Exercise calories on app

bonnie_b_1960
bonnie_b_1960 Posts: 3 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Question: Why to the exercise calories you "earn" go down in number as you consume more calories,(toward the end of the day)

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  • Retroguy2000
    Retroguy2000 Posts: 1,885 Member
    Do you have some fitness thing sync'ing?
  • Lietchi
    Lietchi Posts: 6,904 Member
    Retroguy2000 wrote: »
    Do you have some fitness thing sync'ing?

    I was thinking the same thing.

    With a synced device, there is an extrapolation going on to estimate your calorie burn for the entire day. If you exercise earlier on in the day but are less active later in the day, the estimate is revised?
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,769 Member
    Are you using an Apple Watch? And do you have diary entry that looks like this?

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    MFP does an Apple Watch adjustment. Shortest way to explain it is, it “deducts” calories you would have earned anyway by living eating and breathing, with an adjustment for the activity level you selected in goals, so you don’t get double credit.

    I don’t know if other trackers are adjusted likewise. The only one I’ve heard mentioned is Apple Watch.
  • Lietchi
    Lietchi Posts: 6,904 Member
    springlering62 wrote: »
    Are you using an Apple Watch? And do you have diary entry that looks like this?

    m5f4xon4gp6k.jpeg

    MFP does an Apple Watch adjustment. Shortest way to explain it is, it “deducts” calories you would have earned anyway by living eating and breathing, with an adjustment for the activity level you selected in goals, so you don’t get double credit.

    I don’t know if other trackers are adjusted likewise. The only one I’ve heard mentioned is Apple Watch.

    Garmin is similar: since the exercise burn includes BMR, those double counted BMR calories need to be subtracted via the calorie adjustment. It's not always noticeable, but it's very obvious on days when I do long hikes (=many BMR calories included in my exercise burn) with often a significant negative calorie adjustment, but the total adjustment is still positive.

    Not sure if that's what the OP is talking about?
  • andrepdx
    andrepdx Posts: 2 Member
    You can turn that feature off so it doesn't add negative calories. It's in the app settings. Good luck.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,724 Member
    andrepdx wrote: »
    You can turn that feature off so it doesn't add negative calories. It's in the app settings. Good luck.

    IMO, that's a bad idea. It's likely to result in less accuracy, not more accuracy.

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