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Negative Calories question
tracie_minus100
Posts: 465 Member
I have my Fitbit synced to MFP and have the negative calories option selected. But I'm noticing that it's taking calories from me pretty early in the day. Today for example, I took it off of sleep mode at 5:45am and by 7am I had gone 1000 steps but it took over 100 calories away from me already! Is that right? I am not sure if I have a setting wrong. It's set to the proper time zone and I always enable and disable sleep mode. Is it supposed to take calories away from you before you've even really started the day? (sorry if this is a dumb question!)
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Its normal.
MFP assumes your hourly burn rate will be consistent all day long. Such as if MFP projects you'll burn 2000 then it expects you to burn 2000/24 each hour. But in reality - you're burning very little while you're sleeping and get your burn in during your waking hours. Say 8am-10pm. So you'll always start behind, but it should get better as the day goes on.
What I do: I have a daily calorie burn (total) goal of 2000 and know my BMR is just below 60 calories per hour. So when I'm ready to be done for the day, I look at my Fitbit to see calories burned and then estimate what my BMR will use. Such as I like to be over 1800 by 9pm as that will put me ~2000 for the day.0 -
Oh okay, that makes sense. Thanks!0
