Exercise calories burned not getting credit in my "Calories Remaining" for the day

vlwalling

My exercise calories burned is not calculating in the calories remaining section. Mine shows Goal 1,200 - Food 1,029 + Exercise "0" = remaining 171. I'm linked to my Fitbit which shows 1,560 calories burned (10,000+ steps) so that should have some impact on the Exercise "0" number. Just started doing this. How do I fix it?

springlering62

Hi @vlwalling welcome to MFP!

Don’t panic. It’s takes a minute to get in the groove. But hang in there. It’s worth it!

MFP will not show less than 1200 calories allowance per day for safety reasons. That’s a minimum calorie allowance for all but the very shortest people, and not enough for most people. I lost weight rapidly at 1470 increased to 2100 as I became more active, and still lost weight at that.

Folks who are starting out (and I get this, I’ve been there!) have no clue what a reasonable calorie goal or loss goal is, and being new, they get excited and want to lose quick so they tend to set wildly optimistic goals.

Often people set such an unrealistic loss goal that requires such a large deficit that MFP still shows the flat minimum 1200 default.

I’m wondering if your loss goal has created such a low calorie allowance that MFP has defaulted to 1200, and you’re getting unreliable data as a result.

Your diary page should look like this:



This is my own diary page thus far today. (I have already pre-logged all meals and snacks for today.)

At the top you’ll see my goal, then what I’ve logged so far today, and then my calories burned. It provides me a net difference of uneaten calories.

If you have your fitness tracker set up properly, it should automatically record each exercise to your diary, as mine has at the bottom of that screenshot.

As a caveat, if you are very active and have an adjustment set, you may also see a negative burn, as mine shows as an “Apple Watch Adjustment”. TBH you’re may not even see that at all unless you’re very active.

What’s your height, current weight, and how much did you set your goal per week at?

nawna2010

I am having the same problem and my calorie goal is not below 1200. I manually input my exercise and calories burned has showed in other days but won’t load today. Even if I copy from another day today still shows as 0 calories burned. And yes I have rebooted and no change.

chiariz

springlering62 wrote: »

Hi @vlwalling welcome to MFP!

Don’t panic. It’s takes a minute to get in the groove. But hang in there. It’s worth it!

MFP will not show less than 1200 calories allowance per day for safety reasons. That’s a minimum calorie allowance for all but the very shortest people, and not enough for most people. I lost weight rapidly at 1470 increased to 2100 as I became more active, and still lost weight at that.

Folks who are starting out (and I get this, I’ve been there!) have no clue what a reasonable calorie goal or loss goal is, and being new, they get excited and want to lose quick so they tend to set wildly optimistic goals.

Often people set such an unrealistic loss goal that requires such a large deficit that MFP still shows the flat minimum 1200 default.

I’m wondering if your loss goal has created such a low calorie allowance that MFP has defaulted to 1200, and you’re getting unreliable data as a result.

Your diary page should look like this:



This is my own diary page thus far today. (I have already pre-logged all meals and snacks for today.)

At the top you’ll see my goal, then what I’ve logged so far today, and then my calories burned. It provides me a net difference of uneaten calories.

If you have your fitness tracker set up properly, it should automatically record each exercise to your diary, as mine has at the bottom of that screenshot.

As a caveat, if you are very active and have an adjustment set, you may also see a negative burn, as mine shows as an “Apple Watch Adjustment”. TBH you’re may not even see that at all unless you’re very active.

What’s your height, current weight, and how much did you set your goal per week at?

Hi! Trying to understand how this works... in your example, are you eating those 478 calories you "earned" from excercise, or does your day end like that? I'm not sure if I should integrate them or not. Thanks!

springlering62

chiariz wrote: »

springlering62 wrote: »

Hi @vlwalling welcome to MFP!

Don’t panic. It’s takes a minute to get in the groove. But hang in there. It’s worth it!

MFP will not show less than 1200 calories allowance per day for safety reasons. That’s a minimum calorie allowance for all but the very shortest people, and not enough for most people. I lost weight rapidly at 1470 increased to 2100 as I became more active, and still lost weight at that.

Folks who are starting out (and I get this, I’ve been there!) have no clue what a reasonable calorie goal or loss goal is, and being new, they get excited and want to lose quick so they tend to set wildly optimistic goals.

Often people set such an unrealistic loss goal that requires such a large deficit that MFP still shows the flat minimum 1200 default.

I’m wondering if your loss goal has created such a low calorie allowance that MFP has defaulted to 1200, and you’re getting unreliable data as a result.

Your diary page should look like this:



This is my own diary page thus far today. (I have already pre-logged all meals and snacks for today.)

At the top you’ll see my goal, then what I’ve logged so far today, and then my calories burned. It provides me a net difference of uneaten calories.

If you have your fitness tracker set up properly, it should automatically record each exercise to your diary, as mine has at the bottom of that screenshot.

As a caveat, if you are very active and have an adjustment set, you may also see a negative burn, as mine shows as an “Apple Watch Adjustment”. TBH you’re may not even see that at all unless you’re very active.

What’s your height, current weight, and how much did you set your goal per week at?

Hi! Trying to understand how this works... in your example, are you eating those 478 calories you "earned" from excercise, or does your day end like that? I'm not sure if I should integrate them or not. Thanks!

My goal at that time was 2340. I ate 2351.

I am set at “highly active” but that day I wasn’t. I usually average 18-20,000 steps but that day I didn’t, due to plantar fasciitis. Got in less than 10,000, trying to rest my foot.

I earned about 650 exercise calories, but MFp recognized that I was well below average and wasn’t “highly active” that day. So the Apple Watch adjustment took off 150 calories, and gave me a net exercise gain of 489. You’ll see -150 if you scroll down to Exercise.

I “overate” by 9 over my goal, so uneaten exercise calories came to 478.

My day typically ends with a large calorie deficit. Every week or two, I’ll have a really large food day (3500-4500 calories) and I use up a lot of that deficit (although I’m not doing it lately because I’m trying to shed about 4-5 before we go on a trip. Travel eating is my nemesis because I can rationalize anything if I’m not home.)

I’m OK with a 7-day average on calories, macros etc. it saves the gnawing worry trying to balance them every single day.

Hope that explains your question?

ianwhitby4387

I'm having the same/similar issues. My steps are being recorded from my Fitbit but not calories burned. This started yesterday, it was fine on Monday.