Confused and sick of it

lahcjh
lahcjh Posts: 10 Member
edited November 21 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: 2,111 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: 2,111 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: 10,968 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.
  • kimny72
    kimny72 Posts: 16,011 Member
    OP, if you are syncing an activity tracker, you should set yourself to sedentary. Then when your tracker syncs and adds calories, it will bring your goal up to your actual activity level. I also find it easier to log my additional exercise only with my activity tracker so those calories are added as well.

    You are probably having problems because your actual activity isn't matching your Active activity setting.

    Your other option would be not to sync your tracker and just let your activity setting give you the same amount of calories every day, just make sure you live up to that activity level!
  • SpirituallyBlonde
    SpirituallyBlonde Posts: 35 Member
    Yup OP I was totally having that issue. So I set my Fitbit to sedentary ( as I work an office job),it was confusing the f**k out of me.
    Now I just use Fitbit to track my steps and sleep and MFP for food and activity level.
  • dadsafrantic
    dadsafrantic Posts: 186 Member
    SpirituallyBlonde wrote: »
    Yup OP I was totally having that issue. So I set my Fitbit to sedentary ( as I work an office job),it was confusing the f**k out of me.
    Now I just use Fitbit to track my steps and sleep and MFP for food and activity level.

    what?
  • dadsafrantic
    dadsafrantic Posts: 186 Member
    edited September 2017
    lahcjh wrote: »
    Please... Someone........?...

    i set mfp to active. i use fb to track activity. i set my actinity on mfp to active and log all food and water. i always start with a deficit from fb because the setting on the app have a higher calorie burn. i generally eat under the earned calorie intake unless the earned calories are more than the set amount.

    i find fb is easiest to use for me. i did the apple watch thing and it was never simple for me. the apple watch is now one of my more expensive paper weights.
  • spiriteagle99
    spiriteagle99 Posts: 3,749 Member
    I set my activity level to sedentary, because most of my non-exercise time is spent sitting. I manually add in purposeful exercise - walking, running, exercise bike. I ignore steps done aside from that, because they are part of ordinary living and because most of my steps come from my walking or running. I eat back all my exercise calories. That works well for me.
  • lahcjh
    lahcjh Posts: 10 Member
    edited September 2017
    I have a active lifestyle. I walk 8000-12,000 stepsa day. I work 5 days a week doing constant walking and lifting.

    I have a goal of 1350 calories of eating a day. Let's say I go over or am close to my goal. At the end of the day, I want credit for my 10000 steps. My 30 minute virgorous cardio. So I log that. I'd like to see what I burned for the day towards my food calorie goal. I'd like to know I gained 500 extra calories in doing so. But guess what... It's a zero toward exercise. Zero calories given back from exercise.

    I'm just confused why there is a comparison at all. Use strictly my tracker and go off of that. Period. It's simple math. You ate 1400 and went over 50 calories... But wait... you worked your butt off. You burned 500 of that which would bring your calories for the day to 900 and you'd have a reminder of 450 for the day. Simple math.

    But instead I'm -600. Lol. Like WTF. I don't want a zero. I want my tracker results and the math to follow it.

    I have my misfit tracker now and it's been at sedetary. Did 235 steps in an hour and my calorie burn in ZERO.

    soooooo....????........
  • lahcjh
    lahcjh Posts: 10 Member
    Ok then someone explain how when it was -200 the other day, I tested it by adding exercise burn of 200. You'd thing the negative would go away right? Nope. Was even lower.
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,701 Member
    lahcjh wrote: »
    I have a active lifestyle. I walk 8000-12,000 stepsa day. I work 5 days a week doing constant walking and lifting.

    I have a goal of 1350 calories of eating a day. Let's say I go over or am close to my goal. At the end of the day, I want credit for my 10000 steps. My 30 minute virgorous cardio. So I log that. I'd like to see what I burned for the day towards my food calorie goal. I'd like to know I gained 500 extra calories in doing so. But guess what... It's a zero toward exercise. Zero calories given back from exercise.

    I'm just confused why there is a comparison at all. Use strictly my tracker and go off of that. Period. It's simple math. You ate 1400 and went over 50 calories... But wait... you worked your butt off. You burned 500 of that which would bring your calories for the day to 900 and you'd have a reminder of 450 for the day. Simple math.

    But instead I'm -600. Lol. Like WTF. I don't want a zero. I want my tracker results and the math to follow it.

    I have my misfit tracker now and it's been at sedetary. Did 235 steps in an hour and my calorie burn in ZERO.

    soooooo....????........

    Ok ... no idea what you're talking about.

    I entered my information into MFP.
    I chose sedentary as my activity level (I only walk 10,000 steps a day).
    MFP gave me 1250 cal.

    Then I enter whatever I deem as "exercise". "Exercise" includes walking as part of my commute, walking at lunch, climbing stairs, walking or cycling after work with my husband, and cycling long distances on the weekends.

    "Exercise" does not include walking back and forth to the photocopier, kitchen, toilet etc. at work, walking while grocery shopping, walking back and forth in the house, walking around the yard, etc. etc.

    That seemed like a really easy approach for me ... and it worked. :)
  • AmandaDanceMore
    AmandaDanceMore Posts: 298 Member
    edited September 2017
    No offense, but I do not consider 8000 steps an "active" lifestyle. FB recommends 10k, at least. I hit 10k (when I still wore an FB) just walking my dogs on a daily basis. I do other stuff, too (yoga, some jogging, cycling, and I ballroom dance 4-5 nights a week), but I still consider myself sedentary. Now, if I was using MFP back in the day when I walked, on average, 4 miles a day for work, plus lots of heavy lifting, and a lot of other very physically demanding stuff, I would consider myself active, but, then again, I didn't need MFP back then since I was a skinny little b**ch!!!!

    I would change your setting to sedentary and see if that solves your problem.
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