Why did MFP change my caloric in take, when i did not post a weigh in or anything?

senennieves

Hello
i am trying to understand how MFP change my Caloric intake from 1940 to 1500 calories , i don;t understand , can someone look at my diary for the last few days and explain to me what's happening?

CoffeeNCardio

I'm showing your caloric intake as well into the 3000's on your diary. Do you have a fitbit or similar device hooked up?

CoffeeNCardio

If not that, check your settings. MFP just updated recently and reset all my stuff too. Put me back at sedentary category, changed my diary meals all around. Basically reset to default. If it dropped you to sedentary and you were set at something else before, or if you manually input a daily caloric intake goal, it may have reset you too.

senennieves

yes fitbit surge, but im eating under 1940 calories, if you look at my meals for the last 2 -3 days the totals are under 1900 for the day

CoffeeNCardio

Point of interest, why aren't you eating back at least some of your exercise calories? MFP is set up anticipating that you'll do that for the sake of maintaining your muscle mass as you lose weight and to stay healthy while losing weight. I'm not seeing any day where you've eaten back so much as 25% of them.

senennieves

because i feel full with the intake i am eating right now, am i supposed to eat back some of the calories or if i don;t want to, wouldn't that help me lose more weight by not eating back calories?

CoffeeNCardio

Yes you'll lose more weight faster by not eating back the calories. But remember weight loss is a marathon not a sprint. First person to goal weight does not mean healthiest person at goal weigh. The concern is typically this: that you may not be getting enough nutrition to fuel your activity level, so the standard suggestion is eat back 25-50% of exercise calories.

However, if you feel adequately full and satisfied eating what you're eating, and you're meeting your macros and getting adequate nutrition (which you can view your diary), you are under no obligation to eat them back. I was just curious. Lots of people strain themselves too hard initially and then relapse not knowing they could have taken it easy.

senennieves

okay by any chance coffee did you look at my diary food intake from tuesday - thursday, it shows i am allowed 1940 calories before the extra allowance from calories earned due to activity from fit bit and i stayed bellow the 1940 calories the whole time, now wednsday is changes to a max of 1480 - 1500 with negative 414 calroies for exercise,and its after misnight and im sittng in a chair, why did MFP make that change i checked my setting to lose 2 lbs a week and it looks fine.???

senennieves

i noticed i got my setting on my profile to sedentary, but i normally get 7-10 thousand steps in a day from walking around at home and at work, can it be that MFP adjusted my caloric plan because i am burning lots of calories daily by walking and stuff because i am obese???

CoffeeNCardio

I'm not sure why it changed, but I do see the difference between those days in your
BASE caloric intake goal from 1900 to 1500. I suggest you shock the system. Go in and change your activity level to very active, wait a minute, then change it back to sedentary and see if that clears it up. Because MFP expects you to eat back your exercise calories, changing from sedentary to another activity level (in your case I'd suggest active) will simply raise your BASE daily goal from 1900 to something higher. So if you want it to be 1900, and you're comfortable eating that, stick with what you've got and just let fitbit handle the variation by adjusting for exercise calories.

CoffeeNCardio

MFP should never adjust ITSELF. It only adjusts your numbers based on manually manipulating settings, or as I stated before, this stupid update that has been messing with people's settings. Try shocking the system by futzing with the settings and going back to what you had several minutes later.

senennieves

i am not doing any work outs programs yet just walking around the house , at the store, and doing foot patrols at work as i am a security officer, so i get 10 k steps daily most of the time, im waiting to loose about 20 -25 lbs before i start working out with a good program like Focus T@5 or P90.

senennieves

i change my settings to see

amusedmonkey

This is how fitbit works: when you move enough, it adds calories and adjusts your calories up. If you sit around and don't move, it subtracts calories and adjusts your calories down. If you don't want it to remove calories you can go to settings and disable negative adjustment (uncheck the checkbox under "Calorie Adjustments").

