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>I think, generally, that people view your work as BS. And you’re right! There is no rule against promoting your BS.

No evidence of this, last post had 28 upvotes.

Thread posted by some other guy on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/tirzepatidecompound/comments/1omfgx...

Many people like it! it has reviews, reddit comments voching for it, it's just some guys on HN who boost GLPs who are involved in flagging.

Plenty of reviews posted by established users on Reddit.

>You’re not wrong! You’re just an asshole Walter! — The Dude

An asshole is someone who claims to read the minds of others and uses this to fit their own narration

One day, the world will come to know who is the innovator vs. scammer/asshole.

>What is the guaranty? Do you give the money back? It makes the post even more suspicious. Try to avoid infomercial tone here or it will make people even more suspictious.

The app is completely free, and there are no ads.

So the most you stand to lose is 2-3 weeks spent using the app!

I’m not even promoting myself or my coaching company. If you read privacy policy you can see we do not collect any sensitive info either like name, email, phone number of DOB etc... https://macrocodex.app/privacy-policy/

>You also can claim whatever you like. Do you have any proof? Reviews and testimonials are not reliable. I assume in general that all of them are fake, in spite your may be real or not.

The work is even shared on Reddit by others on GLP-1 subreddits: https://www.reddit.com/r/tirzepatidecompound/comments/1omfgx...

>Also, I'm not sure what is the difference with other apps. What does it do? It's like a calorie counter but it interpolates the calories when the user forgets to enter them?

It uses a neural network for weight loss and weight gain with very high effectiveness; it’s nearly impossible to fail!

All the methods we use are documented here in detail, with links to relevant research; we even provide citations:

https://macrocodex.app/knowledge/rethink/adaptive-tdee/

https://macrocodex.app/knowledge/macrocodex/smart-calorie-bu...

https://macrocodex.app/guides/weight-loss/

My previous post had 28 upvotes; the last post received 3 upvotes and then got flagged.

It’s not that people don’t like it, but that GLP boosters are flagging it.

Nobody managed to prove that we are wrong or that our method is flawed.

To my knowledge, nobody else ever managed to do this; there were always excuses like "genetics or hunger," but anyone who used it got the results, and it's baffling to see GLP boosters have been proven wrong, yet they are not really debating or challenging, but rather flagging the post like a coward. No contest?

We managed to produce results in "genetically resistant fat" people within a 2–3-week timeframe!

Rather than getting acknowledged that this is possible, we are getting flagged by GLP boosters who want the whole world to be on GLPs.

In my country, there is no requirement to be a medical professional to help people lose or gain weight.

The app is completely free, and there are no ads. I’m not even promoting myself or my coaching company. If you read privacy policy you can see we do not collect any sensitive info either like name, email, phone number of DOB etc... https://macrocodex.app/privacy-policy/

We do not make any money from this.

All the methods we use are documented here in detail, with links to relevant research; we even provide citations:

https://macrocodex.app/knowledge/rethink/adaptive-tdee/

https://macrocodex.app/knowledge/macrocodex/smart-calorie-bu...

https://macrocodex.app/guides/weight-loss/

And we are not doing anything beyond current medical research. The research already existed and had existed for at least a few decades!

So, what is my grift?

I believe you are not very educated and are more likely to fall for the “appeal to authority” fallacy on this forum?

Nobody else has achieved guaranteed results in 2–3 weeks for both weight loss and weight gain without any drugs but we guarantee it to every user. 80% people will see results on the very first week

We've neural network which predicts maintenance calories to very high accuracy, this has never been done before at this level with thousands of users and so much success!

We have enough validation: thousands of users. The app is completely free and not even new; no ads or personal identifying information are collected.

What is not to like about this?

We are being flagged because GLP boosters on this site do not like that it is possible to lose weight with very little effort without GLPs.

There is no guideline that says you cannot post your project, which received significant upgrades/work, after a few months.

It's strange, so all the people who are overweight by 5-10kg have hormone imbalance?

>Your app isn’t going to fix brain chemistry and a hormone imbalance. It’s snake oil. Are you a medical professional? Show the creds.

Read the reviews. If 17,000+ users and all these reviews, guides, and posts on Reddit are not “enough creds,” then what is?

I have been a coach for over 10 years.

Creator of fitness guides shared across Reddit, like this one on a GLP-1 subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/tirzepatidecompound/comments/1omfgx...

I submitted "Show HN" post which got flagged, provided description and linked to the app which is completely free.

