Calorie limit going down, why?

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KnittingDragon
KnittingDragon Posts: 14 Member
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Okay I, finally, managed to get my Garmin to connect and log my (very limited steps), and now I have FEWER calories on a daily basis, and each day the number it is reducing it by is going up leaving me with even less to play with (started by removing 17, then 33, now up to 83 fewer calories!).

Does anyone have any idea why?

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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 36,879 Member
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    Generically, with a tracker synced and negative calorie adjustments enabled, MFP will subtract calories when a person moves less than MFP expected based on that person's "activity level" setting in MFP. Even the "sedentary"/"not very active" setting assumes some daily movement to do home chores and that sort of thing, do a sedentary job, etc.

    Any possibility your daily life activity amounts to fewer calories than what MFP thought you'd burn, in terms of maintenance calories? (Compare your base MFP goal plus the calories in your calorie deficit to your tracker's all day calorie expenditure estimate. By calories in your calorie deficit, I mean 500 calories daily if set for a pound a week, 1100 if set for a kilo a week - that sort of thing. There are reasons why that comparison might not be exact and still be within the realm of reasonable, but it should give you some hint.)

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