Fitbit and negative calorie adjustments

no6016

I enabled negative adjustments in Mfp and now instead of adding my exercise calories in it subtracts them like a food. I will starve like this lol. I had that off for last week and it added it. I think I understand finally how people just eat half their exercise calories!

lorrpb

It's because you have not yet reached the burn set by your MFP activity level today.

CyberTone

The Fitbit will give you positive Calorie adjustments if your actual daily activity is greater than the estimated daily activity you chose when you picked your MFP Activity Level when setting your MFP goals. If you chose Very Active in MFP, but only take enough steps for a Sedentary setting, you will not get a positive Fitbit Calorie adjustment based on your actual steps as recorded by Fitbit. Or, in reverse, if you chose MFP Sedentary, and then take thousands of steps beyond the Sedentary MFP Activity Level setting, you will get a rather large Fitbit Calorie adjustment.

For me, I start getting a positive Fitbit Calorie adjustment for the day at about 2400 steps total. Since that is the total for the day, that equates to 100 steps average per every hour of the day. When I wake up at 7 a.m. I have 0 steps and I am at a negative Fitbit Calorie adjustment, by 8 a.m. if I get 800 steps, that adjustment will start turning positive, by 9 a.m. 900 steps, by 10 a.m. 1000 steps, etc. The Fitbit Calorie adjustment changes every time MFP and Fitbit sync.

I would recommend reading through the first three posts in this thread on the MFP Fitbit Users group...

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10098937/faq-syncing-logging-food-exercise-calorie-adjustments-activity-levels-accuracy

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/1290-fitbit-users​