Incorrect Data?

Nadine_Longatte
Nadine_Longatte Posts: 2 Member
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Hallo all

Recently started with the app to track calories. Love it so far.

Set to lose 1kg a week at 1300cal a day. Yesterday I got a banner saying congrats if you eat like yesterday for 5 weeks you could weigh xyz.

There is no way I am losing 18kg in 5 weeks so wtf.

Also said I burnt over 2000 kcal with 40 minutes of walking 2 9km. That is also not accurate.

How do I resolve it?

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  • TonyB0588
    TonyB0588 Posts: 9,520 Member
    No. Every day isn't going to be the same. So if yesterday was a specially low calorie day, you'll get that 5 week estimate, but it's difficult to use that as a real guide.

    Did you fill out your profile properly? The calorie burn for x minutes of walking at y speed is partially determined by your own weight. I put your numbers into my chart and got between 255 to 321 as suggested calorie burn, so something is definitely wrong.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    do you have an activity tracker connected?
  • joinn68
    joinn68 Posts: 480 Member
    How did you input the distance in MFP? I usually can't. I only have the option to enter walking speed + how long.

    Can you double-check which weight you put in when you set up your account?
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,052 Member
    If you have a fitness tracker synch-ed to MFP, the calorie adjustment isn't just your walk (in most cases), it's the difference in your daily calorie burn between MFP's intial estimate, and your fitness tracker's estimate. If your daily life (regular stuff, not just exercise) is actually active, but you put "sedentary" (or equivalent) in your initial MFP set-up, you can get some pretty massive calorie adjustments. (And they're still just estimates, so only time will tell how accurate they are.)

    If you don't have a fitness tracker synch-ed, something else is going on.

    But the five week estimate:
    * Assumes an identical day every single day for the whole 5 weeks, intake and activity/exercise both;
    * Assumes your profile set-up, your food/exercise tracking and MFP's initial estimates are exactly 100% spot-on; and
    * Is therefore pretty much inaccurate and useless, unfortunately.

  • Nadine_Longatte
    Nadine_Longatte Posts: 2 Member
    Thank you for the feedback.

    I had Samsung health enabled and since I removed it it's fine.

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