My activity tracker is adding extra exercise every morning....

Sounds like you are getting a negative calorie adjustment, I.e. you are starting the day with LESS food than you would otherwise.

That's because during the night when you slept you did not keep up to the activity level you've set yourself up as in MFP.

As you move during the day, you will either catch up or not!

If you are getting a POSITIVE adjustmebt , either your misfit is erroneously counting activity while you're asleep (what is your step count?), or misfit and mfp have a serious disagreement as to what your base TDEE is, with misfit believing it is more than what mfp does.


How much weight are you setup to lose each week, and how much have you been losing? How long?

Double check that there isn't a little negative sign in front of that adjustment as it is common to have such in the mornings.

Technically "disagree about your TDEE" was an incorrect statement, if what you say is true they are actually disagreeing about your BMR (base metabolic rate), not TDEE.

Mfp guesses as to what you will burn during the day by using a formula and plugging in your stats.

Thus, when you connect an all day activity tracker it sort of defers to what the activity tracker believes your caloric burn to be because, you know, your tracker is actually tracking you!

I've never heard of what you describe (click on the little i in the exercise adjustment to get detailed information on what mfp is basing the adjustment on), because normally morning adjustments are negative ones

The reason you would have a valid positive one is because tou were up moving around after midnight. Otherwise you need to check and see if your misfit is recording steps while you sleep and whether you have entered your stats correctly with them.

kae612 wrote: »

Yep, I checked just now and there's no little negative sign. I checked the little "i" and this is what it said:
"This is how we calculate your calorie adjustment:
Misfit Wearables Calories Burned Full Day Projection
(Based on 787 calories burned as of 6:17 am) 2265
MyFitnessPal Calories Burned
2003
Misfit Wearables Calorie Adjustment
262 "
It definitely reads as though I'm sleepwalking, doesn't it! I don't sleepwalk, but I may toss and turn a lot. If I was moving a lot, though, I would expect the sleep tracker to read me as "awake". Last night it recorded me as having 9h34m of sleep, with 8min awake around 1am, 3h38min light sleep, and 5h56min deep sleep.

Well, does your morning step count indicate that you are getting credit for tossing and turning?
(tossing and turning would burn calories too!)

So, this morning, Misfit reported that you had burned 787Cal between 00:00 and 6:17.

Then MFP added the amount of calories it assumes you will spend during the rest of the day based on the activity level you've selected. According to MFP this would be 1478Cal between 6:17 and 23:59

Based on this, MFP concludes that you will burn 2265 (1478+787) calories till the end of the day.

Your activity setting in MFP (where you are probably setup as sedentary while you probably aren't), without any outside input, would have had you burn 2003 calories between 00:00 and 23:59

Thus, Misfit indicated that in the period between 00:00 and 6:17 you spent 262 Calories more than what your activity level, as setup in MFP, would have predicted that you would spend.

Now: either misfit recorded steps because of your tossing and turning throughout the night, or, possibly, but unlikely, Misfit thinks that you spend more calories in a day than MFP thinks.

This could be a configuration issue (your height, weight, sex are wrong in either the one app or the other), or a philosophical disagreement ;-)

Check your settings. Check your steps as of 6:17am (did you have 200 or 2000?) and keep on going.

In spite of my own fitbit not being able to counts steps more accurately than a drunken sailor, it seems that in general the calorie count it gives out is correct!