UP Negative Adjustment??
KValmera71
Posts: 82 Member
Does anyone have this setting on? I had it on for one week and on days I DID try to do a little exercising, I had a deficit??? My goal is 2000 calories. I am 42 and 330lbs and it would remove almost 500 calories a day leaving me about 1500 to eat for the day on days I had no extra added activity. It's just confusing and I cannot figure it out so I removed it.
Is it better to follow the calorie intake from UP rather than MFP???? Do I need to lower to 1500 daily to keep from being in an activity deficit or do 500 calories worth of activity a day to be able to eat my allotted 2000. I do not want to eat too low. I try to stay around 1800-2000.
Is it better to follow the calorie intake from UP rather than MFP???? Do I need to lower to 1500 daily to keep from being in an activity deficit or do 500 calories worth of activity a day to be able to eat my allotted 2000. I do not want to eat too low. I try to stay around 1800-2000.
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I keep the setting on....but I don't really pay any attention to it too much. I am 309lbs and it does similar crazy calorie adjustments for me. I've never really actually listened to what it said.
I'm interested in what others have to say about the topic.
Feel free to add me on MFP or on UP (stephanie.holleran@gmail.com)0 -
I ended up turning it off. I set my calorie goal on MFP based on my TDEE and what is a sustainable deficit for me to eat (if my goal is lower I tend to start way overeating or feeling a bit deprived/weak). So now UP gives me extra calories to eat if I go over my (approx.) TDEE and otherwise leaves me alone.0
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I never eat back my calories, I might eat a few if anything, but never close to eating them all back.0
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I have to keep mine off because I usually sync around 2am, which throws off the calculations on here. The reason for the adjustment is if you are wearing an UP and also logging exercise such as running / walking her on MFP. If that's the case then you should turn it on because you don't want your calorie burn from, say, a 30 minute run to be recorded in both places. If your exercise is anything other than walking / running ( and therefore not recorded by UP ), then turn it off. Or even if you do walk / run, but you don't log those sessions on MFP, then you are fine keeping it off.0
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If you're getting negative calorie adjustments, then your MFP activity level is set too high. If you click on any exercise adjustment, you'll see your UP total burn and your MFP calorie estimate.
When you set up your MFP account, you specified an activity level: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/change_goals_guided MFP used your answer, plus your age, sex & height, to estimate how many calories you burn every day (your TDEE, or total daily energy expenditure). Then you set your weight-loss goal, and MFP subtracted the appropriate deficit to calculate your daily calorie goal.
Once you link an activity tracker to your MFP account (via the "Apps" tab at the top of every page), you start getting calorie adjustments. If your tracker says you burned more calories than MFP estimated, you get a positive adjustment (meaning more calories to eat). If you enable negative calorie adjustments and you burn less than the MFP estimate, you will lose calories. (But negative calorie adjustments will never drop your daily calories below 1,200.)
Do not log any step based exercise. Non-step based activity (like swimming or spinning) can be logged either in Fitbit or in MFP--never both. If you choose to log them in MFP, you'll be asked for start & end times. Then MFP overrides your step data during that time.0 -
I have it on but I have no idea what it means or how to use it so I just do what makes sense to me....0
