Calories burned not showing

Fyrebreathing

I walked 18,309 steps and no calories were burned. Obviously I wasn't being very sedentary so why weren't my calories shown

durden

Please accept our apologies for any confusion surrounding your adjustment. If you are seeing a step count and a 0 for the adjustment, then you have not yet earned an adjustment.

The adjustment is actually not based on your step count, but instead based on your entire activity for the day. The step count is there as an incentive and though it does contribute to part of your activity level, it's not the sole contributor.

Therefore x amount of steps does not mean you will receive x amount of extra calories.

The way the adjustment is derived is by comparing your total calories burned from your tracker against the total calories already provided by MyFitnessPal.

When you have earned more calories than MyFitnessPal has already provided, you will then see the difference as your adjustment.

** You can view a breakdown of this calculation by tapping on the adjustment line and then on the adjustment itself (above the Learn More button) in the app, or by clicking the "i" next to the adjustment line in the Cardiovascular section online at www.MyFitnessPal.com **

Please also note: the total calories from MyFitnessPal will include any calories instantly provided by adding separate exercises (outside of your partner adjustment) to MyFitnessPal, along with the calories needed to reach the goals you set when joining the program.

The following article may also help: https://myfitnesspal.zendesk.com/hc/articles/360032623871-What-is-the-Calorie-Adjustment-in-my-Exercise-Diary-

KareninCanada

Do you have your step counter synced to MFP? Personally I don't count my daily walking as extra calories, but I do use runkeeper to track intentional walking and it syncs pretty quickly.

Fyrebreathing

I do, I even unsyched it and resynched it in case that was the issue. The steps themselves are counted in as exercise on the my fitness app but where it says calories burned it says 0

Fyrebreathing

So what you're saying is that 18,309 steps is NOT being active even tho I literally went out and walked FOR exercise, please make that make sense to me

AnnPT77

Fyrebreathing wrote: »

So what you're saying is that 18,309 steps is NOT being active even tho I literally went out and walked FOR exercise, please make that make sense to me

Did you tap on the adjustment as suggested in Durden's message above? That should give you more details.

There's no particular number of steps that count as "active". "Active" (or any other setting) is about total calorie expenditure through the day, from any type of movement (or lack of movement ) on top of BMR. The movement can be steps, home chores, exercise, job stuff, whatever.

This next bit is an EXAMPLE, not a suggestion about what is/isn't true for you.

Let's say a person is really motivated to lose weight, and starts taking 20,000 steps daily, since they have a very sedentary job. That's a lot of steps! It can also be very tiring. Because of the high step count, that example person is fatigued, drags through the rest of the day, sits down whenever possible, even goes to bed early and/or sleeps late. The totality of their day may not count as "active", because their total calorie burn doesn't reach the calorie threshold for "active". (The example person might even get closer to active with 10k steps, if the lower step count left them feeling zippy so they did a bunch of yard work, did some other intentional exercise, cooked a higher-effort dinner, and caught up on home chores.)

Loosely, whatever all-day calories your tracker says you're burning is what's compared to MFP's "active" definition. If you burn more calories than that expectation, you'll get a positive adjustment (calories added). If you burn fewer calories than that expectation, AND you have negative adjustments turned on in MFP, you'll get a negative adjustment (calories subtracted).

If you want to get a positive adjustment, try reducing your MFP activity level setting to "lightly active" or something.