Why calories negative

rossknight8139
rossknight8139 Posts: 3 Member
edited January 18 in Getting Started
Hi

I would have thought that in my summary the calories I burned were increasing my calorie allowance but it seems to be the opposite. It’s only 10am… is it because it’s early in the day?

It is subtracting my exercise from my total balance for the day… I would have thought it should be + my remaining calorie allowance

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  • sollyn23l2
    sollyn23l2 Posts: 1,839 Member
    It subtracts them from the calories you've eaten. Maybe you're getting confused between where it shows you calories eaten and calories you have left?
  • Carriehelene
    Carriehelene Posts: 181 Member
    Do you have a fitness tracker synced to you MFP account?
  • rossknight8139
    rossknight8139 Posts: 3 Member
    edited January 18
    Yes I have Garmin connect.

    I think my steps and exercises should 1) be factored into my daily allowance (I.e increase my daily calories allowance and affect the end of day result) 2) my app should get this information (steps and workout calories) from Garmin.


    How do I set my my app to do the 2 above? I’m confused by calorie adjustment thing

    Thanks!!
  • rossknight8139
    rossknight8139 Posts: 3 Member
    edited January 19
    Ow… thank you! That’s helpful

    So I should tick “adjust my calories” buttton in the exercise section of my diary?
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,918 Member
    As a side note, Apple Watch users can enable “Apple Watch calorie adjustment”.

    If you move less than your stated activity level for non-exercise related movement, it will deduct calories because you can’t get credit for both activity level at the same time as exercise calories. So MFP will go in and do a forced adjustment.

    I’m active, so I’ve never seen it go into a negative net, but this is what it looks like on very active days, when it tries to balance exercise activity versus my already stated level of “highly active”.

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    I’m not sure if Garmins do likewise. Scroll down you diary page to exercise and see if you’re getting a negative adjustment.

    And check your goals and make sure you’ve got an accurate activity level set, versus what you’d like to think you are. 😜 we’ve all been guilty.

    Probably doesn’t apply at all to you as a Garmin user but couldn’t hurt to have a look.

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