Whats the logic behind this calculations?
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flemmingss
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This is wrong? or am i thinking wrong?
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I hate that screen. This is what it means:
2171 (# calories you've eaten)
+186 (# calories burned through exercise)
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2357
2090 (base daily calories)
-2357
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-267 (# calories left to eat in the day)5 -
Evidently you have an activity tracker linked to your account and that tracker believes you will burn 186 calories fewer than mfp thinks you will burn. A "+" amount there is a negative calorie adjustment due to an activity tracker.
So it's not wrong as it is. It may not make sense if you're expecting a calorie boost from your activity tracker, but it's not wrong. Unless you don't have an activity tracker linked to your account. Then something is wrong.3 -
It means that MFP looked at your activity tracker and estimated that, based on your calorie burn at the time of your last sync, you would burn 186 calories less than maintenance. In order to keep your deficit consistent, it took that amount off of your goal, and you right now have overeaten by 267 calories.
This is what the negative adjustment does. Move more and turn that positive.4 -
If you have MFP Premium, you can turn off the "eat your exercise calories" function. Then you set a calorie target and MFP sticks to the target, regardless of your workouts or activity trackers.0
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Also, in the non premium function, you can disable negative calorie adjustments. Meaning it won't ever do this kind of thing to you.3
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Ahhhhh, this is what negative adjustments look like. Good to know.0
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hmm, i se the value in negative in the website:
but not in the app?If you have MFP Premium, you can turn off the "eat your exercise calories" function. Then you set a calorie target and MFP sticks to the target, regardless of your workouts or activity trackers.
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My word, that's confusing.1
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flemmingss wrote: »hmm, i se the value in negative in the website:
but not in the app?If you have MFP Premium, you can turn off the "eat your exercise calories" function. Then you set a calorie target and MFP sticks to the target, regardless of your workouts or activity trackers.
Losing or not losing muscle is not necessarily a function of the calorie count, but a function of the mix of macros you eat and when you eat them. The best defense for this is to get a scale or hand-held electronic body fat monitor. They're not very precise, but using the same one consistently will help you track body fat and muscle composition. That + Excel for tracking trends are your friends.8 -
Because it needs to be as confusing as possible, it displays differently in different places. A negative adjustment (meaning you're not burning enough calories) shows as a "+" on the main page of the web. It shows as a "-" on the app. I would assume the exercise diary entries to be similarly confusing (in terms of +/- signs).0
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CattOfTheGarage wrote: »My word, that's confusing.
And it shows up differently in different places (web vs app vs what screen on the web, etc.). When you break it down, it's all about what specific value is ultimately being displayed (net calories vs calories remaining) and/or a total amount to be added or subtracted to the day's allowance-but it's extremely confusing.0 -
Losing or not losing muscle is not necessarily a function of the calorie count, but a function of the mix of macros you eat and when you eat them. The best defense for this is to get a scale or hand-held electronic body fat monitor. They're not very precise, but using the same one consistently will help you track body fat and muscle composition. That + Excel for tracking trends are your friends.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kochka.android.weightlogger
This is my stats for now, idk how good or bad it is:
for macros, I eat a lot of protein (what I need++), medium fat, low carb
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There's nothing difficult about it. You just ate 267 more calories than what your goal was.1
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TimothyFish wrote: »There's nothing difficult about it. You just ate 267 more calories than what your goal was.
He's right- a net Calorie surplus is displayed in "RED"!
But wait.....The exercise calories were added to the daily total, instead of being subtracted.
It might have to do with how the exercise was entered. If you entered it manually ( from your own tracker or a separate app)- it needs to be entered as "-186"0 -
TimothyFish wrote: »There's nothing difficult about it. You just ate 267 more calories than what your goal was.
If you only look at the bottom line, true, but what's confusing is that it's arriving at that number by applying a negative amount of exercise. I can see how that sort of makes sense where an activity tracker is involved and it's been a lazy day - but it's far from intuitive!2 -
okey, so it may be somthing wrong here as I see it.
anyway, I still was in a kcal deficit this day as I read it?
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flemmingss wrote: »okey, so it may be somthing wrong here as I see it.
anyway, I still was in a kcal deficit this day as I read it?
yes- 1985 net calories0 -
also, what is the logic behind this? (My "activety level" is Sedentary)
6137 steps = -64kcal
6047 steps = 172 kcal
4551 steps = 215 kcal
somtimes I eat too little, and the next dey the steps-kcal have totaly changed and then it looks like i did eat to much...
???
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flemmingss wrote: »also, what is the logic behind this? (My "activety level" is Sedentary)
6137 steps = -64kcal
6047 steps = 172 kcal
4551 steps = 215 kcal
somtimes I eat too little, and the next dey the steps-kcal have totaly changed and then it looks like i did eat to much...
???
I was thinking time of day but if the two 17:45 and the 00:49 are times than I am even more confused.0 -
Have you checked that the time zones in both apps are set to the same zone?1
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