yono27 Member

It would be so easy for MyFitnessPal to sync the active calories directly from HealthKit / Apple Watch like many other apps do (including many competitors), but they don't care, they just sync the useless step count and make up a number of calories from that and call it the day. Such a shame. The only way to sort of get it…

No it doesn't, not in the sense that is being asked, MyFitnessPal does not read active calories or any calories from your Apple Watch, it only reads Step counts and workouts, it calculates whatever it wants from that step count, if you want active calories to be synced you need to manually record a workout or it won't be…

I would like to revive this request and clarify what I mean since the responses simply obscured it with wrong information. I want an option to base the calorie adjustment entirely on the total calories reported by my tracker, in this case the Apple Watch. Just to clarify, MyFitnessPal DOES NOT currently read any calories…

I finally found the mentioned (and rather hidden) screen where it explains how it calculates the adjustment, it really doesn't make it any better but rather even more convoluted, it still sort of takes some calories only from the step counting designated source whilst others from any source. So according to the explanation…

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What is this "total calories already provided by MyFitnessPal" ? provided based on what? on my gender, weight and height? why have this number at all that it has to then adjust against the ones coming from the tracker? why not simply have the ones from tracker alone, not adjustment needed, why not just calories consumed…

Whether or not it should is irrelevant and it shouldn't be up to MFP to decide that. This is what I am requesting here, an option to take the value directly from HealthKit rather than having MFP calculating it, I trust Apple, Garmin and Fitbit more there as they have a more complete picture of me than MFP with their…

Here's directly from Garmin back when I used to use Garmin as my main tracker vs what MFP shows, as you can see what MFP shows is only the sum of item listed at the bottom, which is not the total or active calories that Garmin (or any tracker) shows for that day I'm guessing by your screenshot you're using Android so maybe…

that’s what I’m trying to say, it is not the same, the total calories (active + rest) is even larger than 688, again , it was the same with Garmin Connect than it is with Apple Health App, that number 9 calories will be the only number if I didn’t recorded the swim myself, I know because I tried it before, regardless of…

Welll you just might have a complete different MFP than mine because MFP does NOT take the total calories for day from Garmin or any other integration for me, it takes the number of steps and assigns a very low number of calories for that (if any) and also those of any activity you might’ve recorded that day, that’s all,…

Lietchi, I’m not sure what you’re talking about NEAT but I’m talking about the calorie adjustment, the simple equation above the dairy that says your calories allowance - consumed + exercise = calories left to consume, I’m talking about that “exercise” number, and for that number MFP absolutely takes into account steps and…

"When a device that calculates (estimates) your calorie burn for the entire day (for example a Garmin fitness tracker) is synced with MFP" No, this is not true, what MFP currently syncs is steps count (from only one device) and individually recorded exercises from any device, that alone already makes inconsistent because…

"just sending over the exact amount of active calories per your device would likely lead to double dipping as some of them are already accounted for." No it wouldn't if that was all MFP read, I'm talking about reading ONLY active calories, so not reading steps and not reading individual exercises, just one number, and…