I see many people doing same on Show HN posts?

Smart scales use BIA tech to figure out your bodyfat%, i think that's what most people use withings for, otherwise there are plenty of scales which can log your weight.

Even thought withings is garbage for bodyfat% estimation but plenty of noobs do not understand this.

What's the point of that, when the body fat % measurement is highly inaccurate on these?

reverse engineering to get the garbage out from sensors/.

>his is going to hit the front page of every health/fitness/cycling/running blog site

No one serious uses them for anything, bodyweight can be measured using any cheap scale

Bodyfat%, withings is very unreliable for this.

You need to keep paying influencers to promote it; otherwise, influencers threaten to promote other products and drop yours. Marketing is a big cost for these products.

Just like MacroFactor pays a lot of people to promote it, it has to pay people, which means the money has to come from the customers.

In some cases, sensor data requires further transformation/processing. If you do it in the app, others who decompile your app can copy the implementation; if you put it behind an API, it makes it much harder.

Why do people use these (watches, bands, smart scales) when they are so inaccurate? It's like believing in astrology!

I am convinced people go into the market with money and a desire to get scammed and never bother to check any claims companies make about their products.

Other than tracking steps and heart rate, they aren't accurate for the other things they claim to do.

I can't believe people are using these devices and believing they are accurate.

If you want an accurate body fat percentage measurement, get a DXA scan.

Good BIA devices from InBody that are anywhere near as accurate as DXA (still far off) cost thousands of dollars.

For impedance based machines, look up InBody 970/970S and how much they cost!

Believing your Withings smart scale is accurate at all for body fat percentage measurement is like believing in a unicorn.

And for body weight measurement, you can use any cheap Chinese scale, take a photo, and most agents can read the readings off the photo and log it for you in any app, no Health Connect or HealthKit needed!

how much precision you even need for bodyweight? Chinese cheap scales are good enough and mass produced, dirt cheap. Also, your bodyweight does can vary by as much as 1.2kg or 1% of BW on day to day basis simply due to changes in hydration, gut content or hormonal effects etc... You'll need to use a "weight trend" method something like EMA-14 or SMA-7 which many fitness apps use.

We use KTS-3 (Kalman Trend Smoother) in macrocodex free app for weight trend, it's slightly better than EMA-14 but visually it's much better for the users specially the ones who aren't good at reading a chart!

OK, so you want other apps to read this data? Read on.

How much effort is needed to write an app that can take a photo, read the display, and write it to Health Connect or HealthKit? Barely a few minutes!

The same is true for a blood pressure monitor. How often do you even use it? How much effort?

Do you really even need an API? LOL.

You can find a few studies on this:

>A 2020 systematic review by Fuller et al. found that consumer wearables often perform poorly at estimating energy expenditure, even when they measure steps and heart rate reasonably well. Across brands like Apple, Garmin, Polar, and Withings, calorie burn estimates frequently showed substantial error, often in the 15–40% range and sometimes exceeding 50%. Wearables can still be useful for tracking trends, but not for precise calorie calculations.

And at the end, if you are interested in "Calorie Expenditure" or TDEE or Maintenance Calorie tracking, our sensorless approach is much more accurate and we've a completely free app with 17,000+ users already! We basically use a Neural Network, see the method here: https://macrocodex.app/knowledge/rethink/adaptive-tdee/

You can read reviews, and we guarantee results for weight loss or weight gain within 2–3 weeks (validation based on 17,000+ users), with no money, no ads served, and not even a name, phone number, or email (on Android) collected! Every user is just a number; no personally identifying information is collected.

It doesn't matter if a person has PCOD, thyroid issues, prediabetes, or is genetically resistant to fat loss: results within guaranteed 2–3 weeks and 80% will see results from the very first week! If you think our claim is outrageous, read the reviews :)

Don't trust? just read the reviews!

>The deficit is not everything. Either McDonalds or eating salad; This mentality is why people crash diet.

Have you actually looked into our method? https://macrocodex.app/knowledge/rethink/adaptive-tdee/

Look at the results and see how successful our approach is.

Yes, it can vary by 200-300kcal on week to week basis on average

i am not defending anything but you can lose weight even if you eat only fast food, it all boils down to calories and macros.

It's not accurate for this.

You can't use a sensor and stack calorie burn from bunch of activities and add them all up to workout maintenance calories.

