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Garmin Connect Calorie Adjustment?

NickiBear81
NickiBear81 Posts: 13 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Does anybody actually end up with a negative calorie adjustment when they sync in very regularly with Garmin Connect?

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  • Lietchi
    Lietchi Posts: 7,010 Member
    Sure, I've had negative adjustments. That will happen when you're less active than your selected activity rate. I'm only set at sedentary, so I get negative adjustments in two cases:
    • on my rare couch potato days (small negative adjustment)
    • on days where are my activity happened within exercise sessions - most frequently when I've spent the day hiking. Garmin's calculation of calories burned during exercise includes BMR calories, so in order to avoid double counting those BMR calories, I get a negative calorie adjustment subtracting my BMR calories during exercise. This effect is most noticeable for long exercise sessions where the BMR calories add up to a significant amount - on hiking days I'll get a negative Garmin Connect calorie adjustment of several hundreds of calories, but a positive total adjustment since I've been very active.
  • Jthanmyfitnesspal
    Jthanmyfitnesspal Posts: 3,554 Member
    I hate them and turn them off. It’s irrational, but, there you go. I still see weird weight loss.
  • natlat1975
    natlat1975 Posts: 2 Member
    It's dumb and I don't pay attention. For instance, today I did a hard spin class for 45 mins, burned 330 cals and my calorie adjustment is -330. WTF? so MFG negated my total exercise calories?

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