Sedentary = You literally don't move at all
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Are you 200+ pounds overweight? The more you weigh, the more energy it takes to move.0
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rainbowbow wrote: »According to MyFitnessPal:
Fitbit Issues - 4/3
Monday, April 4, 2016 1:13 PST
Hey Guys,
Sorry for the recent issues with the Fitbit integration. While yesterday we were not seeing steps syncing from Fitbit to MyFitnessPal, today the steps appear to syncing over again. We will continue to monitor the situation and post any updates here.
Some users also reported that their Diary was showing multiple Fitbit Calorie Adjustment lines, when viewing it on the website. We are also unable to reproduce this issue today, however, please let us know if you are still seeing multiple adjustments in your Diary entry for Today.
If your issue is not mentioned or you are still seeing more than one fitbit Calorie Adjustment line in Today's diary, please click the link, http://:http://myfitnesspal.desk.com/customer/portal/emails/new, to reach us via email so we may assist you further.
Best,
Logan
MyFitnessPal Staff
I checked. I don't have multiple entries.0 -
Maybe it would be helpful to read through this & join the fitbit group? https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10098937/faq-syncing-logging-food-exercise-calorie-adjustments-activity-levels-accuracy/p10
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Microscopes wrote: »shadow2soul wrote: »Microscopes wrote: »Microscopes wrote: »macgurlnet wrote: »Hmm, that doesn't sound right.
What are you using to track your steps?
What are your height, current weight & gender?
I get something like 400 calories if I get my 10K steps, so I'm thinking something's not right here.
~Lyssa
Fitbit.
Would you mind providing a screenshot of what the MFP calorie adjustment looks like on the homepage?
Sure. See below.
Go to the website and make sure you don't have multiple fitbit adjustments in your exercise diary.
I recently had a few days where MFP'S website had several fitbit adjustments (only one would show in app...so check the website). Also click the little i next to your adjustment to see the math it's using to come up with that number.
Did that.
Posted a screenshot above showing only 1 entry.
Also, see below on Sunday where I had 7,000 steps. 2,300 exercise calories.
Wowwww
No you didn't. You checked the app. As I said above the website has been showing multiple adjustments while the app only shows one. You would have to go to myfitnesspal.com to check.0 -
Ive done 2,000 steps so far and been given a grand total of 45 extra calories. I am set as sedentary on MFP and am 5"4 & 180pds. I usually get roughly 400 extra by the end of the day when I hit around 7-8k steps no purposeful exercise.
Looking back and Wed i did just over 6k and got 354, yesterday I got 990 extra cal and did 11k steps (that included a hard pace run of just over 2k steps and contributed 183 calories).
I would agree that seems very excessive unless your are very heavy.0 -
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shadow2soul wrote: »Microscopes wrote: »shadow2soul wrote: »Microscopes wrote: »Microscopes wrote: »macgurlnet wrote: »Hmm, that doesn't sound right.
What are you using to track your steps?
What are your height, current weight & gender?
I get something like 400 calories if I get my 10K steps, so I'm thinking something's not right here.
~Lyssa
Fitbit.
Would you mind providing a screenshot of what the MFP calorie adjustment looks like on the homepage?
Sure. See below.
Go to the website and make sure you don't have multiple fitbit adjustments in your exercise diary.
I recently had a few days where MFP'S website had several fitbit adjustments (only one would show in app...so check the website). Also click the little i next to your adjustment to see the math it's using to come up with that number.
Did that.
Posted a screenshot above showing only 1 entry.
Also, see below on Sunday where I had 7,000 steps. 2,300 exercise calories.
Wowwww
No you didn't. You checked the app. As I said above the website has been showing multiple adjustments while the app only shows one. You would have to go to myfitnesspal.com to check.
Ohhhh.
I didn't know the website and app would have different info.0 -
Microscopes wrote: »shadow2soul wrote: »Microscopes wrote: »shadow2soul wrote: »Microscopes wrote: »Microscopes wrote: »macgurlnet wrote: »Hmm, that doesn't sound right.
