The biggest issue I found with this app is the extremely limited food database and adding new foods is exclusively based on standard portion of 100g. I think maybe it’s only a EU database at this point. The features to adjust your needs based on your specific workouts seems promising but it needs at least a year of development into a usable app.
Hey Marek, sorry for delay in response, I was out of town for a bit.
So, pretty much exactly what you just said, the database is limited, but it is expanding pretty quick. They added Belgian, Dutch and UK specific ones this weekend, and I think US is next. The 100g thing is definitely annoying, I am going to feature request changing that. I will say they have been amazingly responsive to my questions so far. When I first opened the app I was kind of 50/50 on it, but the service has made me very upbeat about its future.
Barcode scanning is on the way shortly, which is huge, and Training Peaks integration for auto planning your workout is supposed to be in the spring.
Yeah I paid for a month to start with, to see if I liked it and to check to see if it was something I would commit to. Oh boy did I love it! So I signed up for a year and I’m planning to track even at maintanance to better fuel for my riding.
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Another +1 for MacroFactor.
I’ve used MyFitnessPal and LoseIt in the past and while they both work sufficiently well to lose weight easily, they are not close to MacroFactor for the user experience.
MF is a joy to use and the fact that it’s paid by default really works for it because it never has a chance to nag you to upgrade to premium like the other apps which eventually makes you hate them lol.
Contrary to the other apps it also adjusts your calorie counts based on estimated expenditure.
That did seem to play against me early on as I restarted weightlifting very regularly and taking creatine which meant I didn’t lose weight as fast to start so it kept decreasing my calorie count.
However since November I started cycling for the first time and fell in love with it and you can see the increase in calories to maintain my 2lbs per week loss target.
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Loving Cron-o-meter so far, but it has only been a day.
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I just dropped my Strava integration and replaced it with Garmin Connect. I have the same thing happening and for others reading through this thread – THIS IS NOT A DEFECT this is quite intentional in design. To what ends – I can’t say. I’m seriously thinking of dropping the Garmin integration and restoring the Strava integration (but then again, maybe Strava will refuse since I use the free version). I just want to hold on until I see what happens when I ride a 2,000+ calorie ride.
With plain old Strava integration I’ve had good results as long as I put some effort into it (I go through periods where I record but simply don’t care what the results are as well as periods where I full on stop).
Prior having a paid version of LoseIt – I would simply manually fill in the TR reported burn and that worked well.
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