Why sedentary?

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  • whitpauly
    whitpauly Posts: 1,483 Member
    heybales wrote: »
    whitpauly wrote: »
    How come if I set to sedentary fitbit gives me more negative calories than at lightly active?

    It should not. Not possible mathematically actually - so something else is going on.

    How many workouts are you manually logging on MFP?

    None..if I get over 10,000 steps I'm getting about 300-400 extra at mildly active at sendetary I get like 600-700 extra at the same steps
  • Derf_Smeggle
    Derf_Smeggle Posts: 610 Member
    whitpauly wrote: »
    heybales wrote: »
    whitpauly wrote: »
    How come if I set to sedentary fitbit gives me more negative calories than at lightly active?

    It should not. Not possible mathematically actually - so something else is going on.

    How many workouts are you manually logging on MFP?

    None..if I get over 10,000 steps I'm getting about 300-400 extra at mildly active at sendetary I get like 600-700 extra at the same steps
    You are getting more **positive/additional** calories at Sedentary than at Mildly Active. Which is the way it should be.

  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    Mine is set to "sedentary" because I drive a mouse for a living. I've often logged multiple hours of cardio, but that is not of day-to-day consistency. Rather than tring to figure out how much less to eat when I don't exercise, I just figure out how much more to eat when I do. It's more fun that way.
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    JeromeBarry1 wrote: »
    Rather than tring to figure out how much less to eat when I don't exercise, I just figure out how much more to eat when I do. It's more fun that way.

    I concur :smiley:

  • Rebecca0224
    Rebecca0224 Posts: 810 Member
    holderh1 wrote: »
    Rebecca0224 wrote: »
    I set mine to sedentary because my activity level varies. Most days I do over 12000 steps but because of medical problems some days it will be under 3000.

    Do you set it this way just because you don't want to see negative adjustments?

    No I do it this way because sometimes I have a day or week when I get appropriately 3000 steps. I let my Garmin adjust for my activity. If my activity level was more consistent I would adjust it to that level.
  • WyldHaggis
    WyldHaggis Posts: 17 Member
    I set mine as sedentary because I know I can't log accurately, so this hopefully compensates a little. I only log the exercise for which I go out of my way, like going for a run.
    Also because, to be honest, walking 5 mins from home to Tube station then from station to work doesn't register as 'lightly active' to me (or it would only if I was bed-ridden).
  • hesn92
    hesn92 Posts: 5,966 Member
    I'm one of those people who set my diary to sedentary and then let my fitbit adjust as the day goes on. But... I have a desk job.
  • __TMac__
    __TMac__ Posts: 1,669 Member
    I work from home. On the sofa. Often, in bed. I average 2000 steps, but my record low day was 75 steps. I'm sedentary.
  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    whitpauly wrote: »
    heybales wrote: »
    whitpauly wrote: »
    How come if I set to sedentary fitbit gives me more negative calories than at lightly active?

    It should not. Not possible mathematically actually - so something else is going on.

    How many workouts are you manually logging on MFP?

    None..if I get over 10,000 steps I'm getting about 300-400 extra at mildly active at sendetary I get like 600-700 extra at the same steps

    Those aren't negative calories, those are positive adjustments - you do more you burn more you eat more.
    If MFP already expected you to do more, the adjustment isn't as high.
    That's exactly as it should be.

    Are you trying to describe something else perchance, or just got the terms wrong?
  • MsHarryWinston
    MsHarryWinston Posts: 1,027 Member
    Because some days I may only have 3,000 steps while other days I have 12,000. It's so much easier to set it as sedentary and then get positive adjustment calories on higher activity days than bouncing around with positive and negative calories.

    I'm also still trying to work out how accurate my Fitbit calorie burn is for me. This is most easily done when you start off at a base setting (at least for me).
  • kincharles
    kincharles Posts: 20 Member
    I set mine to lightly active because Active was a little too generous on calories (or that is how it seemed to me) - I hit an average of 20k steps a day 5 days a week, 15k one day and then my day off drops to below 5k; lightly active seems to hit the 'sweet spot' for me in terms of keeping my calories "honest" and not leaving me feeling deprived or stuffed ( I feel comfortably full at about 1400 cal now, and sated completely at about 1500+/- cal)
  • mlinci
    mlinci Posts: 402 Member
    JeromeBarry1 wrote: »
    Mine is set to "sedentary" because I drive a mouse for a living.

    Is this a brilliant typo or a phrase I'm not familiar with? :smiley:
  • inertiastrength
    inertiastrength Posts: 2,343 Member
    if it's synced with MFP its better set as sedentary and eat back or set to lightly active and enable negative adjustments
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    mlinci wrote: »
    JeromeBarry1 wrote: »
    Mine is set to "sedentary" because I drive a mouse for a living.

    Is this a brilliant typo or a phrase I'm not familiar with? :smiley:

    I was trying to figure that out too lol
  • DamieBird
    DamieBird Posts: 651 Member
    mlinci wrote: »
    JeromeBarry1 wrote: »
    Mine is set to "sedentary" because I drive a mouse for a living.

    Is this a brilliant typo or a phrase I'm not familiar with? :smiley:
    Christine_72 wrote: »
    mlinci wrote: »
    JeromeBarry1 wrote: »
    Mine is set to "sedentary" because I drive a mouse for a living.

    Is this a brilliant typo or a phrase I'm not familiar with? :smiley:

    I was trying to figure that out too lol

    It's a clever way to say that he has a desk job ;)
  • GottaBurnEmAll
    GottaBurnEmAll Posts: 7,722 Member
    edited June 2017
    I'm set to sedentary because I go to bed early. In reality, I'm very active, but that adjustment for going to bed so early would be a killer and I just don't want to deal.

    I have my settings as such that I'm set at maintenance with Fitbit sending over an adjustment. The amount of calories I leave on the table at the end of the day is my deficit.

    So, with doing things that way, having a big drop off due to an early bedtime would really mess me up.
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