Step calorie adjustment went from 600 cal to zero??

PaulyGreen
PaulyGreen Posts: 5 Member
edited December 2024 in Getting Started
So I don't know when this happened, or why, but I think it was after I added another activity (cardio) of 250 calories under exercises (around 5pm or so). Earlier in the day I had a 600 cal credit (was warking outside all day) from almost 13,000 steps, but it went to zero for some reason and I can't figure out how or why or what to do about it. I can obviously do the math easily in my head but I want it tracked accurately!

What gives??

PS - LOVE THIS THING.

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  • PaulyGreen
    PaulyGreen Posts: 5 Member
    Ok so I just noticed something else, I have 3 full days logged. First day - 4,504 steps, 0 credit. Says "Steps calorie adjustment" with steps counted underneath.

    Second day - It says something different in box "MFP iOS calorie adjustment" 226 cals.

    Third day is today, "Step calorie adjustment" with 12,796 steps underneath, 0 adjustment??
  • ibamosaserreinas
    ibamosaserreinas Posts: 294 Member
    Fitbit is autopilot. It will estimate your calorie burn for activity.

    When you manually enter calories burned it negates the "autopilot".
  • CooCooPuff
    CooCooPuff Posts: 4,374 Member
    edited July 2016
    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/36989257#Comment_36989257

    There's been some issues with adjustments from Fitbit. I haven't had any for three days now. The above link has offered a solution for some... not me unfortunately. :disappointed:

  • PaulyGreen
    PaulyGreen Posts: 5 Member
    ibamosaserreinas wrote: »
    Fitbit is autopilot. It will estimate your calorie burn for activity.

    When you manually enter calories burned it negates the "autopilot".

    I thought that is what it might be, because it seemed like when I manually entered a cardio workout it deleted the steps. So what is the solution to this?? To manually enter all steps as an exercise? I don't have a fitbit btw (or is that how iOS tracks in the iphone?).

    Ok so this is a problem, because I obviously walk/move every day, and do cardio as well. Am I just going to have to manually do the adjustments if the step won't calculate if something else is

    And as I look at this now, there is no way to delete the exercise I added is that correct? WTF this is annoying me now.
  • PaulyGreen
    PaulyGreen Posts: 5 Member
    edited July 2016
    I guess I am just going to have to wait til the end of the day, look at the steps conversion before I add the cardio, and then add it myself as an exercise. Luckily I do the same calorie burn cardio every time so I can adjust my total in my head as the day goes along.

    Wait now....on Wednesday it added in a weight workout and the steps just fine. Did not delete when I added the weight workout?? Jesus Christ.
  • kschramm7
    kschramm7 Posts: 72 Member
    I had something similar happen. Used MapMyFitness for a walk, then manually added a spin class to MFP...at that point it adjusted ALL the calories out for my walk and my spin class. I deleted the spin class, and entered it in through MMF, it didn't adjust the adjustment (I now burned a negative 1200 calories...gotta love that). I deleted everything, including the adjustment and entered it all manually through MFP and called it a day. From then on I've entered all exercise through MMF and it's adjusted by only a few calories.
  • PaulyGreen
    PaulyGreen Posts: 5 Member
    Public service announcement - Just disable the steps. It isn't even remotely accurate, and it is going to throw your numbers off. (They actually just did a segment on ABC news testing them, and none were even close BTW incl Fitbit Garmin...all of them. Every one overestimated by a wide margin).

    I have been sitting at my desk all morning, did my afternoon cardio.....looked at my diary to enter, and saw it had credited me with 4,300 steps and 223 calories that who knows where it came from.

    I went back and turned the steps off, and manually entered all the cardio numbers that were off from the past days, so that's that.



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