a negative adjustment

jasmin1972 wrote: »

I have tried to understand this negative adjustment but it just does not make sense to me....I am set at sedentary on MFP and I am in the negative all day enless i get my 5000 steps in pretty well. can someone explain this to me? or am i doing something wrong?

You get negative adjustments when you tracker synchs and your activity is less than stated in your activity level. 5,000 steps would make sense given that a sedentary activity level setting would account for up to 5000 steps or equivalent activity.

So many have said that the setting sedentary is your bmr (never leaving your bed) so I don't understand why if you have done 823 steps there wouldn't be even a small positive adjustment, why such a large negative?? Watching to see what ppl answer for you.

jasmin1972 wrote: »

so say i have not done much at all today and only 823 steps so far and my sister is at 752 steps my adjustment is -138 and her excersie is at 105.....both set at the same activity level

Minute by minute.....hour by hour. Don't do that. If you've started out the day really active and FitBit is comparing to a sedentary setting.....and then the rest of the day your ARE sedentary and FitBit is comparing to sedentary.....of course the adjustments aren't going to match up.

I'm probably not explaining it right (see link above...much better) but let everything settle out.
Check your numbers after a few days.....at the end of the day.

The negative adjustment is comparing what your Fitbit thinks you'll burn in the day and what MFP thinks. Mine is negative most of the time until the end of the day when I go to the gym and I'm generally more active than sitting at my desk all day. Just because your friend gets + adjustment and you don't it's probably to do with your individual differences such as height and weight. You can disable the negative adjustments if you want too.