Confused and sick of it
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lahcjh
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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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Please... Someone........?...0
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I'm not sure I understand. Did you include exercise in your activity setting and now on the days you don't do it, it look as if you aren't eating enough? If so, you could lower your activity setting and then log the exercise on days you do it and it will add extra calories in. On the days you don't exercise you won't get the extra.5
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If you don't want the adjustment, disconnect whatever device is feeding it to MFP. Or quit logging exercise.8
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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)2 -
Don't eat back your calories. Problem solved.6
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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 calories3 -
Brabo_Grip wrote: »Don't eat back your calories. Problem solved.
Wow, what a bummer. Two hours on the bike yesterday, at 160 watts, for about 1,200 calories. And lifting on the calendar tonight. Sounds like it's gonna be a miserably hungry week and my performance is going to suffer.7 -
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.4 -
NorthCascades wrote: »Brabo_Grip wrote: »Don't eat back your calories. Problem solved.
Wow, what a bummer. Two hours on the bike yesterday, at 160 watts, for about 1,200 calories. And lifting on the calendar tonight. Sounds like it's gonna be a miserably hungry week and my performance is going to suffer.
Edited cause I am normally not a jerk. Letting work people annoyance bleed into this. My apologies for original glib response and posts in this thread.
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What do you have your activity level set as? If it's say active and you don't hit 7500 steps outside of exercise then you're going to have a negative adjustment.
Generally those with devices linked to MFP (and I'd only link one) set their activity as sedentary and let MFP and their device do their thing.5 -
Wait, I reread, and am completely confused. Do you mean you're not getting any positive adjustment from exercise?1
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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.1 -
I have my activity level set at active and my goal is 8000 steps a day and my food is 13500
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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 before0
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So zero is good? You met the goal.1
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I have my activity level set at active and my goal is 8000 steps a day and my food is 1350
If you are using a tracker synced it is recommended you set your activity level to sedentary. The activity level on MFP is without exercise based on your job activity.
I have about 12000 steps today and did an hour of conditioning followed by an hour of boxing. My activity here is still set to sedentary because my Fitbit is synced and will give me extra calories for my activity. Some days I'm very active and other days I'm not.
If you have MFP set to active you are already getting credit for around 10000 daily steps in your original goal so you will only get credit for more activity when you move more than that.5 -
Could someone translate this thread to english please?9
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Could someone translate this thread to english please?
It appears the OP is upset because she believes she isn't getting credit for her 8000 daily steps because she has a negative adjustment from her tracker. I assume she actually has a negative adjustment because her activity level is set to active and she is less active than she thinks so the tracker adjustment is showing what she really burned.6 -
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.4 -
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.3
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