Amount of steps

j2boakes
j2boakes Posts: 3 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Can any body help me please?
Why is it the more steps I do the less calories I am allowed to consume?

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  • 4legsRbetterthan2
    4legsRbetterthan2 Posts: 19,589 MFP Moderator
    that does not sound right at all

    can you give more information about what is going on. I assume this is a fitbit or other device issue?
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    sounds like a bug, what version, operating system etc ? or is this a gadget counting steps...
  • Talan79
    Talan79 Posts: 782 Member
    I've noticed with MFP, my earned calories diminish as the day goes by. I'll run in the morning and it will give me like 250 exercise calories. As the day goes by and I walk more, those calories decrease. The next day it's down to 50. Probably a glitch. I don't eat back my cals so I'm not worried. As of today tho, after the update, I no longer have exercise calorie adjustment. Saw a thread, so it's probably the update.
  • PeachyPlum
    PeachyPlum Posts: 1,243 Member
    tzarba wrote: »
    I've noticed with MFP, my earned calories diminish as the day goes by. I'll run in the morning and it will give me like 250 exercise calories. As the day goes by and I walk more, those calories decrease. The next day it's down to 50. Probably a glitch. I don't eat back my cals so I'm not worried. As of today tho, after the update, I no longer have exercise calorie adjustment. Saw a thread, so it's probably the update.

    Yeah, when it syncs with a device, it makes some assumptions about what the rest of your day is going to be like. You can see this when you click the "exercise" tab and then click the little Information (i) beside your calorie burn. It will tell you that it's predicting your TDEE for that entire day. So if you're normally pretty active in the afternoons, but today you decided to binge-watch Netflix, it's going to start grabbing those calories back from you!
  • j2boakes
    j2boakes Posts: 3 Member
    4legsRbetterthan2 wrote: »
    that does not sound right at all

    can you give more information about what is going on. I assume this is a fitbit or other device issue?

    I have it paired with the Withings app.
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    Hasn't this got something to do with enabling "negative calories" ???
  • Talan79
    Talan79 Posts: 782 Member
    @PeachyPlum ok got! Thanks. I thought that once it was earned it didn't matter what I did rest of the day. I go to work and sit mostly. Now it makes sense.
  • littlebee55
    littlebee55 Posts: 71 Member
    I hate it that it does that. I have over eaten because of it. Mine has done the same as yours. How in the world can you know how many calories you can eat by dinner time. I started just trying to stay within my 1200 calories, but not worry about going over a little bit. It seems to do it whether or not negative calories is checked or not on my Fitbit.
  • PeachyPlum
    PeachyPlum Posts: 1,243 Member
    When I sync mine early in the day, I just go under the exercise tab and delete the calorie adjustment.
    Then I'll sync it at dinner time to find out if I earned enough calories for seconds or dessert.
  • littlebee55
    littlebee55 Posts: 71 Member
    Something else that really bugged me the other day was I burned 248 calories in steps, then took off my Fitbit so i could do water aerobics. I burned around 345 or so calories. When I added the non-step based aerobics, it wiped out all of my step calories. I was so irritated.
  • j2boakes
    j2boakes Posts: 3 Member
    It seems odd that you can burn all those calories exercising which in theory should give you more to eat. Otherwise if the burned calories through walking just takes it off of the calorie intake I'm allowed then I won't be able to eat anything as I'm reducing my intake by waking.
    So basically if I sit on my *kitten* all day and just eat my 2500 calories I'm entitled to then I won't gain weight. But wait a minute I need to walk to the kitchen which will count against my daily intake. So eventually I will end up wasting away to nothing.
    It doesn't make sense.
    Why does it need to predict it when it has a live update to be able to calculate my calorie intake whenever I'm about to eat.
    It seems like a massive flaw.
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