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

vlwalling
vlwalling Posts: 1 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
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?

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  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,428 Member
    edited November 12
    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:

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    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?

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