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Ok, I seem to have misunderstood the meaning of sedentary, I assumed office workers (who do not exercise) would fall into this category rather than lightly active. I don't know for sure, but when I have used fitness equipment in the gym before, a 30 min run on the treadmill, running approx 3.5-4 miles would burn around 500…

Thanks Malibu927, I will see how I go on sedentary, if the adjustment keeps coming in really high, I will then adjust to lighty active.

As I said in my post directly above, I am not exercising at the moment due to injury, it is purely walking between tube/train stations and walking around the house & office during the day. I did it yesterday without enabling the negative calorie adjustment, but around 3pm yesterday I enabled it, so I should expect to see…

[/quote] Your Fitbit calorie adjustment is the difference between your Fitbit burn (which is your TDEE) and your MFP activity level. If you disable negative calorie adjustments, you won't eat at a true deficit on less active days. PS. Negative calorie adjustments will never drop your calories below 1,200.[/quote] Sorry to…

Thank you for your response. Just out of interest, can you explain the negative calorie adjustment thing to me? I have enabled it...I just want to understand it! Regards David