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Negative adjustments & Garmin vivo

Rpeat1
Rpeat1 Posts: 49 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Hello - can anyone help with this?

I have a Garmin vivo synced to MFP and it measures my activity 24/7, with step count anything from 10-30000 a day.

I've set my activity level to sedentary and disabled negative calorie adjustments. Sedentary because the Garmin will measure activity overall and nothing negative as I'll never be below the 'sedentary' base.

Is this right?

Thankyou!

Replies

  • sdado1013
    sdado1013 Posts: 209 Member
    I think you want to enable negative calorie adjustments if you are choosing sedentary activity level. check out this thread:

    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/31442594/#Comment_31442594
  • StaciMarie1974
    StaciMarie1974 Posts: 4,138 Member
    Negative calories should not matter for you... If you always receive 'extra' calories based on the tracker, then you're never below what MFP expects.
  • Rpeat1
    Rpeat1 Posts: 49 Member
    Thanks both. That was my thinking StaciMari
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    Enable negative calorie adjustments and you've got it!
  • StaciMarie1974
    StaciMarie1974 Posts: 4,138 Member
    *Enabling negative would mean you can see where you are vs. where you want to be at any time of the day. Personally I don't worry about that because I tend to get most of my activity in the evening. So I know the Fitbit # will be 0 thru most of the day.
  • dalhectar
    dalhectar Posts: 52 Member
    If your goal is to lose weight the conservative approach to caloric output is better than an aggressive approach to caloric output. Thus I would turn it on and take the lower calorie output adjustment vs turning it off and potentially error by over-assuming actual burned calories.
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