Negative calories driving me crazy!

The way it works is by making some determination of how many calories you'll typically burn throughout the day. You get negative calories if you're not keeping up with that. For example, in the morning you may have negative if you haven't moved much yet. If you get up and take a walk, it'll adjust to positive.

It's a tool to help you know how you're keeping up throughout the day. What it's not is something that magically gives or takes away how many calories you can eat. Your body doesn't know or care if you're tracking, it only cares what you're eating and how much you're burning.

If seeing the negative number bothers you, you can 1) stop using it, or 2) use it as motivation to move more and get it to positive.

HypnoticHayleeLynn wrote: »

Mine adjusted so low though. Even with a burn of 500 cals plus 6 to 7 k steps it still wanted me eating only 1800 cals. Does that sound right?

Have you checked that all of your stats (height, weight, etc.) are correct and checked that the time zones are also the same?

I'm confused, you're getting *negative* adjustments with 6-7000 steps and another 500 cal burn? Below is how mine reads, is yours similar? Perhaps you're seeing the subtraction symbol and think it means negative calories?

Here's what mine looks like on MFP:
Calories remaining: 1134
Starting calorie goal: 1440
Food I've eaten/logged so far today: 1138
Exercise: 832
Net: 306

It's shown as 1138 - 832 = 306

It LOOKS LIKE a negative adjustment, but it's not. It just means that so far I've eaten 1138, and exercised 832, so I've burned 306 fewer calories than I've eaten. This is a very confusing way for it to be shown, IMO. But the numbers that really matter (to me) are my starting goal and my calories remaining.

*****==== Edited to add - the above is the way it is on the website. Below is (close to) the way it's shown on the app. The app doesn't show the "net", which is irrelevant anyway, IMO =====*****

IMO it would make more sense if MFP showed it as:

1440 + 832 = 2272 (total calories allowed for the day including exercise) - 1138 (calories already eaten) = 1134 calories remaining.

If this isn't what's going on, and you're getting 1800 calories WITH a negative adjustment, what's your starting calories??

HypnoticHayleeLynn wrote: »

Here's a photo. Am I just looking at something wrong? All info is correct http://imgur.com/YngLrNK

Which app are you logging the Elliptical Trainer exercise? If you are logging it in MFP, are you logging the Start Time correctly so that the Jawbone UP syncs it correctly?

Edited to Add: Did you verify time zones match on both apps?

Granted I've only been on here a few days, but I have yet to meet the goals I set up. My doctors keep telling me it's going to take time, but it's still frustrating. We'll get there.

There's a glitch in how UP is counting your calories. YOU are not crazy!

Check to make sure your settings are correct. If you need help doing that, I can give you step-by-step directions.