CoffeeNCardio

amusedmonkey wrote: »

This is how fitbit works: when you move enough, it adds calories and adjusts your calories up. If you sit around and don't move, it subtracts calories and adjusts your calories down. If you don't want it to remove calories you can go to settings and disable negative adjustment (uncheck the checkbox under "Calorie Adjustments").

His problem is not the caloric adjustment added by fitbit to his base daily goal. His base daily goal in MFP has changed of it's own accord, the same way yours or mine might change, fitbit or no fitbit, if we changed our activity level or weekly loss goal in the settings.

senennieves

i move the seting to active, and change it back and it changed when i changed the setting , when i set it back to original setting it did not fix it

amusedmonkey

CoffeeNCardio wrote: »

amusedmonkey wrote: »

This is how fitbit works: when you move enough, it adds calories and adjusts your calories up. If you sit around and don't move, it subtracts calories and adjusts your calories down. If you don't want it to remove calories you can go to settings and disable negative adjustment (uncheck the checkbox under "Calorie Adjustments").

His problem is not the caloric adjustment added by fitbit to his base daily goal. His base daily goal in MFP has changed of it's own accord, the same way yours or mine might change, fitbit or no fitbit, if we changed our activity level or weekly loss goal in the settings.

Interesting. If it keeps changing, please consider changing your password for both Fitbit and MFP. A while ago I was getting weird calorie adjustments and it turned out someone gained access to my Fitbit account after I used a public computer that likely had a keylogger. Someone changed my gender on Fitbit from female to male and changed the timezone messing up my stepping and calorie calculations.

CoffeeNCardio

senennieves wrote: »

i move the seting to active, and change it back and it changed when i changed the setting , when i set it back to original setting it did not fix it

Hmmm. In that case, you can either enter 1940 manually on the settings page so it stays at 1940 (could be the goals page, play around you'll find it) or contact the support team for assistance on the help page. For simplicity's sake, I'd just change it manually. It takes weeks for support to fix anything. They're very busy.

CoffeeNCardio

amusedmonkey wrote: »

CoffeeNCardio wrote: »

amusedmonkey wrote: »

This is how fitbit works: when you move enough, it adds calories and adjusts your calories up. If you sit around and don't move, it subtracts calories and adjusts your calories down. If you don't want it to remove calories you can go to settings and disable negative adjustment (uncheck the checkbox under "Calorie Adjustments").

His problem is not the caloric adjustment added by fitbit to his base daily goal. His base daily goal in MFP has changed of it's own accord, the same way yours or mine might change, fitbit or no fitbit, if we changed our activity level or weekly loss goal in the settings.

Interesting. If it keeps changing, please consider changing your password for both Fitbit and MFP. A while ago I was getting weird calorie adjustments and it turned out someone gained access to my Fitbit account after I used a public computer that likely had a keylogger. Someone changed my gender on Fitbit from female to male and changed the timezone messing up my stepping and calorie calculations.

Also, this. Wise to change your passwords every 90 days for sites/apps you frequent. @amusedmonkey you should report that both to support and to the public place you accessed your account on. A business place will likely have in place a security protocol that can search/wipe all their computers in an instant and I'm sure they'd rather do that than be at risk for liability when someone's identity gets stolen later. Sorry that happened to you.

CoffeeNCardio

CoffeeNCardio wrote: »

senennieves wrote: »

i move the seting to active, and change it back and it changed when i changed the setting , when i set it back to original setting it did not fix it

Hmmm. In that case, you can either enter 1940 manually on the settings page so it stays at 1940 (could be the goals page, play around you'll find it) or contact the support team for assistance on the help page. For simplicity's sake, I'd just change it manually. It takes weeks for support to fix anything. They're very busy.

Turns out if you click "Settings" while you are on the diary page it will take you to where you can adjust manually. Clicking "Settings from anywhere else takes you to the main settings page.

amusedmonkey

CoffeeNCardio wrote: »

amusedmonkey wrote: »

CoffeeNCardio wrote: »

amusedmonkey wrote: »

This is how fitbit works: when you move enough, it adds calories and adjusts your calories up. If you sit around and don't move, it subtracts calories and adjusts your calories down. If you don't want it to remove calories you can go to settings and disable negative adjustment (uncheck the checkbox under "Calorie Adjustments").

