I don't understand how mfp calories work

sevun77
sevun77 Posts: 5 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Every day my Samsung health syncs with mfp and for the calories I burn i get allotted more calories to eat. Today I burned 650 calories but mfp says I'm over my 1400 limit because I ate 1700 calories. Shouldn't I have been granted an additional 650 calories to eat? I'm confused

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  • sevun77
    sevun77 Posts: 5 Member
    Here's where I get tripped up...see attached screenshot
  • shadow2soul
    shadow2soul Posts: 7,692 Member
    That’s not working right. Based on the numbers you should be seeing a positive. You should email customer service with that screenshot.
  • spiriteagle99
    spiriteagle99 Posts: 3,745 Member
    What do you have your activity level set at? If you are set at highly active but not actually moving much, I can see where it might go wierd.
  • sevun77
    sevun77 Posts: 5 Member
    It's set at lightly active. I enabled the negative calorie adjustment tab and I'm even more confused now it says I'm waaay over my caloric intake allowance. Here's where I'm at...2 screenshots. 1 diary. 2 adjustments . This was my first time going over 400 calories burned in a day
  • prehistoricmoongoddess
    prehistoricmoongoddess Posts: 1,002 Member
    edited January 2019
    How do these figures compare with a previous day?

    The screen shot is not saying you've burned 621 exercise calories - it is saying that the time it was analysed you'd only burned 621 calories - this includes calories expended when doing nothing - so I am confused when the projected full balance is 3259.

    Your exercise calories on MFP are only showing 184 for the day.
  • sevun77
    sevun77 Posts: 5 Member
    Yes it's not including my 3.5 mile walk only my weight lifting exercises. I think there's a glitch with the sync between Samsung health and mfp.
  • looney9708
    looney9708 Posts: 174 Member
    Under your settings you can check if you want to add in calories burned or not. I have mine unchecked so that I don’t eat back calories burned

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