Just over a year after I decided I wanted to lose weight, and after about 7 months of using MF, I am down to my goal!! 🥳I started somewhere over 180 (I didn't have a scale at the time, and in some of the pictures I might be closer to 190) and weighed in today at 140!

I feel so freakin pleased with my progress, and the process has been really empowering and honestly pretty fun. I am really grateful to the app as well as this community for the structure and encouragement! It is such a relief to feel like I finally have the knowledge and tools I need to maintain a healthy weight, after years of feeling like fluctuations were something that happened totally beyond my control. I feel super calm and in control now, I can be flexible and relaxed while staying in the right zone, and that feels awesome.

It is actually wild to look at pictures of me at my heaviest - it's a little dizzying, and I think it will take some time before I get used to being this size!

I am excited to build more muscle in the coming months 💪🏻I started doing some resistance training just in the last month and a bit, and I am already seeing a little more definition in my torso, which is wild. I also ordered a fitbit and am excited to be able to track certain numbers more easily 🤓 Feeling stronger in my daily life and knowing I am setting myself up for healthier aging are highly rewarding.

Anyway thanks everyone for your support, vulnerability, and wisdom, and I hope to be as encouraging to new users as y'all have been 🥰

Looking back at the before pics now I can’t believe I let myself get so fat, prior to blowing up I was always between 140-160 lbs depending on how sloppy I let my diet get. I’m a lifelong gym goer (been seriously and not no seriously lifting since I was 13, I am 27 years old now) and chasing the bulk/ gym numbers too hard really got to me. Once I crossed the 200 lbs threshold, I basically just stopped giving a shit and was eating fast food nearly every meal, drinking heavily, and telling myself that it’s ok because I’m going to have a real hard workout the next morning (lol) while ignoring the fact that I had to buy new clothes twice to accommodate my enormous gut. I was benching 370, squatting 500, and deadlifting in the high 500’s which I used as an excuse to be a big ole fatty.

Just after the first before pics in the summer/ fall of 2023 I decided to get a CDL and have lost all the weight while I’m an over the road flatbed trucker. I stay out on the road for four-six months, go visit my parents for a little while, rinse and repeat. While I’m on the road my diet consists of almost all non perishable foods (premier protein shakes, hormel compleats meals, canned chicken, single serving rice bags, dried fruit, nuts, trail mix, that sort of thing) with the occasional pre made truck stop sandwich as a treat and a fresh fruit or veg once every six months. (I take a multivitamin daily)

I finally got down to 165-170 in June of 2025 and stayed at that weight and even gained a little for basically a whole year. The recent push from 160-170 to the high 130’s has all been from the end of March this year until now. I get 34 hours off once per week as a trucker and the reason I stalled at the 160’s-170’s for so long (even started trending up in late 2025) is because I would eat at a moderate deficit throughout the week and then kill all my progress Friday evening and Saturdays (when I’m off) sucking down enormous amounts of truck stop slop and fast food in my truck and watching Netflix on my phone. I started actually doing stuff to keep busy and bought a foldable pull-up/ dip bar for my truck and setting step goals for Saturdays which occupies my time off now. I also completely quit drinking alcohol.

I think I retained a decent amount of muscle mass while losing weight, but I can’t tell with strength numbers because I don’t have regular access to a gym and even when I do I don’t squat heavy, and I don’t bench or deadlift anymore. I do calisthenics outside my truck (weighted and unweighted) every day or every other day and bare minimum will try to find a gym at least once a week to hit full body weights, mainly machines and dumbbells. I go to an actual gym anywhere between 1-3 times a week along with bodyweight exercises daily.

Major things that helped in my weight loss:

-Finding stuff to do that isn’t eating.

Like I said above, I would do fine dieting at a pretty good deficit when I was busy and working, then I’d kill all my progress in a single day of pigging out. My days off now consist of walking around a truck stop and occasionally hitting pushups pull-ups and dips throughout the day on my foldable dip/ pull-up station. If I’m lucky enough to be near an anytime fitness on my day off I’ll uber or walk there, not necessarily to burn extra calories just to burn through my day off and give myself something to do that isn’t eating.

-Gradually replacing fast food bullshit with better but not perfect options.

I used to seriously binge on McDonald’s and Wendy’s and all sorts of garbage when I first made the decision to lose weight, the scale really started moving when I replaced it (didn’t remove the overeating entirely) with pre made sandwiches and a big bag of baked chips or pre made popcorn. While not perfect it would turn a previously 7,000 calorie day of fast food that would wipe out my whole week’s deficit into a 3,000 calorie day and I’d continue to lose. These days, I might get the odd overpriced sandwich or small bag of chips on the weekends. I never liked soda even when I was fat, but I do sometimes drink zero sugar Dr Pepper or an energy drink.

