Negative Adjustments and a Garmin
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jaywirth88
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Im hoping someone can help explain negative adjustments to me, im not getting it. My calories in/ calories out section of my Garmin always says I have more calories remaijing than MFP. I then see that there is a negative adjustment for MFP. Which calorie goal should I be eating and why is there a negative adjustment on MFP?
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jaywirth88 wrote: »Im hoping someone can help explain negative adjustments to me, im not getting it. My calories in/ calories out section of my Garmin always says I have more calories remaijing than MFP. I then see that there is a negative adjustment for MFP. Which calorie goal should I be eating and why is there a negative adjustment on MFP?
You get a negative adjustment on MFP when your device indicates that your actual activity level per said device is less than whatever activity level you selected on MFP.1 -
Here was what I was told, and this was just a few days ago so I am seeing what happens. I was getting lots of calories from Garmin but virtually nothing in MFP. I was told to ensure my activity level was at sedentary. Now the sync is more accurate and I get more food. I would do 30 HITT and MFP would give me nothing more than 1200. It only gave me anything in I did 2+hrs of exercise. I now I get calories for exercise....for anything...even walking. Much better in terms of my hunger/energy. Will see what the scale says.1
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cwolfman13 wrote: »jaywirth88 wrote: »Im hoping someone can help explain negative adjustments to me, im not getting it. My calories in/ calories out section of my Garmin always says I have more calories remaijing than MFP. I then see that there is a negative adjustment for MFP. Which calorie goal should I be eating and why is there a negative adjustment on MFP?
You get a negative adjustment on MFP when your device indicates that your actual activity level per said device is less than whatever activity level you selected on MFP.
So if I chose "very active," MFP would set my calorie goal for a person who's very active. It would assume I walk ~5 miles a day, that would be factored into my calories from the start. Until I actually walk 5 miles, it's not going to give me extra calories because what I'm doing is already part of my goal, and I'm not gonna lose weight by double counting. If I only walk 3 miles, it's going to take calories away, because I didn't live up to the activity level my calorie goal is based on.
I don't know how many miles each activity level corresponds to, I just wanted to explain what's going on.2 -
It's also because some of the coding on the app, particularly where it comes to exercise/step calorie calculations is buggy as hell so does some really ridiculous things in the calculations.1
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mittencat77 wrote: »Here was what I was told, and this was just a few days ago so I am seeing what happens. I was getting lots of calories from Garmin but virtually nothing in MFP. I was told to ensure my activity level was at sedentary. Now the sync is more accurate and I get more food. I would do 30 HITT and MFP would give me nothing more than 1200. It only gave me anything in I did 2+hrs of exercise. I now I get calories for exercise....for anything...even walking. Much better in terms of my hunger/energy. Will see what the scale says.
Yep. Do this.0 -
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