His problem is not the caloric adjustment added by fitbit to his base daily goal. His base daily goal in MFP has changed of it's own accord, the same way yours or mine might change, fitbit or no fitbit, if we changed our activity level or weekly loss goal in the settings.

Interesting. If it keeps changing, please consider changing your password for both Fitbit and MFP. A while ago I was getting weird calorie adjustments and it turned out someone gained access to my Fitbit account after I used a public computer that likely had a keylogger. Someone changed my gender on Fitbit from female to male and changed the timezone messing up my stepping and calorie calculations.

Also, this. Wise to change your passwords every 90 days for sites/apps you frequent. @amusedmonkey you should report that both to support and to the public place you accessed your account on. A business place will likely have in place a security protocol that can search/wipe all their computers in an instant and I'm sure they'd rather do that than be at risk for liability when someone's identity gets stolen later. Sorry that happened to you.

I did report it to Fitbit support as I lost access to my account and could only access it through Facebook. I did not notice it at first because my personal computer is set to auto login through Facebook, not through email and password. They handled it quickly and restored my access after investigating login data. As for the public place, it was a hole in the wall internet cafe in a city I will likely not be visiting any time soon.

CoffeeNCardio

amusedmonkey wrote: »

CoffeeNCardio wrote: »

amusedmonkey wrote: »

CoffeeNCardio wrote: »

amusedmonkey wrote: »

This is how fitbit works: when you move enough, it adds calories and adjusts your calories up. If you sit around and don't move, it subtracts calories and adjusts your calories down. If you don't want it to remove calories you can go to settings and disable negative adjustment (uncheck the checkbox under "Calorie Adjustments").

His problem is not the caloric adjustment added by fitbit to his base daily goal. His base daily goal in MFP has changed of it's own accord, the same way yours or mine might change, fitbit or no fitbit, if we changed our activity level or weekly loss goal in the settings.

Interesting. If it keeps changing, please consider changing your password for both Fitbit and MFP. A while ago I was getting weird calorie adjustments and it turned out someone gained access to my Fitbit account after I used a public computer that likely had a keylogger. Someone changed my gender on Fitbit from female to male and changed the timezone messing up my stepping and calorie calculations.

Also, this. Wise to change your passwords every 90 days for sites/apps you frequent. @amusedmonkey you should report that both to support and to the public place you accessed your account on. A business place will likely have in place a security protocol that can search/wipe all their computers in an instant and I'm sure they'd rather do that than be at risk for liability when someone's identity gets stolen later. Sorry that happened to you.

I did report it to Fitbit support as I lost access to my account and could only access it through Facebook. I did not notice it at first because my personal computer is set to auto login through Facebook, not through email and password. They handled it quickly and restored my access after investigating login data. As for the public place, it was a hole in the wall internet cafe in a city I will likely not be visiting any time soon.

Good choice:) Warn your friends. I'm glad you didn't log into your bank account on there or something.

nutmegoreo

I'm accessing from cellular, so I may be off. Do you have the negative calorie adjustment checked in you diary settings? I used to have mine checked and on days when I was studying it it would drop me to 1200 from 1700. I just unchecked it, it doesn't do that anymore. It's telling you on that day you were less active and to lose the two pounds, you would need to eat less. You aren't eating exercise cals anyway, so it will partly balance.

As for eating exercise cals back, if you are losing at your expected rate I wouldn't worry too much. People are really back at counting accurately. That rate should slow as you get closer to goal weight though. The trouble with fast loss is that more of the weight you lose will come from muscle. The number on the scale is not the only factor in determining health.

Clarewho

This happened to me ages ago. Eventually I worked out that because I'd previously logged on and set goals via the website, the numbers I'd put in there seemed to be overriding the changes I was trying to make via the app. Once I reset my goals on the web version I got over the problem. Might be worth trying that to see if it makes a difference?