MyFitnessPal Calories Burned value changes daily - didn't before, why now?

fraserkr
fraserkr Posts: 110 Member
edited November 29 in Fitness and Exercise
why does MyFitnessPal Calories Burned keep changing when I've not logged any exercise (besides automatic Fitbit Calorie Adjustment)? this seems to be a recent oddity.

The MFP Calories Burned had remained the same as long as my Diet Profile remained the same (especially activity level). I've not changed my activity level in MFP, so why the change in MFP calories burned?

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  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,251 Member
    I would think it would be the automatic calorie adjustment from FitBit?
  • Saraness
    Saraness Posts: 32 Member
    Mine is acting up too and not.. yesterday I burned about 700 calories and today my burn from yesterday isn't showing. My calories burned today are also oddly low compared to other days where I have done the same
  • AeiriMuse
    AeiriMuse Posts: 254 Member
    If you are logging activities on MFP as well as your pedometer syncing, depending on the settings it will see that you've logged the activity on MFP and will not count what it said your burn was for that allotment of time. So even if you had a high step count, if you logged a workout on MFP it will count that duration and calories out of the calories burned from your steps.
  • jdnels2
    jdnels2 Posts: 1 Member
    No. There is definitely something wrong. This problem just started yesterday.
  • AnitaDJ88
    AnitaDJ88 Posts: 5 Member
    Map my walk recorded a 304 calorie burn and yet MFP recorded it as 106 calories!
  • robingmurphy
    robingmurphy Posts: 349 Member
    I'm having the same issue
  • ohhsoocutee
    ohhsoocutee Posts: 1 Member
    Same here. Let's say on a given day at 2pm I would have already burned 300 calories... Then, after a workout which burned 600 calories... MFP will all of a sudden change my total calories burned to something like 100 calories total only.... When it should be 900 calories total instead.... What's going on?
  • robingmurphy
    robingmurphy Posts: 349 Member
    They sent me an email saying they are working on it.
  • fraserkr
    fraserkr Posts: 110 Member
    robingmurphy wrote: »
    They sent me an email saying they are working on it.
    thanks for the info regarding issue being worked on by MFP.

  • fraserkr
    fraserkr Posts: 110 Member
    edited February 2016
    AeiriMuse wrote: »
    If you are logging activities on MFP as well as your pedometer syncing, depending on the settings it will see that you've logged the activity on MFP and will not count what it said your burn was for that allotment of time. So even if you had a high step count, if you logged a workout on MFP it will count that duration and calories out of the calories burned from your steps.

    with respect to this issue, I am not logging activity on MFP (other than FitBit adjustment). The MFP calories burned is shown separately from the FitBit calories burned.
  • fraserkr
    fraserkr Posts: 110 Member
    I found this MFP support post dated 2/5 https://myfitnesspal.desk.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2315186-fitbit---mfp-s-total-daily-energy-expenditure-calculation-incorrect
    seems there's more than one thread related to this issue although people report symptoms differently.
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