Garmin Negative calorie adjustment & static bike

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  • TooManyMinstrels
    TooManyMinstrels Posts: 20 Member
    But the net effect of exercising on what I can eat today is 82 calories I think. I don't know why I'm having such a hard time getting my head around this!
    I will exercise because I enjoy it anyway, but just looking at it as a transaction as in 'does that workout mean I can have a slice of cake at lunchtime', it doesn't seem to stack up?
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    TooManyMinstrels wrote: »
    But the net effect of exercising on what I can eat today is 82 calories I think. I don't know why I'm having such a hard time getting my head around this!
    I will exercise because I enjoy it anyway, but just looking at it as a transaction as in 'does that workout mean I can have a slice of cake at lunchtime', it doesn't seem to stack up?

    You can't project that 82 calories for the rest of the day. It's just to that point in time.
    You burned 436 net calories in your ride and that doesn't change because of one early morning sync.

    BTW - I'm not familiar with Garmin watches as I used a Garmin bike computer but one of the features was that you could pair to sensors. So maybe you could pair your Fenix to the bike's power meter to get the watch to use power rather than HR data?
  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    TooManyMinstrels wrote: »
    @heybales have I got this right - the net effect of me getting up at silly o'clock in the morning and sitting on a bike for an hour was 82 calories?!

    That's more depressing than I thought! (I sweated and everything)

    No - you got the exercise calories too. Remember - you said you had 2 entries for exercise actually, you deleted the higher one.

    Your base eating goal + 436 exercise + 82 adjustment = higher eating goal by 512.

    You reported ONLY the line about the Garmin adjustment - there is another line about the workout.
    Both of those are added together for total exercise calories.

    That total is added to base eating goal.


    Not sure why it's confusing you, perhaps because MFP put the adjustment under exercise when it really isn't always about exercise. But for their existing system it was the easiest place to put the new syncing ability several years ago.

    For Garmin syncing (different with Fitbit):
    Workouts are their own line in Exercise Diary. Always positive.
    MFP corrections to their estimated daily burn based on device daily burn are their own adjustment line in the Exercise Diary. May be positive or negative.

    You need to look at the line that usually does confuse people: the main dashboard line about base eating goal + eaten so far + (or -) exercise calories = amount remaining to eat.
    You'll see that reporting the results of the Exercise Diary total.

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