Excerise = Less calories

Not sure what you mean - did a workout you did 6 months ago when you were heavier use more calories than the same workout now when you are lighter (and therefore using less work?)

Someone else just mentioned that too.

You are reading something wrong.

Look at your Food diary.

If your normal non-exercise day is Sedentary and MFP estimated you'd burn 2500 calories, then your eating goal is say 500 less with 1 lb weekly goal loss.
2500-500 = 2000 eating goal on non-exercise days.

You logged a workout that burned 700 calories. Your maintenance just went up.
2500 + 700 = 3200

MFP still takes the same 500 cal deficit.
3200 - 500 = 2700 eating goal on this exercise day.

Same deficit, to give you your desired weekly weight loss.

Some of the other places you read the above info can look a little strange until you realize that's what MFP is doing really.


Now, if what you mean is your workout burned 700 calories, but on syncing say a Fitbit or BodyMedia with MFP it appears you only got 600 credit because of adjustments, then you are understanding what is happening there wrong.

That is not a sync of your exercise calories, that is a sync of and compare of your daily burn.
So that daily activity tracker told MFP you burned 3100 calories for the day, and 700 of that happens to be a workout.
MFP sees it was estimating 2500 for non-exercise, and you burned 3100 in total.
3100 - 2500 = 600 cal adjustment so MFP sees you burned 3100.

Then, 3100 - 500 = 2600 eating goal for that day.

If on every non-exercise day you had no adjustment, that means that activity tracker and MFP agree on your non-exercise maintenance.
And then if you get an adjustment less than the exercise amount - it means you were more lazy for rest of the day probably because of the exercise. So you burned 700, but you didn't burn 100 somewhere else you normally do. Net 600 burn.