The sensorless method we use is more reliable, https://macrocodex.app/knowledge/rethink/adaptive-tdee/

You can see the reviews and guaranteed results within 2-3 weeks, all for free.

>I work out a lot, do you? What’s your body fat percentage? I’m at 8%.

Yes, I do. A recent DEXA scan puts me at 12% BF, which I maintain year-round at an FFMI of 25.

Lemme ask: how many people have you trained?

>You’ll never see the butter company do shit like this. Butter is butter as it’s been for thousands of years. There’s a different between these two things.

People used to be fat before oreos were ever invented.

>You will never outrun your diet, and it’s not about fat; it’s about health.

Who claimed you can outrun a bad diet? I simply said people's activity level is low; this results in low maintenance calories, so when they apply a deficit, their target calories end up being low.

You need to increase your activity level if you are sedentary.

>What’s more, I’ve noticed your username, South Asia is being ravaged by diabetes.

43% to 44% of U.S. adults have obesity.

>not some theoretical thing you can preach against online.

We've got 17,000+ users and many reviews. Lemme know how many people are vouching for you.

I do not believe in biased research coming out of US.

We use a neural network to predict maintenance calories.

We actually operate a MacroFactor competitor: MacroCodex (which is completely free). https://macrocodex.app/ we've like 17,000+ users so far.

It adapts much faster than MacroFactor, and it's completely free of subscriptions and ads.

Guaranteed weight gain or loss within 2-3 weeks, consider reading reviews if in doubt, many people will see results from the very first week on macrocodex!

Many people waste their time by adding "calorie burn" from different activities by tracking all of them individually in smartwatches or fitness bands.

The market has a lot of food choices.

You can still get fat eating organic whole foods; butter tastes good, and it's easy to overeat.

The issue is people not having a good enough activity level and then getting fat, and swinging to the opposite extreme by crash dieting.

GLPs make it very easy to crash diet which results in other issues.

Once a person understands how calories map to weight changes over a period of time, it becomes very easy for them!

This is another misconception because of those "dieting studies" people believe dieting = VLCD or PSMF or other harsh deficit methods.

Running moderate deficit is key specially as a newbie.

Most people do not get fat because they are eating 1000s of calories in surplus each day; in fact, most people get fat over a long period of time and they might be eating only 100-200kcal more than what they need to maintain their weight or perhaps after getting fat they are eating at maintenance.

If you remove 300 kcal from your diet, you'll perhaps not even notice this, yet you'll end up losing 14 kg or 30 lbs in a year without much effort.

Very few people actually need GLPs for "appetite suppression."

If you want to run 1000 kcal deficits, GLPs make it very easy for people to crash their intake.

Crashing intake may result in bile/gallbladder issue or hairloss

Even GLP users recommend the macrocodex:

https://www.reddit.com/r/tirzepatidecompound/comments/1omfgx...

Many people actually try to use Garmin or other trackers/smart watches for things they aren't good at.

For example, if you want to track your maintenance calories (TDEE, total daily expenditure), Garmin isn't going to be much useful.

>Calorie deficit works, but the ability for an average person to maintain a calorie deficit without external help is close to 0%

I don't agree with 0% figure at all.

Why? because we are able to offer Guaranteed results AT NO COST (no ads, no subscription, no payment of any kind) within 2-3 weeks for both Weight Loss and Weight Gain, many people start seeing results from the very first week; you can read reviews if you doubt this.

The market is filled with "Eat X for weight loss, eat Y for weight gain."

The average person actually does not choose the right strategy for weight loss, which is a "calorie deficit."

But implementing it is not "EASY" until you understand how expenditure, calorie intake, and weight movement work, which is too much work to understand for an average Joe.

OKAY, the vast majority of people on Hacker News can probably wrap their heads around these concepts if they find the right resource, but the average Joe can't.

Let's take something as simple as "calorie deficit."

Being at a calorie deficit itself requires knowing two things:

1. How much you burn in a day (total daily energy expenditure or TDEE)

2. How much your intake is for the day

Deficit = TDEE - Intake

You can do calorie counting for #2. But what can you do for #1?

The average guy does not know how to calculate these properly, let alone judge weight movement, which can move a lot in the opposite direction due to water weight fluctuations that can exceed 1 kg+ of movement a day.

Have you seen the math required for figuring out "Maintenance Calories?, see this: https://macrocodex.app/knowledge/rethink/adaptive-tdee/

And all the factors that go into this? see this: https://macrocodex.app/knowledge/macrocodex/smart-calorie-bu...

