Negative calorie seems to be wrong when I exercise more

brigitta71

So negative calorie count turned on last week when I adjusted the app from losing 1 pound a week to losing .5 pounds. I’m actually now maintaining but I wanted to have a cushion. I have a pretty good grip on my intake/burn since I just lost 20 pounds. Most days I’ve been liking the negative count. Even with 9,000 to 10,000 steps it usually only takes off about 40-50 calories. I have the app set to lightly active and I do workout every day. I usually AM lightly moving (not sitting) everyday. (I use an Apple Watch.)

Yesterday’s count has me really confused. Can anyone help me understand? I was moving pretty much all day. I had more steps than usual and did 2 workouts?

Terytha

Its glitchy. I have the same issue with Samsung. You'll have to turn negative adjustments off probably.

brigitta71

Thank you, that’s what I’m going to do. It’s too frustrating to see numbers all over the place.

LessthanKris

I have the negative calories set too and I feel like something is way off. On days where my Apple Watch says I burnt 2500 calories and a have logged around a 30 minute of workout, I end up with around a 50 calorie adjustment. Then a lazy day with no workout and only 1900 calories burned, I got 4. Six hundred calorie difference and even with logging a 200 calorie workout there is still 400 calories not counted.

I also have myself set on likely active to have wiggle room.

Avidkeo

I currently have negative adjustments turned on and yeah I can't get my head around it either.

How I gather it works is your watch estimates you will burn X calories for that day based on what you have done so far. Mfp has its own assumption which I think is your calorie goal (based on what you've put in as your activity level) then it adds on the exercise calories. If this is MORE than what your watch estimates you will burn for the day, then you get a negative adjustment, if it is LESS then you get a positive adjustment.

So for me.
I have put in that I'm lightly active and want to lose 4lb a month, so 0.5lb a week - of a deficit of 550 calories. I have a goal of 1300, so it assumes I have a TDEE of 1850.

Atm my watch is estimating a burn of 2323 - 500 calories is a goal of 1823.

I have earned 517 calories from exercise.

So MFP goes 1800 (TDEE) +517 = 2317 - 550 (calorie difference) = 1867

MFP estimate 1867 - watch estimate 1823 = negative adjustment of 44 calories.

Basically MFP assumes my watch is more accurate than its workings.

At least that's what I've worked out. I do not know why on days I'm more active I seem to have a bigger negative adjustment. But typically by the end if the day I'm usually within 50 calories or so.

brigitta71

Yes, totally agree that’s how I understand it should work also. It took me a bit to get used to it adjusting the numbers all day long but, like you mentioned, by the end of the day things would even out and make sense. I had a few really weird ones like the like the one I posted above that adjusted like that at the end of the day. I’m thinking it has to be a glitch but that make me wonder how correct it is other times?

ainee1234

Hi I can’t make sense of it at all.
I Walked 90187 steps, adjustment negative -856
I walked 466 steps-negative -600 odd.
I just can’t make sense.. why a higher negative for much higher steps? Should it not be the other way around??