3 EPA

Omega-3 DHA

Omega-6 Fats

Saturated Fats

Trans Fats

Vitamin A (Retinol)

Vitamin B1 (Thiamin)

Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin)

Vitamin B3 (Niacin)

Vitamin B5 (Pantothenic Acid)

Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine)

Vitamin B12 (Cobalamin)

Folate (Vitamin B9)

Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid)

Vitamin D (Calciferol)

Vitamin E (Tocopherol)

Vitamin K (Phylloquinone and Menaquinone)

Calcium

Copper

Iron

Manganese

Magnesium

Phosphorus

Potassium

Selenium

Sodium

Zinc

Dietary Cholesterol

Caffeine

Alcohol

Water

Choline

What Are the Different Program Options in Coached Mode?

How Does Dynamic Maintenance Work in MacroFactor?

How Do MacroFactor's Coaching Algorithms Deal with Partially Logged Days?

How do I Reset my Data?

Is My Data Lost?

Why Doesn’t MacroFactor have a Lifetime Subscription Tier with a One-Time Payment?

Does MacroFactor have an Offline Mode?

Where is my Nutrition Synced?

Why is my Profile Email Private Relay?

How to Adjust Calorie Targets to Account for Overages, or to Roll Over Unused Calories

How Frequently do I Need to Log my Weight For the Expenditure Algorithm and Weekly Coaching Updates?

How Frequently do I Need to Log my Nutrition For the Expenditure Algorithm and Weekly Coaching Updates?

Why is my Expenditure in MacroFactor Different From the Output of a TDEE Calculator?

Do I Need to Log Everything I Eat and Drink to Have an Accurate Expenditure and Use MacroFactor's Coaching Features?

What Should I Do When I Can't Accurately Log a Meal?

How Accurately Do I Need To Log My Food?

What Should I Do If I’m Pursuing a Goal With a Strict Timeline?

How Should I Use MacroFactor When I'm Sick?

Does My Data Reset if I Change Goals or Create a New Program?

Why Does my New Program Have Slightly Different Calorie and Macronutrient Targets Than My Old Program, Even Though I Didn't Change my Goal?

What Should I Do if My Initial Expenditure or Recommended Energy Intake Seems Too High or Too Low?

Will Logging Food to a Previous Day Affect my Expenditure and Coaching Recommendations?

Will Logging Food to a Future Day Affect my Expenditure and Coaching Recommendations?

Should I Still Log My Weight if I Feel Like I'm Bloated, Constipated, or Retaining Water?

What Should I Do If My Activity Levels Change Drastically?

How do MacroFactor's Algorithms Respond to Body Recomposition?

If You Have an Unusual Day of Eating, Is It Better to Log It, or Leave the Day Blank?

How Does MacroFactor Make Adjustments For a Weight Gain or Weight Loss Goal?

What are the Blue "Other" Calories on My Nutrition Page?

I've Started Exercising More. Why Isn't My Expenditure Increasing?

Switch Between Consumed and Remaining Views on the MacroFactor Watch App

Add a Note to Your Day on the Watch App

How to Force Data Sync the Watch App

Configuring Complications for the Watch App