Seems like too many negative calories

cmarangi

I got a fitbit flex for christmas and everything was syncing fine. I enabled the negative calorie adjustment but now its like all the exercise I do doesn't matter. For example: Yesterday I hit my 10000 steps by walking for an hour. The calorie addition for the exercise was +242 but the negative adjustment took 442 so I actually got less calories for the day. I'm confused.

I don't have a lot to lose, just another 10 lbs and my calories are set at sedentary and 1400. Am I missing something?

NancyN795

Have you read the FAQ found in the stickies? Here's a handy link: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10098937/faq-syncing-logging-food-exercise-calorie-adjustments-activity-levels-accuracy/p1

The reason I ask, is that your question doesn't make a lot of sense. Where did you see the number "+242"? What was it labeled? Where did you see the number "442"? What was it labeled?

What I'm about to talk about is the number labeled "Fitbit Calorie Adjustment" on your MFP Exercise page (or in your MFP phone app diary). That number usually starts out negative first thing in the morning, but goes positive as you get moving for the day. If you log exercise in MFP (which I never do, I log all exercise in Fitbit) then you can end up logging a lot more calories than Fitbit thinks you've burned and turn that number negative again. You can also burn calories doing deliberate exercise (such as your 1 hour walk), but then be so inactive the rest of the day that you don't burn even enough to qualify as "sedentary" and end up with a smaller calorie adjustment than what you burned from the exercise.