9.9k steps, only added 4 excercise cals?

RedheadedPrincess14

How can I fix my garmin auto connection? It registers that I did 9.9k steps but it only gave me 4 excercise cals. VERY WEIRD

jelleigh

I don't have a Garmin so I might not be the most help but my first question is what activity level do you have MFP set to? Because it will only register a calorie adjustment when you have passed their threshold for your specific activity level. For example, sedentary assumes something like 3000 steps. If you are set on lightly active it active, maybe that's why it's not registering?

firef1y72

My Garmin doesn't work in the same way as Fitbit. It doesn't give me anywhere nearly as many Calories for steps and it is far more closely linked to your settings on here. So if you've got your activity level on here set as lightly active/active/whatever it gives you a base number of Calories and then you can earn extra Active Calories, which seem to be more dependent on HR+steps combined rather than just steps, which means if you barely raised your HR then you get very few Calories for your steps.

What I had to do is play around with my settings on here until I got Garmin and Fitbit near enough corresponding, I take 20000 steps on a rest day and while Fitbit would give me 1000+ Calories for those steps while in sedentary setting, Garmin would only give me 300. By upping my activity level on here I've managed to get the numbers within 200 Calories of each other.

KarenSmith2018

The calorie adjustment doesn't care how many steps you have taken. The adjustment is based upon the calorie reading on your garmin compared to the calories expected in MFP. Where these are different you get an adjustment. While you have taken a 9000+ steps they could have been at a relatively relaxed rate, not raise your heart rate and thus not contribute to many additional calories above what Garmin reads as your base rate. I often get this. Walk my dog twice a day, easily get past 10K steps and often only get 100 extra calories. That is a good paced walk as well.

Rosemary7391

I'm using an app on my phone to count steps (pacer) and I find that sometimes it swings up and down massively - it's quite disconcerting. It usually fixes itself... but I'd rather it didn't do that and I don't have to check whether my walking calories are on or off when working out how much I can eat for dinner!

SezxyStef

calories given over here are entirely dependant on your activity level.

what is it set at?

mabearof6

what is your activity level set at?

rmgnow

That stuff is so squirrelly with the double steps and all of that. I don't use it

RedheadedPrincess14

My activity is sedentary. It would never usually give me at least 100 and I walked the same pace as usual

kebass01

I do 20k steps on my workout days and it never auto adjusts mfp. Only if I log it as a walk or run does it sync over as an exercise to MFP. I did notice that there has always been a 0 next to my device and I changed the setting to allow negative calories. Even with 20k steps (50 min run, 2 2 mile walks) my Garmins tracker says that MFP has over estimated my calorie needs per day by 200. I just get so discouraged when I do so much exercise and yet I still only use 2300 calories a day. I have the vivoactive that doesn't monitory heart rate.