Daily total and exercise deductions

DeboraDC2
DeboraDC2 Posts: 1 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Can someone PLEASE help me understand my daily tracker?? It makes NO sense to me. I have a 1200 calorie allotment per day. Deducted from that is the food I eat. But ALSO deducted from that is the amount of exercise my Fitbit syncs to MFP. So, at noon today, my home page says this - Daily Total 1200 - food - exercise (yes, my ipad says MINUS exercise....) according to this, the more I exercise, the less I get to eat. What's wrong with this picture?????

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  • DeguelloTex
    DeguelloTex Posts: 6,652 Member
    It sounds like a negative adjustment caused by burning less than your activity setting suggests that you would have.
  • jeepinshawn
    jeepinshawn Posts: 642 Member
    You need to switch MFP to sedentary activity level, that should fix it.
  • editorgrrl
    editorgrrl Posts: 7,060 Member
    Your Fitbit burn is TDEE (total daily energy expenditure), the calories necessary to maintain your current weight. Your default MFP calorie goal is activity level minus deficit. Adjustments are the difference between your Fitbit burn and your MFP activity level (sedentary, lightly active, etc.).

    If (and only if) you enable negative calorie adjustments in your diary settings, your adjusted goal is TDEE minus deficit: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings

    No need to log any step-based activity—your Fitbit is tracking it for you. Log non-step exercise (like swimming or biking) either in Fitbit or in MFP—never both. Exercise logged in MFP overwrites your Fitbit burn during that time.

    You can learn more in the Fitbit Users group: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/1290-fitbit-users
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