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I’m confused

connerbc33
connerbc33 Posts: 2 Member
edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
Please forgive me but I do not understand why I get fewer calories in a day when I exercise more. Can someone help me? Thanks

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  • L1zardQueen
    L1zardQueen Posts: 8,753 Member
    Are you using a fitness gadget of some sort?
  • spiriteagle99
    spiriteagle99 Posts: 3,770 Member
    You shouldn't. You should get more. Are you using a fitness watch to input your exercise? What did you do to set your activity level? If you set your activity level as active but your watch says that you aren't, you might end up with fewer calories. I enter all deliberate exercise and it gives me additional calories. I don't sync my watch to MFP because that could lead to double counting of steps.
  • connerbc33
    connerbc33 Posts: 2 Member
    Yes I have my Fitbit synced with MFP. Should I not?
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    connerbc33 wrote: »
    Yes I have my Fitbit synced with MFP. Should I not?

    It's fine...

    What's you activity level in MFP set to? What you're seeing is negative adjustments...meaning FitBit is estimating your total activity for the day is going to be less than what you have your activity level set to in MFP.
  • pennyione60
    pennyione60 Posts: 2 Member
    Hi, what is the recommended setting? I saw on here earlier if I set it to sedentary, I could be getting more exercise than I think
  • Tacklewasher
    Tacklewasher Posts: 7,122 Member
    connerbc33 wrote: »
    Yes I have my Fitbit synced with MFP. Should I not?

    You should.

    Can you do a screen capture of what you are looking at?
  • Tacklewasher
    Tacklewasher Posts: 7,122 Member
    pennyione60 wrote: »
    Hi, what is the recommended setting? I saw on here earlier if I set it to sedentary, I could be getting more exercise than I think

    Recommended is close to what your non-exercise activity level is. Then add in exercise separately. I tend to set mine lower (so sedentary instead of lightly active) to cover those days I don't do much and reward those days I do (plus exercise).
  • jjpptt2
    jjpptt2 Posts: 5,650 Member
    cwolfman13 wrote: »
    connerbc33 wrote: »
    Yes I have my Fitbit synced with MFP. Should I not?

    It's fine...

    What's you activity level in MFP set to? What you're seeing is negative adjustments...meaning FitBit is estimating your total activity for the day is going to be less than what you have your activity level set to in MFP.

    But on a day she exercised, her fitbit should estimate more cals than on a rest day, and thus the calorie adjustment should be less (or even positive), no?
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    jjpptt2 wrote: »
    cwolfman13 wrote: »
    connerbc33 wrote: »
    Yes I have my Fitbit synced with MFP. Should I not?

    It's fine...

    What's you activity level in MFP set to? What you're seeing is negative adjustments...meaning FitBit is estimating your total activity for the day is going to be less than what you have your activity level set to in MFP.

    But on a day she exercised, her fitbit should estimate more cals than on a rest day, and thus the calorie adjustment should be less (or even positive), no?

    Unless she has MFP set to active or very active or something...
  • jjpptt2
    jjpptt2 Posts: 5,650 Member
    cwolfman13 wrote: »
    jjpptt2 wrote: »
    cwolfman13 wrote: »
    connerbc33 wrote: »
    Yes I have my Fitbit synced with MFP. Should I not?

    It's fine...

    What's you activity level in MFP set to? What you're seeing is negative adjustments...meaning FitBit is estimating your total activity for the day is going to be less than what you have your activity level set to in MFP.

    But on a day she exercised, her fitbit should estimate more cals than on a rest day, and thus the calorie adjustment should be less (or even positive), no?

    Unless she has MFP set to active or very active or something...

    But even so... she's saying that on days she exercises she gets less calories than days she doesn't. Regardless of activity setting, she should get more cals on exercise days, not less cals.

    For the sake of conversation...
    MFP set to active = 2000 cals per day
    fitbit estimates 1500 cals on rest day
    MFP gets negative calorie adjustment of 500, giving 1500 cals for the day

    MFP set to active = 2000 cals per dya
    fitbit estimates 1800 cals on exercise day
    MFP gets negative calorie adjustment of 200 cals, giving 1800 cals for the day


    Is that not the gist of how it works?
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