Don;t know how to fix this!

I too find the Apple Watch's overall calorie tracking to be superior and I've been utterly frustrated with MFP's reluctance to give its (paying!) users the option to pull the calorie data from the watch. I've resorted to turning off step tracking all together in MFP and manually entering a generic "Daily Activity" exercise in MFP at the end of the day to reflect the calories burned per my Apple Watch.

I can't say for sure if it's correct or not, since I don't know your stats, but it is very possible that is is. Try turning negative adjustments on and see what happens, you can find it under My Home > Settings > Diary Settings > Calorie Adjustments. Moreover, have you click the little "i" icon next to the calorie adjustments to see what it says? You should see a total calorie count for your Apple Watch and one for MFP right below it.

Hi Suusik, sorry for the late reply

Your move number (1320) is the total number of calories burned in a day on top of your BMR. Workout calories (1155) are included in the move number, so you did 1155 with exercise and an additional 165 calories from normal activity (moving around during the day). So in this case, only your move number is important, as it includes everything.

This number gets sent to MFP. MFP already has a number set for you depending on your stats and activity level. This is not BMR but TDEE without exercise. Since the move number your AW gives you is what goes on top of your BMR, you won't get the complete 1320 calories on MFP because part of those calories are already included in MFP's estimate.

I'm not able to tell if the amount of calories you're getting are accurate, as I don't know your stats and what you set MFP to (sedentary, lightly active, etc). Easiest way to figure out what MFP thinks you burn without exercise is putting your calories to maintenance. This number reflects what MFP thinks is your TDEE without exercise. You can then use a calculator to see what your BMR is and run the numbers.

The negative adjustments that are added sometimes are to make sure calories aren't counted double. As I said above MFP has set a TDEE while the AW uses BMR. If all your move time is spent exercising and those exercises are synced to MFP, all those calories will be added to MFP. This would mean that you might get too many calories added. All the negative adjustment does is make sure your number on MFP is whatever number the Apple Watch gives. If you click on the i icon next to it you can see the numbers (these numbers are total calories burned for that that day, including BMR).

Haha, sorry if you didn't understand all of it, I might not be that good at explaining and I might not be completely right either. But I've used the Watch linked with MFP since launch and I've found that my results reflect whatever MFP is giving me based on the Apple Watch link, so in my eyes it's correct or at least close to.

I'm pretty sure that if you stick to whatever MFP tells you to eat when the adjustment from the AW is made you're on the right path. If you notice that the weight loss isn't happening despite the deficit you should be in, it might be a good idea to look into it again. But you'll have to try it for at least a month if not more before you can come to that conclusion.