Confused and sick of it

lahcjh

I really don't get why the whole calorie adjustment is even necessary!! It's simple math. I don't want the differences thst are from the 2 different sources of my exercise. Just tell me my calories for the one I chose to use!!! I'm soooooo sick of working my *kitten* off and not eating over my limit to have negative calories for the day as if I over ate and didn't work out. Yeah I know turning the negatives off makes it zero. I don't want zero remainder!!! I want what I did and earned!!!!! Please help!!!

lahcjh

Please... Someone........?...

Need2Exerc1se

I'm not sure I understand. Did you include exercise in your activity setting and now on the days you don't do it, it look as if you aren't eating enough? If so, you could lower your activity setting and then log the exercise on days you do it and it will add extra calories in. On the days you don't exercise you won't get the extra.

jemhh

If you don't want the adjustment, disconnect whatever device is feeding it to MFP. Or quit logging exercise.

deannalfisher

do you have 2 different devices feeding your MFP profile?

or if its like a FITBIT and MFP - then they cancel each other out at the end of the day - just pick one and use it (and ignore inputs from the other one)

Brabo_Grip

Don't eat back your calories. Problem solved.

deannalfisher

Brabo_Grip wrote: »

Don't eat back your calories. Problem solved.

except if you are using the MFP calorie guidelines they are built in with the idea of eating back exercise calories

NorthCascades

Brabo_Grip wrote: »

Don't eat back your calories. Problem solved.

Wow, what a bummer. Two hours on the bike yesterday, at 160 watts, for about 1,200 calories. And lifting on the calendar tonight. Sounds like it's gonna be a miserably hungry week and my performance is going to suffer.

SCoil123

You mention exercise calories from two different sources. Are you logging workouts here and having a device connected for activity?

I have my MFP account set to sedentary with negative adjustment and FitBit synced. I only get an adjustment based on my FitBit activity and I only log workouts on FitBit and use this site to log food. So far this system works well for me...and by so far I mean for over a year now.

Brabo_Grip

NorthCascades wrote: »

Brabo_Grip wrote: »

Don't eat back your calories. Problem solved.

Wow, what a bummer. Two hours on the bike yesterday, at 160 watts, for about 1,200 calories. And lifting on the calendar tonight. Sounds like it's gonna be a miserably hungry week and my performance is going to suffer.

Edited cause I am normally not a jerk. Letting work people annoyance bleed into this. My apologies for original glib response and posts in this thread.

VintageFeline

What do you have your activity level set as? If it's say active and you don't hit 7500 steps outside of exercise then you're going to have a negative adjustment.

Generally those with devices linked to MFP (and I'd only link one) set their activity as sedentary and let MFP and their device do their thing.

VintageFeline

Wait, I reread, and am completely confused. Do you mean you're not getting any positive adjustment from exercise?

lahcjh

I don't back eat my calories. I stay under my original goal. And almost every day after exercises and my steps, it's a huge negative number. If I turn it off, it's zero. So I'm literally not getting credit for anything and have to complete my day with a negative number

And I use Google fit app for all exercise and log food n water here.

lahcjh

I have my activity level set at active and my goal is 8000 steps a day and my food is 1350

lahcjh

I got a misfit coming friday... Hopefully that'll help. Until then I'll put my profile on mfp to not active but left my calorie the same as before

gamerbabe14

So zero is good? You met the goal.

SCoil123

lahcjh wrote: »

I have my activity level set at active and my goal is 8000 steps a day and my food is 1350

If you are using a tracker synced it is recommended you set your activity level to sedentary. The activity level on MFP is without exercise based on your job activity.

I have about 12000 steps today and did an hour of conditioning followed by an hour of boxing. My activity here is still set to sedentary because my Fitbit is synced and will give me extra calories for my activity. Some days I'm very active and other days I'm not.

If you have MFP set to active you are already getting credit for around 10000 daily steps in your original goal so you will only get credit for more activity when you move more than that.

DopeItUp

Could someone translate this thread to english please?

SCoil123

DopeItUp wrote: »

Could someone translate this thread to english please?

It appears the OP is upset because she believes she isn't getting credit for her 8000 daily steps because she has a negative adjustment from her tracker. I assume she actually has a negative adjustment because her activity level is set to active and she is less active than she thinks so the tracker adjustment is showing what she really burned.

SCoil123

In order to earn extra activity calories you need to move more than your activity setting on MFP, if you move less than your activity setting you get a negative adjustment.

NorthCascades

I put myself down as sedentary because I have a desk job.

Today (and also Monday) I rode 2 hours on a bike at 160w which comes out to about 1,000 calories. Wednesday I walked a lot and listed heavy things. All of this is outside of work, mostly for pleasure. We have a lot of rain coming and I won't necessarily be doing all this. It varies.

Because I'm sedentary, MFP doesn't expect much of me, and gives me full credit for my efforts. If I'd said I was very active, it would give me calories for that, but on rainy awful days I wouldn't maybe earn them, they would get taken away with adjustments.

kimny72

OP, if you are syncing an activity tracker, you should set yourself to sedentary. Then when your tracker syncs and adds calories, it will bring your goal up to your actual activity level. I also find it easier to log my additional exercise only with my activity tracker so those calories are added as well.

