Negative calorie adjustment

mattster414

can someone please explain what this is. The website is kinda of hard to follow.

CountessKitteh

"A negative adjustment means that your projected calorie burn for the day from the partner is below MyFitnessPal's initial estimate."

Basically, if you use something for tracking your steps/exercise/etc, like Fitbit, and you don't meet the minimum level of activity that you told MFP you normally do, it will REDUCE your daily allowance. So if you're supposed to get 1600 calories per day because you said you were on your feet teaching kids how to add and subtract all day, and then you barely move off the couch because it's the weekend, MFP let's that other app reduce your calories to keep your deficit where it should be.

abelcat1

Ohhh thank you: I never could figure out this term "negative cal adjustment", and never could decide to either buy a tracker device or not... ;-)

WaterBunnie

I have a FitBit. If I do less than around 4000 steps in a day this site would deem me to have been less than sedentary and steal back calories from my basic allowance. Like a reverse exercise allowance. A lot of people set to sedentary do not realise that sedentary already includes around 2 miles of walking a day so logging incidental walking for the extra calorie allowance would be cheating yourself really. Sedentary relates to the job you do and does not assume you're in bed all day!

FishyK

Bump, because now I finally understand.