Why does MYF continue to adjust my calories?!

Short of unlinking the two, even with turning off neg calories, I couldn't figure it out so I got the premium and just set my calories and macros as fixed.

Either unlink the two or purchase MFP Premium. If you're following MFP's goals, your Fitbit calories over maintenance are supposed to be added in and you are expected to eat them back.

kuranda10 wrote: »

malibu927 wrote: »

Either unlink the two or purchase MFP Premium. If you're following MFP's goals, your Fitbit calories over maintenance are supposed to be added in and you are expected to eat them back.

Except when it says you can have XX more calories, so you eat them, but then you stop moving, or go to bed at 10:00 and you wake up having gone OVER your calories for the day.

After time I learned how much that adjustment usually was and left 50-100 cals on the table to account for that adjustment. Not really a big deal.

timberflake wrote: »

My calorie goal already puts me in a deficit though based on my activity so when MFT adjusts it further it messes everything up. I've got Premium though so I went into Goals>Exercise Calories and set it to Off so hopefully that will stop it!

Your calorie goal on MFP puts you at a deficit from what MFP thinks you would burn based on the activity level you selected.
If you burn more than that you get calories added to keep the same deficit.

So lets use me as an example:

Lightly Active - 1800 estimated maintenance by MFP

1800 - 500 (deficit) = 1300

Fitbit goes well based on your activity you burned 2468 calories (yesterdays calorie burn).

If I just ate 1300, my deficit is now 1100.
To keep a 500 calorie deficit, I would need to eat 1968 calories.

So MFP goes " Hey, you were more active then you told me you would be. To keep your 500 calorie deficit, you need to eat an additional 668 calories today."

timberflake wrote: »

shadow2soul wrote: »

timberflake wrote: »

My calorie goal already puts me in a deficit though based on my activity so when MFT adjusts it further it messes everything up. I've got Premium though so I went into Goals>Exercise Calories and set it to Off so hopefully that will stop it!

Your calorie goal on MFP puts you at a deficit from what MFP thinks you would burn based on the activity level you selected.
If you burn more than that you get calories added to keep the same deficit.

So lets use me as an example:

Lightly Active - 1800 estimated maintenance by MFP

1800 - 500 (deficit) = 1300

Fitbit goes well based on your activity you burned 2468 calories (yesterdays calorie burn).

If I just ate 1300, my deficit is now 1100.
To keep a 500 calorie deficit, I would need to eat 1968 calories.

So MFP goes " Hey, you were more active then you told me you would be. To keep your 500 calorie deficit, you need to eat an additional 668 calories today."

My calorie goal isn't set by MFP, I set my own calorie goal myself to take into account my activity levels.

Ah well, that's a different story then.
The other think you could do is change your activity level to get as close to what you think your TDEE is. That should minimize/eliminate any positive adjustments.

timberflake wrote: »

I don't really want to put my deficit in the hands of MFP. I've turned off the exercise calories in goals though to that will hopefully stop it now!

Well what I was saying, is that for example:

My estimated TDEE is 2300. That is what MFP comes up for me to maintain on a very active setting. Then I put a custom goal of 1900.

Now MFP won't adjust my calories until I surpass 2300 and when Fitbit says it does there won't be much of an adjustment.