Ending a cut and starting a bulk feels like a clean break, and people reasonably worry that it throws away weeks of learning. It does not. Your expenditure is stored against you and a date, not against a program, so archiving one plan and opening another does not touch a single day of that history.
What carries through
- Your whole expenditure timeline. Every daily estimate you have accumulated stays, and tomorrow's continues from today's — no reset to a formula, no second calibration period.
- Your Accuracy chip. If you were Refined yesterday, you are Refined today. It counts your logged days, and those are still there.
- Your diary, your weigh-ins, your measurements, your photos. All of it is yours, not the program's.
- What the app has learned about your foods — your usual portions and units. See what Gravl Macros remembers about you.
What actually restarts
- The check-in clock. A new program starts a fresh cycle, so your next weekly check-in counts from the new start date.
- The program itself. The old one moves to Past Programs with its history intact, and any "goal reached" state resets so it can be earned against the new target.
- Your targets. They recalculate from your goal and pace, and take effect from today. Past days keep the targets they were logged under.
Edit your program or create a new one covers the difference between editing in place and starting fresh.
Why it works this way
Your expenditure is a measurement of your body, and your body did not change because you renamed a chapter. What changes when you switch from a cut to a bulk is the deficit or surplus applied to that measurement — which is the program's job, and exactly what the wizard rewrites.
The one thing worth watching after a switch is the direction of travel. Going from a deficit to a surplus reverses the sign of your weight trend, and it takes the usual two to three weeks for the windows to fill with the new pattern. During that stretch the estimate is averaging across both chapters, so read it as settling rather than as final.