Confused and sick of it

lahcjh
lahcjh Posts: 10 Member
edited September 2017 in Fitness and Exercise
I really don't get why the whole calorie adjustment is even necessary!! It's simple math. I don't want the differences thst are from the 2 different sources of my exercise. Just tell me my calories for the one I chose to use!!! I'm soooooo sick of working my *kitten* off and not eating over my limit to have negative calories for the day as if I over ate and didn't work out. Yeah I know turning the negatives off makes it zero. I don't want zero remainder!!! I want what I did and earned!!!!! Please help!!!
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  • lahcjh
    lahcjh Posts: 10 Member
    Please... Someone........?...
  • deannalfisher
    deannalfisher Posts: 5,600 Member
    do you have 2 different devices feeding your MFP profile?

    or if its like a FITBIT and MFP - then they cancel each other out at the end of the day - just pick one and use it (and ignore inputs from the other one)
  • deannalfisher
    deannalfisher Posts: 5,600 Member
    Brabo_Grip wrote: »
    Don't eat back your calories. Problem solved.

    except if you are using the MFP calorie guidelines they are built in with the idea of eating back exercise calories
  • SCoil123
    SCoil123 Posts: 2,108 Member
    edited September 2017
    You mention exercise calories from two different sources. Are you logging workouts here and having a device connected for activity?

    I have my MFP account set to sedentary with negative adjustment and FitBit synced. I only get an adjustment based on my FitBit activity and I only log workouts on FitBit and use this site to log food. So far this system works well for me...and by so far I mean for over a year now.
  • VintageFeline
    VintageFeline Posts: 6,771 Member
    Wait, I reread, and am completely confused. Do you mean you're not getting any positive adjustment from exercise?
  • lahcjh
    lahcjh Posts: 10 Member
    I don't back eat my calories. I stay under my original goal. And almost every day after exercises and my steps, it's a huge negative number. If I turn it off, it's zero. So I'm literally not getting credit for anything and have to complete my day with a negative number :(

    And I use Google fit app for all exercise and log food n water here.
  • lahcjh
    lahcjh Posts: 10 Member
    I have my activity level set at active and my goal is 8000 steps a day and my food is 1350
  • lahcjh
    lahcjh Posts: 10 Member
    edited September 2017
    I got a misfit coming friday... Hopefully that'll help. Until then I'll put my profile on mfp to not active but left my calorie the same as before
  • gamerbabe14
    gamerbabe14 Posts: 876 Member
    So zero is good? You met the goal.
  • SCoil123
    SCoil123 Posts: 2,108 Member
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    In order to earn extra activity calories you need to move more than your activity setting on MFP, if you move less than your activity setting you get a negative adjustment.
  • NorthCascades
    NorthCascades Posts: 10,970 Member
    I put myself down as sedentary because I have a desk job.

    Today (and also Monday) I rode 2 hours on a bike at 160w which comes out to about 1,000 calories. Wednesday I walked a lot and listed heavy things. All of this is outside of work, mostly for pleasure. We have a lot of rain coming and I won't necessarily be doing all this. It varies.

    Because I'm sedentary, MFP doesn't expect much of me, and gives me full credit for my efforts. If I'd said I was very active, it would give me calories for that, but on rainy awful days I wouldn't maybe earn them, they would get taken away with adjustments.

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