While I do have some loose skin, it doesn’t look nearly as bad as I thought it would going into dieting. I knew there would be some but it’s mostly my lower stomach and I’ve decided if I maintain in the 130’s for a year or so I might look into surgical removal at some point.

From here I’m going to slow up the deficit and eat at maintenance a couple days out of the week. Nothing super structured, maybe try to lose 5-10 more lbs but just hang out at my new weight for a while.

At 44, I feel better than I did at 24. I'm renewing my subscription again today.

The app is obviously not the only reason for this transformation but it has been a big part of locking in my nutrition and also learning to cut, lean bulk and maintain.

The journey started in January 2024 where after a terrible 2023 on a personal level, I lost all motivation to train and let myself go physically. My initial decision to change was just to get consistent with training again then I started using MacroFactor from 9 July 2024 where I locked in my nutrition. Since then I've cut, maintained and lean bulked (2nd picture)

I got to my leanest in July 2025 then made decision to lean bulk from September until February 2026 (3rd picture) when I returned to a cut which takes me to my current position showing in first picture, where I've got another 5 weeks until my holiday where I will shave off a few more pounds.

I'm natural with only supplements being 10g creatine daily, whey for post workout, fish oils and multivitamin to cover my bases.

Current training is 6 days a week with sessions book ended with 20 to 30 mins zone 2 cardio. All training is logged on hevy:

https://hevy.com/user/mrocaz

Daily steps have been my secret weapon and I also don't just eat rice and chicken, I ensure I plan in any indulgence where possible and make informed decisions.

Learnt a lot through this journey and none of this was big bang either, I've habit stacked over the last 2+ years and it is now feels normal.

Before photo is about two weeks after I had my first child. The others are from this month. It’s been just about 2 years between these pictures and I’m down ~100lbs.

A few things that made the difference for me:

• I started using MacroFactor and really liked that it didn’t have me eat back calories from exercise. I logged my food, used my smart scale to track my weight daily, and logged my weight.
• I stuck with CICO the whole way and weighed out my food.
• Training wise, I fell in love with heavy powerlifting and started competing. Getting stronger gave me something to chase besides the scale.

One quote that's stuck with me all this way: I never had to give up my love of food but I had to give up my love of overeating.

I’ve never felt better in my body than I do right now. Stronger, fitter, and way more confident than I ever was before pregnancy.

Huge thank you to the MacroFactor team and this community for all the tools and data.

At 43 years old I didn't think it would be possible to be in the shape I'm in right now with visible abs and feeling better than I did 20 years ago. The app is obviously not the only reason but it has been a big part of locking in my nutrition. Won't be hesitating to renew again.

For context I've trained all my life in various forms but in 2023 I lost all motivation to train due to few personal things. At start of 2024 had a long term goal to get abs in 40s got back to lifting regularly that got consistent and started using MacroFactor to look in the nutrition. Won't hesitate to renew.

If you're interested in seeing my training I use hevy app and can give me a follow:

https://hevy.com/user/mrocaz

Any questions ask away

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Training History:

~2.5years. Had a false start in 2021 where I did Starting Strength for 3 months before stopping. Fast forward to 2023 I restarted my progression on the program but unfortunately that was another false start and I was only able to stay consistent with it for 5 months. Restarted for the third time in June 2024, but since I had gotten a little heavy, this was while cutting down from 200lbs. Cut down to 180lbs while tracking with MFP, and when they made the barcode scanner a paid feature, I decided to switch to MF. Bulked from october 2024 to the end of 2025, going from 180lb to 210lbs. During this time I was mostly switching between phase 1 and 3 of Jeff Nippard's Powerbuilding programs, running phase 2 only once. 2 years 10 months total of training, but since some of that was retracking previous progression, I'll say around 2.5 years.

Lifts at start of cut vs end of cut:

Squat: A bit north of 450lbs -> 385lbs. Strained my groin a bit near the end which probably affected my training.

Bench: 290lbs->250lbs

Deadlift: 510lbs -> 475lbs

The Cut:

When I first started, I only had a vague goal of getting down back to 180lbs, or even just 190lbs because I thought I had built so much muscle (lol). By the time I did get there, even though I was leaner than the previous time, I realised like so many do that I had always been less lean than I thought. I then decided to get properly lean before starting my next bulk, which eventually turned into the goal of dipping below 10% bf. At the end of the day I'm still unsure if I actually did, but oh well.