You are probably having problems because your actual activity isn't matching your Active activity setting.

Your other option would be not to sync your tracker and just let your activity setting give you the same amount of calories every day, just make sure you live up to that activity level!

SpirituallyBlonde

Yup OP I was totally having that issue. So I set my Fitbit to sedentary ( as I work an office job),it was confusing the f**k out of me.
Now I just use Fitbit to track my steps and sleep and MFP for food and activity level.

dadsafrantic

SpirituallyBlonde wrote: »

Yup OP I was totally having that issue. So I set my Fitbit to sedentary ( as I work an office job),it was confusing the f**k out of me.
Now I just use Fitbit to track my steps and sleep and MFP for food and activity level.

what?

dadsafrantic

lahcjh wrote: »

Please... Someone........?...

i set mfp to active. i use fb to track activity. i set my actinity on mfp to active and log all food and water. i always start with a deficit from fb because the setting on the app have a higher calorie burn. i generally eat under the earned calorie intake unless the earned calories are more than the set amount.

i find fb is easiest to use for me. i did the apple watch thing and it was never simple for me. the apple watch is now one of my more expensive paper weights.

spiriteagle99

I set my activity level to sedentary, because most of my non-exercise time is spent sitting. I manually add in purposeful exercise - walking, running, exercise bike. I ignore steps done aside from that, because they are part of ordinary living and because most of my steps come from my walking or running. I eat back all my exercise calories. That works well for me.

jjpptt2

OP, assuming I understand your posts/situation, you're missing the bigger picture.

Learn what the MFP numbers mean.
Learn what the google fit numbers mean.

Hint: they are different.

Then decide on how you want to log/track/measure. It sounds like you're dumping a bunch of numbers and approaches into a blender, hitting pure, and not liking what you get.

lahcjh

I have a active lifestyle. I walk 8000-12,000 stepsa day. I work 5 days a week doing constant walking and lifting.

I have a goal of 1350 calories of eating a day. Let's say I go over or am close to my goal. At the end of the day, I want credit for my 10000 steps. My 30 minute virgorous cardio. So I log that. I'd like to see what I burned for the day towards my food calorie goal. I'd like to know I gained 500 extra calories in doing so. But guess what... It's a zero toward exercise. Zero calories given back from exercise.

I'm just confused why there is a comparison at all. Use strictly my tracker and go off of that. Period. It's simple math. You ate 1400 and went over 50 calories... But wait... you worked your butt off. You burned 500 of that which would bring your calories for the day to 900 and you'd have a reminder of 450 for the day. Simple math.

But instead I'm -600. Lol. Like WTF. I don't want a zero. I want my tracker results and the math to follow it.

I have my misfit tracker now and it's been at sedetary. Did 235 steps in an hour and my calorie burn in ZERO.

soooooo....????........

lahcjh

Ok then someone explain how when it was -200 the other day, I tested it by adding exercise burn of 200. You'd thing the negative would go away right? Nope. Was even lower.

Machka9

lahcjh wrote: »

I have a active lifestyle. I walk 8000-12,000 stepsa day. I work 5 days a week doing constant walking and lifting.

I have a goal of 1350 calories of eating a day. Let's say I go over or am close to my goal. At the end of the day, I want credit for my 10000 steps. My 30 minute virgorous cardio. So I log that. I'd like to see what I burned for the day towards my food calorie goal. I'd like to know I gained 500 extra calories in doing so. But guess what... It's a zero toward exercise. Zero calories given back from exercise.

I'm just confused why there is a comparison at all. Use strictly my tracker and go off of that. Period. It's simple math. You ate 1400 and went over 50 calories... But wait... you worked your butt off. You burned 500 of that which would bring your calories for the day to 900 and you'd have a reminder of 450 for the day. Simple math.

But instead I'm -600. Lol. Like WTF. I don't want a zero. I want my tracker results and the math to follow it.

I have my misfit tracker now and it's been at sedetary. Did 235 steps in an hour and my calorie burn in ZERO.

soooooo....????........

Ok ... no idea what you're talking about.

I entered my information into MFP.
I chose sedentary as my activity level (I only walk 10,000 steps a day).
MFP gave me 1250 cal.

Then I enter whatever I deem as "exercise". "Exercise" includes walking as part of my commute, walking at lunch, climbing stairs, walking or cycling after work with my husband, and cycling long distances on the weekends.

"Exercise" does not include walking back and forth to the photocopier, kitchen, toilet etc. at work, walking while grocery shopping, walking back and forth in the house, walking around the yard, etc. etc.

That seemed like a really easy approach for me ... and it worked.

AmandaDanceMore

No offense, but I do not consider 8000 steps an "active" lifestyle. FB recommends 10k, at least. I hit 10k (when I still wore an FB) just walking my dogs on a daily basis. I do other stuff, too (yoga, some jogging, cycling, and I ballroom dance 4-5 nights a week), but I still consider myself sedentary. Now, if I was using MFP back in the day when I walked, on average, 4 miles a day for work, plus lots of heavy lifting, and a lot of other very physically demanding stuff, I would consider myself active, but, then again, I didn't need MFP back then since I was a skinny little b**ch!!!!

I would change your setting to sedentary and see if that solves your problem.