We've 17,000+ users why? because #1 is a difficult problem for many.

Our solution is Macrocodex, which comes at no cost to the user and is very easy to use.

>Just about every study ever done on diet and exercise shows this.

Those studies already set people up for failure to begin with; I wrote about it here: https://macrocodex.app/knowledge/rethink/weight-loss-studies...

GLP-1s are being overused by people who don't even need them! We are definitely going to see an increased risk of gallbladder/bile issues population wide if this trend continues.

A calorie deficit works for fat loss; you don't need GLPs in the vast majority of cases.

The funniest thing is that people have produced studies and use them to conclude, “Diet and exercise do not work.” and they use it to boost GLPs even more.

I use Go where i'd use Node, Ruby or Python.

I use Rust where i need low latency.

No, there are many more issues, like bile related issues and an increased risk of developing gallbladder stones.

No, most people will not be able to sustain the kind of deficit needed for rapid weight loss long-term, so it's a self-regulating thing.

Anyone can take a lot of GLP and crash diet very easily.

If any person is capable of rapid weight loss naturally with no drugs, they already have enough willpower and ability to diet sustainably.

>Nearly every obese adult has unsuccessfully tried a number of other strategies to lose weight.

What's the source of this info?

The market is filled with "Eat X for weight loss, eat Y for weight gain."

The average person actually does not choose the right strategy for weight loss which is "Calorie Deficit"

But implementing it is not "EASY" until you understand how expenditure, calorie intake, and weight movement work, which is too much work to understand for an average Joe.

OKAY, vasty majority of people on HackerNews can probably wrap their head around these concepts if they find the right resource, but average Joe can't.

Let's take something as simple as "calorie deficit."

Being at a calorie deficit itself requires knowing two things:

1. How much you burn in a day (total daily energy expenditure or TDEE)

2. How much your intake is for the day

Deficit = TDEE - Intake

You can do calorie counting for #2. But what can you do for #1?

The average guy does not know how to calculate these properly, let alone judge weight movement, which can move a lot in the opposite direction due to water weight fluctuations that can exceed 1 kg+ of movement a day.

Have you seen the math required for figuring out "Maintenance Calories?, see this: https://macrocodex.app/knowledge/rethink/adaptive-tdee/

And all the factors that go into this? see this: https://macrocodex.app/knowledge/macrocodex/smart-calorie-bu...

We've 17,000+ users why? because #1 is a difficult problem for many.

>What GLP-1s immediately illustrate to most people who try them is that there's a real, physical problem with their appetite that only GLP-1s successfully correct.

That doesn't mean every guy who is overweight by 5-10kg needs GLPs.

>A few weeks after I started taking GLP-1s, I started to feel full again for the first time since college. Everyone should work out daily and maintain a varied, healthy diet, but I did and they never made me feel that way alone.

Sorry but most people diet poorly, dieting well requires training and education.

GLP users themselves say this, https://www.reddit.com/r/tirzepatidecompound/comments/1omfgx...

Have you actually worked on this problem? or you just make bunch of assumption and accept them as "truth"?

At the end, I am not a GLP “hater.” If you fail to stay at a deficit for several weeks (deficit 300-400kcal) due to poor appetite regulation, you feel insanely hungry even after volume eating methods, improving physical activity by walking more and lifting 1x a week etc..., you are perhaps a valid candidate for GLP, so you can reach out to doctors.

Eating whole foods, lifting 1x a week, and walking 10k steps (at zone 2 pace) are something everyone should do, regardless of whether they are fat or not!

But saying all fat people need GLPs is something I am not going to agree with.

i've visited many subreddits, telegram and discord groups i see this common pattern:

People import it from China from suppliers and do not know how to properly dose it. Many are using it in knee jerk fashion with no proper dosing protocol.

Why they do it? it's because it's cheaper this way and they have to answer or explaining the use to no one.

Others have this strange idea, "if i am using GLPs, exercise and dieting is no longer needed".

When long term experienced GLP users say, you still need a dieting and workout protocol, https://www.reddit.com/r/tirzepatidecompound/comments/1omfgx...

GLPs are very useful but they are not needed by vast majority of people who use it.

And key questions

1. Do you really need GLPs? how did you figure this out?

2. How much do you need?

3. What's your dieting and workout strategy?

Very few GLP users actually run through these questions.

People should stop pushing it as a “miracle” and instead see it as a “tool” used in specific cases.