Activity level question

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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 36,221 Member

    Do not add exercise manually in either MFP or Garmin, during a 4-6 week trial period. If you do some exercise for which Garmin has an explicit, accurate, named Activity, start the activity on your watch when you start that exercise, and end it when you finish.

    Don't add exercise if negative adjustments are on, or off. Negative adjustments and exercise have no direct relationship. Negative adjustments being turned on just means that MFP is allowed to subtract calories from your eating goal when you happen to burn fewer calories according to Garmin than MFP expects based on your profile settings. That's it.

    If negative adjustments are turned off, MFP won't ever subtract calories from your eating goal, even if for some reason you lie in bed all day doing absolutely nothing. If negative adjustments are turned off, a less-active day than MFP expects would wipe out some of your calorie deficit, so you'd expect to lose weight a bit slower.

    As your first guess, let Garmin evaluate your calorie burn during the under-desk pedal thing as an example of just regular daily life activity, and use the 4-6 week trial to see how well it does that, alongside how well it evaluates other movement for you.

    That's my advice.

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