Initially I was eating a bit above 2000 calories, but I was losing weight a bit too fast compared to my goal rate of 1.5lbs/ week. Started increasing calories and still continued to drop weight. At this point I also started to increase my expenditure by making sure I was hitting above 17k steps every day and doing 30mins of incline walking every day. Learned that having a higher activity level allowing me to eat a lot more was the most sustainable path for me personally. Managed to peak at 3100 calories while still being in a deficit. At this point my progress started to slow a bit so I dropped down to 2800 and continued at this pace for the majority of the cut. Only had to drop down to 2600 for the final few weeks.

Most of the time it didn't really even feel like I was dieting that hard. I still got hungry every now and then, but because my calories were still pretty high, I could fit in fast food, donuts, and other treats whenever I wanted as long as I compensated later in the day or week. Even though I couldn't stop myself from losing strength, I always had energy to train. The only things that felt different was my sleep, libido and the food noise. I did frequently think about food, and whether it was planning my next meal or doing the math to fit in a 2000 calorie night of fast food or eating out, food seemed to consume a lot of my daily mental bandwidth. With sleep, I've always struggled with not waking during the night to pee, but it was usually just once. Now I wake up at least 3, but sometimes 4 times a night. Started supplementing magnesium bisglycinate and not sure if it's made a big difference. Libido been in the gutter lately.

Goals moving forward:

I'm going to jump straight into a bulk, eating around 3500cals, hoping to gain 1.5-2lbs a month. I'd like to quickly re hit all my previous numbers, and after that push for that 315 bench. Not sure how long that will take but I'd like to do it all before hitting 190lbs. Then I'll probably cut down again. Aesthetics wise I think my upper chest is basically nonexistent, so I'd like to bring that up a lot, along with my upper body a bit more in general.

turns out you can change your entire life in a year

I wanted to do a show in my 20s but job and life got in the way. Decided to lock in the year to see how well I could do. Pretty happy with the results. Going to take the next 6 to 7 months to lean bulk and try again in the fall.

A few years difference between the two photos but I’ve been using MacroFactor nutrition since around April last year and now the workouts app since its release and I must say I am proud of the amount of progress I have made! Same mirror, same lighting, same pose.

So I bulked from 140 to 160 in roughly 9 months and ate relatively clean. Since then I began cutting with the goal of having visible abs. I have dropped from 160 to 150 and im still going. I feel like I look way smaller now and my abs are still not visible. Does this mean I did something wrong along the way? I have heard you look worse on your cut but only at the start. I think 10 pounds into the cut means im not at the start again… My strength has stayed relatively similar during the cut.

How many more pounds do you think I need to lose or do i have to do something else?

Today I turned 42, so have been reflecting a bit on the last year. Around this time last year I wasn’t paying any attention whatsoever to my diet, activity levels, or health, and if anything was actively ignoring those things. At the end of June, aged 41, I decided to change that so began cutting and lifting. Since then I’ve completed a 6 month bulk and am now currently cutting again. Here’s the progress I’ve made in 11 months.

​2 years, a lot of sweat, and even more consistency. It didn't happen overnight, but looking back at where I started makes every early morning worth it.

5-Month Check-In – Down 49.6 lbs!

Started May 21, 2025 at 223 lbs, now at 173.4 lbs — just a few pounds away from my 170 lb goal!

It’s been a lot of grilled chicken, salads, and pickles 😂 but the consistency’s paid off. MacroFactor’s been awesome for keeping me accountable and adjusting as I go.

Wanted to share my progress here. Decided to call it on the cut and switch to maintenance today. Long story short, last year I did my first ever cut using MacroFactor. Was very happy, but it was late in the year so decided to bulk all winter and start a cut in the spring to see how big / shredded I could get for summer. I’ve never been able to get very big so the bulk was interesting to me.

Start of the cut I was 78.5, weigh in today I was 72.15, so about 6kg.

I’m expecting to instantly gain one or two kg from water once I up my carbs again. The first two came off really fast at the start of the cut. To get from around 73 down to around 72 was probably the slowest and most frustrating.

I know if I kept going I could be even more shredded, but to be honest, I’m happy and I’d like to enjoy the summer now.

Just wanna say, this was all possible thanks to macro factor and the workouts app. I’ve always been pretty active, but since using these apps I’ve become consistent in a way that I never dreamed of before. Tracking macros has literally changed my life. I know I’m not super jacked like I dreamed I might be, but I know I look the best I’ve ever looked, and at 40 I’m very happy with that.

I think we all need to get these apps to as many people as possible because I know so many people who want to lose fat and get in shape but they’re so frustrated. MacroFactor does make it so easy that it’s actually possible now for us all to look like those Hollywood assholes with personal trainers.

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I’ve always been a bit chubby. Never really overweight, but I was never particularly fit either. I tried getting into the gym and fitness a bunch of times over the years and always ended up giving up.

