MFP Miscalculating my calories??

summerorta
summerorta Posts: 1 Member
in Motivation and Support
For breakfast I ate 265 calories, then I had an 80 calorie snack...my daily goal is saying I have used a total of 445 calories today which is 100 calories more than what I actually have had...why? This is throwing me off.

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  • Lietchi
    Lietchi Posts: 6,846 Member
    Some screenshots might be helpful to understand what you're seeing?
    Those calories you're mentioning for your breakfast and snack are the calories you see in your diary, or are you referring to the calories on the label and perhaps the nutritional data on MFP is wrong (higher number)?
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    Did you verify the entries you selected from the database with the label of what you actually ate. MFPs database is crowdsourced from other users...the entries aren't calculated, they are entered by other users so my guess would be that you selected an entry with the wrong nutritional information compared to whatever nutritional label you're looking at.

    You have to select a correct entry. Some entries are just flat out wrong due to user error, but some entries are also erroneous because a label has changed. Labels can also be different from county to country for the same product due to differences in serving sizes or net carbs or whatever. You just have to vet your entries.

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