What are you using to track your steps?
What are your height, current weight & gender?
I get something like 400 calories if I get my 10K steps, so I'm thinking something's not right here.
~Lyssa
Fitbit.
Would you mind providing a screenshot of what the MFP calorie adjustment looks like on the homepage?
Sure. See below.
Go to the website and make sure you don't have multiple fitbit adjustments in your exercise diary.
I recently had a few days where MFP'S website had several fitbit adjustments (only one would show in app...so check the website). Also click the little i next to your adjustment to see the math it's using to come up with that number.
Did that.
Posted a screenshot above showing only 1 entry.
Also, see below on Sunday where I had 7,000 steps. 2,300 exercise calories.
Wowwww
No you didn't. You checked the app. As I said above the website has been showing multiple adjustments while the app only shows one. You would have to go to myfitnesspal.com to check.
Ohhhh.
I didn't know the website and app would have different info.
It's not supposed to. That's the glitch that's been happening lately.0 -
Microscopes wrote: »rainbowbow wrote: »According to MyFitnessPal:
Fitbit Issues - 4/3
Monday, April 4, 2016 1:13 PST
Hey Guys,
Sorry for the recent issues with the Fitbit integration. While yesterday we were not seeing steps syncing from Fitbit to MyFitnessPal, today the steps appear to syncing over again. We will continue to monitor the situation and post any updates here.
Some users also reported that their Diary was showing multiple Fitbit Calorie Adjustment lines, when viewing it on the website. We are also unable to reproduce this issue today, however, please let us know if you are still seeing multiple adjustments in your Diary entry for Today.
If your issue is not mentioned or you are still seeing more than one fitbit Calorie Adjustment line in Today's diary, please click the link, http://:http://myfitnesspal.desk.com/customer/portal/emails/new, to reach us via email so we may assist you further.
Best,
Logan
MyFitnessPal Staff
I checked. I don't have multiple entries.
then i advise you click the link and report the issue. Have someone from MFP help you with the technical problem.
I don't think any of us are going to be able to give you a direct fix because as i stated i was also having funky problems with mine and they resolved themselves once i unsynced and resynced. I think it's probably better to ask them instead of try every possible thing every one on the forum could suggest.0 -
Microscopes wrote: »rainbowbow wrote: »According to MyFitnessPal:
Fitbit Issues - 4/3
Monday, April 4, 2016 1:13 PST
Hey Guys,
Sorry for the recent issues with the Fitbit integration. While yesterday we were not seeing steps syncing from Fitbit to MyFitnessPal, today the steps appear to syncing over again. We will continue to monitor the situation and post any updates here.
Some users also reported that their Diary was showing multiple Fitbit Calorie Adjustment lines, when viewing it on the website. We are also unable to reproduce this issue today, however, please let us know if you are still seeing multiple adjustments in your Diary entry for Today.
If your issue is not mentioned or you are still seeing more than one fitbit Calorie Adjustment line in Today's diary, please click the link, http://:http://myfitnesspal.desk.com/customer/portal/emails/new, to reach us via email so we may assist you further.
Best,
Logan
MyFitnessPal Staff
I can't get the link to work. I've been getting double entries every other day for quite a while. It comes up with this calorie add but the steps disappeared - they were there earlier today
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rainbowbow wrote: »Microscopes wrote: »rainbowbow wrote: »According to MyFitnessPal:
Fitbit Issues - 4/3
Monday, April 4, 2016 1:13 PST
Hey Guys,
Sorry for the recent issues with the Fitbit integration. While yesterday we were not seeing steps syncing from Fitbit to MyFitnessPal, today the steps appear to syncing over again. We will continue to monitor the situation and post any updates here.
Some users also reported that their Diary was showing multiple Fitbit Calorie Adjustment lines, when viewing it on the website. We are also unable to reproduce this issue today, however, please let us know if you are still seeing multiple adjustments in your Diary entry for Today.
If your issue is not mentioned or you are still seeing more than one fitbit Calorie Adjustment line in Today's diary, please click the link, http://:http://myfitnesspal.desk.com/customer/portal/emails/new, to reach us via email so we may assist you further.