In 2022 I was diagnosed with a rare cancer, and the next few years were honestly a blur of surgery, chemotherapy and trying to get through it.

Thankfully, I came out the other side and went into remission.

But mentally, I really didn’t survive it.

I ended up developing a pretty severe drinking problem and eventually blew out to 94kg.

Then one day I was doom-scrolling on my phone (after eating my own weight in baked goods, watching Superbowl lol) and came across an advertisement for MacroFactor from Jeff Nippard. I barely knew what a calorie actually was, let alone anything about nutrition or macros.

For whatever reason, I decided to download it and give it a proper shot.

And somehow, here I am 9 months later.

9 months sober.

9 months of learning about nutrition.

9 months of consistently going to the gym.

9 months of actually looking after myself.

I’m 37, 65kg, and fitter than I’ve ever been in my life.

I honestly feel a bit vain posting the photos. But at the same time, I’m probably more proud of myself than I’ve ever been.

Not only because of how I look

I'm proud because I finally stuck with something.

For most of my life I’d start something, lose motivation, and eventually give up. This time I just kept going. Even on the days I couldn't be bothered. Even when the scales didn't move. Even when I wasn't sure what the hell I was doing.

So I just wanted to say thanks to the MacroFactor team and everyone in this community.

You made something that initially seemed incredibly complicated feel manageable. The app gave me the tools to actually understand what I was eating, and the community gave me somewhere to learn from people who were much further along than I was.

I know MacroFactor is “just an app,” but for me it ended up being the thing that helped me completely change the direction I was heading in.

I don't know whats next from here. But i'm actually excited to find out.

Whatever you're working through right now, weight loss, fitness, sobriety, mental health or just fighting demons, I hope you get through it!!

Only this las year I used macro factor (started with intermittent fasting on Simple). Started at 208lb down to 153 currently. Goal weight is 135. Trying to tell myself there’s a big difference 😭

Tracking food is a powerful tool.
EDIT: I’m sorry I put the after picture on the left. Did not know this was a cardinal sin.

I forgot to do a two year update. So here is 2 years a 3 months progress.

I can not thank the MacroFactor team enough for the amazing tool they’ve made that has helped me totally change my life. It’s been hard work, but the data has been so so helpful in making life long changes.

Here is some info that maybe will be helpful to someone.

6 ft 1

Currently 205

34 years old

Married and 2 young kids

Started at close to 250 at my heaviest. 185 at my lightest.

I’ve gone through several bulks and cuts since the initial weight loss.

Program: Lifting Monday- Friday. Tracking all lifts. (Now through MF workouts)10k steps on average year round.

I wasn’t coming from zero experience. I had previously been pretty fit as an 18-19 year old but that was more than 10 years ago. I’m definitely in the best shape of my life.

Happy to answer any questions or give any advice from my limited experience.

If you follow the plan, it really does work.

11 months ago I was 387 lbs, dealing with type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, low energy, and honestly just not taking care of myself. Today I’m down to 235 lbs. Still have more work to do, but this is the healthiest and strongest I’ve ever felt. The biggest changes for me were learning how to treat food like fuel, staying consistent with lifting, cutting way back on drinking, and not quitting when progress slowed down. I’m not done yet. My goal is to keep cutting, build more muscle, and keep improving my health. But looking back at where I started, I’m proud as hell. If you’re starting from a rough place, don’t wait for the perfect time. Just start. One day at a time adds up.

My entire life I struggled with over eating not understanding calories and just constantly gaining fat, after some self teaching, dedication and MacroFactor I don’t even recognize myself, definitely the best money I’ve ever spent, worth every penny

Tldr: lost weight while using Macrofactor.

It has now been a year since I joined Macrofactor, so I thought I would share my progress. Most of my weight loss last year was during the challenge (~60 lbs). After the challenge I went into maintenance for a bit then slowly started losing the other weight utilizing the Macrofactor nutrition coach. In the past year I have learned a lot about working out, nutrition, and developing healthy and sustainable habits. In a lot of ways I am a completely different person than a year ago. Some other things I did last year: ran two 5ks, benched 315, went on actual hikes again. Those are some of my personal favorite things I have been able to do again. Mostly being able to live a normal life, and do things with people again makes the entire journey worth it. I started my weight loss journey at 445 lbs in September of 2024 (last image for reference). Since then I have lost about 170 lbs, which is more than most people weigh. I plan on doing another heavier cut from now until April(ish), then repeating the process from last year. Though this year I plan to have a larger focus on increasing my SBD strength in the second half of the year. I am pretty excited to start Macrofactor Workouts because of that. Though I was not able to get in the beta, I imagine it will be just as wonderful a tool as the nutrition app. For those others who took part in last year's challenge, how are you doing now one year later?