Calories keep changing???

Soundbodysoundmind
Soundbodysoundmind Posts: 45 Member
edited November 20 in Health and Weight Loss
My calories keep going over each time I log in?? Like I was just at -47 (over my amount) then it jumped to -58 and I haven't eaten anything or changed anything except adding my water intake. Is anyone else having this problem??

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  • DemoraFairy
    DemoraFairy Posts: 1,806 Member
    Have you got a Fitbit or any device like that connected to your account? If you have, it's probably that.
  • Soundbodysoundmind
    Soundbodysoundmind Posts: 45 Member
    DemoraFairy wrote: »
    Have you got a Fitbit or any device like that connected to your account? If you have, it's probably that.

    No I don't./:
  • editorgrrl
    editorgrrl Posts: 7,060 Member
    Click on the adjustment (in your diary under exercise) to see the math MFP used to calculate it—and what device (for example, your phone) is telling MFP that you're burning fewer calories than your MFP activity level.
  • TheVirgoddess
    TheVirgoddess Posts: 4,535 Member
    Soundbodysoundmind wrote: »
    DemoraFairy wrote: »
    Have you got a Fitbit or any device like that connected to your account? If you have, it's probably that.

    No I don't./:

    You have some sort of step tracker adjustment going on.
  • shadow2soul
    shadow2soul Posts: 7,692 Member
    Soundbodysoundmind wrote: »
    My calories keep going over each time I log in?? Like I was just at -47 (over my amount) then it jumped to -58 and I haven't eaten anything or changed anything except adding my water intake. Is anyone else having this problem??

    It's from your iPhone tracked steps. Look in your exercise diary and click on the iOS adjustment to see the math behind it.
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    Something is attached to it, that's causing it to adjust your calories.
  • Kimegatron
    Kimegatron Posts: 772 Member
    It was suggested to me, to enable my negative calories. It says that my Fitbit calories are less than MFP calories. Why are MFP calories higher?
  • MakePeasNotWar
    MakePeasNotWar Posts: 1,329 Member
    Kimegatron wrote: »
    It was suggested to me, to enable my negative calories. It says that my Fitbit calories are less than MFP calories. Why are MFP calories higher?

    Because the activity level you set MFP at is higher than your actual activity level for the day so far.
  • Kimegatron
    Kimegatron Posts: 772 Member
    Omg... I'm at the lowest level, HAHAHAAH I'm failing today.
  • shadow2soul
    shadow2soul Posts: 7,692 Member
    Kimegatron wrote: »
    It was suggested to me, to enable my negative calories. It says that my Fitbit calories are less than MFP calories. Why are MFP calories higher?
    MFP estimates how many calories you will burn in a day based on your activity level setting, stats, and any logged exercise. The adjustment is the difference between what MFP estimated you would burn and what your Fitbit calorie burn is (will be just an estimate until midnight...changing as you are more or less active throughout the day).

    When I first got my Fitbit, I was such a couch potato that I lost calories on even MFP's Sedentary setting and exercising only brought my calorie burn up to MFP's prediction. It was shocking to say the least. However, I rarely ever get a negative adjustment now (even with my MFP activity level at Lightly Active).
  • CanadianFlybaby
    CanadianFlybaby Posts: 8 Member
    Thanks for the explanation!

    I noticed this for the first time last night. Closed off my entry for the day, ate my last (already logged) snack, drank more water, did 24 minutes of my physio stretches (I don't log those), climbed into bed, checked on my tablet to see if any of my friends had posted anything, and 40 calories had disappeared! Thankfully, this wasn't one of the days that I ate right up to the last calorie.

    Even so, I expected MFP to only count the calories my fitbit said I earned, not to estimate that I'll keep that active to the end of the day. (I'm set to sedentary because that it my lifestyle, at least 6 - 8 hours of sitting or standing but barely moving a day but as the physio is working my step count is now averaging closer to 10K per day, up from barely 7K.)

    I 'only' managed 9K steps yesterday (had a fluke 15K steps the day before so spent yesterday celebrating the fact that I could walk at all!) so is MFP looking at my increased activity over the past 3 weeks and using that in its calculations, overriding its own sedentary setting?
  • editorgrrl
    editorgrrl Posts: 7,060 Member
    My adjustments were wonky at first, but they got better—almost as if MFP was "learning" my routine.
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