MFP negative calorie adjustment settings for 1lb a week loss

I don't know what the Withings is, but it looks like it's tracking your run as well as runkeeper ? I don't understand why the Withings is doing a negative adjustment at all TBH as you're doing quite a lot of steps.

I would expect the Withings adjustment to be positive, with the possible exception of the no exercise -98 cal adjustment. I have negative adjustments on my fitbit turned off, but if I do say 10,000 steps it'll add a few hundred calories in the way your RunKeeper is.

http://blog.withings.com/2013/12/10/myfitnesspal-and-the-withings-pulse-the-integration-is-now-complete-2/ might help ??

I use Fitbit... and I assume the context of the way it works is similar to most trackers. The negative adjustment is the difference between Fitbit calories out and MFP daily planned calories.

The negative adjustment for me, changes. I may have 550 calories extra, but by 7:00 p.m. the adjustment may be down to 350.

But this is how I setup the software for Fitbit Charge. Perhaps there is a forum in MFP for RunKeeper like they have for Fitbit Users.

But in short, there is no doubling of anything. It is a split difference between the two. But I usually have extra calories I could eat back if I choose to.

I have run into the same issue. Unfortunately, the math in MFP is flawed. The negative adjustments accounts for activities which the Pulse simply cannot measure. For example, i take off my Pulse while weight lifting as it does not register the 500-550 cal/hr which i burn from lifting. Therefore, if i were to enter Weight Lifting 500 calories into the Exercise tab in MFP, the Withings Adjusted Exercise would included those calories into the MFP BMR adjustment (even though i wasn't even wearing it (Adustment = Pulse Burn Projection - [MFP BMR + Logged Activity). The assumption that the Logged Activities were registered by Pulse is flawed.
Example, my Withing Projected Burn could be 2230, my MFP estimated BMR could be 2200, but i logged an hour of Lifting that day (500). So i need to eat 2700 to Maintain my weight. But if i were to eat 2700, my MFP (and Health Mate) would say that i over-ate by 470 calories.

The most effective way to accurately 'trick' MFP is to enter your Additional activities into MFP as a custom Food with negative calories. I have Weight Lifting as -10 calories/min (min is a serving). So lifting for 55 mins is 55 servings, or -550 calories of Food Consumption. This will subtract those exercise calories from your daily consumption. And the values in MFP and Health Mate will both have an accurate representations of my calories balance.
Note: the MFP iPhone app WILL NOT show Foods with negative calories and the Daily Consumption will be incorrectly tallied; however, the MFP website will show it correctly, as will Health Mate (both website and app).

babymunkey69 wrote: »

I'll check - tbh I don't update them regularly - obviously my age and gender don't require updating (!) and my weight is synched from Withings scales.

Maybe you are right and I should check with tech support, but today was complete madness. I ran this morning, so the run should have synched from RunKeeper. Also did loads of walking and pottering in the garden - recorded a total of 10.600 steps.

For some wierd reason, MFP reported the run 3 times over, and didnt record it as having come from RK. gave me this...

Run 442 kcal
Run 478 kcal
Run 423 kcal
Withings Adjustment - minus 1123 kcal.

Clearly something wrong today. I might try a week with taking the Activite off while exercising and see what happens....

I think there were some system glitches yesterday that caused double posts, so that may be the case with the triple posting for your exercise. Definitely check your MFP and tracking app settings. It sounds like you are set to "active" and not "sedentary" because I've noticed that MFP seems to start making positive adjustments for sedentary for steps above 3000-4000 per day. I do get the negative adjustments from Fitbit if I log an exercise itself, but that's to be expected because it is accounting for TDEE.

How are your losses matching up with your deficit? Mine seems to be pretty spot on for deficit vs. loss with all of the adjustments it does. I also have both MFP and my Fitbit set to lightly active instead of sedentary because I pretty much never get below 6000 steps per day and I find it motivating that if I happen to have a very sedentary day, I am reminded to move my butt because I start getting calories taken away.