Best,
Logan
MyFitnessPal Staff
I checked. I don't have multiple entries.
then i advise you click the link and report the issue. Have someone from MFP help you with the technical problem.
I don't think any of us are going to be able to give you a direct fix because as i stated i was also having funky problems with mine and they resolved themselves once i unsynced and resynced. I think it's probably better to ask them instead of try every possible thing every one on the forum could suggest.
Sorry I think my post might of been confusing. The link given to report the issue is not working. Thanks0 -
Microscopes wrote: »socioseguro wrote: »OP: Your tracker may tell you you have burned 800 calories but that amount includes your BMR (calories that you burned by existing). It is not the calories burned by the 1500 steps only
Track your daily calorie burned given by your tracker. You need to eat less calories than you are burning the entire day (TDEE).
Good luck in your healthy journey
This isn't the tracker telling me this. It's my fitness pal.
Your fitbit measures what you actually do through the whole day, MFP makes an estimate based on the information you provide it. So the fitbit will add more calories if you were more active than MFP guessed you would be. It doesn't have to be from steps, but if you don't have the charge Hr or a heart rate monitor I'd be weary of eating back any of those calories. I don't eat them back at all, because I assume there is a margin of error in the fitbit processes.0 -
Microscopes wrote: »socioseguro wrote: »OP: Your tracker may tell you you have burned 800 calories but that amount includes your BMR (calories that you burned by existing). It is not the calories burned by the 1500 steps only
Track your daily calorie burned given by your tracker. You need to eat less calories than you are burning the entire day (TDEE).
Good luck in your healthy journey
This isn't the tracker telling me this. It's my fitness pal.
Your fitbit measures what you actually do through the whole day, MFP makes an estimate based on the information you provide it. So the fitbit will add more calories if you were more active than MFP guessed you would be. It doesn't have to be from steps, but if you don't have the charge Hr or a heart rate monitor I'd be weary of eating back any of those calories. I don't eat them back at all, because I assume there is a margin of error in the fitbit processes.
Yes this is how it should work. But it's not. Somethings wrong with it.
OP, click help at the top of the website I think you can put in a service ticket
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rainbowbow wrote: »Microscopes wrote: »Microscopes wrote: »macgurlnet wrote: »Hmm, that doesn't sound right.
What are you using to track your steps?
What are your height, current weight & gender?
I get something like 400 calories if I get my 10K steps, so I'm thinking something's not right here.
~Lyssa
Fitbit.
Would you mind providing a screenshot of what the MFP calorie adjustment looks like on the homepage?
Sure. See below.
yeah, something is definitely off.
Do you have both your fitbit and myfitnesspal set to lose weight? Same height, weight, goals, etc.? Can you try unsyncing and then resyncing your account?
edit: mine was doing this as well and it took me doing the above to fix it.
It's so weird, this site is usually very bug free...0 -
SmartAlec03211988 wrote: »Yikes, 5,000 steps a day is sedentary? If I get 3,000 it's a good day for me.
Guess I'll keep it at sedentary then.
That is very, very sedentary. 10,000 is the suggested daily MINIMUM.0 -
@Microscopes
I am going to repeat the advice I gave to you in my reply on March 21, 2016 in another thread you created.
From your previous thread, you stated that you are M/29yo/5'11"/426lbs with a 2500 Calories per day goal. If you are going to ask for assistance, it would be to your advantage to include in your post some or all of the relevant information I had to dig up from your previous post, instead of having other users ask so many questions and make so many assumptions about you and your specific situation when trying to answer your questions.
Based on your current stats, it is entirely plausible if you did purposeful, low to medium-intensity exercise when doing those steps that MFP would project, from the Calorie estimate provided by Fitbit, that you would earn that many Calories through the end of the day and provide that Fitbit Calorie Adjustment. If you stopped walking, jogging, or running any more for the day, it is likely that the MFP Full Day Projection will decrease and your Fitbit Calorie Adjustment would also decrease.
