MFP not receiving any Garmin Vivosmart adjusted goals - am I being a total newbie? :)

DanielAllen2

Hey all,

Super new to all of this so apologies if this is a basic question. I've searched extensively for an answer to this before posting but could not find one- although I believe it *should* be a simple query.

Basically, MFP is not receiving my adjusted goal from Garmin Connect, so the figures MFP shows me at the end of the day are pretty demotivational.

I am using a Vivosmart HR. Should Garmin be sending an adjustment daily (if there is one)? Or am I being impatient and this is actually updated periodically?

To provide more details: I have been using Garmin/MFP since last Thursday and linked the two accounts immediately. The issue was noticeable on the first day, where I burned around 1000 extra calories from a workout according to my Garmin. Two of the exercises I did, I actually recorded as an activity on my Vivosmart (around 300 calories worth), the rest I just went into the exercise and let the Vivosmart detect what I was up to.

Only the two that I logged manually showed up in MFP that day (the 300 calories worth). The rest did not appear on MFP at all, despite showing as "active calories" on my Garmin Connect app.

I've since noticed that every day, any adjustment from Garmin Connect is not showing up on MFP. So while according to Garmin I am consuming/burning around the correct calorie amount for my targets, MFP shows differently as it's not receiving any Garmin adjustment.

Yesterday, I was out and about and the Vivosmart logged this as 280 active calories, adjusting my daily goal from 1590 to 1870. I actually over-ate a bit and consumed 1919 calories, giving me a total of -49 calories for the day. Not too bad. But these active calories again didn't show up in MFP, so according to MFP I am -330 for the day. Pretty bad.

I'd really like to get this sorted (or know 100% if it can't be) so I am more focused on my goals. Any searches I've done on the topic seems to bringing up answers where people are getting the Garmin Connect adjustments on their exercise page. I am not seeing this at all. Is there something I have overlooked? A setting or a sync button perhaps that pushes the adjustment to MFP?

Hope that all makes sense and thanks in advance for any advice or suggestions.

Looking forward to the weight loss and improved fitness

-Dan

Damien_K

I use the Garmin Fenix 3 HR and I am having the same issues. I believe you should sync your watch with your Garmin app whenever you want the values to reflect on MFP.

DanielAllen2

Cheers Damien. My Vivosmart is constantly syncing with the Garmin Connect app. Everything is pulling from the band to the app, and from MFP to the app, just fine. However the problem seems to be getting the adjusted goal from the Garmin app to appear on MFP. I've just today clicked the "Enable Negative Adjustments" box in the settings, that could be it?