Connecting with Garmin

grum841

Hi, not sure if this is the best place to post this so apologies if it's in the wrong section. I need some help with syncing with my garmin watch. As you can see in the pic, I done 7127 steps yesterday but it looks like it's also added 2 walks I done so counting the same cals twice. How do I get around this?

moonangel12

Do you have another tracker running as well? I have RunKeeper and for a while it was double counting for me so I had to disconnect them somewhere down the line (I still get double entries on RK, but not MFP).

ETA: or, given the time difference, maybe a pocket tracking type thing? Is that a setting on Garmin, to automatically log a walk? I know it is on RK.

grum841

I select the walk as an activity on my Garmin but when syncing to MFP doubles the calories and steps. I don't have any other tracker, thanks for replying

Lietchi

What does the calorie adjustment show when you tap on it? It should compare total calorie burn from Garmin Connect and MFP at the activity level you chose.

grum841

Hi Lietchi thanks for replying, my adjustment says the below

Still not sure what total cals I should be aiming for to lose weight? Is it 1000 less than what garmin says?

Lietchi

Have you checked the Garmin Connect app to see if the total burn there is the same as in your printscreen? I'll admit that number looks high for 7k steps, but I don't know your stats or gender.
And do you see the two walking activities in the Connect app, with the same calorie burn as synced in MFP?

As for your other question, a deficit of 1000kcal per day is quite aggressive and corresponds with a loss of 2lbs/just under 1kg per week. It's only appropriate for people with a lot to lose, and an aggressive deficit like that can make it harder to stick with. I'm more of a slow and steady wins the race kind of person, no bonus points for suffering
But to the point, this is the math to choose your deficit:
- a daily deficit of 275 kcal for a weekly loss of 0.25kg per week (multiply as needed)
- or a daily deficit of 250 kcal for a weekly loss of 0.5lbs (multiply as needed)

heybales

grum841 wrote: »

Hi Lietchi thanks for replying, my adjustment says the below

Still not sure what total cals I should be aiming for to lose weight? Is it 1000 less than what garmin says?

It is working correctly - you are not getting double credit for anything.
Your MFP estimated base burn was 3003.
MFP was informed of workouts totaling 485, so it figures estimated burn for the day is 3488.
Garmin reports you burned in total 3752 (which includes those 2 walks, and any other movement).
So you burned 264 more than the likely MFP Sedentary setting you have selected.

Around 10 cal/min is a brisk walk, that's for sure. But you may be moving some serious mass around too, so very correct.
You might confirm the distance is correct sometime, since a walk or run should be distance-based calorie burn which is much more accurate than HR-based calorie burn.
And if distance is off because stride-length setting is off, calories for it are off.

Do you have much more than 50 lbs to lose to healthy weight?
Then yes to 1000 less than Garmin says you burned.
750 deficit for 30-50.
500 for 15-30
250 for below 15.

And that MFP adjustment will cause MFP to adjust your eating goal to cause the deficit you selected during MFP setup.

Unless - the initial 1000 less than MFP estimated daily burn would go below 1200 or 1500 for female/male - in which case it stops eating goal there. But your base eating goal probably around 2000 if you indeed selected 2 lbs weekly.
Then it adds on adjustment as needed.

You might enable in Food settings the Negative Adjustment - for days you are not as active as your MFP activity level.
You'll correctly eat less when you do less.
And eat more when you do more.

And in either case, less than you burn to drop hopefully just fat weight.

grum841

Thanks for your replies, didn't realise how thorough and in depth this is.