Steps

emmajulie98765

I set my activity level as active because I usually do an average of 13 thousand steps a day. I’ve been off work today and only done 2 thousand steps up to now but MFP has given me back 14 calories based on these steps. I thought my daily calories were based off my activity level being active why is it already giving me calories back?

herringboxes

If you are tracking your steps and MFP can see them, it will give you those calories back.

Setting your activity level to Active is useful if your typical day is active and untracked - for example if you work a warehoise job.

But setting your level to active AND tracking your activity will lead to double counting.

Either ignore the calories given back, or stop tracking steps in MFP, or set your activity level to sedentery and track (and eat) your activity.

Lietchi

herringboxes wrote: »

If you are tracking your steps and MFP can see them, it will give you those calories back.

Setting your activity level to Active is useful if your typical day is active and untracked - for example if you work a warehoise job.

But setting your level to active AND tracking your activity will lead to double counting.

Either ignore the calories given back, or stop tracking steps in MFP, or set your activity level to sedentery and track (and eat) your activity.

That's not true though when someone has a fitness tracker synced: the end result (calorie goal) should be the same, a higher activity level setting up front will give a smaller (or negative) calorie adjustment than choosing a lower activity level setting.

cwolfman13

herringboxes wrote: »

If you are tracking your steps and MFP can see them, it will give you those calories back.

Setting your activity level to Active is useful if your typical day is active and untracked - for example if you work a warehoise job.

But setting your level to active AND tracking your activity will lead to double counting.

Either ignore the calories given back, or stop tracking steps in MFP, or set your activity level to sedentery and track (and eat) your activity.

That's not how synched devices work.

PAV8888

Are you using a tracker? Do you have negative calories enabled? [you should especially if set to active] Do you log activity or exercises on MFP while having a tracker connected? [you shouldn't especially if using a tracker and MFP is set to anything other than sedentary--and even then I would refrain from doing so till you fully understood the implications of MFP activity vs logged exercise and back and forth synchronization and what entry overwrites what]