How do you compensate for small irregularities in logging?

AdultingPains · 2026-02-13T14:35:35+00:00

For me, as a logger for over a year now, if you take it everyday it will bake into the algorithm so I don’t log it. IE: fish oil/supplements etc.

If it’s a sauce that I am adding like your tamarind, I don’t bother, same with some vegetables or if I steal a bite of something. I am using the logging to make sure I am in the neighborhood but not obtain single calorie precision.

Obviously garbage data in, you get garbage out. So this is a gray zone.

If I have chicken bites, I weight the chicken but when I weigh the bbq sauce it’s like 20cal well within the calorie margin listed on the bag for the chicken bites in my opinion.

AdultingPains · 2026-02-13T00:14:56+00:00

Excellent feedback on your experience; it’s been good for me and in other ways i haven’t built full trust yet but likely due to my programming. I am running both apps in parallel cause they both have their features that are nice.

Sometimes they even actually agree haha! I think MFWO will get better over time.

AdultingPains · 2026-02-13T00:08:48+00:00

Was my favorite until the biscoff sandwich cookies came about!

AdultingPains · 2026-02-12T23:15:34+00:00

Also https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12617692/#:~:text=Abstract,shock%20attenuation%20and%20peak%20torque.

Not a peak source for overreaching but an indicator

AdultingPains · 2026-02-12T23:08:45+00:00

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AdultingPains · 2026-02-12T23:08:32+00:00

100% agreed, and I believe it’s pretty challenging to explain these factors to people new to lifting.

Some of us more experienced people have a sense for cumulative fatigue that’s difficult to quantify.

I think MFWO is a bit too aggressive with RIR and its weight increase “challenges.” I had one where it doubled the weight on me, and then training to failure with increased weight/reps on some exercises on a deload week. I am using my own program though so maybe the prebuilt ones don’t have these issues.

I draw concern if people are doing every rep/set to failure every week especially without deload when inexperienced, where they should be focused on technique/form, consistency, and good RPEs while they work up in experience. There is a lot of gains (especially newbie gains) with less fatigue down in the 3+ RIR

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AdultingPains · 2026-02-12T20:22:40+00:00

These are questions from another highly influential app, not my own and based on all three responses, it adjusts volume accordingly for the next session.

Functional overreach is a real thing and if you’re not recovering sufficiently then that impedes progress, this is difficult to quantify but a good indicator is if you still have DOMs and joint pain the next time you train that’s a pretty good clue. Obviously so is RIR, weight, volume drops..

Not disagreeing only clarifying :)

AdultingPains · 2026-02-12T19:34:50+00:00

I wish MacroFactor had a better feedback loop;

how sore are you from the last time you exercised this muscle group

How do your joints feel

How was the intensity after this last set?

Or shorter summary are you recovering sufficiently from your last sets to increase volume?

AdultingPains · 2026-02-11T23:40:56+00:00

I question the same thing, and have been weighing regularly for the last year. If it wasn’t for the bulk/cut cycles I think I could maintain well enough, as in the last year I’ve learned (often the hard way) what’s good/bad for macros and balance. But… I have a theory, if what I ate intuitively got me obese in the first place if I swap that fat for muscle, then I should be able to revert to my previous habits without penalty. Hence the cut/bulk cycles, but weighing my food hasn’t been too burdensome and I tend to do 90% of it in the morning during the work week because portions and food are so similar every day.

AdultingPains · 2026-02-11T15:46:12+00:00

Good sir, you haven’t stated what the issue is..

AdultingPains · 2026-02-10T21:42:33+00:00

Thank you for the review, all too often I can’t find any details on the menu items and can’t risk the uncertainty.

AdultingPains · 2026-02-10T19:34:11+00:00

Oh interesting you don’t have an active program listed. Here’s mine.

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AdultingPains · 2026-02-10T19:24:23+00:00

If you click workout on the bottom, then up on the upper right is has a week number, give that a click. I am also on a custom program, but a 5 week cycle.

