calories adjusting or not tracking properly

Only thing I can think of is that your FB may have suggested to MFP that you were less active than what you had originally reported when MFP came up with your calorie goal #. (53M Here, also in the 1200-1220 range). I assume that you are set up to loose 2 pounds per week... If so, The way to determine if 1200 is too few for you would be to track your weight loss progress. if 1200 is too few, you will be loosing more than 2 pounds per week.

For activity trackers negative adjustments are there typically first thing in the morning when you sync.

And as your day goes by and you move more and more it goes away and you get the positive adjustment.

This is dependent on your activity level, if you log exercise on MFP and if you have enabled negative adjustments.

The thing with the activity trackers is it does depend on when you sync...

I noticed some days if my last sync is at 10pm it does adjust my "calories" lower the following day.

That being said I don't eat back all my calories I am given either...so I have a cushion.

What is your activity level on MFP set at? and what time was your last sync for yesterday?

Here is what my adjustment looks like today


notice the part in the box...how it reads "full day projection based on..."

The Fitbit calculates your TDEE based on your activity level and then it assumes that level of activity for the entire day. For me, I'm set at lightly active and it seems to base my TDEE on me getting approx. 265 steps per hour, or around 6300 steps per day. When I wake up in the morning, I'll see a negative adjustment because I am under the expected goal. As the day goes on and I get more steps it goes from a negative adjustment to a positive one. Say I have my 6300 steps by 5 pm. I will see a positive adjustment because I've been more active than their formula would predict - I've walked 6300 vs. the approx. 4500 (17 hours x 265 steps) Fitbit expects for that time of day. Now, say I don't move again the rest of the day. As I sync, my positive adjustment will go down throughout the evening because my activity level is getting closer to the expected level for the day. By midnight, I will see that I have no positive or negative adjustment because I've just met my steps goal for the day.

This same thing is why taking a 4 mile walk first thing in the morning nets me a much smaller adjustment than if I do it in the evening. Getting 8000 steps at 8 am, I first have to make up for the 2400 I was in the "hole" from sleeping. When I go walking in the evening, I'm usually past my step goal for that time, so I get credit for the full 8000 steps. It all averages out at the end of the day and the more you use the Fitbit, the better you will get at estimating where your day will end. I figured out the 6300 number because I had a -7 calorie adjustment one day when I had 6200 steps, so I know that if I get at least 6300 steps, I won't see a negative adjustment.

shell1005 wrote: »

If your FitBit informs MFP that you aren't as active as MFP assumed you would be throughout the day then you can get a negative adjustment. That is how you go from in the positive to in the negative.

You can turn off negative adjustments however that is only going to get you to eat calories based on the MFP calculation and not on the actual activity you did day to day. I'd prefer to go on the real data, not the imagined one.

not so much the bolded.

I had my activity level set at lightly active based on my actual activity and no negative adjustments...and I got my adjustment from my jawbone as long as I did over 8500 steps...

I prefer the negative adjustment and sedentary cause I like seeing the number earlier in the day...silly but it works for me.