When taking your stats into consideration, I don't think there is an issue with your Fitbit or the Fitbit Calorie Adjustment.0 -
Ahhh was wondering why I only got an adjustment of 41 for 13600 steps0
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@Microscopes
I am going to repeat the advice I gave to you in my reply on March 21, 2016 in another thread you created.
From your previous thread, you stated that you are M/29yo/5'11"/426lbs with a 2500 Calories per day goal. If you are going to ask for assistance, it would be to your advantage to include in your post some or all of the relevant information I had to dig up from your previous post, instead of having other users ask so many questions and make so many assumptions about you and your specific situation when trying to answer your questions.
Based on your current stats, it is entirely plausible if you did purposeful, low to medium-intensity exercise when doing those steps that MFP would project, from the Calorie estimate provided by Fitbit, that you would earn that many Calories through the end of the day and provide that Fitbit Calorie Adjustment. If you stopped walking, jogging, or running any more for the day, it is likely that the MFP Full Day Projection will decrease and your Fitbit Calorie Adjustment would also decrease.
When taking your stats into consideration, I don't think there is an issue with your Fitbit or the Fitbit Calorie Adjustment.
I just have a hard time believing that no matter what weight you are, that you burn 5,000 calories per day by walking only 1,700 steps.
But - I've been wrong before. I'm definitely no expert.
I did nothing purposeful today. I didn't walk fast. I didn't jog. I didn't do anything.
90% of my active day was spent in a hospital waiting room waiting for my mothers surgery to be over. The 1,700 steps I had was waking up, walking to the bathroom, kitchen, to the car etc.0 -
Microscopes wrote: »@Microscopes
I am going to repeat the advice I gave to you in my reply on March 21, 2016 in another thread you created.
From your previous thread, you stated that you are M/29yo/5'11"/426lbs with a 2500 Calories per day goal. If you are going to ask for assistance, it would be to your advantage to include in your post some or all of the relevant information I had to dig up from your previous post, instead of having other users ask so many questions and make so many assumptions about you and your specific situation when trying to answer your questions.
Based on your current stats, it is entirely plausible if you did purposeful, low to medium-intensity exercise when doing those steps that MFP would project, from the Calorie estimate provided by Fitbit, that you would earn that many Calories through the end of the day and provide that Fitbit Calorie Adjustment. If you stopped walking, jogging, or running any more for the day, it is likely that the MFP Full Day Projection will decrease and your Fitbit Calorie Adjustment would also decrease.
When taking your stats into consideration, I don't think there is an issue with your Fitbit or the Fitbit Calorie Adjustment.
I just have a hard time believing that no matter what weight you are, that you burn 5,000 calories per day by walking only 1,700 steps.
But - I've been wrong before. I'm definitely no expert.
I did nothing purposeful today. I didn't walk fast. I didn't jog. I didn't do anything.
90% of my active day was spent in a hospital waiting room waiting for my mothers surgery to be over. The 1,700 steps I had was waking up, walking to the bathroom, kitchen, to the car etc.
I am male, 54yo, 5'8", 150 lbs. and set to Sedentary. I start getting a positive Fitbit Calorie Adjustment at about 1900 steps. As I said, it is entirely plausible that you would get that many Calories for those many steps, depending on how quickly you earned most of them. You may not perceive that your movement is burning that many Calories, but if the majority of those steps were taken in a relatively short amount of time, you could be getting that size of an adjustment projected to the end of the day. Has the adjustment decreased any since the last time you reported it in this thread?0 -
Microscopes wrote: »I just have a hard time believing that no matter what weight you are, that you burn 5,000 calories per day by walking only 1,700 steps.
I agree, but most correlations are useless when you weigh double the maximum weight range they were developed over.
I would double check all your stats are the same in MFP and Fitbit.com as another reason for a big adjustment would be a discrepancy there (incl age, gender etc) however in that case the difference would apply if you left the thing in the drawer all day.
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shadow2soul wrote: »Microscopes wrote: »3dogsrunning wrote: »Microscopes wrote: »I posted the screenshot above.
