MichaelPuncel Member

That's what I was trying to say, maybe clumsily. I don't understand why X (calories from steps burned) is at all affected by Y (calories burned doing something else). I understand the calculation that is being done (MFP calories - iphone calories = adjustment), so that makes me think if I add something to MFP calories that…

Thanks for the time you've taken to explain this, I'm still confused. Let's say X is the calories I spent walking (tracked by iphone) and Y is the calories I burned on my peloton bike (not tracked by iphone). I would like Y to be completely independent of X. It sounds like you are saying that X' (next value of X) will…

So MFP is assuming since I did a manual workout that I will probably be a bit less active for the rest of the day? But then if I actually am active I will earn back the adjustment?

That all makes sense to me. I think the problem is that MyFitnessPal is assuming the calorie burn I enter was ALSO tracked by my tracker app. However the tracker is only counting steps, and I’m manually entering a bike workout. Therefore I do expect a discrepancy between the tracker and MFP