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Why is MFP giving me such a high calorie allotment!

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  • Posts: 16,049 Member
    WinoGelato wrote: »

    I'm not sure why it's accurate for me and not for you. I know you've said that you go to bed quite early, 7pm, right? Not sure what time you get up and get moving, maybe it has something to do with activity being crowded into a smaller time period if you sleep longer (I only sleep about 5-6 hours). Or maybe it's because you're Aussie. ;)
    You also keep MFP set at sedentary when you are clearly not. I'm not saying any of those things are bad, just that they might make you an outlier that the algorithms aren't working for you.

    Yes, you are correct. I go to bed early (7-8pm) and usually get up around 5am, but don't start moving (walking) til around 8am.

    I agree, I am definitely not sedentary, but the extra 250 calories i get when i'm at lightly active pretty much get taken away again (200ish calories) by the next morning, so it's pretty pointless to adjust my activity level. I seriously tried staying up later last night, but i got an elbow from hubby as i was snorting in my sleep on the couch at 8:30pm. I am bloody hopeless!

    I should up it to Active, i would be curious to see how much the numbers change from bedtime to the next morning. It would be a huge amount I'd bet!
  • Posts: 18,842 Member
    That BMR issue mentioned by Pavel is likely a decent part of it.

    Since your BMR is used in the calculations of those walking calories, if estimated BMR used is inflated over reality, so will the exercise calories, and all those steps you get in.

    Also, since you get so many steps, Fitbit's ability to dynamically adjust for each foot step loses accuracy at the edge of the range, and perhaps you have a lot of your steps at that edge.

    Shoot, you could just have for some genetic reason slightly smaller metabolically active organs compared to what is expected, even if you used a BMR estimate based on BF%.

    It actually could be a significant amount of calories - have you lost perhaps half your liver or kidney.
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