As you can see, it added 700+ calories for 1,700 steps.
Ridiculous!
I though he meant go into your exercise section and show the breakdown posted in there too.
Or he posted while you were posting.
Tap where it says fitbit...then tap the number again... It should show you the math
You should see something like this
be handy to see this from the OP0 -
rainbowbow wrote: »According to MyFitnessPal:
Fitbit Issues - 4/3
Monday, April 4, 2016 1:13 PST
Hey Guys,
Sorry for the recent issues with the Fitbit integration. While yesterday we were not seeing steps syncing from Fitbit to MyFitnessPal, today the steps appear to syncing over again. We will continue to monitor the situation and post any updates here.
Some users also reported that their Diary was showing multiple Fitbit Calorie Adjustment lines, when viewing it on the website. We are also unable to reproduce this issue today, however, please let us know if you are still seeing multiple adjustments in your Diary entry for Today.
If your issue is not mentioned or you are still seeing more than one fitbit Calorie Adjustment line in Today's diary, please click the link, http://:http://myfitnesspal.desk.com/customer/portal/emails/new, to reach us via email so we may assist you further.
Best,
Logan
MyFitnessPal Staff
So, I've had that happen before, and it literally shows several adjustments each with different amounts. That's different from what the OP is showing. It just seems to be come up with a random and extremely high number in a single adjustment.
I believe someone else has pointed this out as well, but it's a definite bug.0 -
shadow2soul wrote: »Microscopes wrote: »shadow2soul wrote: »Microscopes wrote: »Microscopes wrote: »macgurlnet wrote: »Hmm, that doesn't sound right.
What are you using to track your steps?
What are your height, current weight & gender?
I get something like 400 calories if I get my 10K steps, so I'm thinking something's not right here.
~Lyssa
Fitbit.
Would you mind providing a screenshot of what the MFP calorie adjustment looks like on the homepage?
Sure. See below.
Go to the website and make sure you don't have multiple fitbit adjustments in your exercise diary.
I recently had a few days where MFP'S website had several fitbit adjustments (only one would show in app...so check the website). Also click the little i next to your adjustment to see the math it's using to come up with that number.
Did that.
Posted a screenshot above showing only 1 entry.
Also, see below on Sunday where I had 7,000 steps. 2,300 exercise calories.
Wowwww
No you didn't. You checked the app. As I said above the website has been showing multiple adjustments while the app only shows one. You would have to go to myfitnesspal.com to check.
When syncing was not working, I would see multiple entries in both the app and the website.0 -
rainbowbow wrote: »According to MyFitnessPal:
Fitbit Issues - 4/3
Monday, April 4, 2016 1:13 PST
Hey Guys,
Sorry for the recent issues with the Fitbit integration. While yesterday we were not seeing steps syncing from Fitbit to MyFitnessPal, today the steps appear to syncing over again. We will continue to monitor the situation and post any updates here.
Some users also reported that their Diary was showing multiple Fitbit Calorie Adjustment lines, when viewing it on the website. We are also unable to reproduce this issue today, however, please let us know if you are still seeing multiple adjustments in your Diary entry for Today.
If your issue is not mentioned or you are still seeing more than one fitbit Calorie Adjustment line in Today's diary, please click the link, http://:http://myfitnesspal.desk.com/customer/portal/emails/new, to reach us via email so we may assist you further.
Best,
Logan
MyFitnessPal Staff
So, I've had that happen before, and it literally shows several adjustments each with different amounts. That's different from what the OP is showing. It just seems to be come up with a random and extremely high number in a single adjustment.
I believe someone else has pointed this out as well, but it's a definite bug.
yeah, i had it do the same exact thing for me as well. I think i had made 2,000 steps for the day and it was adding an additional 800 calories to my day. As stated i went it, checked everything was the same and it was. I unsynced my account and resynced it and it starting working correctly again a few days later.0 -
shadow2soul wrote: »Microscopes wrote: »shadow2soul wrote: »Microscopes wrote: »Microscopes wrote: »macgurlnet wrote: »Hmm, that doesn't sound right.