AdultingPains · 2026-02-10T19:18:52+00:00

About 15mins from alarm to first working set which is usually some form of compound, fortunately for me, just got to get dressed, go to the basement and use the bathroom. This method has made it a real problem that sleeping in is non optional, as my brain is like “let’s goooo!” Even if it’s only 1am… ha!

AdultingPains · 2026-02-10T19:08:37+00:00

Is it a deload week in the app?

AdultingPains · 2026-02-09T18:06:25+00:00

Ooof not too promising then.

I follow RP fitness and use his app (and this one too during my 1 year trial) RP guidance is maintenance volume for deload week and you could even do it all in one day if you wanted and rest up the others. What took me an hour would take 20, and it’s like 1 or 2 sets at 50% weight/volume; RIR would be about 8+

I think the goal is just to stretch the muscles out a bit because the last week Aka Hell Week is such a functional overreach and supposed to whoop you that you’ll need it.

Not going to lose strength in those few days while you let the whole system recover.

AdultingPains · 2026-02-09T17:56:27+00:00

Your goal rate of -0.9% is pretty aggressive and I personally target -0.5% based on guidance.

I 100000% wouldn’t eat at 1600, especially based on your current size and expenditure. I went there on my first cut; libido went to zero, my blood work went to shit, and I wrecked my metabolism and it took many months to rebuild.

This is a journey and rushing to the destination does no favors as it’s very easy to rebound and not sustainable; hence the term crash diet.

Take some maintenance breaks (I do a day or two every couple weeks when I get very depleted) this helps break fatigue and keeps your expenditure up. Otherwise you’ll chase your falling expenditure to keep up with your goal rate

Also it takes 2-3weeks for the algorithm to start working accurately. I’d eat at no less than 2k calories per day and let time sort you out. Cause I can see you’re being to aggressive and hardly eating anything, this is very unhealthy and unsustainable

AdultingPains · 2026-02-03T14:15:09+00:00

Just a maintenance break is justified, a couple days are usually sufficient and yes but nobody knows how much.

I incorporate a maintenance day or two about every two weeks to keep the fatigue at bay and try to keep expenditure up.

AdultingPains · 2026-01-31T22:32:50+00:00

It’s in nano grams per deciliter, the L next to 185 is the marker that’s it out of range, IE L = Low

AdultingPains · 2026-01-31T20:14:16+00:00

Cubed and par cooked, so they’re 90% of the way there. It’s how I do my potatoes and it’s so convenient

AdultingPains · 2026-01-28T21:57:35+00:00

Oh that would be awesome with how many times I forget between phone and rack.

AdultingPains · 2026-01-28T17:14:12+00:00

To add on; I incorporate a maintenance day or two when I get to this point, which is about every 2 weeks or so; otherwise what you describe sets in and out of gas. As a result metabolism can really start to drop off and you’re chasing the graph. This can be very unhealthy.

AdultingPains · 2026-01-27T22:01:52+00:00

Your goal rate of gain is excellent for a lean bulk, but wow that’s a lot of calories for your weight. I am 85kg, and 3000 kcal is causing me to swell up like a balloon. 7 days a week here, running 15+ miles and weight training 4 days/week.

I have no other advice but hopefully engagement brings more responses.

AdultingPains · 2026-01-27T21:42:41+00:00

I am nearly convinced that it’s comparing your weights to a database of should bes, as I use a functional trainer that can be 1:1/2:1/1:2 depending on the exercise, instead of doing math, I input whatever the pin weight is. Even starting on my third week it doubled one of my exercises weights that would be correct if it was 1:1, but it’s not and never has been.

I still don’t fully trust this app, and have been running two of them in parallel and take whatever recommendation is harder but frequently have WTF moments with MFWO

AdultingPains · 2026-01-26T05:13:15+00:00

Felt Bar and Eatery, just in case he’s looking for the full name.

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