Garmin forerunner 955

Kst76
Kst76 Posts: 935 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
I have a few questions. I have been doing this for at least 10 years but I tookl a break ( a long berak ) and now Im confused all over again. I received a Garmin 955 Solar and on my Garmin x735 I was able to see my calorie burn as the day progressed. On my current device I don't see it.
Also, a calorie adjustments question. I have my goal set to 1 pounds a week. My allowed intake is a little over 1200 I think and I have my activity set to low. But the other day I walked at a fairly slow pace for 90 minutes and Garmin reported to MFP that I had 8k steps for that exercise. MFP in turn gave me 2000 something exercise calories for it. My goal went from 1200 to 3200. So I went to bed with a huge calorie deficit even after eating all my meals that day. Which makes no sense at all.
Why does this happen. Is it a bug?

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  • pridesabtch
    pridesabtch Posts: 2,464 Member
    edited January 2023
    Personally, I disconnected my Garmin 745 from MFP. I track the calories on my Garmin based on intentional exercise then put that in manually. When I had my Garmin connected it tended to double count things. I'm sure I was doing something wrong, but it was just easier for me to manually enter it.
  • Lietchi
    Lietchi Posts: 6,826 Member
    It sounds like the sync is glitchy, as if your total calorie burn for the day is being shown as your calorie adjustment.

    I have a Garmin too, but I don't have the same issue. So not sure if it's just a temporary glitch, or something else linked perhaps to the device (I have a Vivoactive 4).

    For your total calorie burn for the day, have you checked the Connect app? You can find your total calories burned under Health > Calories (or that's where it is at least for me)
  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    Do you actually have the accounts linked, or did you just say to get steps from the Garmin?
    (for some devices that just means grabbing the step data that's going to another app on the phone)

    If just steps - then MFP has to try to estimate distance from those steps, and then distance and pace is a great formula for calories.
    Except pace is an estimate too. So now back to a potentially terrible estimate of calories.

    Online setting for this is here:
    https://www.myfitnesspal.com/apps/step-trackers

    If you actually have accounts linked because Garmin is selected (and daily food calories should show up in Garmin) - then indeed you may have activity setting way lower than reality on MFP.
    Because then Garmin is reporting steps as nothing more than a figure for display - like glasses of water.
    But the more important figure of calories burned is sent also - for the day, as the day progresses.
    That could indeed be showing you burn way more than MFP on lowest activity setting is allowing - and that was purely your guess from 4 levels.

    Another caveat - takes about 2 weeks for the device to figure out some things about you, for better estimate of calorie burn for exercise based on HR is mainly is using.

    But even when that happens - frankly walking is most accurate with weight and distance and time - by formula. NOT by heart rate as it is almost assuredly using.

    So you may have several things going on making that worse for now. (do you have another device synced to MFP or GC seeing the walk too?)

    As far as the device display - I think you are probably seeing the effect of them trying to imitate Apple a bit with rings of base and daily and exercise activity. I don't like it - give me a total. Well - at least Garmin sends MFP the correct data no matter how they display it!

  • KarenSmith2018
    KarenSmith2018 Posts: 302 Member
    They are in the app and I can see it on the menu on my garmin fenix 6. However I diet trust them at all. ,ost days it thinks I have burnt 3000+ calories. I wish

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