What are you using to track your steps?
What are your height, current weight & gender?
I get something like 400 calories if I get my 10K steps, so I'm thinking something's not right here.
~Lyssa
Fitbit.
Would you mind providing a screenshot of what the MFP calorie adjustment looks like on the homepage?
Sure. See below.
Go to the website and make sure you don't have multiple fitbit adjustments in your exercise diary.
I recently had a few days where MFP'S website had several fitbit adjustments (only one would show in app...so check the website). Also click the little i next to your adjustment to see the math it's using to come up with that number.
Did that.
Posted a screenshot above showing only 1 entry.
Also, see below on Sunday where I had 7,000 steps. 2,300 exercise calories.
Wowwww
No you didn't. You checked the app. As I said above the website has been showing multiple adjustments while the app only shows one. You would have to go to myfitnesspal.com to check.
When syncing was not working, I would see multiple entries in both the app and the website.
@auddii - I had it to where it was only showing up on the website. The app would show one adjustment and then checking the website I had multiple. It was really strange. I had it happen twice. One day it was 378 adjustment that I couldn't delete (after emailing MFP and talking with them they got it to go away) and one on the 1st that was for 0. Mine was just really messed up. Oh and when they removed the " 0 " calorie adjustment from the 1st..I ended up with MFP claiming I had logged exercise (that I hadn't logged). My adjustment still isn't correct for that day.0 -
shadow2soul wrote: »shadow2soul wrote: »Microscopes wrote: »shadow2soul wrote: »Microscopes wrote: »Microscopes wrote: »macgurlnet wrote: »Hmm, that doesn't sound right.
What are you using to track your steps?
What are your height, current weight & gender?
I get something like 400 calories if I get my 10K steps, so I'm thinking something's not right here.
~Lyssa
Fitbit.
Would you mind providing a screenshot of what the MFP calorie adjustment looks like on the homepage?
Sure. See below.
Go to the website and make sure you don't have multiple fitbit adjustments in your exercise diary.
I recently had a few days where MFP'S website had several fitbit adjustments (only one would show in app...so check the website). Also click the little i next to your adjustment to see the math it's using to come up with that number.
Did that.
Posted a screenshot above showing only 1 entry.
Also, see below on Sunday where I had 7,000 steps. 2,300 exercise calories.
Wowwww
No you didn't. You checked the app. As I said above the website has been showing multiple adjustments while the app only shows one. You would have to go to myfitnesspal.com to check.
When syncing was not working, I would see multiple entries in both the app and the website.
@auddii - I had it to where it was only showing up on the website. The app would show one adjustment and then checking the website I had multiple. It was really strange. I had it happen twice. One day it was 378 adjustment that I couldn't delete (after emailing MFP and talking with them they got it to go away) and one on the 1st that was for 0. Mine was just really messed up.
Interesting. I just assumed the bug would be consistent across different users. That makes it even stranger to me...0 -
I had a weird day or two when the calories added were off - too low. Something is definitely up. It has been correct since then.
For me, 2000 steps is around 100 calories, and it doesn't give me "credit" for the first 1,500 or so.0 -
Why do you track your steps? I would assume that casual daily activity is just counted towards your calorie intake, and any additional exercise is what you add to eat back. And even then, I've seen people say you should only eat back 50-75% of those calories since MFP overestimates.
http://blog.myfitnesspal.com/ask-the-dietitian-should-i-eat-back-my-exercise-calories/0 -
A couple of weeks ago I was getting insane added calories for 2000 or less steps, saying I had 1000 exercise calories for barely moving. I normally don't eat exercise calories back unless I bank them for the weekend, so I just ignored it. It's annoying because then it messes up my accuracy if I do decide to eat the banked ones. I usually get about 8-9k steps in a day at least and when it works that is about 500 cals extra a day. I'm 197 lbs, 5'7. It hasn't acted up recently however. I normally don't get any exercise calories until I've walked at least 2k steps.0
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